----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [CTMID] GUNS in Colonial Wills | | > But I have yet to find a single gun mentioned in any of my ancestral wills. | > How about y'all? | | These men aren't my ancestors and I found them by searching for "sword" as | "gun" produced hits with words like "begun": What site were you searching? | >From John Whitmore, 1696: " And the other halfe to remain to the use of my | wife till her natural death. And then the whole of my aforesaid House and | Lands to be for my son Thomas WETTMORE & his heyres for Ever. Lands, | one parcel of meadow at Wangonque containing about three acres according | to my Father Thomas WHETMORE's Deed of Gift to him. Also my three | side arms, one short gun or Carbine, two fowling pieces, one sword, one | Pike, with the rest of the implements thereunto belonging, when he comes to | the age of 21 years." My distant uncle! His line (I believe) persists to this day through his posthumous son Ebenezer, born 17 days after John died. Lordy, look at all the different spellings of my surname. And "Wangonque" is now spelled "Wangunk." I believe it was the name of one of the River Tribes. Thanks, Cuz Jane! There's a whole buncha shootin' irons -- three pistols, a carbine and two shotguns. Warren