Garland, The Internet is wonderful, but the problelm is that once erronous data gets out there, it is impossible to get it back. Uriah may have had a son named Samuel, but he is not our Samuel and ours was never in MS, although he was, just about everywhere else. We only have our research back to Anson Co., NC where Samuel was on the tax list or serving on a Jury as early as 1748. There were no documents to get us back any farther, but my nephew's DNA matches all the lines in NJ, which proves that we are related to them. Since all my other lines that intermarried with the Samuel French line came from NJ, i.e., Anderson, Moore, and the Lafford French line, I think we can feel very sure that our Samuel or his father came from NJ, too. BTW, the Samuel who married Mary Wayne remained in NJ. I believe that he is the one who has a daughter named, Hope. Julia In a message dated 7/18/2004 8:31:14 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Julia, We share common ggggrandfather....Gideon Richard. What is the NJ line you referred to? Thomas (from DNA project)? What is the South Carolina connection? Samuel (Jr) or the Lafford line that there is so much about? I have big gap between NC and TN for Samuel, have a GA connection, I think? But SC? By the way, I have seen a Rootsweb World Tree that shows Samuel (Jr) as son of a Uriah French of NJ. It shows Samuel Married to Mary Wayne and having children born in Mississippi. These are new names to me and fit in a gap between the names I have, so I find that part interesting. The source shows them born in Lincoln County Missippi, which did not exist at the time, although earlier counties were along the same area of Missippi river.. Are you aware of this? Garland French