Here is what I have from my files, sent to me by Norm Ricker, who believes that the Moss family either were caught up with the Indian removal or sold all their land and fled the area. Andy Lawless Norm Ricker <normhr@ij.net>, "Electronic," Mallory's daughter Sally married Richard Moss; their son John born about 1800 is my focus of interest. My ancestor is John Moss born 1801 who married Nancy Boatright in Franklin County GA when he was age 17 (1818). The Boatrights moved to Franklin County from Bedford County VA, and I suspect that John Moss moved with them. The Moss and Boatright families were of the same Quaker Monthly Meeting. I have not been able to prove that the John son of Richard Moss and Sally Johns is the John Moss that married Nancy Boatright in GA. My focus is to find out what happened to widow Sally Johns Moss and her adult children on 11 Mar 1832, when each and every one of them sold their property in Bedford County and disappeared. Several of the children of John Moss and Nancy Boatright married Native Americans. Six descendants of theirs are researching the family; all report their parents and grandparents were very circumspect about their family background. My mother was told that what she did not know about her family would not hurt her, and the family did not want the past exposed. Her grandfather abandoned her grandmother with three children and married a Cherokee woman. (Found out by research and other descendants). Most of the six family researchers think Richard and Sally Johns Moss are our ancestors; that widow Sally and her adult children were fleeing removal west, or were removed west. No one has been able to find out where any of them went. If they are our John Moss' siblings, they could have avoided record of where they went. The only record we have of our John Moss' past is the 1850 Federal Census of Franklin County GA, where he is enumerated as born in SC. (Could be deliberate disinformation) and the fact that he married Nancy Boatright at a young age coupled with the family having moved to GA from Bedford County VA, inferring close family ties. Well I know this is is a lot more than you wanted to know! Sorry. Norm. Also, from Norm; Norm Ricker <normhr@ij.net>, "Electronic," Descendants of Richard MOSS Bedford VA-2321 20 Nov 1998 1. Richard MOSS Bedford VA-2321 (b.1760 d.1820) sp: Sally JOHNS Campbell VA-2322 (b.1771 m.1791) 2. Henry MOSS Bedford VA-2573 (b.1792) sp: Emily Bedford VA-3178 (b.1792) 2. Peter MOSS Bedford/Campbell-3141 (b.1793) sp: Fanny ARMSTRONG Campbell VA-3142 (b.1789 m.1809) 2. Sally MOSS Bedford VA-3172 2. Richard MOSS Bedford VA-3170 (b.1795) 2. Anne MOSS Bedford VA-3166 sp: Matthew MERCHANT Bedford VA-2318 (m.1826) 2. John MOSS Bedford VA-2807 (b.1800) 2. Mildred MOSS Bedford VA-3169 sp: Thomas PARKER Bedford VA-3176 3. Thomas PARKER Essex VA-3242 sp: Ellinor MOSS II Essex VA-3240 3. Robert PARKER Essex VA-3332 2. William MOSS Bedford VA-3171 sp: Sally JACKSON Bedford VA-3177 (b.1799 m.1819) 2. Edward MOSS Bedford VA-2319 (b.1813) sp: Martha STEWARD Bedford VA-2320 (b.1813 m.1833). And finally, Norm Ricker <normhr@ij.net>, "Electronic," Ency Amer Quaker Gen, Pg 842, Vol VI, VA, Marriage Bonds of Campbell County VA, 1791, 5, 14: MOSS: Richard & Sally Johns, dt Maleroy Johns. Mallery Johns, Jr., Surety.