Karmella, >It is interesting that Willis didn't >receive any slaves from his father. He may have given him some previously. >I have been having trouble figuring out who this >Walker Knight is. According to Walker's will abstract, >his wife's name was Elizabeth. So is the Elizabeth in >Peter's will a daughter in law, or his daughter? One guess would be she was his daughter and she married another Knight. This would not be unusual. There probably was, however, more than one Elizabeth Knight in Edgecombe at the time. >I would like the 1800 information if anyone has it. Elaine Peter Knight does not appear in my 1800 Edgecombe census nor in the statewide index (at least under the conventional surname spelling.) Either he was missed, was out of state, or was living in someone else's household. Traci the Librarian "Local history is not just local history but human history, world history. The information that you write down, the letters and maps you keep, these are the drippings of the human spirit and distillings of a man doing his job." --Paul Green _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp