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I consider the situation of Lt Colonel Edward Douglas quite fluid. My purpose is to reveal my latest thinking. I must hark back to Edward Douglas, Jr., who,  at the age of eighteen received his inheritance of his father. We presume he returned to England with his sister, Elizabeth Willett, because his bond to protect her was so strong. Not only did Elizabeth's husband, John Willett, die in the prime of life but he left his plantation in tatters and with a heavy indebtedness. After a short period in England Elizabeth re-married and returned to Virginia with her new husband, who became headmaster of a school for boys in Yorktown. It would seem to me that Edward Douglas, Jr. found a wife and accompanied his sister, Elizabeth, to Virginia. He probably stayed in Yorktown long enough to see that his sister was secure before he moved elsewhere. I, now, turn to two grandchildren of Captain William Willett-Isabell and Mary Senior. William Willett mentions them in his will and calls them his grandchildren. They are not his grandchildren. They are the children of his sister, Martha Willett who married John Senior. I shall speculate and say that Martha took off in 1728 to be with her mother in Yorktown, Virginia. William Willett had so many children romping around his farm he thought of his nieces as grandchildren. John Senior died in Northampton Co in 1728, He wrote his will 30 Jan 1727, It was proved 14 May 1728. "To my loving wife Martha, the use of my whole estate during her widowhood and the to be divided  by my wife and two children, Isabel and Mary Senior. My friends Henry Warren, Jr., and Thomas Goffigon, trustees. Wife-executrix  

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