Diane, I started a timeline about three or four years ago where I attempted a horizontal timeline from earliest Haw River days and tried to flow it out to 1810+/-. I added individual names and places along the timeline. Truth is there just aren't that many people to follow. I got so confused on the John's. There's always one too many John's and no way to account for them. My take was the the first John may not be the one referred to in the 1934 letter and that the first John could have been born before 1700. When I look at the timeline, I have a whole different take on the Dover family, particularly on the John who went to Wrightsborough (the Quaker). He just disappears. I figure he went back up north, went to Buncombe or maybe even Hawaii. Anyway, my time line is in an Excel spreadsheet. To make room for the notes, I had to run it out several printout pages. If anyone uses Excel ... you're welcome to the file as an attachment. Frankly, I believe the timeline perspective has lots of merit .... I just haven't done anything with it for several years. -----Original Message----- From: Diane Bingham [mailto:dbing@inreach.com] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 1999 6:46 PM To: DOVER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [DOVER-L] Timeline Hi everyone - I have been getting so many leads and ideas and notes and... well, you name it, that I'm going crazy trying to follow up on them all. And I wondered if anyone had ever thought of doing a timeline. If we started with the most distant known Dover and added everything that we have accumulated, perhaps we could see a pattern. At this point, I have pretty much excluded information from other lines as I'm innundated with dates and names and places and ????? that either pertain directly or just closely. Maybe this is more than anyone has time or inclination to do, but I saw such a timeline on another list that I correspond with. Yes it was long, but WOW. Looking forward to some ideas from all you dedicated researchers. Diane ==== DOVER Mailing List ==== Some of the information you see may not be verified. Remember to verify sources yourself.