The Drummonds and Selbys are my family though the ones you mentioned aren't part of my direct line. I have FIVE Spencer Drummonds in my files: Spencer b. abt 1718 Accomack Co, VA, d. 1759 Accomack Co, VA son of Richard Drummond b. abt 1692, d. 1732; m. Anne UNK Spencer D. b. abt 1752 Accomack Co, VA, d. 1795 son of Spencer Drummond b. abt 1718 (above) and Anne UNK; m. Comfort Stockely, dau. of Nehemiah & Ann Stockley Spencer R. b. 15 Nov 1781 Accomack Co, VA, d. 9 Jun 1864 (probably the Spencer mentioned below) son of Spencer D. Drummond & Comfort Stockley; m. Susanna Elizabeth Fletcher Spencer b. abt 1783 son of Charles & Comfort Drummond (Charles the son of Spencer Drummond b. abt 1718) Spencer b. 23 May 1823, d. 17 Mar 1897 son of Spencer R. Drummond & Susanna Elizabeth Fletcher Thomas Fletcher is probably Thomas b. 1749, d. 1820, son of Henry Fletcher, Sr. and Leah Corbin, and uncle to Susanna Elizabeth (Fletcher) Drummond, wife of Spencer D. (above). Thomas Fletcher married Elisha Drummond, dau of Spencer b. abt 1718 & Anne (above). Thomas Fletcher's sister, Elizabeth b. 1746 married John Riley Parker, son of John Parker IV and Sarah Riley. Zadock Purnell b. abt 1760 m. Ann Selby, dau of Parker & Glyperry Selby son of Thomas Purnell & Elizabeth Marshall I can't place this Parker Selby in my Selbys, but there were earlier Parkers in the Selby family: Parker Selby I b. abt 1680, m. Tabitha Bayly, dau of John & Edith Bayly Parker Selby II b. abt 1705, m. Mary Watts son of Parker & Tabitha Selby Parker Selby b. abt 1753, d. 1796 son of ? In a message dated 7/16/10 8:30:40 PM, Judy Stell writes: > Whittington Bowen d. bef 8/29/1825 Acc., adm. to Thomas Fletcher; Raymond > Riley & Spencer Drummond sec. (believe he's son of James of Whittington d. > 1790; James Bowen m. Mary Truitt, dtr. of Pattey Truitt & Rachel Jenkins > (the one who m. Whittington d. 1790) > He's evidently the Whittington Bowen who m. 1815 Wor. Elizabeth Lucas > Elizabeth Bowen, widow of Whittington Bowen, m. (lic) 1/31/1831 Acc. > Meshach Gaskins (d. bef 6/28/1852); she left a will and named dtr. Sallie M. > Bowen (among several Gaskins children) > > If anyone knows anything further of any of these folks, it would help: > Ann Selby dtr of Parker Selby III (d. 1791) m. Zadock Purnell d. aft 1811; > don't know when they married, but I've got a Caty (Selby) who m. 1805 Wor. > Zadock Purnell. This Caty/Catherine is 'evidently' dtr of Eleanor & Jesse > Selby (d. 1788) and it 'appears' Eleanor Selby married a Bowen > "Huntington" 5/17/1806 Zadock Purnell, wife Catey Purnell, sold to Eli > Bowen rights to Catey from mother Eleanor Bowen > - did Eleanor Selby marry a Bowen and which one; anyone have her maiden > name > - which Zadock Purnell, two possibles: > Zadock Purnell b.c. 1770, orphan of Col. Wm. Purnell & Mary Elizabeth > Fassitt - know no more about him > > Zadock Purnell b.c. 1760, d. aft 1811, m. Ann Selby, dtr of Parker Selby > III d. 1791 >