Thank you Stan.

Clues may be found by examining the families that Alexander's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren married into. Marrying into the family's friends was a common occurance up to the 19th century.

Source - Jean Grigsby's books and Addendum 1996

PATTERSON/PATERSON WERE USED
INTERCHANGABLY, JUST AS ST.CLAIR/SINCLAIR.

Wayman marries (unknown) Shirley

Wayman's Kid's marry -
Letitia Douglas
Ruth Palmer
Martha Palmer
Mary Watts
Henry Priest

Updated by Jean - 02/01/03

The surnames that married John's (brother of Wayman) children were
HORD, ALLEN, STEWART, HERNDON, BRADFORD, SMALLWOOD(?), MADDOX, WEAVER, PETERS, WILLIS, RYALLS, DULANEY, MOREHEAD, SCOTT, TRIPLETT, REDDING, BURBRIDGE, SMITH, BOYCE/BAYSE, WILLIAMS.

Do not know if this will help but thought you should see the names that are involved in that generation. The most important surnames I feel are GRAHAM and DOUGLAS. Those names go back very far in Scotland before our American connections. In fact, if memory serves they are connected prior to Scotland.

Jean
(end of update)

Known marriages of John's children -
(he has 3 kids whose marriages are
either unknown or never married)
Elizabeth Darnell
Margaret Darnell
Sarah Ann Morehead
Nancy Winn
David Herndon
Josiah Bayse(Boyce)

Robert kid's marry -
Caleb Browning
Frances Carter
Elizabeth "Betsy Patterson
Elizabeth "Betsy" Snodgrass
Moses Walden (Waldron)
Lucinda "Lucy" Patterson
Ruth Raley
Rachel Litton (?)
Joseph Feazel
Aaron Feazel
John DeLaFayette Patterson

STAN'S NOTES ON ALEX'S CHILDREN AND THEIR SPOUSES AND CHILDREN:

You have pretty well covered Wayman's family except the Shirley's. I have yet to figure out why his wife's name has not been discovered, when all of Richard and Mary Shirley's other children seem to be well-documented.

Note from Steve [I have looked in my ship crossing sources and not found a single Shirley listed.]

Wayman married Hester Smallwood, a quite collorful character, probably after his first wife's death.

JOHN SINKLER/ SINCLAIR: Only knowledge of wife is "Elizabeth". Children largely follow the usual family names: William, John, James, Robert, Daniel, Charity, Jemime, or Jemima, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth.

ROBERT SINKLER: WIFE: Margaret. Nothing more available to date.

SARA SINCLAIR: Married Robert C. Colclough, aristocratic family (hanged for incest). Children, Charity and Alexander (may have been named for uncle, Alexander Colclough rather than Sarah's father.

MARGARET SINCLAIR: Married Francis Tennell. The Tennell family were Hugenauts from Picardy, France, who came to came to America early in the eighteenth century. Apparently Francis was a young boy at the time his parents came to America, or was born in Virginia. One daughter, Cahrity (NOTE: 3rd Charity).

GEORGE SINKLER: Married Winifred. No other info.

MARY SINKLER. Some researchers have equated her with Sarah. I think this highly unlikely, since there seem to be seperate marriage records. Jean thinks there may have been a marriage to Isaac Cundiff, but has not to my knowlegdge documented it. Mary married Edward Welbourn. Edward moved as a child to Virginia from Maryland (another MD connection) , and later to NC, finally settling in Surry Co. He wrote his will on 3 May 1806, leaving his land, money, personal goods and slaves to his wife, Mary, and their four children, Richard, Edward, Temperance, and Jane. His son, Edward, then living in KY, was to receive $200 on his mother's death. The other three were to receive nothing else. Edward had been married before, and left his children by his first wife each one shilling.

ELIZABETH SINKLER: Married Charles Jones. No other info at this time.

PATIENCE: Married William Young, from the Aristocratic Younge line. two children, William and Sarah.

[ (Further from Stan 01-13-03) You might note on the Pattersons three of Robert Sinkler's children married sibbling Patterson (Patteson's. as some spelled it). Robert Jr. married Lucinda aka Lucy, John married Elizabeth aka Betsy, and Nancy married John Delafayette Patterson. The point is their ancestry. They were children of Edward Taylor Patterson, who was the son of William, son of Thomas, who was born in Scotland in 1657, and immigrated to Virginia, where he died in 1765. Thomas may have come about the same time as Alexander, since they were close to the same age.

Sarah St. Clair, daughter of John St. Clair, son of Isaac (son of Wayman) and wife, Latitia Douglas, also married a Patterson, James Edward.

It is also ironic that the Scotland Young which you cross referenced was a William Young, the same name as the husband of Patience St. Clair, daughter of Alexander. ]

NAMES TO CROSS-REFERENCE WITH OTHER DATA -
Smallwood
Shirley
Colclough
Tennell
Cundiff
Welbourn
Jones
Young

These from Jean in an earlier email -

Jeffreys
Young
McLean
Hord