Dear Charles and KL, Will be very happy to share information on Adam and David DINSMORE with you. I do think that there was a close relationship between Adam and David, and that they were possibly brothers, but don't yet have the relationship figured out. They moved to the same areas, and used the same family names. Note, too, that David's grandson David Lewis DINSMORE married Eleanor KYLE. Researchers of the line of Adam say that either Adam or his son Samuel sold land to a Samuel KYLE in Buncombe Co., NC. The mutual ties to the KYLE family also seem to indicate that these DINSMOREs are connected. The VA State Library website mentions correspondence from a 19th-century firm of DINSMORE and KYLE in Baltimore. Does anyone know about this? KL, to answer your question about how I found the ship's list for my David DINSMORE: at the time he came to SC, the state was giving 100 acres of land to each "poor Protestant" that came there, along with fifty acres for each other family member. This incentive was aimed at Northern Irish and Germans, in the hope that they'd settled the sparsely settled upcountry of SC and be a buffer between the lowcountry settlers and native peoples. As a result, the SC Council Journals record both the land grants, and the ships' lists of these immigrants. Once you locate the land grant, that leads to the citation in the council journals that will allow you to find the ships' list, which (in the case of David DINSMORE, at least) has all passengers' names and their ages. That citation also led me to a Charleston newspaper announcing that the ship "Earl of Donegal" had arrived on the date given in the council journals. J. Revill, A COMPILATION OF ORIGINAL LISTS OF PROTESTANT IMMIGRANTS TO SOUTH CAROLINA, 1763-1775 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publ. Co., 1968), transcribes many of these passenger lists. This all pertains to SC, of course. I don't know if there are similar resources for more northerly ports such as Baltimore and Philadelphia, through which Adam DINSMORE may have come. Hope this helps, and glad to share information, Bill Lindsey