I don't know enough about these things to have an opinion as to whether we can draw any firm conclusions about "the orphan" from the fact that the administrators of the estate were still being brought to court in 1692. Perhaps someone else can comment. It does seem interesting that this estate keeps coming up in the court records again and again during the widow's marriage to William Briscoe. Debts owed by Richard Pace, perhaps? None of the court cases seem to refer to a son/daughter who has inherited or is due to inherit; it's always between the administrator and some other claimant. One would have to see the original to know for sure, but I suspect that if a Pace heir were named in any of these Briscoe court cases, it would not have been overlooked by previous researchers. Yrs, James James __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com