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/wYRBAIB/1.7.9.29.104.105.194.196.198 Message Board Post: I have also been told my Teel family came from Scotland and have no proof. According to family, four brothers came from Scotland to New York. One of the brothers went to Maryland. He is my ancestor. However, I can only get as far as my gg-grandfather, John Jefferson Teel. I only have he was born 1841. Where he was born is a mystery. We do know, he could not read and that the original spelling of the name has been changed to Teel. I have suspected it was orginally Teal. Does anyone have information that comes close to this?