Yeah. James Francis lived near Lexington, KY and he left two kids. I am a descendant of the girl and Rick Gardner is a desc. of the boy. Tom Marilyn Otterson wrote: > Oh, OK, a "Johnny-come-lately" Drake. :^) Guess we aren't in the same > clan unless they had an ancestor in common. > > Cousin Marilyn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas S. Fiske" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 7:05 PM > Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Web Site > > > >> Dear MO, >> >> Rick Gardner's and my John Drake sailed to VA from England about 1750. >> His son James Francis Drake landed in Scott Co, KY. He left a will and >> a couple kids. >> >> Tom >> >> Marilyn Otterson wrote: >> >>> OK, you guys...I have both Drakes and Gardners in my mother's genealogy. >>> In >>> fact, Drake was a name I started with when I began this obsessive hobby. >>> My >>> grandmother was a Drake and she had the genealogy all the way back to >>> 1654 >>> in this country...and I began with the peripheral names to do more >>> research. >>> My mother's father had Gardners in his line. Both were New England >>> branches. >>> >>> It's interesting that you are stuck with your Gardners around 1770s. My >>> Gardners settled near Salem MA in the 1600s, went to Nantucket with a few >>> pioneers who were Quakers. Gardner was a very big name there but around >>> the >>> time your ancestors are found in the south is about the same time a lot >>> of >>> folks from Nantucket left for the south including a bunch of Gardners. >>> The >>> forests had pretty much been cut down, the harbor was silting up and the >>> British were harassing the whaling and trade along the coast. My Gardner >>> branch was about the only one I've found so far of that bunch who went up >>> to >>> the wilds of Maine to settle, but many more ended up in the NC area. >>> Have >>> you looked for your earliest Gardner in New England, specifically >>> Nantucket? >>> Just wondering... >>> >>> These folks were my mother's ancestors...then she married my Dad who was >>> an >>> Armstrong. >>> >>> Marilyn (the one with only one N) >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Thomas S. Fiske" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:11 PM >>> Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Web Site >>> >>> >>> >>>