Howard and Peter - - - I cannot locate the site where I discovered the statements I posted previously that I am trying to prove. There are two paragraphs which I shall quote here: >From the Records Book of the Merion Meeting of the Society of Friends Gwynedd, Plymouth and Upper Merion Twps., Montgomery County, PA "The families of Suplee and Supplee of Blockley and Merion are descended from Andreas, or Andrew Souplis, a Huguenot who left France at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He first came to the New Netherlands and was a Burgomaster in New Amsterdam. Andrew was a Colonel in the French Army and a native of Alsace-Lorraine. With 30 followers, he escaped toward Germany, all but seven were killed before reaching the frontier. Andris was born in 1634 and died in Philadelphia, 1726, age 92 and is buried at the Old Swedes Church, Wicaco. (Old name for Gloria Dei, Philadelphia.) He was 48 years old when he left France and went to Mulheim, Germany where he met and married Gertrude (Goetra)Stressinger (born1642). Several accounts say he had been married to a woman in France who may have been deceased by this time. He was born in 1634 of distinguished upper class parents and was a Huguenot, a member of the French Reformed Church and not the state church of France. At this time in history there was church and state unity in almost all European countries and to oppose the church was to oppose the government. Compulsory military service was required of every man. To served in the army was to defend the state faith. To oppose the state faith was equal to being a heretic and the penalty for this was death." (Bertine 1988, v II 325,328) (CONTINUED) Dori