This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3h.2ADE/1770.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Have you seen the following info: William Bryan and Ann, b. 1687/8 in St. Mary's Co., MD, the s/o Bryan O'Bryan and Katherine_____. Wm left a will written on 9/21/1734 and probated on 8/7/1739. His children listed: Henry, William, Ignatius, John, Henrietta, Eleanor, Mary and Elizabeth. These are the families in Nelson Co., KY, also mentioned in his will as ext of kin, Richard & Henry Wimsatt. Now, William's (above) son, John ,left a will, the date his estate was appraised, 3/7/1774, list next of kin, his brother & sister, Ignatius and Eleanor Abell and on 5/20/1774, Philip Bryan adminstered the estate, no doubt his son. In Nelson Co., KY court records Philip's wife, is listed as Dorthy. I don't think there was a Sarah" or"Sally" Thompson.