Thanks, all, re Nathaniel Mason/Macon. Guess I should look in Brunswick Co., Va, also, as Yeargain lived practically on the line. Was not Nathaniel Macon later a State Senator?? When Lt. Col. Wm Alston, son in law of Samuel Yeargain, wrote his will he left his two little daughters to the "care of my beloved sister, Ann Hunt (Macon) Alston" (similar, anyway). She was wf of William's deceased brother Capt. John Alston. Think Ann was Gideon's dau. So there was a close familial relationship. If it were