Posted By:	Larry Myers
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	Subject:	Re: Alexander Simms, Father of Richard Alexander Simms/ Semmes, Fairfax Co, Va.
	Post Date:	April 18, 2009 at 16:34:34
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/simms/messages/988.html
	Forum:	Simms Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/simms/

My family ran riverboats out of Pittsburgh in the late 1700's. They made the 1800 census as boat builders and their names were Myers and Lewis. I also have the Simms, Douglas and Hunter families that I am trying to identify. Since the family has a boat patent on a heavy duty keelboat issued to them by Thomas Jefferson in 1789, I feel this is the family who built the boat for Meriwether Lewis in 1803 for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. I have been looking at Sacajawea's family. This includes her husband named Toussanint Charbaneau and their son John Baptise Charbaneau and his two daughters Barbara and Margaret Myers. I know for sure there seems to be a connection to Col Charles Simms the Mayor of Alexandria. Maybe a coincidence and maybe not.