Dear friends: My ears perked up at the mention of the Habersham Co., GA Wades/Waids, and possible connections of their with Jackson County, FL. Now, as you know, I am the first of my POPE line NOT born in Jackson County since William Stuart (I) 1789-1837 migrated there in 1820. My dad was born in Sneads (1922) and his mother, Macy Queen Ivester 1892-1953, was from Habersham County, GA, nr. Clarksville, d/o Andrew Alexander Ivester (d. 1930) and Elizabeth Ann Franklin (d. 1933). My grandmother's IVESTER forebears (the name, earlier ISBISTER, comes from Orkney, islands off northernmost Scotland that were Scandinavian before they were Scottish) were among the first whites to settle in the NE GA hill areas c. 1823. Now, in addition to having IVESTER, FRANKLIN, HILL, WHEELER, and WHISENANT (MANY spelling variations on that last one) in Habersham County, GA, the maiden name of my MOTHER, born 1926 in Butler, PA, was WAID. My mother's immigrant ancestor was Nicholas Waid b. England abt. 1616 who landed in Scituate, Mass. about 1634. A few generations later, our lineal ancestors CAPT. AMOS WADE and his son SETH (I) WADE/WADE 1761?-1821? both saw service in the Revolution. Seth I married Rest Hathaway in Taunton, Mass. in 1787 and moved from Mass. about 1805/7 to Ontario County in western NY State; three of his five children (a sixth died young) moved to Crawford County, in western PA, abt. 1816. Seth I begain using WAID instead of WADE sometime around 1807, also. One of his sons, Williams Waid, was the father of Ozial Waid who married Sallie Bush. If unconfirmed reports be correct that Reynold Bush (immigrated to Cambridge, MA from Messing, Exxex, England 1634) is the immigrant ancestor of President Bush, then we're cousins as Sallie (my 2d great-grandmother) is definitely Reynold's descendant. My line is through Seth I's son Williams; there was a Seth II and a Seth III (the latter Williams' nephew) and he made a bad choice and joined the invading Yankees in the War of Northern Aggression, and lived to write a memoir of his service. Through the wife of Williams Waid, Abigail Skinner, I am descended also from the Rev. James Fitch, 1622-1702, a Puritan luminary of colonial CT and co-founder of the City of Norwich. Now a published work on WADE/WAID (early 20th c.) reports that Captain Amos had numerous children, and that many of them "went South." It would be great fun to find, some kind of karmatic blessing, that my MA>NY>PA Wade/Waid kin are connected to either or both of Habersham Co., GA and Jackson Co., FL, such faraway places (from my mother's birthplace in PA) where my dad's parents were born. Any aroma that takes Habersham or Jackson Co. WADE/WAID people back to 1600s Mass. would be of great interest to me. Thanks! Geoffrey Pope White Plains, NY 2d great-grandson of William Stuart (I) Pope 1789-1837 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:32 AM Subject: [FLJACKSO] Native Americans > In a message dated 11/8/01 9:03:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << Talk about serendipity! >> > > Hi Richard, Dale and Geoffrey, > > Amen and Amen. This is indeed a small world. I think whole communities > moved together in those days. Thanks to all of you for such good info. > > I am looking for info on my g-grandmother, Hettie MITCHELL b. abt 1857 Ala. > She married Jesse BOYETTE b. abt 1850 Ala. By 1900 she had died and Jesse > and his 8 children were in Jackson Co., Fla. Hettie was reportedly part > Creek/Cherokee. They too tried to live as whites and little was ever told > abt the native american background. My grandmother, Ella BOYETTE b. 1878 > Butler Co., Ala married E.H. HOLCOMB b. 1881 Habersham Co., Ga. Now part is > Banks Co. E.H was the son of William Russell Holcomb and Tempy Ellen Wade > (Waid), both of Habersham Co. Ga. So I am looking for any and all info on > native americans and what was happening in this area during that time. I > wonder why Jesse Boyette bought his family to Jackson Co?? Relatives, jobs > and etc?? Thanks, Richard ,for the URL site. June. > > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >