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From: Don Stone <>
Subject: Re: RICHARD NIXON'S MEDIEVAL ANCESTRY
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 23:48:54 -0500


Vickie (Elam) White wrote:
> Charles Ward wrote --
> >Richard Nixon allegedly had a descent from the Godolphin and Fulford
> >families of England through his ancestor, Mordecai Price...
[snip]
> Sorry I can't help with the PRICE line much. But on pg. 168 of
> Gary Boyd Roberts'__Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants__ it shows
> the following:
>
> Amos GRIFFITH = Edith PRICE
[snip]
> Richard Milhous NIXON (1913-1994) = Thelma Catherine RYAN
>
> The above Amos GRIFFITH is descended from Edward III, King of England,
> and his wife Philippa of Hainault through their son Edmund. If you
> need this descent, I will gladly post it.

Vickie and others:

The line from King Edward III through Hugh Harry to Amos Griffith has
been disproved by Neil Thompson in "Hugh Harry, Quaker Immigrant to
Pennsylvania: His Purported Royal Descent Disproved," The American
Genealogist 69: 95-97, April 1994. Thompson shows that Hugh Harry's
grandfather, probably named Thomas Owen, could not have been the Thomas
Owen who was Mayor of Machynlleth, county Montgomery, in 1623 and was
descended from King Edward III.

-- Don Stone

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