> Well, now I'm a little confused, too. The Adam Harper who married > Mary Vance > is supposed to be the son of Philip Jr., who was the son of Philip > the > Pioneer. See for example: > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dscochrun&id=I 414 > 73 Yes, that is the info that I have, from the Fuller book. > So then, who are these Harpers whom you say Marsha listed in the > front of > her book as a separate group of Harpers? Do you mean the descendants > of > Jacob the Pioneer? That Jacob had a son named Adam who lived long > enough to > apply for a pension for service during the Revolutionary War. But he > went to > Kentucky along with his father and siblings. > > In addition to Jacob the Pioneer and Philip the Pioneer, there is > one other > as yet unconnected Harper line: Adam Harper. He first appears in the > records > in 1758 as being wounded in an Indian attack. This is about the same > time > that Philip the Pioneer first shows up in the records. Adam died in > 1820 in > Pendleton County. His wife was named Christina. They had six > daughters and > four sons: Adam Jr. (who is said to have married a Flesher), Philip, > Daniel, > and Jacob. [Incidentally, my research shows that this is the Jacob > Harper > who married Phebe Harman. In contrast, the Fuller book says that > this Jacob > was the son of Jacob, who was the son of Philip the Pioneer. It's a > sensitive issue which others choose to ignore rather than debate.] > By the > 1830's only Philip and Jacob's oldest son Jesse remained in > Pendleton > County. It is doubtful if any Harpers living in Pendleton County > today > descend from them. > I believe that the second chapter says that immigrants Jacob and Adam were possible cousins to Philip as they received their permission to immigrate on the same date and only lived a couple of towns away in Germany. I didn't have Adam Harper and Mary Vance under anyone but Philip, Sr, the immigrant, and I think I got that out of another chapter--along with some other leads on the web. Jeff Carr of TX