In a message dated 6 / D / 02 5:50:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jhwest@ptialaska.net writes: << Sorry, no Butcher in the Pioneers of the Old Monocacy The Early Settlement of Frederick County Maryland 1721-1743, by Tracey and Dern. >> If you can't find Butcher see if there is a Metzger. If I remember correctly Butcher is the translation of Metzger. I found that name change in my line. Yours, Gerald W. Rhoades