This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ic.2ADI/545.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Norene, It was good to hear from you again. I'm enclosing my e-mail address, so you can contact me personally. I don't know what you mean by off-line. Do you want my phone number? I am on a Peppers web site with a group of our ancestors. I have accumulated a lot of information from them. Some are descended from the Whaleys and some from the Peppers. I would like to send them your message so you can visit our site and read all about us. I am descended from John Peppers, Sr, John Peppers, Jr., Anderson Peppers, Ollie Peppers. Ollie was my grandmother. Here is some of what I have. Nancy William Whaley was born in 1750 in Worcestershire County, Maryland. His parents were Elias Whaley (1723-1774) and Martha Dale. Samuel Betts Jones said in his Journal, "My grandfather, William Whaley, married Hannah Brewton." The marriage took place around 1769 in Buckingham, Worcester County, Maryland. William James Whaley married Hannah Brawton/Brewton, Round around 1769 in Buckingham, Worcester County, Maryland. Hannah was born around 1753 in Sinepuxen, Worcester County, Maryland. She died after 1806 at the age of 52. The couple had the following children: 1. Hester (Esther) (1770-1868) 2. Mary (1771-1847 3. Eli C. (1774-1855) 4. Rhoda (1776- ) 5. Martha (Patsy) 1778-) 6. Hannah (1780-) 7. William (1783-1844) 8. Samuel (1784-1850) 9. Issac (1787-) 10. Daniel (1789-) 11. Elizabeth (1791-1853) 12. Arther (1770-) William enlisted into the 9th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Revolutionary War beginning November 1776 and continuing through November and December of 1779. (Sharon Heard, [email protected]). William was in the 5th, 11th, and 15th of the Virginia Regulars. He was with the foot regiment of Virginia, commanded by Col. William Russell, Col. George Matthews, Col. Thomas Fleming, Major Gustavus B. Wallace, and Lieut. Col Cropper. His military records show that he was sick at Valley Forge, was at the battle of White Plains, Camp Middlebrook, commanded by Col. Abraham Buford. He was at Camp Smiths Colvern, Haverstraw, Camp Amapaugh. The artillery commanded by Col. Daniel Morgan. William was on sick leave many times during his service. He resigned due to his ill health. William died in 1795 in Green County, Georgia He was 45 years old. His will was registered on September 8, 1795, in McCoelis Tax District, Jackson County, Georgia. Eli Lemuel, William, Jr., and widow, Hannah, were in the 1805 Jackson Lottery. The 1805 Georgia Heads of House lists Hannah Whaley, Jackson County, Georgia, widow of William Brewton. Notes: James Wheeler from Jackson County, Georgia was found on the "Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers of Georgia (South Georgia Regional Library, Page 9).The "Pensioners from Georgia for Revolutionary Service Found in Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary Military, from Book of Pensioners Published in Washington" found James Wheeler, age 85 in 1840. A widow, Susanna Wheeler from Walton County, Georgia was found, along with a Mary Wheeler from Franklin County, Georgia. A widow, Mourning Wheeler, drew in the 1827 lottery from Jackson County, Georgia.