Kathye, Have you had any luck in tracking down the source of the "Annica" Quaker records? Since I had no real lead to follow, I spent my time today at the local LDS Family History Center looking at a microfilm roll that just came in. William O. Whitney is listed in a published abstract of the final property division and settlement of the estate of Thomas Payne, Jr., as receiving an interest in some land and as having signed the settlement. (The settlement was done in 1810 and recorded in 1811 in Franklin Co., GA. I believe the abstract I saw some time back was done by Martha Acker.) I had earlier found a William O. Whitney household in the 1820 census of Bedford Co., TN. That's the earliest census in existence for that county. Today, I skipped ahead to the 1850 census, to see if any members of that household might still be there and still be alive. There was a "Ruthy Whitney" in Shelbyville, Bedford Co., TN, age 70. William O. Whitney wasn't with her, and she seemed to be in a household headed by a man named Wisener. (If that's Ruth Payne, the sister of Thomas Payne, Jr., then she was a minor at the time of his will in 1786. That fits with a hypothesis I have: all the biological siblings of Thomas Payne, Jr., except Nathaniel and Moses were minors in May 1786 when he signed his will. That would be why only Nathaniel and Moses got specific bequests of land. We'll see if we can track down evidence of the ages of the others, and see if that pans out as the explanation.) I have seen at least one mention on the internet of Ruth Payne's name as "Ruthy." I wonder if the 1850 census is where that spelling came from. Since Zebediah Payne and Shrewsbury Payne bought land in Bedford Co., TN, in 1812, I presume the William O. Whitney in the 1820 Bedford Co., TN, census is their brother in law--that is, husband of their sister, Ruth. Otherwise, I don't know why he was one of the people listed as getting a share of the estate of Thomas Payne, Jr., down in Franklin Co., GA. I've seen a "tree" that listed Whitney as the husband of Ruth, but I don't know the source of that attribution. Do you know of anything that explains Whitney's role in the estate? Still searching, Bob