FYI long shot- on the 1696/97 Brandywine Hundred, New Castle CO DE tax list of Cornelius Empson with Oliver Cope are- 1) Cornelius VanDEVER wife Margareta 2) William VanDever -wife Alice SMITH dau. of Francis Smith- she later married Quaker Irish KIRK. 3) John VanDever 4) Paul PETERSON 5) Hans PETERSON wife Annika 1720 abstract will 6) Peter PETERSON - will of Cornelius VanDEVER 1717 7) Nathaniel CARTMILL wife Dorothy- have sons Martin and Thomas and Thomas stayed here and everyone is related to his family by 1800 here. this 39 men tax list is on the Cope forum post 1720 David