Good Evening, Over at least he past year, I have seen various links in deeds and naming patterns that seems to indicate there may be more than a casual relationship between the DANIELL family of Charleston and the DANIEL family of IOW, VA and Chowan County, NC. We know from deeds that Gov. Robert DANIELL (1746-1718) was all over some of these folks up in the Bath, Beaufort County, NC area in the 1710 time frame. We also know that Gov. Thomas POLLOCK was a successor to Robert DANIELL as governor of NC and many of the families of these early colonial governors were closely related. Notice the following from a 1719 deed in Chowan District, NC. I am sure the James WINWRIGHT was James WAINWRIGHT and he was probably related to Martha WAINWRIGHT who married Gov. Robert DANIELL as his 2nd wife. I think the WAINWRIGHTS were probably a part of the family of the same name who once lived in Bermuda. We also know the ASHLEYS were also from Charleston but notice the Robert ROGERS listed as a neighbor of this James WAINWRIGHT. Guess who he was? He was the father of Elizabeth ROGERS who married Simon DANIELL and they also spell it in a lot of early records as DANIELL and not DANIEL. Also notice the Thomas POLLOCK because the Will of Owen DANIELL, Simon's father, appoints him the guardian of Thomas DANIEL (1686-1749), his younger son who later married Elizabeth LANIER, d/o Robert LANIER and Sarah BARKER. I really want to seem some DNA out of the Gov. Bob line from Charleston to compare it against that from IOW County, VA. I still think there is a better than even chance this bunch in IOW and the DANIEL bunch from Barbados are related including the LANIERS and BARKERS, and that relationship may well extend to the Charleston DANIELL clan, too. I also know that Parris Island, SC was once owned by Gov. Robert DANIELL of Charleston and I assume it got its current name from the PARRIS family. The wife of Stephen SWAIN of Tyrrell County, NC was Patience PARRIS and their daughter, Mary SWAIN (ABT 1722-AFT 1780) married Robert DANIEL (1718-1786), son of Simon DANIEL and Elizabeth ROGERS of Martin County, NC. Nothing definite in any of this but there are just an awful lot of seemingly insignificant little things floating around these two families that may mean little, individually, but when looked at in total, they may mean a lot. It is just one thing I want those of you from this family to be on the look out for and let me know if you see anything which seems to link these two families. Thanks..... <<< NC Patent Book 8, pg. 219 James WINWRIGHT 1 March 1719 400 acres in Chowan precinct, joining John DRURY, Joseph BALLARD, Beech Swamp, Roland GUIN, Robert ROGERS, William ASHLEY, and Samuel MERIOT Witnesses: Charles EDEN, Thomas POLLOCK, Frederick JONES, Richard SANDERSON, John HECKLEFIELD . John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA