[email protected] wrote: <<6. If John, son of John had children as many researchers believe he did, why did he not mention them in his will of 1824 but named David and Robert Moore heir to his land after wife Mary died.>> That's a good question. I suppose our only hint that he had children is the personal property tax lists of Franklin Co. 1812-19 , which list multiple male tithables. And of course the 1810 and 1820 census records show multiple people in his household, but who knows who they were... ===== Earl Marshall http://www.geocities.com/pre1800vias/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com