Their first child, also named John, first appears on the tithable lists of Lancaster County in 1688.

The earliest record of Henry Doss is the 1830 tithable list for Washington County.

Two fields were tithable in common between Ruanlanihorne and Philleigh (Higher and Lower Congier) which he claims proves the two parishes were once one.

She uses documentary evidence to reconstruct family and community relationships through probate records, deeds, slave rolls, tithable lists, and other historic resources, and draws upon merchants' accounts, ledgers and inventory lists to understand the historic exchange of goods.