Thank you for this, Carol. The documents in Laurens are good. I did take the word of a site on rootsweb for place of death for that Kindred Braswell. Usually, I don't do that, but I'm bushed tonight and can check it out later. I hope that what I can contribute from Edgecombe will be of help, if not in all entries at least by posting the names in the indexes that I copied. (The Edgecombe and Nash deed books are careful to show both spellings; I agree with you that the names Braswell/Bracewell are interchangeable. I haven't gone through all of the pages of the Laurens County book of records, but will add and post what else I find. I'm actually mailing a check tomorrow to order a copy of the darned book. I've already copied many pages of it at 20c per page! This is my first experience in thinking about Braswells. It looks like I'll have to consider Smiths and others as well . . . I've been relying on my father's Dean research of thirty years ago while I happily went about the process of chasing Mills and Forbes ghosts. Now that we've added cousins and need to find a common ancestor, I'm having to look in a wider circle than my father had to be concerned with to establish Richard's Revolutionary service. I don't know that we'll find any conclusive evidence about who began whom behind 1760; about the best we may be able to do is to establish the lines in terms of the Y-DNA testing, connecting geographically through the cheek swab! SDL -----Original Message----- From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Carol Miller Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 10:36 PM To: GASCREVE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GASCREVE] Braswells Sharon, The Braswells are a really tangled up bunch to try and sort out. They are not my direct line since I descend from Juniper Hall Sr's second wife, Martha Thigpen, daughter of Travis Hill Thigpen and Hannah Hardy Hall (who were also from Pitt/Edgecombe NC). One of my fellow Hall reserchers pointed out just today that there were at least 10 men named Kindred Braswell. The one that we think was the father of Juniper Hall Sr's first wife was bon in SC in 1740, married Rhoda ukn and lived in Burke Co then moved into what is now Emanuel Co with his second wife, who was Ricey Roberts, widow of Isham Roberts of Screven Co. Family lore is that Juniper's wife was Elizabeth Braswell, but the Braswell family researchers say that he didn't have a daughter named Elizabeth. There are just a small number of documents available that tie Juniper with the Braswells. Then there is a Bracewell family, some of whom insist that the two families were not related. I tend to disagree. The one thing that does seem certain is that the Bracewel/Braswells were connected to my Hall family. I am a very long way from figuring out exactly who Juniper's first wife was, though. If only we had the Burke, Screven, and Emanuel records! Carol B. Miller ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message