Carole, I really appreciate and applaud your fine work! You will be a worthy successor to Cope! I have read your two essays mentioned below and fine them extraordinarily well done. I especially like your citation of sources for what you have been able to put together. The inclusion of the sources is especially important. Too few web-published genealogies do that and your attention to this detail is exemplary. It helps everyone evaluate the credence that can be given to your information. It will also help future generations of genealogists! Just think how great it would be for all of us if Lawton, the creator of the "Dutton chart" had included detailed citations of the sources of each piece of information for each person he placed on that chart! Well done! Doug Hall -----Original Message----- From: Carole Dutton Malisiak <malisiak@midohio.net> To: DUTTON-L@rootsweb.com <DUTTON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 12:34 AM Subject: PA John's Inheritance >Hello all! > >Some time ago I learned that there was a Dutton Genealogy printed in >"The American Genealogist" which critiqued the Dutton pedigree developed >by A. R. Justice. Justice had the PA Duttons descending from Sir Piers >Dutton, which of course was incorrect, and proved incorrect by the >author Charles M. Hansen. This is not a very good article overall >because Hansen made up, I say "created," a second wife for the father of >PA John based on some very flimsy speculation. BUT he did have some >other good information regarding primary sources (YEA!!). One of them >was a will from Mary Renny of Manchester who was PA John's grandmother. >You can read an edited version of what Hansen had to say about this will >(removed the conjecture about a first wife) and I give the reference for >the article if anyone wants to explore this further. But I think that >this provides more evidence that we are descended fromthe Cheshire >gentry (which Hansen believes he has disproven). > >http://www.genealogy.dutton.net/gen_perspect/Renny_will.htm > >Also, have published a little story about PA John Dutton at address >below: >http://www.genealogy.dutton.net/gen_perspect/john_pa.htm > >Comments and criticisms are welcome. I can take it--I'm a Dutton! :-)) >Carole > >