Thanks Linda and all, I am carefully going through your list, Linda, to see if I've missed anything, but I'm lucky enough to live close to PA (Maryland) so I spent the past two weeks “vacationing” in the libraries and archives that I've been haunting for some five years. (And I HAVE learned that 18c script regularly made their e's backwards and how to distinguish s's...but I still have to guess more often than I'd like!) I made a newbie mistake, though – I didn't make clear what I had already searched. (I do that on tech help lists too. Really annoys the geeks – welovegeeks - and rightly so!) To be clear, Dr. Henry Cathey and I are trying to plot our colonial ancestors – with the Shippensburg map of Blunston licenses, an unfinished Boiling Springs/Allen Twp. warrant map I found in Carlisle, Dr. John V. Miller's Carlisle Quadrant map from the same Cumberland County Historical Society, the Walnut Bottom warrants map, a Trindle Springs connected draughts map, the Hanover and Paxtang township warrant maps from now-Dauphin County and various others the staffers laughed at my calling my “ancestors in a bag,” as I left each day. All “our” locations. This batch, the Catheys,- all the men had moved on to Augusta Co, VA and Rowan Co, NC or were dead before the Revolution, leaving Cathey girls behind as matriarchs of Brandons, Trindles and McCormicks (Buchanans' and McMullens' and Carothers' Irish grandmas were Cathey girls, too). No Cathey men on surviving French and Indian War lists that I have found (got my Brandons, though) - they headed south c.1748 and earlier. Trying to figure out which kids belonged to this so far unconnected Edward Cathey, who we can't place geographically. All that survives is that estate bond – no Orphans Court, no inventory or vendue – he just pops up, dead! That pesky UFO. And the name Edward is unknown in the next generation of Cathey relatives that we know. I will continue to look for evidence of Ed – this was an out-of-the-box way of going at it: what percentage of 1745 papers signed by Cookson and Smith (if any) are known to have been connected with estates on the west side of the Susquehanna? It was all Lancaster County for four more years, of course. (It's that wagon train of widows from Shippensburg to Lancaster that haunts me....) The wording is “sealed and delivered in the presence of” Cookson and Smith - the widow Catherine Cathey was standing before them, along with her witnesses, it seems. Because it was closest, we're leaning toward Paxtang, where one of the John Catheys d.1742. But it could be Trindle Springs.... I will go back up there (or google here) and look at all the earliest estate index entries and see if I can't pick out some from whatever part of the alphabet that are dated closest to 1745, I think. I persevere. With the help of the Big Brains and long memories of the Scotch-Irish list! Thanks so very much, Sally Brandon http://www.genealogy.com/users/b/r/a/Sally-A-Brandon/