In a message dated 8/25/01 10:00:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, m22shul@provide.net writes: > Polly was a nickname for Mary back then. > > Certainly correct for Mary Polly Severs wife of William Lamar of Anderson Co TN married l8ll Anderson Co TN. There are several inconsistiencies in the Petracek book regarding William Severs (father of Mary Polly Severs). There was a William Seaver who bonded the l796 marriage of Elizabeth Seavers to James Lamar (brother of William and son of Hanna Lamar-married name unless illigitimate). WM Severs married in nearby Montgomery Co VA and was in Anderson County TN before Anderson County was formed. He had non-receipt of undelivered mail in about l800 in Knox Co TN so it is assumed he went to TN after marriage and is less likely to be that William Severs who bonded the James Lamar Marriage. Also William of TN had 3 children and a wife by l800 and there is a William Seaver(s) in the l800 Census of Botetout Co VA living with two males (if Wm of TN he would have had 2 females as well as he had a female child and a wife in l800). There is no known connection to the Seaver(s) family of Henry and Elizabeth Seaver of Botetout Co VA with children Jacob, John, and Elizabeth(who married James Lamar) other than their connection through the Lamar family... So, I believe there was a William Severs and a William Seaver. I would like to find proof that Wm Severs and Wm Seaver were the same person as more genealogy of the Henry Seaver family of Botetout Co VA is known and I cant find any ancestry for Wm Severs born l752 unless he happens to be the same person as Deserting Hessian soldier from July l782 Savanna GA named Johannes Wilhelm Siebert born l751. Anyone with any information on Wm Severs, Wm Seaver, or Johannes Wilhelm Siebert prior to l793 (probably in the area between Savanna GA and Montgomery CO VA) such as an indenture or oath of allegiance, or anything. I would kill for the information. Charles Severs