Anne, Your "other folks" gives me the opening to butt in here with questions and some information. My 4g-grandparents were Benjamin Daniel and Margaret "Peggy" Brown, who were married in Caroline County, Virginia on 8 September 1790, and almost immediately after their marriage (Benjamin was probably already living there) they went to Mercer County, Kentucky. They are mentioned in "Forks of The Elkhorn Church.". Their marriage, and the line of descent from them, is very well documented. However, at Benjamin Daniel, that line becomes blurred. According to information in the Daniels Family Folder in the Madison, Indiana Public Library, Benjamin Daniel was born in Caroline County, VA on 18 Oct 1769, and was the son of William Daniel and Mary Snead. This same information also claims that Mary Snead was a daughter of John Snead, and that she had been born about 1744. Now, as you mention in your message, it is a well-documented fact that a John Sneed (or Snead) owned an ordinary, or public house, near Daniel's Mill, which was owned by a William Daniel. I have also found references in "Publick Records" (which are records of payments to civilians during the Revolutionary War) that a Mary Sneed accepted payment as authorized representative of William Daniel for goods sold to the Continental Army. The Madison, Indiana documents also state that Mary Snead married William Daniel on 6 Apr 1764, presumably in Caroline County, although this is not stated. My question, of course, is do you have any information that will give me any hint as to whether or not a daughter of John Sneed's married into the Daniel family? Do you know of any sources that might help me? I am beginning to think that it is possible Benjamin was an illegitimate child of William Daniel and Mary Sneed, but if this was the case, since he seems to have been on good terms with other members of the family, he must have been acknowledged, and in that case there should have been a court record. I haven't been able to find any such record. The Madison, Indiana documents of which I speak appear to have been copied from a family Bible. There is no source listed in the folder, however and when I questioned the library staff no one knew where they had obtained the papers. The Daniel family branch from which I am descended eventually ended up in Madison, Indiana, and I had a great-grandaunt who died there in the 1930s, so it is possible that she may have had a family Bible that she copied for the library, but this is just speculation on my part. Excuse me for butting in here, but "hope springs eternal." Bill Brewer wwb@ix.netcom.com