Hi Shirley, Jan, Peter, Gabe and interested others, I went to the Norfolk Historical Society Archives in Simcoe, Ontario yesteday and got a copy of the Land Petition for Mary Burns - Land Book A. Pg. 147 It reads as follows: "to His Excellency John Graves Simcoe Esquire Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Upper Canada and Colonel commanding His Majestys Forces The Humble Petition of Mary Burns most Humbly Shewath. That your Petitioner on account of her attachment to the British Governmnet arrived in this Province in November last from Maryland the place of her Nativity accompanying her only Son and Family with Intention to become a Settler in this Province. Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Prayeth that your Excellency will be pleased to take her case into Consideration and Grant her Two hundred acres or Such other quantity of land as to your Excellency shall seem meet and that the same be located on vacant Land lying in the Township of Sugar Loaf East on Lake Erie and your Petitioner as in Duty bound will ever Pray. Mary Burns 5th June 1794" So, it looks like Moses and John NEVILL are not brothers as I have always suspected, unless they are half brothers with different mothers. Mary Burns appears to have been well educated and to have written her own petition. She also states she was a native of Maryland. So the big question is who was the father of John and Ruth and the first husband of Mary Burns and what if anything was the relationship between John and Moses. Any thoughts? Jan, I also found a receipt written and signed by John NEVILL in amongst the papers of Thomas WELSH (I bless his little pack rat heart) so I now have original signatures of both Moses and John. Do you want me to send it so you have both? Paddy