Hello: My name is Keith Whaley, a descendent of Samuel Whaley, Sr. of the 1790 Duplin County Census. I have been trying to find a connection of my Samuel Whaley, Sr. to James Whaley of the 1790 Census. Upon getting a deed record of James Whaley, where he sold 200 acres of land to Joseph Thigpen on February 13, 1723 my thoughts have changed. Given an approximate age of 20 for James Whaley, he would have been born around 1700. I am thinking that the James Whaley on the 1790 Census was a Jr. but no proof. He was a young man with 5 white male children under the age of 16 and 5 white females also, including the mother. I have an Estate land sale of James Whaley in 1794. This is probably the James Whaley of the 1790 Census since he was not listed on the 1800 Federal Census. I am trying to find a connection of the older James Whaley of 1723 land deed record with some Whaley's of Virginia or further North. If you have a James Whaley, that is missing from your line it may be this one in North Carolina. I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks, Keith Whaley