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/gh.2ADI/4255.1.2 Message Board Post: I read that carefully. Its poor writing. Where it says "Her mother ... Mary Means" - they meant to say "His mother (Samuel Irwin)". Nancy was born in 1799. Mary was born in 1726. To be Nancy's mother she would have been 73 years old. The only thing that makes sense in this context is for them to be talking about Samuel Irwin's mother.