This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morse, Morss, Moss, Mors, Britton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UN2.2ACIB/1145.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Glenda. I don't think yours and mine are the same, but I can't rule it out. If your William came from NJ, he might be the William Morse who married Elizabeth Coleman in Middlesex County in 1814. The IL Elizabeth I mentioned in my post would have been born abt 1790, but I know nothing of her other than what is published in the 1860 census. The William she lived with at the time was b. abt 1845. The other William I'm looking for is probably too old, and I don't have any evidence that he moved to AL, or anywhere else, for that matter. I suspect he's the William who married Anne Hollman on 6 May 1799 in Middlesex County, NJ. I would guess that this William lived in East Windsor, NJ, appearing on taxables from 1799 to 1810. He may be the same William "Moss" who was on East Windsor's taxables in 1797 and in neighboring Freehold in 1780. He could also have been there as late as 1818, as there is an unnamed Morse there in 1818, and a William Morris in 1817. The only other Morse/Morris/Moss taxables I know of in Middlesex County during that period were Asher (my 4th-g-grandfather), who moved from East Windsor to Freehold in 1817, and James Moss in Woodbridge (some 30 miles away) in 1786 and 1787. Hope this helps! Chris