Hello Dick Jones
Dick, maybe I should say that I have documented personalities from 1805 in
Hall County GA forward to current times. My problem lies in the time before
1805. If I have a Land Grant given to a man named Hohn HESTERLY in Virginia,
how did he get there? Where did he come from? Again I have a William
HESTERLY marrying in Baltimore MD, in 1778 and yet there is no record of his
existence to be found in the area. Did he crawal out from under a rock? This
same William is found as a prisoner of the Colonials in SC/GA in 1779. How
did he get there and what happened to his wife from the year before? If I
could find existence of the surname in the UK anywhere, it would at least give
me a point from which to search.
I haven't tried all of the books you mentioned, but will do that on my next
trip to the library. Thanks for your tips. Hal Hesterly