Thanks Sue. I had seen that John Hopper was an early teacher but did not know about the controversy. Interesting. also interesting that John Gregory is listed. It was his son, Zar, who married Lambert Hopper's daughter Sally in 1811. Mary Mary Slack Maynard Researching Slack, Gregory, Hopper, Bigelow/Bigalow, Nichols, Dunning, Mead, Fish in NY and New England, Nash, Maginn/McGinn, Donahue, Vokes in NY and Ireland, Aird and Crombie in NY and Scotland