Hello, I have been given information that the father of John Dillard is Edward Dillard. It was from someone on this list but I failed to get their source.If this is true I would love to know the proof. I have found reference to a will of a Thomas Dillard. I wonder if this Thomas could be John's father or uncle. John named his first son Thomas. Also one of the witnesses to the will is Nathaniel DICKENSON (maybe DICKERSON?) I'm enclosing the will in hopes someone knows who this Thomas Dillard is. Linda Atkins Spotsylvania County Records (genealogylibrary.com) DILLARD, THOMAS, Berkeley Parish, d. Oct. 23, 1774, p. Dec. 15, 1774. Wit. David Smith, Robert Wheeler, Nathaniel Dickenson. Ex. wife Sarah, son John Dillard, and Elisha Dismukes. Leg. wife Sarah, the old plantation adjoining Peter Mason and a parcel of land I bought of Robert Stubblefield; son Joseph; daughter Mary; my first wife's children Joseph, John, William, James, Thomas Dillard, Ann Pettes, Jane Devall, Lucy Luck, Hannah Dillard; my wife Sarah's children, Richard, Fielding and Mary Dillard. To son Thomas, 100 acres of land adjoining Richard Taylor; to son James, 100 acres of land I bought of John Williams; to son William, 100 acres of land which I bought of John Adam Linch; to son John, portion of land adjoining that which Ann Matthews lives on; to son Fielding, all the land I own adjoining Robert Coleman, John Coleman and George Shepperd; to son Richard, the land I now live on, adjoining Thomas Poole and Robert Coleman