Lu: Thanks for the Addis anecdote - I hadn't heard it, so can't say if it was true or not. But we should never let the facts get in the way of a good story! Also have to say that I haven't done much research on the Addises in SC, so I don't know if that John you found could be Susannah's illegitimate child. Of course, I'm hoping that the child was Jonathan, since I can trace back to him, but can't find his parents. It's curious that the Addis name seems to pop up in various places; we know how they got to Bucks Cty. PA, and to New England and SC, but I've seen reference to a Thomas Addis (father of 2 children I can't trace) in New Jersey, who I can't relate to the Bucks line, even though they're geographically pretty close. And there was a Thomas Ades in Montgomery Cty PA in the early 1700s - don't know where he came from, either. Richard's older brother Simon (who was apparently the son of the elder Richard's first wife Mary/Maria Wyckoff) apparently went to the Middlesex Cty NJ region as a child - I guess to live with his grandparents. He's pretty well documented as having been in the Revolution, gotten a pension, etc. But strangely, the PA Gazette newspaper has an article in the 1780s referring to Simon Addis's plantation in Bucks Cty. Maybe there were 2 Simon's? Seems unlikely. Anyway - about Susannah - there is a court record in the Bucks Cty Historical Society, from June 1752, saying that it was affirmed by John Addis and Jacob Benet (?) that Susannah Addis "....did commit Fornication with a certain Person to the Inquest aforesaid unknown and did permit the same unknown person then and there to beget a Bastard Child on the body of her the (word illegible, but probably "same") Susannah....." I 'd like to find out who the unknown father was (although I'm not sure I want him as a relative, if he left Susannah to be taken to court alone), but mostly I'm wondering if the child could be the Jonathan Addis whose parents I've been searching for. >If you ever get any leads about that, I'd love to hear them. > Al Addis