At 08:42 AM 8/30/99 EDT, you wrote: >Hi Marlene, >I'm afraid that this will be an unequal exchange; I have virtually >nothing on Joseph except for some published references to certain >properties that Joseph owned in the 1760s in MD, which, I am sure, you >already have. But I guess I have to assume at this point that my Wm(b. 5 >Sep 1785)is either the son of John or Thomas? I have nothing on Wms >parents, so you have the advantage of me here. Any idea as to where Wm >fits? > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Larry D. Hamilton Coats >P.O. Box 823 >Aspermont, TX 79502 >(940)989-3489 >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >==== FARRIS Mailing List ==== >You may search the Farris-L archives on the Rootsweb web site at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >In the surname field, type in Farris > Hi Larry, I have been collecting everything I can find about the Faris, etc. name in MD and know that the name is NOT common there. I have a bio sketch about a Wm. Faris who later settled in Annapolis and was quite a renowned silversmith. I have other references to a William and will go through my notes and post you same later this evening. Joseph was one of the Marsh Creek Settlers who came about 1739 to the area whicn now is Gettysburg, and slid down across the line into the now Emmitsburg area in northern-most MD; the Mason Dixon line had not been established, so he was really buying land in MD. Wm. Penn refused to give any land grants to these settlers, viewing them as squatters. I am working like crazy to see if he is the Joseph Faris/Phares who has children bapt. in the 1st Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and whose father came from Ireland and was named John. Most of the Marsh Creek settlers WERE from Philadelphia - so I hope to prove he was from there, too. He may indeed have had a son, William - perhaps living out of the area when Joseph died - thus just Thomas and John were chosen to Administer their father's estate. However, there is no mention of any other sons in the Will of Joseph's wife a little later on. The time frame certainly fits into your Faris family for Joseph to be a grandfather. I would love it if we can discover that you belong to the same Faris family as I do! You must certainly know that Washington Co. was taken from Frederick Co at the time of the American Revolution - so many Frederick Co residents suddenly found themselves residing in Washington Co. without moving. Later, Marlene , . Marlene DiGiovanni MarleneDiGi@prodigy.net