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/HiB.2ACI/415.1457.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: sounds like same person. 1. dates are right. 2. can not find any deeds in sumner county in his name. if he still alive he never bought a home. 3. his dads uncle helped george washington when he was a surveyor. 4. george and william are both family names. 5. his brother would have been my g grandfather augustine byrn mccormack. their fathers had an aunt who married a byrn and some of the family used it as a middle name. (byrn-burn) could be same. maybe hard to prove but sure sounds good. will keep digging. my e- mail is bobjan2000_2000@yahoo.com. e-mail me sometime and we wont have to keep going through message board. talk to you later. bobby mccormack