research so often is that according to murray, franklin had said that his mother was assistant to zachary taylor. well, i knew that wasn't possible because i was familiar with the taylor family -- no relation -- of orange county, virginia, and i knew that zachary taylor was born in that area but that his immediate family had quickly moved on to kentucky. so that timing just won't work out. wouldn't work out. but what it gave me was the hint that it was some mistress in the taylor family. and, indeed, it was. and later i was able to verify that, you know, six ways to sunday through the orange county courthouse records and through other records at the national around -- archives and so on. but that was really one among many exciting days that i spent at the library of congress. um, now, the rest of the story then. so paul jennings needs his freedom now. you see, what actually happened about this time is that his wife died. so now his children back in orange are motherless. the youngest just 2 years old. this is when he went to senator daniel webster for help. now, remember that i said he was a goo