Thank you all bigtime! This email is going out to some 6 email lists who have been helping with questions I have raised in connection with Bucher AYRES. I am pleased (extremely pleased!) to say that he was found in 1850 under a different name. He *always* went by Bucher AYRES. Yet, in 1850 he was found with family members as Jacob B. AYRES. No wonder he was so hard to find. There were two Jacob Bucher AYRES in the family tree, so I should have been suspicious there had been a precedent. Thanks, too, for the answers to Aid-de-Camp and Webster Warburton Treaty and related matters. This gives me a lot of insight into what my relative was doing and why he was travelling. Here is that 1850 Census, just for the record: 1850 census, 14 Sep, North Ward, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co. Pa. P47 Dwelling 1, Family 1 William Ayres 47, Attorney, RE$10,000, all b Pa. Sarah E. or C. 49 Mary 42 Susan B. 20 Eliza J. 17 John 14 Elizabeth Bowman 16 William Armstrong 12 Jacob B. Ayres 26, Agent