Greetings, list! I'm trying to identify several Pyles named in a 1794 deed that descended through my wife's family for a plot of land straddling the border of Bethel Township, Delaware County, PA, and New Castle County, Del. I presume these people are somehow related to my wife, but am not sure how. First, here's my wife's line: Robert Pyle (1660-1730) - Ann Stovey Daniel Pyle (1694-1756) - Mary Pennell Robert Pyle (1730-?) - Rebecca Hampton Daniel Pyle (1755-1833) - Prudence Dutton Dutton Pyle (1807-1880) - Margaret Zebley Owen Zebey Pyle (1842-1938) - Anna Mary Wood and so on… And I should probably mention that my wife's grandparents' farm - in Bethel Township, Delaware County - descended to them from the above Daniel Pyle (1755-1833). The deed in question records a sheriff's sale of "a certain messuage or tenement plantation & tract of (85 acres of) land" belonging to "Robert Pyle & Susannah his wife" because of an outstanding 70 pound debt to William Gest. The land was sold on Oct. 28, 1793, to "Robert Pyle JUNIOR" (apparently single, since no wife is named) for 251 pounds. One intriguing detail is that various members of the Gest family owned the farm that descended to my wife's grandparents. The Gest heirs sold 200 acres to a William Burnett in 1775; Burnett lost the property at a sheriff's auction in 1787 when it was bought by Henry Hale Graham who sold 130 acres to Daniel Pyle (1755-1833) in 1789. My main question is: Who were "Robert Pyle & Susannah his wife"? As you can see, we have a Robert Pyle (b. 1730) who could have been alive at that time. But his wife was Rebecca, not Susannah - although Susannah could have been a second wife. And, unfortunately, we don't know the names of any of Robert's children except for Daniel (1755-1833). Still, the deed DID descend down through my wife's line. To me that seems to be circumstantial evidence of a relationship. Anyone have any insight on this? Mark E. Dixon Wayne, PA