Ann, Kathy and list- I believe that William and Christopher Howard are very likely sons of Obediah Howard and Priscilla Avery Breed who are reported by other researchers to have been married about 1758 in Orange County, North Carolina. William was born March 4, 1772 and Christopher in 1774. Their older sister, Nancy, said to have been born October 16, 1759, was married to the Rev. Jonathan Mulkey. Nancy and Jonathan were the parents of the Revs. John and Phillip Mulkey who were born while in Fair Forest, South Carolina where their grandfather Phillip Mulkey had established an early Baptist Church. They are the Mulkeys who established early churches in Kentucky and central Tennessee. John is associated with the historic Mulkey Meeting House now in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky and Phillip established the Brimstone Church just across the border in Jackson County, Tennessee. There is a great deal of information on the web about the Mulkeys and the Restoration Movement in North Caroli! na, Sou th Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. Here is one summary of early family information: In the fall of 1759 Stephen Howard (son of Joseph, Onslow)(who was son of John Howard, Esq., Blue Creek Onslow Co. N.C.)...and his family left Orange County, N.C. with a traveling Baptist missionary group under leadership of Shubal Stearns and Phillip Mulkay, members of the Deep River and Sandy Creek congregations and went in South Carolina, stopping first at Little River, where they formed a church. In 1762 several families under the leadership of Philip Mulkey, their minister, moved again and settled in Craven County, S.C. on branches of Fairforest Creek and Tyger River, in present "Union Co." S.C. where they established a church, and entered claims for land. According to church histories, these heads of families were: Stephen Howard and Wife Obadiah Howard and wife (son or nephew of above Stephen) (wife Priscilla Breed) Philip Mulkey and wife (Anna Ellis, dau. of Jeremiah Ellis of Lunenburg Co., Va.) Joseph Breed and wife (Priscilla Avery, dau. of Christopher Avery of Groten, Conn. Jos, Breed of Stonington, Conn. and Groten, Conn. Benjamin Gist and Wife (Mary Jarrett, dau. of Thomas Jarrett of Lunenberg Co. Va.) Charles Thomson Thomas Thomson Rachel Collins All these persons had lived before 1759 in Orange Co. N.C. for a few years, and their names appear on the tax lists of this county, with the exception of Obadiah Howard, who may have been too young to have entered claim for land at that time and date. The tax lists of Orange Co. N.C. in 1761 show the names of Edmund Howard, Nehemiah Howard, Nathaniel, and John Howard . Of those, Nehemiah Howard later moved to the Fairforest settlement in South Carolina and took up land near Stephen and Obadiah Howard and their neighbors. Stephen (2) Howard wrote the first will filed in present Union County, SC dated Dec. 24, 1777. Date of probate is not shown. As Union Co. SC was not organized until 1785, it can be assumed that he died in that year, as otherwise it would have been filed in Charleston, SC with other county records of the period before formation of Union County. Rev. Jonathan Mulkey moved from South Carolina to Buffalo Ridge, Tennessee where he headed a congregation for years but his sons and members of the Howard and Gist families were very early settlers in Barren/Green County, Kentucky and adjacent Jackson County, Tennessee. I hasten to point out that I am not a Howard researcher but I know a good deal about the Mulkeys and the migration of families from Camden and Pendleton Districts in South Carolina to south centrasl Kentucky and Tennessee. John Newton Morrel morcor@comcast.net