[NOTE: From Jim "Esquire" doesn't necessarily mean Lawyer, as most people think. It can also mean a land owner ("landed gentry" or "well landed").] ========== Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:49:15 EDT From: KLWRAGEG@aol.com To: LEE-L@rootsweb.com I know from the "horse's mouth" (Lazelle Parsons Long), one of the 4 compilers of the booklet "John Lee, Esq. of Johnston Co., NC and Some of His Descendants", that the title of Esquire was simply chosen by the compilers in order to distinguish this particular John Lee from a host of others. Incidentally, he was well landed. Lazelle and I worked together for some years & that was her answer to me. KAY G. KLWRAGEG@aol.com