Hello, I am looking for some help in sorting out the various Thomas Woodwards in Chester County. I have been working to determine which Thomas Woodward married Rebecca Millard about 1800. He died, intestate, in 1808 in W. Nantmeal Twp, and she died in 1849, and is buried at St. Mary's in Warwick. I have been in contact with a number of people who are probably on both of the Chester County lists. I have made several trips to CCHS, CCA, and the Tri-County Heritage Society. I just joined the PA-OLD-CHESTER list this week, and browsed the archives also. I want to summarize my thoughts, and ask both lists for your help. Of the 8 or 9 Thomas Woodwards, I can find on Nadine Holder's Woodward site, in the Lewis Woodward book, and several WorldConnect trees, I have ruled out all but one, based on their marrying other women, or their age. The remaining logical candidate is the Thomas Woodward born abt. 1774 to Richard Woodward(1754) and his first wife. Lewis Woodward names her Martha _______, and says she bore him four children. Barclay Richard supplied the surname Clayton to her, but I don't know why. Martha dying, he married the widow Elizabeth Carrington(nee Pyle). Neither Lewis Woodward nor Nadine have much for dates on any of these children of Richard Woodward(1754) and these two wives. There was a Thomas Woodward who was "accused by a young woman & c" "and the next month he married her" - as reported at Bradford MM in the third month of 1800. I have seen the microfilm at Swarthmore, which says he was counseled, with an apparently unacceptable response, and disowned. Nowhere do these meeting notes say who he was(whose son?), or who she was. Nor have I yet found an 1800 marriage in any other Chester County church record. This could be the Thomas(b. abt 1774) I'm trying to tie to Richard(1754) and Martha Clayton, or it could be the Thomas(b. 10/6/1774 at Bradford MM to Robert, b. 1/19/1742 and Jane Sheward(as spelled by Barclay Richard)) who married Susan Ingram. I don't have their marriage date, but property records at CCA tie this Thomas and wife Susan to his father Robert in E. Bradford. Tax lists and land records in W. Nantmeal show my Thomas was an inmate and owned no property. That's my Woodward brick wall in Chester County, and I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide, or suggestions for further research. I figure that if I can find someone researching the Clayton surname in Chester County, maybe they will have something on the marriage and children of Martha Clayton and Richard Woodward. Bruce Fosnocht