In a message dated 97-05-17 21:11:08 EDT, SASSER-L@rootsweb.com writes: > My cousin told me years ago that Johann (John) and Thomas Sasser were > left Heimersheim, Germany after the 1735 French invasion. Apparently > John S died in 1779 and left his land (in Wayne Co. NC) to his son, > Josiah, who had served in the Revolutionary War and he also left 348 > acres to his other son, William Sasser. This William Sasser married > Martha Bishop who gave birth to Henry Sasser on March 29, 1778. > > > Does this information confirm or contradict any of your information? Sorry about the incomplete e-mail that I sent. I hit some key combination on my keyboard, and off it went. Please let me try again. The information about William Sasser (John's son) being Henry Sasser's father is incorrect. Here are some basics about John Sasser's family. 1. John Sasser Sr. died in 1782. His children: a. John Sasser, Jr. died in 1776 with no children. b. William Sasser died in 1781 with one son, James. He also had daughters Sarah and Ann. c. Josiah Sasser died by 1782. He had children named John, William, Susannah, Elizabeth, Mary/Polly, Josiah Jr., and Lewis. [This is why you to be careful when you run across the names John and William Sasser. They are all over the place!] d. Mary Sasser. I don't know when she died. She married Samuel Blyth(e) by 1782. This information comes from two sources. One is a court case from the New Bern Superior Court of Law, March 1792 term, between the guardian of James Sasser (William's son) and Samuel Blythe. I have a photocopy of this document taken from the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (File #3493). I transcribed this a while back for the group and would be happy to repost it if anyone would like. The second source is a genealogy I copied from the vertical files at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh, NC. The genealogy is by Muriel E. Lewis (1989), who descended from Lewis Sasser. She quotes the above document, and her documentation of facts is some of the best I have seen. The upshot of all this is that you have to be very careful with your Williams, Johns, and Henrys. I spent the bulk of my first year of genealogical research doing that, simply because I was making the same kinds of mistakes. The more I researched, the more my hypotheses didn't make sense. I kept uncovering conflicting facts and had to finally just collect as much data as I could and let the data tell me what was going on. Ironically, I know more about John Sasser and his family than I do about Henry's father. I hope this information helps. With regard to your other questions, I have not been able to find connections between the William, Thomas, and John Sasser listed in the 1733 document. My only hunch is that the John Sasser is John Sasser, Sr. I can't tell you if William and Thomas were brothers or cousins. I think the William would be too old to be Henry's father. The only documentation I have seen connecting Henry Sasser to William Sasser are several deeds of land and a genealogy taken from Henry Sasser's Bible. Hope this is of help. Doug Sherman dougsherma@aol.com ------------------------------