I think it was Lawson Dover I was trying to place last week in my files. I went to the BLM site for Alabama land documents and searched for Dover surnames. There is a Lawson Dover with 40 acres of land in Talapoosa County, Township 23N, St Stephens Meridian, and registered at the land office in Montgomery County if I understand right. I don't know too much about land documents yet. Anyone out there know anything about them? This document is dated 5/1/1850. You can view the original documents at this site. If anyone knows how to understand this stuff, it gives the sections and degrees and all the Gobildy Goop that I have not got a clue about how to figure out. Might place at least one Lawson Dover in place and time and some others around him. I will try to paste the hits for the name Dover to this message. I think I posted all of them a while back, but it has been a little while since I did it. Might help some of the new people on the list. Henry A. should be my great grandpa, Henry Anderson Dover. Anyone know who AB D. is?? =============== PATENTEE NAME SIGNATURE DATE DOCUMENT NR. ACCESSION NR. CERTIFIED DOC. DOVER, AB D 11/12/1900 12162 AL4950__.455 DOVER, BENJAMIN W 10/11/1902 12873 AL5000__.074 DOVER, BENJAMIN W 05/20/1885 36131 AL3990__.143 DOVER, DAVID 11/01/1851 12462 AL3210__.352 DOVER, FRANK M 08/02/1889 5572 AL4690__.191 DOVER, HENRY A 06/27/1895 9640 AL4210__.103 DOVER, JAMES H 12/27/1898 11563 AL4920__.240 DOVER, JOHN 03/15/1839 16078 AL0950__.188 DOVER, JOHN 09/20/1839 20281 AL2610__.489 DOVER, JOHN 06/01/1858 33334 AL2850__.486 DOVER, LAWSON 05/01/1850 10138 AL4380__.090 DOVER, NICODEMOUS 12/01/1897 10803 AL4230__.301 DOVER, WILLIAM A 08/02/1890 5408 AL4120__.440 ============================================== SHARE'D Got Any Dover You Haven't Posted, Please Do Researching: Kirksey, Dover, Shrader, Tyner,McNabb romanek@cybertrails.com Sept 30-May 10 romanek@salisbury.net June 1-Sept 30 sromanek@hotmail.com Year Round BACK UP ONLY