Janice, There was an Edward Smith who was a witness on the 1723 Will of the Thomas Smith who apparently married Anne Gregory. I believe that was in Lancaster/Middlesex Co., VA, but I would have to check my notes to be sure (could have been Gloucester Co., VA). There was also an Edward Smith who was a witness on the 1727 Will of a John Smith of Middlesex Co., VA. That John Smith was a son of an older John Smith (who died in the 1660s, as I recall) who was married to a Maragret Unknown. That John Smith was a neighbor of "my" Alexander Smith (my maternal line; Alexander Smith died around 1696 in Middlesex Co., VA), but we have no proof as to whether or not those two neighboring Smith families were "blood related" to one another....though those two neighboring Smith families eventually intermarried. Note: Alexander Smith and his unknown wife (though some claim that she was a Miss Cock/Cocke) had a son who was also named John Smith. That son was typically "styled" as Lt. John Smith, and he married the widow Mrs. Jane (Cock/Cocke) Jones. His neighbor who was also named John Smith (i.e., the son of John and Margaret (Unknown) Smith) was typically "styled" as Captain John Smith....and he was the above John Smith who left his Will in 1727 (which was witnessed by an Edward Smith). While John and Margaret (Unknown) Smith had another son who was named Thomas Smith (who married Ann Petty), the Thomas Smith mentioned above who married Anne Gregory was apparently a son of a different (and PROBABLY unrelated) John Smith who married Elizabeth Berry....and there is little to suggest that this John Smith/Elizabeth Berry family was related to the Middlesex Co., VA neighbors Alexander Smith and the John Smith who was married to a Margaret Unknown (but no proof). Do you have any idea if the above witnesses on those two Wills were the SAME Edward Smith, or was that more likely two different Edward Smiths? Was at least one of those witnesses "your" Edward Smith who married Lettice Green, or is that not likely? I see from some posts on GenForum that some researchers have shown that "your" Edward Smith was a son of a Joseph Smith who left his Will in Essex Co., VA in the 1720s, as I recall. Do you agree with that? If I remember correctly, that Will showed that "your" Edward Smith had a brother who was yet another John Smith. Some have also claimed that "my" Alexander Smith, who was in Lancaster/Middlesex Co., VA by at least the 1650s, was also a son of a Joseph Smith, but I have never found any strong evidence to support that. Comments on any of the above? Thanks, Bill To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html