cripes mairdie, I shudda included you - sorry.....what’s shakin ? more cheeks & chins here.
Thanks for the WikiTree reference. My wife hadn’t heard of it, so I’ll pass that on to her.
Keep diggin.
Later
WikiTree is collaborative work. Which means it often goes in circles or dead ends, but it’s a group of dedicated genealogists who will often put entire surname books into the tree. Great support and interactions.
Another suggestion that I use extensively is newspaper archive subscriptions. Every year or so I go through all the NYC and lower NY newspapers from 1775 to 1830. Big into horse thieving, studs, buying rags for newsprint, etc. They reprint a lot of government papers, so you’ll see articles about Washington and all the names you know. YOU WERE THERE!
But you can search the country by date and location. Just have to be really inventive in your spelling because newspaper reporters seem to always spell the names wrong, or do creative abbreviations.