At 01:00 AM 11/25/2006, you wrote: >Sounds like Eyre owed a debt to me but the position of the church is >unreal. Ten or even twenty acres maybe! Yep, that is weird. Ginny Oh, I don't know. I can see a beleagured pastor in a large parish visiting an elderly parishioner w/no children and only an elderly sister way over in the next state and a middle aged nephew w/no children way over in yet another state attempting to sway that parishioner to leave his estate to the church. Later Cecil cnty tax records indicate that the 1000 acres of Knowlewood ending up reverting to the sister who then passed it down to at least 3 of her children. Those tax records are included in Peden's "Inhabitants of Cecil County Maryland 1649-1774" and more on the Rev Richard SEWELL is included in Johnston's "History of Cecil County Maryland" that Alan Buckingham is so kindly posting at http://www.midatlanticarchives.com