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From: "sinna" <>
Subject: [Q-R] Swain from North Carolina
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 00:37:19 -0400
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I have about 100 swain in my database.
let me know a Name and i will check my notes
Barbara
----- Original Message -----
From: "K. McGee" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Re: Gayer line (was: Nantucket History site...)


> Hi Howard,
> Yes, I've discussed that with a few, and then I found this and another bit
> which I am requesting from NHA:
>
> >Collection: 156 - Gayer Family Papers, 1709-1712
> >LOCATION: FOLDER 1
> >CONTENTS: Elizabeth (Gayer)Gayer. daughter of Sir John, wife of William
> >Gayer, Jr.
> >ALS to Brother and sister [Jethro and Dorcas(Gayer)], regarding her
> >inheritance. London, England, Jan. 5, 1712
> >Sir John Gayer of England ( -1649)
> >Copy of will, October 5, 1710.
>
> Howard, I'm also interested to know if you've researched the Swain name in
> the Rockingham County area of NC? I have a connection, not necessarily
> Quaker, to the surname within my Smith group of that area and need some
help.
>
> K McGee
>
> ~
> Genealogy:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~kmcgee03/
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cousins
>
> At 10:36 AM 6/1/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi K,
> >
> >From: "K. McGee" <>
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:34 PM
> >
> > > I am looking for further documentation on my Gayer line and found some
on
> > > NHA.org's website.
> >
> >If you haven't seen it, you should read "The Case of the Vanishing
Ancestry"
> >by Wallace Evan Davies in The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine
> >vol. 28 (1973-4) no. 1, pp. 14-29.
> >As Gary Boyd Roberts says (NEHGR 141:106) Mr. Davies "conclusively and
> >amusingly refutes the royal descent..." of William Gayer of Nantucket.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Howard
> >
> >
> ><snip>
>
>
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