Dear Don & Dear Charles The Olin that Charles is looking for is OLIN CRAWFORD SASSER, born in 1805 in Wayne County, NC. I still have no idea who his parents were but he was NOT the son of JOHN WILLIAM. The only John William for that period was born in 1803--the same generation as Olin. All I know for sure about his parents is that his mother was CRAWFORD (no first name known). This comes from the will of LAZARUS CRAWFORD, 1818 in Wayne County. The marriage record Charles has for Olin and NANCY SCOTT is correct. Although they married in Johnston County, they lived in adjoining Wayne County and all their four known children were born in Wayne. Forget the bit about the Bahamas as well as France. Besides, the British would not have welcomed French settlers in the Bahamas anyway. And why leave a beautiful tropical island for the cold winters of Maryland? No way! More later... Your cuz, Robert Earl Woodham