I found the following recently at the Del. Archives. It may be helpful to others. RG 284.039 NCC Orchans Court Lewis Reece (dec'd) 1819-1823 To William McIntire & Catharine his wife late Catharine Reece, Jesse Wilson & Sarah his wife, Thomas ?. Carlisle & Mary his wife John Moore & Eliza his wife. Joseph Finlay and Delia his wife Lewis Reece Martha Reece and George Reece Take Notice That I intend to make application to Nicholas Ridgely Esquire Chancellor of the State of Delaware composing the Orphan's Court for the County of New Castle at New Castle on the twenty third day of August instant for an order of Court to sell the rights title & interest of the House & lot of ground belonging to the Estate of Lewis Reece Dec. situate in the village of St. Georges to enable me to pay and discharge the debts due and owing from the Estate of the said Lewis Reece deceased. Jere. Lewden adm August 9th 1822 Marty

Hi, Other than screaming when you sent me the proof of Delia's parents, I haven't done anything else on the Reeces until today. Well, I did read each email you sent me, but didn't try to put anything together. Today I finally got down to where I could see the desktop and I pulled all my Reece emails out to study. Then I came over here to the computer to put Lewis Reece's children into my PAF - and saw that I had already added Lewis and Catherine as parents and John as grandfather. So I started going through your emails to find out how you know that Lewis was the son of John. Was he also the Lewis who was brother of Reece? I haven't yet pulled out my large Reece file, but rather worked on what was not yet filed. Tomorrow I can dig deeper. But maybe you can fill me in on John. He wasn't the John and Jane was he? I find that I have Lewis everywhere as the son of everybody!!! That St Georges property is probably the clue I'm overlooking, for I remember someone leaving a property there to someone's son. I am looking at this as Lewis, a blacksmith, had property in both St Georges and in Christiana or White Clay HD. Now to find out who the wife Catherine belonged to. Shame she was'n t one of the Lewises. She must have b een related, or maybe Lewis' mother was related for the girls to choose him as guardian. Or am I confused again? We have been home for a week and still have four more days - except for church of course. And Marion did her volunteer job today as usual at the hospital. I haven't gotten stir crazy yet, and over the last two days I've really gotten a lot of genealogy filing done. I'm proud of myself. Of course I've been ignoring all the papers I'm supposed to work up for the historical society. I've been both the auditing committee and the budget committee chairperson, plus doing my usual volunteer work, and it's had me swamped. And my "to do" "to answer" pile here at the computer is about 2 inches thick. I've always prayed that I'd always have too much to do and not be able to get bored. I dread sitting in a nursing home staring at the walls. Hope you haven't been hit by all that bad winter weather. We have been so lucky so far. Down to below zero a time or two but no snow nor ice to speak of. Today all that becomes insignificant when we hear of 40,000+ lost in tidal wave and more than that not yet accounted for. I read a novel not long ago of a tidal wave hitting California and have lived with that dread ever since. I usually stay away from scary novels. A Happy New Year to you and yours. Can you believe that Y2K wasn't just yesterday?j Cathy