Wow!! Traci, this is great! Thank you so much for the lead. It looks like the answers are getting closer and closer. I'm EX-CIT-ED !! Mr. Tom Colbert is helping me look these records up in the Kirn Library and may be able to get more info on this citation to see if any more information comes from the court records??? Maybe? Like confirmation that Thomas SPELL was her father. Sheila Martin ============= In a message dated Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:38:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Traci Thompson" <tracithompson@hotmail.com> writes: << Don't know if this helps any, but this is from the Records of Estates, Edgecombe County, N.C. 1761-1825 by David Gammon: "ANN RICHARDSON Summons (Nov. 4, 1783) of Thomas Spell to answer to James Scarborough and wife Mary and the other heirs of the dec'd., who had been the wife of Benjamin Richardson."