In a message dated 6/24/04 8:58:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jclarke@rose.net writes: We also know that Jordan SMITH is in the equation because the Jordan SMITH name is mentioned in the 1843 will of and Ethelred SMITH in Jefferson County, GA. This would not be the same Jordan Smith that lived in Washington county. He died in Washington County in 1835 and is buried there. His nephew, Jordan, son of his brother Brittain Smith of Jefferson County also died in 1835 but in Lee County, Georgia . He is buried there. I don't know who the Jordan Smith was that was an heir of Ethelred but I got an email from Susan Rivers of Augusta Georgia in 1999 who has been trying to figure out who the Jordan Smith was who was suddenly in the household of Richard and Polly Smith. She says he suddenly appeared on the Jefferson County 1860 census and that he died at the second Battle of Manassas Va in 1862 at age 39. Maybe she would like to hear from you. Her address is old but was SRivers563@aolcom All I can say is that most of Benjamin Smith's sons: Simon, Brittain, Jordan , Bennett and Samuel moved to Jefferson and Washington County by 1800. Another son, Sion, had died and had heirs who benefitted from Benjamin's will. I don't have knowlege of a Jordan that age, but there are many possibilities there of relationships..........It is certainly more than possible that Benjamin (Nash, NC) might have had brothers all over North Carolina in the 1700s. The Will of Brittain Smith is on your Wills page. His name on the will, however, was Brittain, rather than Britan. He was also the executor of his father-in-law's will --John Warren of Jefferson County. LL