This note holds the identity argument behind the William Simson profile. It keeps the public biography readable while preserving the distinction between direct statements and inferred continuity.
The 1699 Kent County court record directly documents a servant boy named William Simpson in John Walker’s custody. The court estimated his age at about thirteen years and six months. If that boy became the later Mispillion Hundred landholder, his birth falls about June 1686.
The 1708 will of Luke Manlove places a William Simson in the Manlove legal circle soon after the bound boy would have reached adulthood. Later land, tax, and probate records then show a William Simson or Simpson in Mispillion Hundred through the 1720s, 1730s, 1740s, and 1757 probate.
The next useful improvement would be a compact source-by-source proof table separating direct evidence, strong indirect evidence, FAN context, and unresolved land-tract questions.