This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: House, Brindley, Brinley, Hilderbrand Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFk.2ACIB/1428 Message Board Post: While researching Adam over the last 30 years, I have come to the conclusion that all of us may have some of the Adam House's mixed up, including myself. I picked up the birth date of Adam House of 3 Jan 1763 years ago and I assumed this was the Adam House that was beheaded in House Springs, Missouri in 1800. Others have used the same birth date and show a death date much later, also in Missouri. If Adam in House Springs was the one born in 1763, than all of the children we have listed for him, could not be his. We show him in 1787 in Shenandoah County, Virginia in 1787 with one horse and one cow, which could be possible but: We also show him with 12 children, the first we have a date for of 1778, which would make Adam only 15 at the time, which I doubt. He was a widower at the time of his death and the official record referred to him as an old man. At the time of his death the official record in St. Louis shows: son, John, managed to escape, and that the Ensign appointed Robert Owen of Maria des Liards to be the guardian for the boy and his two sisters, Betsey and Peggy. 23 March 1800, just 4 days after the death of Adam, David Hilderbrand, John Ca..., Isaac Hilderbrand and Hardy Ware all signed papers that appears to be guardian papers for the three minor children of Adam House. David Hildrebrand was married to Elizabeth Polly House, daugher of Adam, born 1779, married 21 April 1800, St. Charles, Missouri less than a month after the death of Adam. Isaac Hilderbrand was married to Marguerita House, daughter of Adam, born 1778, Virginia, married 3 Mar 1800, just a couple of weeks before the death of Adam, in St. Charles, Missouri. Another daughter, Mary, married John Brin(d)ley. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.