This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thompson, Davidson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4BC.2ACI/1756.1.1 Message Board Post: Did you ever confirm the children of the John Davidson and Mary Thompson who married in 1787? What is your source for those children? A Rockbridge County, VA marriage book shows Mary Thompson's parents as JOSEPH and Mary Thompson. I cannot seem to "find" this JOSEPH Thompson in the Thompson family, however, and I wonder if that should have said JOHN and Mary Thompson (any idea)? A Mary Davidson was listed in the 1824 Augusta County, VA will of Alexander Thompson (along with several of his nieces and nephews; this Alexander Thompson had TB and never married). A John Davidson was one of the executors of that will (along with a John Thompson). I suspect that the Mary Davidson listed in the will was Mary (Thompson) Davidson and that the John Davidson mentioned in the will as an executor was her husband (and the same people who married in 1787). Alexander Thompson was a descendant of Reverend John Thompson and his first wife Margaret Osborne and also a descendant of the Re! verend's son John Thompson, Senior and his wife Margaret Phair. Alexander's father was apparently John Thompson, Junior, son of the above John Thompson, Senior.