To add to the time spent indoors in this heat...I have just completed (sob, sob) 5 of the "GREATEST" books on Scottish settlement..by PhD Diana Gabaldon IF you want to be enchanted and can keep families straight ( large cast of characters!) you will LOVE her work. and ONE MUST READ THEM IN ORDER!! I found her by accident and started with Drums of Autum..4 and wondered. then ordered the rest from inter-library loan. I had never read her before OUTSTANDING...I am English & Scots desc. Here they are: OUTLANDER (entitled "Cross Stitch" in England) story of an English WW II nurse in 1946- time- traveller ends up back in 1745! DRAGONFLY IN AMBER VOYAGER DRUMS OF AUTUMN -to USA 1776 And then IF you can't keep it all straight, she wrote The OUTLANDISH COMPANION to explains Gaelic, botany terms, etc, etc. Fascinating. historical times to 'flesh out ' our ancestors' times and lives.!!! Alicia in FL Scots, MD, 1650 --; Quakers in DE, PA, NC, IN -1689; Talk about a wealth of detail...NC Caribbean,,how they were transported, etc after the '1715 Rising, and Culloden 1745, etc... the history one needs to get us set straight about our ancestors' times and history ( as close as one may get in an historical novel).etc...HATE TO SEE THEM END!! She says she is dooing another..I hope so! Alicia in FL Family lilnes: Maternal From: 1650: Argyll, SCOTLAND, YORK, England, Ireland to Prince George's & Montgomery Co, Frederick, MD STEWART, MACGREGOR, CAMPBELL, CECIL/CISSELL, BEALL/BELL ADAMSON-PERRY, WILLIAMS-MAGRUDER: WEAVER, FALCONER. Paternal: LINDLEY-DIX-HIATT-HADLEY-CHAMBERS-MILLER: UK,PA, NC, IN STEWART-McCOY- DUKE: PA, KY, OH, IN HANCOCK-BUTCHER-DAYHUFF: MASS, MD, KY, IN, ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

These books are especially interesting in that they were near Cross Creek, NC (later Fayetteville). This was the home of Thomas Hadley, my ancestor. One character she refers to is Farquar Campbell. He was a very real person and a close friend of Thomas Hadley. After the Scotch Tories shot and killed captain Thomas Hadley, Farquar Campbell swore revenge and reportedly chased the man who shot him away from the area. Farquar played both sides during the revolution and there is much misinformation about him. I have an inside view here as my dear friend William Fields is a direct ancestor of Farquar Campbell. He is the head of the Cumberland county genealogical society, and has transcribed the earliest minutes of the courts of common pleas. I have every book he has this far written. There are many Hadley references that have greatly "fleshed out" my knowledge of Thomas Hadley and his family, and the fascinating times they lived in. The books are slanted to make the Scots appear to be on the patriot side to some degree. In feeling if not in action. This is a very complex subject, and we'll leave it at that. There is a good deal of excellent period reality in these novels. Some of the best I have read. I still think of Big Foot when she is referred to as Sasenach. John Hadley ----- Original Message ----- From: "alicia d frank" <alicia.df2@juno.com> To: <HADLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:51 PM Subject: [HADLEY-L] Re: HANCOCK-D Digest V02 #163 > To add to the time spent indoors in this heat...I have just completed > (sob, sob) 5 of the "GREATEST" books on Scottish settlement..by PhD > Diana Gabaldon > > IF you want to be enchanted and can keep families straight ( large cast > of characters!) you will LOVE her work. and ONE MUST READ THEM IN > ORDER!! > I found her by accident and started with Drums of Autum..4 and wondered. > then ordered the rest from inter-library loan. > I had never read her before OUTSTANDING...I am English & Scots desc. > Here they are: > OUTLANDER (entitled "Cross Stitch" in England) > story of an English WW II nurse in 1946- time- traveller ends up back in > 1745! > DRAGONFLY IN AMBER > VOYAGER > DRUMS OF AUTUMN -to USA 1776 > And then IF you can't keep it all straight, she wrote > The OUTLANDISH COMPANION to explains Gaelic, botany terms, etc, etc. > Fascinating. historical times to 'flesh out ' our ancestors' times and > lives.!!! > Alicia in FL > Scots, MD, 1650 --; Quakers in DE, PA, NC, IN -1689; > > Talk about a wealth of detail...NC Caribbean,,how they were transported, > etc after the '1715 Rising, and Culloden 1745, etc... > the history one needs to get us set straight about our ancestors' times > and history ( as close as one may get in an historical novel).etc...HATE > TO SEE THEM END!! > She says she is dooing another..I hope so! > Alicia in FL > Family lilnes: > > Maternal > From: 1650: Argyll, SCOTLAND, YORK, England, Ireland to Prince George's & > Montgomery Co, Frederick, MD > > STEWART, MACGREGOR, CAMPBELL, > CECIL/CISSELL, BEALL/BELL ADAMSON-PERRY, WILLIAMS-MAGRUDER: WEAVER, > FALCONER. > > Paternal: > LINDLEY-DIX-HIATT-HADLEY-CHAMBERS-MILLER: UK,PA, NC, IN > > STEWART-McCOY- DUKE: PA, KY, OH, IN > HANCOCK-BUTCHER-DAYHUFF: MASS, MD, KY, IN, > > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > ==== HADLEY Mailing List ==== > ~*~To subscribe & unsubscribe send to HADLEY-L-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or HADLEY-D-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode) with the word SUBSCRIBE -or- UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line & first line of the body. ~*~If your e-mail address changes, please unsubscribe your old address, and subscribe your new address. ~*~To post a message so everyone on "both" -L- & -D- mailing list receives it, just send it "once" to HADLEY-L@rootsweb.com. ~*~Barbara V. Byrd, the list administrator can be reached at: HADLEY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >