Hi Davine, My Thomas is found 1790 census in Fairfield Dist SC. He moved to York Co. by 1820 and died there in 1838, the time of his will probate. I have never found a Morris/Maurice amongst the family names, and you are right about the name John. Thomas named his son's Richard, John, Littleton, Thompson, William, Chesley, Jesse, and Jeptha Decatur, his daughters were Mary, Milly, Sarah, Elizabeth and Nancy. Sounds like we have different families, but who knows. Seems to me there were an awful lot of Gwin/Guinn/Gwyn/Gwinn's etc. around during this time period! Thanks for replying. Franki