In a message dated 98-09-18 05:37:59 EDT, you write: << Somehow, I just KNEW that my STRAHAN would get your immediate attention! Okay. Do you have a date for your Jennie STRAHAN? The reason that I ask is that, if the surname is in the States BEFORE 1750 then it's probably straight from France and if it's AFTER 1750 it's a 'safe bet' that your Jennie STRAHAN may also be Acadian >> hi Lisa, Thanks so much for the interesting info on the Acadians. I love visiting New Orleans, and the food, but that is about all I know about the Acadian heritage. I have visited the small community where the first Acadians first settled in Louisiana, but don't recall the name. The only info I have on Jean Strahan comes from a family history book, "Nathaniel Julian Venable of Alabama" by Rae Venable Calvert. In this book, the author says that Jean Strahan may in fact have been named Simpson, and not Strahan, but his is apparently based on the middle name of her daughter, Jane Cook. Here is the date line as I have been able to place it. Jane Simpson Cook, the mother of Jefferson Davis, died at Rosemont, near Woodville, Mississippi October 30, 1845, and her tombstone indicates she was 84 making her birth about 1761 in North Carolina, however I have seen several dates mentioned for her birth from 1759 to 1761. Jane was the daughter of Rev. William Cook, a famous Baptist minister of the day. Rev. William Cook, born about 1724 in Vuirginia, married Jean Strahan about 1756, and migrated to Georgia about 1761 where that lived in St. Paul's Parish in what became either Wilks or Richmond county. Her husband, Samuel Emory Davis, born between 1756 and 1759 in North Carolina, served in the American Revolution, and was given a grant of land in Georgia for his service. He met Jane Cook after meeting her father during the war in South Carolina, and married Jane Cook about 1756, before the couple migrated to Georgia where their first 5 children were born. The family moved a number of times, living in South Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana, and finally to what became Wilkinson County, Mississippi where they built "Rosemont", first called "Poplar Grove." Samuel E. Davis died July 4, 1791 in Warren County, Mississippi while visiting his son, Joseph Davis. An interesting side light to the father of Rev. William Cook, who married Jean Strahan, the mother of Jane Cook Davis, is that his mother's name may have been Naomi Davis who married William Cook in Virginia. This couple migrated to North Carolina about 1744 where they owned land in Craven and Northampton counties. They had 11 children, and William Cook died in 1758 in Northampton County, Georgia, and his wife, Naomi Davis Cook died about 1772. The Rev. William Cook was their oldest child. As you can see, there is no indication that Jean Strahan was a aunt to General Nathaniel Greene in anything I have found. On the Green side, I have found one possibility, in that Patience Cooke married to Samuel Greene, born August 25, 1727, the son of Catherine Green, who was a sister of Rev.Nathaniel Greene, the father of Gen. Nathaniel Greene. I know nothing about Patience Cooke, and she would not have been directly related, but her children would have been. Hope this helps you in some way. Tom Green TBGreen3@aol.com