On Wednesday, July 19, 2000, Sandra Ferguson <ferg@intelos.net> wrote: > Not exactly a smoking gun, but perhaps some clues. > > Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834 > > COMMONS, WILLIAM. New London. > October 30, 1795. January 28, 1796. > Provides for wife Sarah. Plantation, etc. to be sold. To sons Robert, > John, William and Elisha £10 each. To son Joseph £30. Remainder of > estate to Elisha's 5 children by his first wife, William, Sarah, James, > Ann and John, share and share alike at 21. Thanks, Sandra. This William and his son William listed are, I believe, the grandfather and father of Nancy Ann COMMONS/CUMMINS (b. 1791, my 4-g grandmother). To establish this connection I was hoping to find her father's will with her name listed. Maybe he didn't die until after 1834; it's also been suggested that he pulled up stakes and headed south to North Carolina with his brother. Or, maybe the Ann listed is the one I'm seeking (her second son was named William Cummins CRANSTON, from which I'm guessing her father's name). She and her husband Thomas CRANSTON were in London Britain Twp. in 1810, not too far from Elisha COMMONS (since they were on the same census page). S R C A cott obert ranston nderson phssra@physics.emory.edu