Paul, In Paddy's 3/19 posting in which she answered some of your questions, she responded as follows: > >3) Your March 11th post: > You ask if I said "something about Alston's"? No I did not. > I think I mentioned Alstons in my post about similar surnames of possible Loyalists in the Natchez District (now Mississippi) controlled at various times by France, England, and Spain before the U.S. took possession. The Alstons and Dromgooles were related, and a Dromgoole had a loose family connection with our Nevels family in Mississippi. A profile on the Alstons, who were Loyalists, is in The Natchez Court Records by May W. McBee. I will be glad to transcribe it and send it by private e-mail if you are interested. The Alstons were from North Carolina and lived in the area where both Loyalists and Patriots lived. I have seen them in many records in the same areas where the Nevilles lived in Halifax/Granville/Orange Co., NC. Philip Alston, one of the subjects of the profile, is thought to have lived in Wake Co., NC before moving to the Natchez District. The author of the profile says it is not improbable that Alston came to the Natchez District with Anthony Hutchins. (It helps to have a map when studying the Alstons.) The profile states that Philip Alston had to flee from the Natchez to the Cumberland settlement near Nashville, TN after a little Loyalist insurrection in Natchez in 1781. This move is verified what has been found in research on William Nevills who lived in Sumner Co., TN in the area called "the Cumberland." Philip Alston and a Dromgoole son-in-law were in the Sumner Co., TN area, where they are in records. They were also in Logan Co. KY, where they surveyed for William Roberts who owned property across the state line in Logan Co., KY. (Sumner Co., TN and Logan Co., KY are next to each other.) Since the Nevels had a connection with the Dromgooles in MS, since the Nevels in MS also had Roberts' connections, and since William Nevills and Martin Nevills, who were in Sumner Co., TN, moved to Jefferson Co. and Warren Co., MS (part of earlier Natchez District) where our Nevels relatives were (who also have William and Martin Nevels), you can see why I am interested in possible Alston connections with Nevills, even in Canada. Jan