To all - In response to Linda - In a 1906 Guion Miller claim, my ggf said that his gm Elizabeth (Moore) Browning born 1776 in NC was of Cherokee blood and that her mother was a Starr of the "old Starr family". Elizabeth married John Browning who was from MD. I am guessing that they married in NC as that is where all their children were born. An old map shows the Mississippi River as the western boundary of NC, thus including most of today's TN. If I am not mistaken, Caleb Starr and his wife the half-Cherokee Nancy Harlan, lived in Eastern TN, the Cherokee heartland.. I am also guessing that an earlier generation of white men from PA and elsewhere had already reached that area - Ross, Adair, Starr, Harlan, McMinn, etc. Parents and/or siblings of Caleb Starr may have been among them. Thus, Caleb may not have been the only progenitor of the Cherokee Starrs. However he and his sons, being treaty signers, are the best known. Food for thought! Adrian Davis, adryandav@aol.com Linda Starr Sparks wrote: ..... One is the PA Quakers, many of whom ended up in what is now West Virginia; another, the Cherokee Starrs, whose founder Caleb may have come from the PA Qauker group -- his mother was a Quaker, but his father wasn't, he was born in PA. And then another distinct group, but also 'loose' because we haven't found the connection to each other, let alone any of the major groups -- the STARRs in Maryland from 1748 through 1810 or so. Included is my Henry Starr, b. 1752 in MD d. 1821 in GA. Personally I've tried to connect him to the PA Quakers and the Cherokee Starrs without success; I'm now looking at the Dr. Comfort line. BUT there are a few other STARR families in Maryland who appear late 1770s/1780s, some went to IN, others to Richmond, VA and one member of this VA line ended up in GA 1830s I believe. I believe there is another MD STARR named John, who moved to SC and became "John Starr of Beach Island". If anyone has any information on the Maryland bunch (any of them) please post to the list / me. We need all the help we can get! Linda Linda Sparks Starr starr81@ix.netcom.com http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/............................