If I might add to the Rice conversation, I wondered if these Rices' might be part of the family about whom you are asking? Our David Craig was born in 1775 in Ireland and came with his father to PA. He married Anna Margaret Leffler Rice, who was first married to Abram Rice ( or Daniel which is what my early family notes showed) of Rice's Fort. Our David Craig's son, Dr. Thomas Craig, was interviewed by Lyman Draper because of Draper's interest in the Indian attack and massacure, which occurred at the Fort. Anna and her husband had played in the fort as children. Anna Rice Craig had told her children about the troubles, and they repeated the stories to Draper, as was written in his manuscripts. David and Anna Rice Craig, and their children came to Indiana in the early 1800's with the older Rice children, by Anna's first husband. By 1836, they were in Waveland, Montgomery Co. IN. ------------------------------------------------ >From the HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, (IN.) by Beckwith, pg 311. About 1760, ten families emmigrated from Maryland and settled on Short Creek near the old town of Washington, VA. They built a fort called Rice Fort in Washington Co. PA. in honor of "the Grandfather of John Rice, the subject of the article in Beckwith's HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY (IN.). Henry Rice and Elizabeth Lessler played in the fort. The fort was attacked by Indians in 1782. They married in 1807 and later settled in Harison Co., IN., bringing six children with them. (They had 7 children). Henry Rice was an elder in the first church in Corydon, IN. John Rice, son of Henry, born 16 April 1804, near Wheeling WVA. Henry built a grist and sawmill at Corydon, IN. In 1859, the mill burned and John Rice moved to New Albany, IN. In 1865, John Rice moved to Bloomington, IN. and then in 1871 to Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co. IN. ---------------------------------------------------- ABRAM RICE HENRY RICE Brothers of Rice's Fort. Abram Rice m. Margaret Leffler David Rice, son of Henry Rice of Rice's Fort Would any of this fit with your families ? Emily Irons Rogers MMROGERS@aol.com