Thanks for your efforts Mike, Thanks also to you Kari. What you have found is very interesting. I will attempt to follow up as well as I can from afar. My resources are limited here to what I can access online. Often I find that I am directed to the resources at BYU when searching. I have been trying to orient myself on the old maps available to relate the deed records to possible movement routes of the family. Since the Prettymans and the Waples are connected to the Vaughans and owned property at Georgetown and to the north, a northward migration is suggested. I have visited the DE Historical Society in Wilmington with my cousin and I have a family bible which goes back a ways (1852) and the research of another of my cousins living near Cheswold, DE. I hope to be able to visit the resources in Dover and Anapolis, MD some year in the future and have the time to do more research to find what information there might be on Willliam and Margret (Margritt) who I have been aware of as parents of William in 1689. From what I have learned there was a migration of settlers into DE from Sumerset Cty, MD and VA in 1670. Maybe that is where they came from. Thanks agn and have a Happy New Year, Ed mike hilton wrote: >Ed, > >It is evidenly harder to find William Vaughan in the Maryland Archives Online or my typing is getting really bad but here are two references from the Somerset County, Maryland Judicial Records > > >Somerset County, Judicial Records Volume 87, f. 48 > >"This day several persons published their intentions of going out of this Province... William of this County living at James Dashiell's"... > >Note: William Vaughan may have left but her returned, > >Somerset County, Judicial Records Volume 91, pg. 9 > >2nd Tuesday January 1687... "William Vaughan and hhis wife Margret duly subpeopned on part of the plaintiff" > >