Miscellaneous

Documents that don't fit into one of the other categories

The Use of Scottish Naming Patterns

in Miscellaneous

This research record details the Scottish naming patterns that led us to Alexander Brandon in Preston Co., WV and his daughter Abigail. I have found a web site that lays out this pattern in detail that supports the conclusions we have reached in this work. It also talks about how people of Gaelic extraction might use some names, such as their fore and middle names interchangably and how this brings us closer to our Scottish roots.

The Guernsey Co. Connection

in Miscellaneous

Research Document

The Guernsey Co Connection

in Miscellaneous

Will of John Sitlington, grandfather of Jane and James Erwin

in Wills, Miscellaneous

From: http://www.lamont-young.com/lamont/getperson.php?personID=I02401&tree=Lamont

Will of John Sitlington "of the Cowpasture":
To only surviving son Robert my Negro Fellow (Lish), my best coat,
jacket, britches and big "byble".
To dutiful daughter Jane Crawford, £20. To daughter Jennet Slone,
£20.
To daughter Elizabeth Kelso "my home plantation with all its
buildings, orchards and improvements of every kind", £20, and Negro
wench Vilet.
To daughters Mary Young and Ann Baty, £20 each.
Any balance equally to daughters.

Samuel Ervin the First Settler of Pomeroy, Ohio

in Miscellaneous

Athens Messenger, June 19, 1932, page 2

Historian Clears Up Questionable Matter
Howell Declared First Settler of Pomeroy.

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