>    Thomas Lovelace married Eleanor (d. 1765) and had a son John > Lovelace (b. 1698, Port Tobacco, MD) > Okay, this Thomas (in my humble opinion, although I think some disagree with me) I believe was Thomas the Orphan. Deeds, etc show up late enough for a man born 1709. He did have a wife Eleanor. He did have a son John, but his John (again in my humble opinion though some may disagree) I believe was the one who did marry Jane Bohanan or Nancy Jane Young? I'm real confused on his wife although a 1763 deed names her as Jane. And I believe he was the one who went to Culpepper Co VA. I can't prove that yet, but everything points to him being gone after 1763 or at least after 1765. The John born 1698 was probably a brother to Thomas above. He married Anne and had JBL and Samuel, Luke and Phillip. Records prove this wife and children. I think both of these probably belong to John who was born ca 1670 and who is proven to be older than 1698 by a 1711 estate document. I THINK - key word here is THINK - that this John is probably the father of John and Thomas, probably a Samuel who is found in a 1745 document, maybe Abraham and Benjamin who are together on some records (even though it is family lore that Abraham was from Scotland). Family lore in my family said our line was from Wales. Family lore isn't very reliable. Of all the above, John, Thomas, and Abraham can be eliminated as the father of our Benjamin....which leaves the possibility of Benjamin who disappears from records after 1737 and Samuel who disappears from records after 1745. Lou Ann The above Thomas did not buy Batchelor's Forest until 1745. His son John and his wife Eleanor sold the land in 1763, indicating that Thomas had died by then. A Thomas with one white and six blacks was on a 1733 tax roll and that may or may not have been this one. If I'm right about who he is he would have been 25 at that time. At any rate, there is absolutely no evidence that he ever had a son Benjamin and in fact was probably a contemporary of Benjamin. Supposedly in 1698 there was a William Lovelace in MD whose estate was probated and a Thomas was named in the record. Brother or son, I'm not sure. When I was in MD I looked and looked for this estate record to no avail. I don't know where the info comes from. It's been repeated a lot, but with no source and nothing to back it up.