This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3Y.2ADI/1466.2.1 Message Board Post: I found the Dryden Papers at the Nabb Research Center in Salisbury, MD, a wonderful library for researching your family. There is a room with rows and rows of large binders on the different families that lived on the E. Shore of MD early on. Dryden did research on most of the families of the early 1700s. But, and this is a big but, his writing is almost imposssible to read. If you are lucky, which I was on the COLLINS name, you might find some correspondence that can be read....maybe typewritten pages, but mostly they are all in long hand. I didn't find an AARON COLLINS, but I only searched before 1800, as my JOHN COLLINS had left the E. Shore by then. I don't know if anyone at the Nabb Center would copy for you or not, but doubt it. You didn't say when AARON COLLINS was in the area. (dates). There were 3 different COLLINS families there and I have land records for almost all of them, but still can't connect my JOHN COLLINS to the correct family, so don't know his m.a! nd f., sisters, and brothers. Wish someone would transcribe those Draper Papers, but it would be a huge job. Verna