This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFB.2ACI/4234.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Your message partially answers the questions I just posed for you in my reply to your other message. Robert BARNES gave the exact date for Benjamin FORD, b. 18 Dec. 1723, MD. Could he have been still alive and buying land with J. T. after 1800? Have you seen a Xerox copy of the original deed to see whether it was actually John TIPTON or John Tipton FORD? Here's one more clue. Balto. Co. Deed Abstracts: On 31 May 1722, John TIPTON & wf. Mary conveyed 114 acres of Murphy's Hazard, part of Addition to Poor Jamaica Man's Plague, to Edward MURPHY [IS:G:46]. Since Jonathan was b. 25 Mar. 1699, and bpt. with older brothers Thomas, b. 1693, and William, b. 1696, on 25 Apr. 1699, some other researchers and I had estimated three years between each birth and John's birth in 1702. When selling land in 1722, he was supposed to be 21, so John TIPTON was probably b. 1701, two years after Jonathan.