Hi List, a few more thoughts on surnames- Mercer cont- Solomon Mercer & Olive his wife parents of John Mercer who marr. Hephzibah Simcock has this ancestry taken from my Quaker records and in Gilbert Cope's bio of Thomas Mercer page 655 in 1881. Solomon Mercer b) 10.30.1736 is the son of Daniel Mercer & Rebecca Townsend her father John from Long Island . Daniel died age 92 in 1807 b) ca 1715 son of Thomas Mercer JR and Hannah Taylor who Gilbert COPE says he married in 1710. . NOW this - This Thomas Mercer has sister Elizabeth Mercer who marr. 1st Joseph Woodward and 2nd William Vestal 1716 . The Parents of Thomas and Elizabeth are Thomas Mercer & Mary ( I have seen Greenway for her but not sure ) . Answer here- All of the Vestals I have listed in PA,VA and NC are desc.s of Thomas Mercer & Mary so every Vestal that is Quaker related is a cousin to all of these MERCERS. All of the families that married into these families are desc.s of Thomas & Mary Mercer and this is only one family we can use out of hundreds. David - I hope you see what I see and get IT.