In a message dated 07/22/2000 1:35:46 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I would like to call attention to a book I came across recently. > Worth S Ray's "The Mecklenberg Signers and Their Neighbors" Take that book with a grain of salt. I mentioned that book at a genealogy meeting a few years ago and almost got laughed out. It is notorious for bad information. I soon discovered that the information on our LOVE family was particularly bad. He confused a David LOVE of that family with a Col. David LOVE that was not related, did not live in that area, and was at least a generation earlier. Map location of their land was also quite a ways off. The John LOVE of Mecklenburg had married Sarah SHARP, daughter of Thomas SHARP JR. in Frederick Co. VA about 1750. Thomas SHARP left a Will in 1762 Frederick Co. His son, also Thomas, came to NC but I do not know if he ever lived in Mecklenburg. This line of SHARPs were Quaker, although Thomas III was disowned for serving in the militia. Most probably lived in Guilford or Randolph Co. Ted