t.metz@comcast.net wrote: >Please correct any assumptions on my part: <snip> _________________ Yes, “this place in Sussex” had been regarded as in Worcester from 1742-1774, and in Somerset before 1742, as all my maps describe. I have no clue on Lynch lineages across the centuries. Your question on DEAR (or DEER) HARBOUR is plagued with another of these repeated uses of one title in several places, several of which might fit. Which of the several such patents do you “keep running into wills of folks who leave land in Dear Harbour” for? And which folks? This isn’t much for me to go on. It occurs to me here that you might find these people “popping up” everywhere because you’ve found references to more than one of the DEAR HARBOURs in Worcester and Wicomico, adding to your confusion. John