I've gone through the archives of this list as well as the Guilford Co. lists and other internet sources and this is some of what I've gleaned about some of the Fosters living in Rowan/Guilford Cos. around 1750 onward. John Foster and Grace Dicks married about 1780 at North Buffalo, old Rowan Co., NC (now Guilford Co.). John's parents were Hugh Forster and Abigail (LNU) possibly from Cecil Co., Maryland. They were Quakers. Grace Dicks' father was Nathan Dicks, brother of the famous Quaker teacher & firebrand Zachariah/Zacharias Dicks. They were from Chester Co., Pennsylvania, just over the border from Cecil Co. I have some of John and Grace's children as: Abigail m. Richard Stanley Nathan m. Abigail Macy Mary m. Moses Harvey (?) Hannah m. Moses Harvey (?) Joshua m. Sarah Hunt Elmira m. Alexander Kell John Foster's siblings are possibly: William m. Agnes Allen Abigail m. Charles Kennedy/Canaday James m. Elsy Smith Samuel m. Barsheba Jessop I have left out the children of these people so as not to clutter this message. Since Hugh Foster/Forster lived a full life (c. 1720- c. 1790) I suspect he had more children than that. Does anyone have anything else on this family? I am trying to link them to the Fosters who migrated to Spanish Louisiana (now Mississippi) about 1790. In particular, I am trying to find the parentage of the Hugh Allen Foster who married Winny Arnold in Claiborne Co., MS in 1822. I've tentatively excluded the Fosters from old 96 District in SC who migrated to roughly the same area a little earlier than 1790. The Quaker Fosters, with their Maryland connections, and Dicks and Allen marriages, are the best candidates so far.