While rummaging for copies of DeVille and Peterson material, came across excerpt from "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" (Vol. XCVII, No. 3, July 1966). Found abstracts of notices from "The New-York Mercury" ( presume a newspaper)...interesting note for 11-24-1760: "Huffpouer, Catherine, wife of Christean Hoffpouer of Elizabeth Town, N.J.--husband will not pay debts contracted by her in the future." Tantalizing reference, but I did not find further references in the materials available to me here in Waco. Then again, maybe a connection: In "American Loyalist Claims," a compilation by Peter Wilson Coldham, there is a reference to an Ebenezer Foster who claimed property in Woodbridge, N.J. in 1784 by inheritance from his grandfather. Quoting Coldham's abstract exactly, including the brackets: "At decease of grandfather, it descended to grandfather's two daughters; claimant's aunt Catherine Lustbarrow [?] acted solely in conveying the property (since her husband was a lunatic) to claimant's mother, Margaret Hadden." Farther along in Coldham's list there is a history of land claimed by John Heard: "10 Mar. 1753 Thomas Hadden to John Heard, 10 1/2 acres; 28 Apr. 1767 Nathaniel Loofbourrow to John Heard, 10 acres." How's that for confusing the issue that much more? The rock theory is sounding better all the time. Archie unding better all the time. Archie