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From: "Vickie (Elam) White" <>
Subject: Re: RICHARD NIXON'S MEDIEVAL ANCESTRY
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:36:53 -0500


Don Stone wrote --

>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.

Thanks for posting this. I missed it when I checked through the
corrections Roberts published in NEHGS Nexxus vol. 13 (1996). Gotta
get my eyeglasses changed. <G>

Vickie (Elam) White

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