SIN, By chance have you noticed a DAY in relation to the Cherokee bride thing in the Ga., Carolina areas? One of my genealogical bug cousins came across a letter on the wall of a Natchez pilgramige home a long time ago that related a tale of a DAY family who had settled in Spanish Natchez before being driven out. According to the letter, they made it across country to the East coast where they settled. My DAY line picks up around 1820 where my ancestor appears on the Amite Co. census. He married 1825(?) and then moved to Newton Co. when that area opened up after the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. I've speculated he was a son of this Natchez "adventurer," had family stories of the country in Southwest Miss., and decided to return when he got of age. We have no info on his parents. The reason I ask about the Cherokee connection is that one time, out of the blue, my dentist asked if I had Cherokee ancestors because of the configuration of some of my teeth. Seems there are certain teeth normally seen only in certain American Indian tribes, the Cherokee included. By the way, the group of "adventurers" came down from New England on a land speculation venture to the Natchez area with promise of land grants by the Spanish. That's documented and there were DAY families that lived in the New England area where this group came from. Researching DAY, LEE, WROTEN, DAVIS, WEIR, PIERCE, GASTON, THOMPSON (to name a few). Butch