In a message dated 12/17/10 6:53:25 PM, greglovelace@comcast.net writes: > "   Thomas Lovelace married Mary Jane ___ and had a son Thomas Lovelace > (b. 1664 Maryland) > Okay, to start with this Thomas had no surviving heirs. See below: Although his wife’s name remains a mystery, Thomas Lovelace is known to have had at least one son, William Lovelace, who died at age eleven and was buried following an elaborate state funeral ceremony held at Fort James in 1671 (For a detailed description of this bizarre event, See: The American Historical Review, Vol. IX, (1904), pp. 522-525). Evidence that Thomas produced other children has remained elusive. Pleasants noted, however, that “there is no question that when Thomas Lovelace died…he was without issue surviving, and that “Lovelace Farme” passed to his niece Mary Duxbury.” However, Pleasants allowed for the possibility that Mary Duxbury might have been the daughter of Dudley Lovelace or his sister Katherine Hayne (Pleasants, “Francis Lovelace,” pg. 191).   Her next Thomas I'll cover in my next message. Lou Ann