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Jerry, I meant to ask you eariler about this information, whether you have it or not, but
time has slipped away.
If your David was the David on the 1735 land surveys, Fairfax VA, then you can be pretty
sure that he was of English Origin as the German Casselmans who were listed as Castleman
did not arrive there until 1747 and, that David was only two years old in 1735 so it would
seem very unlikely that he had property to survey. In fact I believe that is one of the
reasons that my progenitors had the name mispelled Castleman. When these illiterate (in
English) Deutchmen said their name was Casselman, the scribe used the familar English
spelling, Who knows for sure?? And there is no one to ask now is there??