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/3AB.2ACI/6457.1 Message Board Post: Have you checked out Dorthea Edgerly's history of the family. It was published in 1999. She state that Richard C. was probably the son of Sutton Ward and Nancy Crabtree(?). She posits that Sutton was born in Orange County, NC @1766 and died there @1817. She states that Richard was the first of at least seven children from that marriage. Who proof is circumstantial, but fairly strong. She suggests that Sutton's father was John Ward, born prior to @1731 and died after 1813. Steve Ward.