Helen, the term "Texian" means the families imported into Spanish and Mexican Texas, by contracts with various impresarios (Austin, DeWitt, Robertson, etc), before the declaration of Texas independence from Mexico and formation of the Republic of Texas. After we became an independent country, we were "Texans". Many land records (grants, patents) are now searchable online at the TGLO (Texas General Land Office), and a great database of claimants for payment by the Republic of Texas. Your Frederick might be there, or his heirs. I descend from six lines of these early Texians, many from Kentucky! Indian massacres resulted in the deaths of several of my ancestors, in Navarro and Houston counties, in 1838 (Karankawas). My Grandfather told of hearing an Indian War Party pow-wow during the night, near his remote home, as late as 1880, when he was 11 years old. Strangely, there is an old Virginia Kemper connection to my paternal Anderson line. That Kemper supposedly published in VA Gen Society article, an erroneous lineage report, and our family genealogist at the time (1895), wrote instructions to our family to cease correspondence with him! This communication exists in archives in KY. Mary Alice ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com