At 10:05 PM 12/18/98 EST, you wrote: > I would like to challenge everyone on the Vance list...... Dear Cousins: THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS 1607-1660 by Peter Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, Baltimore, MD 1987 p. 54: Neck of Land, Corporation of Charles City: servant Richard VAUSE, 20 by "Jonathan" 1622 [perhaps servant to William Sharp, 40, lisred just above] THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS 1661-1699 by Peter Wilson Coldham, GPC, 1990 p. 243: 24 May 1675 [Among] the following apprenticed in Bristol: William Pen to John Vance, 4 years New England. BR ("Bristol Registers of Servants sent to Foreign Plantations 1654-1686," ed. Peter Wilson Coldham, GPC 1988) p. 608: 5 August - 11 September 1688: [Among] shippers by the "Providence," bound from London for Pennsylvania: John Vans (PRO: E190/145/1) (Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LR) My own Vance connection is as follows: Mary Vance, b. ca 1751, d. 1 Nov 1792, ae 41 (grst), bu w/hus The Trap, SG Hd, DE m. 1770, Maj. Thomas McDonough, M.D., s/o James & Lydia (Laroux) McD. Samuel Vance d. Jan 1768, intestate, est. set. 5 Oct 1785 m. bef 1751, Hannah Parker, d/o Peter & (-?-) Parker who m2 Richard Hambly He was a miller, yeoman, "should not be confused with the Samuel Vance of an earlier generation whose name is on record 1708-1736 as joyner & carpenter" John Vance d. 1763, letters/o adm. 28 Mar 1763 m. Mary (-?-) who survived him He lived, and was prob. b. St. George's Hd "where there are numerous Vances" There was also a John who d. in Mill Creek Hd in 1727, his will written 23 Oct, proved 27 Nov 1727, mentioning his wife, chn & fa, but none by name. (Misc. I-476: "Calendar of Delaware Wills, NCCo 1682-1800" Clearfield Co, reprint 1989) It is conjectural that he was fa/o of this John. He was active in civic & chh affairs [Source for my personal data: "The MacDonough-Hackstaff Ancestry" by Rodney MacDonough Boston, 1901, unless otherwise noted, with more complete family data) If anyone has data for these Johns and Samuel, I would like very much to compare notes. Isabel <[email protected]>