Good Evening, Group!!! I only recently started working on the Via family. I have over the past twenty years collected a little information and have talked with several people that worked on the Via family. One story I find particularly interesting and believe is the story of William (Amer) coming to America twice. After arriving the first time the story was he got into some trouble or had a problem and was deported. Then returned under another first name "Amer". I would tend to believe this story because we (the Maupin LIne) have heard many times that Gabriel Maupin changed his will shortly before his death due to the fact that he did not like the family from which Margaret Via came. If her father had had some difficulty in the past that would account for this rejection of his son Daniel's choice for a wife. Also, I am of the opinion that Margaret Via was living in Williamsburg when she married Daniel Maupin. Assuming both her parents were deceased who was she living with, older siblings? Or was she at William and Mary College who at this time had offered schooling to the poor and indians. Would appreciate some comments on this!!! The story about Margaret Via's family being the gardners for the Maupins is not true, I believe it was chanaged and referred to Marie Hersent Maupin's second husb and Thomas Crease who was a gardner at the Governor's Palace and at William and Mary College. Recently I corresponded with William and Mary college and they verfied the fact that Thomas did indeed work there beginning in 1726 after the Governor died with whom Thomas had came from England in 1722. William Albertson [email protected]