I really appreciate all of your support and encouragement, (and thank you for the nice things said), but Carla was right - I should have just offered corrections and not gone into the whys and wherefores. We've just got so many great cousins on this board that it's easy to forget formalities. Reminding us of the rules couldn't have come at a better time and as they say, if the shoe fits.... - I'll take my 30 lashes with a wet noodle and try to do better in the future :-) We certainly couldn't have a more caring and dedicated list manager than Carla - she's a sweetie, so don't be upset with her! Several have asked for more information on Peter Youngblood of PA/MD -- I really can't offer much more than is already known, that is documented. Pam found an interesting document that places him in Frederick Co., MD in Aug. 1751 - Peter verified that a debt owed him by Frederick Fiskis, for which the bond had been lost, had, indeed, been paid. (The receipt was for 100 pounds current money of Pennsylvania). There is also a couple of interesting bits in "This Was the Life - 1748-1765" (Frederick Co., MD) - where the Grand Jury indicted Michael Risener for beating John Youngblood, (Nov. 1750) - and in Aug. 1762 - Uncle Uncles petitioned the court to have Susanah Youngblood, daughter of John Youngblood, bound to him. (Michael Risener/Resener was the one who sold Peter Youngblood the land called "Cattail Marsh" on Pipe Creek in 1741; Prince Georges Co. - which fell into Frederick Co. when it was created in 1748. And it was a "Mr. Uncles" who was the locator of Peter Youngblood's lands being resurveyed in 1749). How John Youngblood was related to Peter is up for speculation - we know he wasn't a son, but perhaps was a brother - and with John's daughter being bound out, it's possible he had died by 1762. I have to agree with a couple other researchers that Peter probably died in Frederick Co., MD - but I believe it was his sons - and his widow (probably Mary Wheals), who came to SC just before 1770 and settled in what was then the old Proprietary county of Colleton, in St. Bartholomew Parish. (This became part of the new Charleston Dist. in 1769, then to Colleton County, again, in 1785). But this Peter Youngblood was not the same one on the 1755 Orange Co., NC tax list. For one thing, his 4 kids were all born in Germany before 1728, which would indicate he was probably born before 1700 and would have been too old to pay taxes in 1755 - -- and the Peter in Orange County was divorcing his wife, (Sarah), in 1753. Bill, you're the only one I know who descends from this line - have you found anything further since we last debated this? Perhaps you would like to add more - sometimes it's easier to disprove something than to prove it! Dorothy