Thanks so much for this deed. I didn't have it. David Byers is Samuel's father and 1775 is about the time Samuel married. Samuel is still in York Co as late as 1790, but he's really hard to find on the census. He's down at the bottom of a page kind of scrunched in like the census taker almost forgot him and not all of his kids are shown. He had several sons at home at that time and they are not noted, but there was not another Samuel Byers of that age in York at that time that I know of, so I'm pretty sure it's him. It does show that there were either two or three females in the home. It's hard to read, but it's definitely more than one. One of them would have been the daughter who married my Samuel Lovelace. They married in about 1798, so that 1790 census is the only census that shows her in his household. But the sons of Samuel's, her brothers, are found all around my Barton's family in GA in years to come, in Rabun Co, Lumpkin Co and finally Pickens Co. The last I found of Samuel Byers was Lumpkin Co in 1834. He would have been very elderly by then and that's probably where he died, but I haven't found death info yet. I'm still trying to figure out what happened to our Samuel Lovelace. The last absolute record we have of him is a land purchase in Spartanburg in 1802 and then Anna appears by herself with kids in 1820 in Pendleton Co SC. In the meantime they must have been in NC because the son William and son James were reportedly born in NC about 1806 and 1810 respectively. Samuel Byers was at that time in Buncombe Co NC with most of his sons, so Samuel (Lovelace) and Anna could have gone there for a while. They also could have been in Rutherford where the rest of Samuel (Lovelace's) brothers were. Census records are pretty all over the map when it comes to the kids birth states, I can't imagine that Anna would have gone to Pendleton Co with all those kids by herself and none of her family appears to be around her there. In the 1820 census she has some of the daughters in her home, but the rest of her kids appear to be scattered. My Barton had married by then. The son James (and maybe more than him) were in the Henson household. It is likely that something happened to Samuel in Pendleton, but those of us who have looked have never been able to find a death record or estate record of any kind. We don't know for sure where William and Seaborn were in 1820. Maybe with Henry Henson too, but James is the only one he mentioned in his will. There is an Elizabeth Loveless who married William Thompson in Lumpkin Co in 1840 and they are living in a household next to Anna in Cherokee (later Pickens Co GA) in 1850. If she is the youngest daughter of Samuel and Anna, Samuel was probably alive as late as 1817, although census records on her birthdate are again all over the map. And she is probably one of the three living with Anna in Pendleton in 1820. She probably has the three youngest daughters with her, Mahala and Sarah would be the other two. That leaves Mary (married Horatio Talley ca 1822) and Lucinda (married Joel Underwood ca 1830) that we haven't found in 1820. Lou Ann