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/SBC.2ACI/396.1.1 Message Board Post: This is an example of the problems with Washington's papers which do not always make clear which Gilbert is being referenced. Gilbert of the mill might have gone back to Fairfax (Loudoun was more clearly his base), but most records of this time from Fairfax are to Gilbert, son of Gilbert who married a Mason. Gilbert of the mill and his identified children moved to Kentucky, unfortunately to Fayette County, "Kentucky". The Fayette County, "Pennsylvania" records are interesting and I will check them out. Children by Indians are unlikely because Gilbert of Pennsylvania was scared to death of them during Dunmore's War (1774) and he did not live in likely places of association. Children of slaves are possible since there were several "slaves" at the mill. "Slave" is an unclear term here because many of the slaves were "leased" a term which might not solely apply to slaves. When Gilbert settled with Washington, part of his attempted compensation was a "slave" that Washington learned Simpson did not "own". Simpson was prolific by his own wife and a bit up in years to have fathered a child alive in the 1850s. No child by his wife, whom I have identified, lived so long. He had many sons who could have been the parents of anyone left behind in Fayette, Pennsylvania. Gilbert's son James (1765-1792) did go to Kentucky (Fayette County of course) and is identified with two wives, Mary Cambell and a Jane.