In a message dated 11/11/2001 8:17:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Since some one is working on the Loftin family has anyone found a connection to the following families, Grant, Williams or Bowden Thanks Ruth >> Ruth: If you are working on the WILLIAMS family I found that Col. William DICKSON b. 1739 Chester Co PA -d. Duplin Co NC 25 June 1820, surveyor, Colonial Assemblyman, Rev. Officer and clerk of the Duplin Co court for 45 years married Mary WILLIAMS d/o Capt Joseph WILLIAMS & Mary (HICKS). Pat Hoffman