In a message dated 11/13/2006 9:25:05 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > you are welcome to your opinion and your interpretation > I do not have an opinion nor an interpretation really. I just brainstorm. Helps sometimes. I know I sounded positve, but I wasn't. I've run across many cases where the ward was called a son or daughter. Doesn't matter that there were no adoption procedures back then. All children who were left fatherless had a guardian, and sometimes the guardian called them his children. I also think there were two Thomases and that the first Thomas of Alexander's will died way before 1791. Otherwise, he would have been in his nineties when he died and that was highly unusual in the time and circumstances in which these people lived. Some of the Younger's lawsuits spanned many decades before they were settled, making some of the "infants" well into old age or dead by the time the lawsuit was settled, if ever. A child was considered an infant until they were over 17 yrs. old. I'm not sure what specifically you want to find out about Susannah, but if she never married and had no children, then there's little to go on. :-) Brownie