This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Eej.2ACIB/718.767.775.787.790.797.819.823.1128.1138.1 Message Board Post: I am from the same line. Lydia and James Abraham Cross were my great-great-grandparents. I have heard two possibilities for Eli's parentage - Samuel Shipley and Richard and Susannah Stevens Shipley, though I don't think either has been proven.