This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clark and Pate Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4166.2.1.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Margaret, Thank you. I am interested in the Pates that move from Greene Co into the Huntsville, Madison Co AL area. One of them in 1817 is Stephen (his will) and he mentions friend Mathew. There is an 1808 case in Greene where a Mathew Pate attacks another man in a knife fight. He sells his 550 acres (this is testified to later by his adult son Jeremiah). The case is given to a higher court in Washington Co. In Green Co documents later it is said that Mathew "is gone" from this co. Whatever that could mean! The 550 acres that Joseph has (and there is a Joseph Pate in Madison Co @1809) could possibly be the 550 acres that Mathew has to sell in 1808. I keep looking at Greene Co because my Henderson Clark (bn1797)'s uncle is there. The Uncle is also Henderson Clark bn 1784. The Clarks seem to have land on or around the Nolichucky. When Henderson Clark (bn1797) marries Elizabeth Pate (bn1800 parents unknown) in Madison Co, Al in 1819, the Stephen Pate will has s! aid in 1817, my eldest son James, son in law James Milliken and 5 underaged children. He also mentions my friend, Mathew Pate. James Pate, Jane Milliken Pate (married 1st 1814 to Stephen Pate and then to his brother Mathew Pate-both of these men are thought to be bn @1790), her remarriage to Mathew Pate 1830, her son Andrew Jackson Pate bn1815 (Madison Co, AL) and my Henderson Clark and his wife Elizabeth Ann Pate are firmly in Dyer Co, TN. (AND to make it all more interesting, Andrew Jackson the President is said to be a house guest in Madison while AJ Pate is born and is considered a "cousin". The Hermitage confirms he is in the Huntsville, Al area that week.) Thanks for your help and if there are any good clues on the Clark Pate relationship, I truly would appreciate your help!!! Meredith of dsheridan1@ec.rr.com and 111 S. 4th St Wilmington NC 28401.