This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wNHBAIB/3000.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Matt, that last sentence in my posting should read that Thomas Merriwther, when he died in 1708 in his will left land to Ralph. Incidentially, Ralph Shelton was one of the witnesses to Thomas' will, which is on file in Essex County, VA. Ralph's will, in 1733, is on file in Middlesex County, Va.