My surname is POPE and my late mother's maiden name was WAID, a variant of WADE. My mother grew up near Pittsburgh, and my Dad in the Florida panhandle. My WADE/WAID ancestors were first in Scituate, Mass. about 1634 and that line comes through Seth Wade/Waid b. abt. 1765, fought in the Revolution, and d. abt. 1821. Seth removed from Mass. to Ontario Co., New York, about 1807 and three of his sons moved to Crawford Co., Penna. about 1816. Seth's all-but-certain father (the courthouse records perished in a fire) was Capt. Amos Wade, also a Revolutionary Patriot, of Plymouth or Bristol Co. in Mass., who had two wives and something on the order of 15 children. (Capt. Amos had a brother, Ichabod [II] Wade, who is said to have been a Minute Man at the Lexington, Mass. alarm). According to one authoritative WADE source, many of the offspring of Capt. Amos went South, some of them becoming shipbuilders. Strange to say, in many out-of-the-way Southern places where I am finding POPES, my father's kin, I'm also finding WADES. Such is true of Bell County, which seems to have been the last home of John M. Pope b. abt. 1802 and d. bef. 1880, moved from Montgomery Co., TN to Bell Co., TX in the 1850s with wife Rebecca and sons John T. (b. TN abt. 1837/8) James S. (b. TN abt. 1838/9) and Green J. (b. TN abt. 1844/5) (all 3 sons were in Co. I, 17th Tex. Inf., CSA). John M. Pope, the father of the family, was a brother of my second grat-grandfather William Stuart Pope 1789-1837 of Jackson Co., Florida. Do any of the WADES in Bell Co., TX trace their ancestry back to Capt. Amos, or to any of the WADES who were in the coastal counties (esp. Plymouth and Bristol) of Massachusetts from the 1630s? Please e-mail me offlist if so. Thanks!.