This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pyle, Black Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VVBBAEB/664.2 Message Board Post: Sorry, I can't be of much help on this- my computer died a few days ago, and although I do have a backup of my files, it will be awhile before I can get to it- and I'm just wading through some of this as you are, anyway. Your post brought back to my attention something that had confused me before- i.e., there seemed to be two claimants to be Samuel, son of Dr. John Pyle, Sr.- one who died in NC, one who died in SC. It seems most reasonable that Samuel Pyle, son of the Col./Dr. (Sr.) died in Greenville County, SC, where at least one of his brothers (Dr. John, Jr.) was also living- there is some record of the estate of Samuel Pyle there, and Hans and Jacob Black signed the bond. The widow was apparently, even if not explicitly stated to be, Mary A. Pyle. So it would seem that Hans' daughter Mary was Samuel's wife. not Jean. If you go to : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monticue/Pyle_line.htm there is a page detailing some of this. If, as you say, the NC will is Pike. not Pyle, that is where some of the confusion is coming in. Unless there is some other evidence that proves it, it seems to me that the Halls are not connected to the Pyles but to the Pikes. As mentioned in the Web page I refer to, there are deeds which name the other sons of Dr. John Pyle, Jr., even though they weren't mentioned in his will. That still leaves the question open as to who Jean married. Have you actually seen a copy of Hans' will? I wonder if the transcription of it is correct. The only son of the Dr. (Sr.) that I can think of whose wife hasn't been identified is William, who migrated to KY, then to IL, where he was apparently chased out of Union Co. by later immigrants who recognized him as a former Loyalist. At that point he just disappeared from sight, at least for me, to this point. Not knowing how old Jean might have been, I don't know whether it's possible she may have been married to a grandson.