In a message dated 10/4/02 10:13:10 PM, LAEASTBA-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Moses Wheelock >> I would need to know dates, location or ancestry; but some of the Wheelocks of New England migrated to New Orleans and the Florida parishes of Louisiana after their cousin Gen. Eleazar Wheelock Ripley went there in 1820. Eleazar Wheelock, maternal grandfather, was the founder of Dartmouth College. There's lots of Wheelock info on the web. E. W. Prichard researching SMITH, BAKER, COBB, COOPER, DUNN, ROBERTS, WOODWARD & related families in SW MS and the Florida parishes of LA, 1776-1900, including BUHLER, DEVALL, LILLEY, BARNETT in East Baton Rouge Parish; also CARSON in St. Mary Parish; also PRICHARD, BYRD, HERRINGTON, STRINGER in Franklin County, MS.