I'll have to go back and try to determine where I got this info on William as born about 1777. My first thought is that it was from Charley but I hate to make that statement while being uncertain. However, you're right; William was most probably NOT in Washington County at the time his dad's will was being probated. I wish I knew something about him but he seems to have been rather unwilling to leave many traces. I think he was in league with that odd Lucas, John Townley, and others who kept their lives so un-trackable. ****************** >This William sounds like a true son of John Baptist d. 1817, however, I did >not have him b. 1777, I have an unlikely date of 1807 for him, unsourced, so >probably a results of a living nightmare after trying to understand his >father's estate settlement papers. However this William son of John Baptist >d 1817, had an authorized agent to receive his share when the estate was >finally distributed in abt 1835, so he was not in Washington County >apparently. Maybe he is the husband of the charming Bridget Anna Vessels. >He is not as elegant a fit as our first candidate though. JB >*******************************************