At 10:45 AM 9/28/02 -0400, Marilynn Masten wrote: >I won't attempt to touch upon the zillions of William and Thomas Gardners. >We have scored of them, mostly NC. And we don't know where they came from. > >But I notice the name "Hugh". This is Welch. Have you considered a Welch >background? But he may have been named for the preacher, neighbor, or >whatever. > >Just a thought. > >Marilynn Hi: In Ryegate and Newbury, Vermont, in the late 1700s and early 1800s there were "Hugh GARDNERs" by the haymow full. Some of them were Scots; all of them were Scottish. One of them was a co-founder of the "Scotch-American Company of Farmers" which were the original settlers of Ryegate just before the American Revolution. Darrell Darrell Allen MARTIN a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/