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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
Ok this is what I've come up with for you Host
Thomas Bristol (is there twice on lines 2 and 3)
Samuel Lewis (first name end of line one, last name beginning of line 2)
Lewis Westerly (line 6)
Witnesses
Mary Bronson
Virgil Parker
Caleb Cook
how does that compare with what you think?
Females are def the hardest to trace (keep in mind females were not enumerated on census records until 1850 unless they were the head of the household. Generally women couldnt own land so most land deed grantors and grantees were mail and wills were usually left by men. Plus women didnt serve in the military so you cant trace them by service records for any of the wars.
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Thank you, Shani....we're in agreement, I was hoping that Samuel's name. was Lewis, although it's yielded nothing but dead ends. I am interested in your opinion of the name at the end of the 3rd line....it's preceded by the word "this", and it looks like the last name is "Lewis".
That first name appears to be repeated at the end of line 5, it immediately precedes "Lewis Westerly" at the start of line 6, and it's the person who Thomas Bristol sold the land to.....
I'd also like to hear your opinion as to whether any of the signatures of my ancestors are written by them, or by the recorder of the deed....
I thought I had solved who Sarah Bristol, nee Sarah Hull, whose name apperas on the deed, is. I have a copy of my great grandmother's 1925 DAR application, and she wrote on it that her great grandmother was Sarah Hull, wife of Thomas Bristol Jr. It appeared from her entry for Sarah's birth year that my great grandmother was unceratin about it.
I though that she was the Sarah Hull who was the daughter of Jesse Hull and Hannah Preston:
http://www.sedgwick.org/na/families/...142.html#I0502
The compelling thing is that Hannah Preston's sister, Sarah Preston, was married to Thomas Bristol Jr,'s brother, Augustus, as is shown on the link above. There was some conflicting info as to whether Jesse Hull was married to Hannah or to her sister, Ruth, but I verified by examining an original document in the probate court records in Wallingford, that Hannah is the spouse of Jesse.
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Miss Ella I. Smith.
DAR ID Number: 7673
Born in Connecticut.
Descendant of Jesse Hull, of Connecticut.
Daughter of David Smith and Fidelia Augusta Parker, his wife.
Granddaughter of Daniel Parker and Ruth Hull, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Jesse Hull and Ruth Preston, his wife.
Jesse Hull enlisted as a soldier and served six years. He was captured and confined on a prison ship in New York Harbor and died soon after his release.
Also No. 5967.
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It seemes odd that this DAR member, Ella I. Smith, was wrong about Ruth Preston, in addition to the probate court record supporting that Jesse Hull was married to Hannah Preston, there is evidence that Ruth Preston died in 1762 at age 5.
Donald Lines Jacobus listed Jesse & Hannah's daughter, Sarah Hull, as married to a a Mark Smith about 1796, not to Thomas Bristol Jr. I can find no other record of a Mark Smith and Sarah Hull.
This is a good example for anyone who is new to this to view a sample of a "brick wall" situation. I've become an expert on the Jesse Hull/Hannah Preston family, and I'm probably not even related to them. That is why the development of the internet has had such a dramatic impact on the accessibility of genealogoical resources and information.
By the way, Shani, the census and genealogical references of Heritage Quest are available to you and I, free, via our library card #'s and pins and
www.gwinnettpl.org
OKAY...on edit....I understand now, that you are still working on the first name that precedes "Lewis westerly".....I'm itching to tell you...but I'll just give you the hint that I think it is a woman's name, and that hasn't gotten me anywhere....