Hi Celeste, After I get New Jersey and New York City taken care of, my next stop on this research train is scheduled to be Pennsylvania. I have found records in NYC that have Benjamin Norwood's brother Richard (b. 1667 in Barbados) residing in Philadelphia, PA. This would have been at some point around 1706 when he made indenture of his son, also a Richard (b. 1690 in Bermuda), to his brother, Benjamin. But he could have been around this area as early as 1694 when he shows up in a baptism record in NYC as a witness for Benjamin's first daughter. Later, Richard supposedly removed to the land he inherited after the death of his father somewhere in the Carolinas, but I'm not too confident about this. I think it possible it may have been the other way around, Carolinas first, then Pennsylvania. Anyway, I don't know what happened to his son Richard after the five year indenture, or any other children he may have had that I haven't found a record for yet. So my best bet at this point is that there may be some of this particular line still in and around PA during the early to mid 1700s. It is interesting to note that I can find no listing in the census indexes for any Norwoods in PA in 1790 and only one in DE. Which I'm assuming is probably your Eli Norwood in Angola, Sussex Co. Hmmm. Actual listing seems to be lost, drats, might have given us a clue. Anyway, I'll keep your address in case I run across anything that looks promising for a connection in the late 1700s in this area. Irene On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 10:07:38 EDT, you wrote: >Irene: > >Should your research connect to Norwoods in Delaware or Pennsylvania, please >let me know. I am currently at a brick wall whereby I have not yet been >successful in identifying the parents of Eli Norwood or Noble 'Nuke' Norwood. > Both of these men were born in the late 1700's. > > >Celeste