Actually Paul, you are not the last to figure it out. I probably am, but I'm happy to accept your logic as it's quite good and I thank you for your reasoning ability. I likely would have not come to that conclusion on my own. There was however another Clement. Likely not as old as the first (probable born between 1750 and 1760) but he was in Washington County, Maryland during the 1783 Tax rolls. This Clement disappears from Maryland and appears in Kentucky about the same time as the other Mattingly's of Washington County: Joseph, Richard, Barnett. He remains on the Kentucky records until 1810. I would speculate that this Clement was the figure from whom many of the Matney clan come and this could be true but so far no-one seems to know much about him. It's my theory that he was of the Cezar line as nearly all (maybe all) of those from Washington, Allegany Counties were. **************** I need a volunteer to come forward to admit that they did not figure out the Clement of SMC vs the Clement of AAC so that I won't feel like I was the last to figure it out. Duh. HEM spectulated that there were 2 different Clement Mattinglys in the mid to late 1700's. There seems to be a very prominent Clement Mattingly who married very well. He was married to Ann Burton Coyle whose family were very large land owners and apparently were related to the Carroll's of MD. The second Clement was in SMC and little is known of him other than who his children were. The reasoning was good, so I agreed, like HEM, that there were 2 Clement Mattinglys. What threw me was that Ann Mattingly was settling Clements estate in AAC in 1780 yet Clement did not name a wife in his will of 1778. HEM cited a reference, that I had pulled from the Hall of Records, that shows that Ann Mattingly settling the estate of Clement Mattingly in AAC. What HEM did not realize and I didn't either, although it was staring me in the face, is that Ann Mattingly was not Ann Burton Mattingly, but his daughter Ann who was named as his executor along with Thomas McWilliams (his son-in-law) and Ruth his daughter. The court record in AAC shows his executors (Thomas McWilliams, Ann Mattingly and Joseph Stone & wife - Ruth's husband) settling accounts there. So, I suppose that we/I can forget the notion that there were 2 Clement Mattinglys in MD in the mid to late 1700's. But a positive negative is still a positive.