Besides my new cousins, Elaine FRYER and Mary Ann WESTFALL, is anyone else researching FRYER? I am just beginnng to delve into my newly discovered names. I have ordered 4 films, and there are 12 more I want to order, but it helps immensely to have something with which to guide that research, as I am sure you all know. Elaine has certainly provided that guidance. Our particular FRYERS married into the PYLE family. Elaine's husband is descended from Thomas FRYER¹, ca 1715, and whose wife was Ann______. She has him in tax records in 1739, in Birmingham Twp. If anyone *is* researching them, do you know from whence they came? Were the FRYERS English? ( The PYLES and CHAMBERLAINS are heavily documented already, so I know about their English origins.) According to the data Elaine has shared with me, our common link starts with Thomas², b ca 1742, and Susanna PYLE, d/o John PYLE and Susanna CHAMBERLAIN, b 9 April 1739. (This Thomas is the one who was convicted, but pardoned, for rape in 1772. Elaine has copies of the trial transcript. ) Susanna was a Quaker, but Thomas was not. Thomas² had a brother named George. Thomas and Susanna's children are: David, b ca 1767, Hannah, who married Alban HOOK, (not the Rev. HOOK) and Thomas, b 1781,who married Lydia______. We know David and Thomas went to Mercer County Ohio, and that they are both buried there. David died in 1847 and Thomas³ in 1863. Does any belong to those brothers? (Thomas's eldest son was John Quincy FRYER, b 1808, according to Elaine, and *his* son was William S FRYER, b 1838 in OH) Thanks, Lynn PRETTYMAN in Baltimore. [email protected]