I am Jeffrey Allan Pittman Hess, nee Jeffrey Pittman. My dna suggest I am from 1600's settler in Yonkers new york area on my mother's side and 1660's Captain Thomas Pittman of the boxer rebellion in Jamestown Virgina (and his grandson the colorful Buckner Pittman (right hand man of George Rogers Clark, known couterfeiter of Spanish money, Was given 500 acres of land for his service prem Thomas Jefferson. Whe in the Rev. War came home to find his Mother had been crippled by a Tory. Tracked the Tory down and on public street in Nashville, shot the Tory Dead. The locals refused to indict him). Anyway, I have watched this forum for a long time as we are antiques dealers and amateur historians and decided to join up