Hi Folks! Kathy Baker inquired recently on this list about the BLANCHARD's of RI and she has only heard from myself and Carol. There use to be more of us on this list. Has everyone grown tired and moved on? If you are still out there, either write to Kathy at <the.bakers@flashnet.it> or simply REPLY to me. We can't give up on finding William's parents! :) Have you discovered anything new? Here is what I wrote to this list in 1997. I guess that's the last time I have inquired. >Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 04:32:09 -0700 (PDT) >Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 05:23:44 -0600 >To: blanchard-l@rootsweb.com >From: Nancy Cluff Siders <siders@lookingglass.net> >Subject: William Blanchard of RI; also lived in Hartford, CT...? > >I'm still trying to figure out the Blanchards of Rhode Island! Perhaps one >of you can help me? I just received the following from a new correspondent >who also descends from William BLANCHARD and Jane STEERE. > >>Got an email from a man in Maryland who said he believes the family is from >>France, but he does not know anything for sure. Here is the information I >>have on William that says he is the son of Richard. >> >>I have no dates on Richard at all. I have typed info from a deed which >>states: >> >>2 Sept 1720, Hartford, CT: William Blanchard, weaver, son of Richard; >>formerly of Hartford, CT, now of Providence, RI gives power of attorney to >>William Dean, who in turn appointed Caleb Bull to oversee the use of certain >>property during William's absence. > >In the book BLANCHARDS OF RHODE ISLAND by Adelaide Blanchard >Crandall published in 1942, she does write about a Richard but as a brother >not as a father. "Of William Blanchard's parentage we know nothing. >Dr. Wm. Love considered him perhaps to have been a younger brother of >Richard Blanchard, who was admitted to the Providence Plantation in 1697. >From EARLY RECORDS OF PROVIDENCE by Rogers and Field, Vol. XI, >p. 33, in a report of a town meeting, April 8, 1697 we read: 'Whereas there is >a stranger, one Richard Blanshard and his wife, being distressed by ye Indian >warrs at ye Eastward, and there put out of a way for a lively hood, are come >into our towne desireing of ye towne admittance that in this towne he and his >wife may have liberty to abide'. They abode, and five months later their son, >John was born, 9-19-1697. His birth is recorded in Warwick, also >Benjamin, born 11-17-1701, Mary, born 4-21-1706." > >Mrs. Crandall continues to write about Richard, "In Records of Wills, Bk. 1, >p. 177, at Apponaug is to be found an inventory of Richard's property. It >shows >he was a weaver. There were other records of land deals of Richard and Mary, >his wife. Richard could hardly have been father to William, considering that >William's children were born not much later than Richard's. Both men were >weavers, Huguenots, who had left France to avoid religious persecution, >William's parents sojourning for some time in Hesse, and perhaps in some >other friendly country before embarking for America." (Mrs. Crandall >unfortunately does not give any references as to where she got her >information >for her statement about Richard and William's origins in the last sentence.) > >Is anyone on this list familiar with CT Blanchards and who might know >about the Richard BLANCHARD in the deed of 1720? I sure would appreciate >hearing from you if there are. Thanks. :) > >Nancy Cluff Siders >Roswell, NM ><siders@lookingglass.net> or <nancy@email.nmmi.cc.nm.us> > Still hanging in here and hopeing we'll all connect some day perhaps in the mother country whatever that may be. Hi Fletch! How's the truck garden? This is the hard time of year for me balancing two loves -- genealogy and gardening! ;) Later...Nancy Nancy Cluff Siders of Roswell, NM USA <siders@trailnet.com> List Administrator: C O U N T R Y M A N-L <http://www.nmmi.cc.nm.us/~nancy/countryman> L E T S O N-L <http://www.nmmi.cc.nm.us/~nancy/letson> S A C K E T T-L <http://www.nmmi.cc.nm.us/~nancy/sackett> GenConnect Board Admin: C A P L I N G E R, C L U F F, C O U N T R Y M A N, L E T S O N, M C K A Y, O L D E N, S A C K E T T, S C A M M A H O R N. Please post your connections! Accessible at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html For GC help: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/HINTS/FAQ