The Hamricks from W.Va. my dad always said they were from German decent which was told to him by passing down info from the ages. I wonder if this is true? Cindy >From: Bill Davenport <davenport@brooksdata.net> >Reply-To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [HAMRICK-L] Patrick/George >Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 08:52:42 -0600 > >Good Morning: > >JR, I have most certainly received your comments as well as those others >who took the time to write. You’ll have to bear with me if I do not >respond as quickly as you might like. In addition to other aspects of >living, I’m researching several other names and Hamrick is not really >top priority. At the moment, I’m reflecting on life in the year 2000. >As an eighteen year old serving in the Regular United States Navy, my >shipmates and I discussed the possibility of living until the next >century, and what it might be like. Don’t know about the others but I >made it to 2000 and I’m proud to be here. > >Back to the comments. I appreciate them, even the references to >membership in the Flat Earth Society. Thank you all for the information >you’ve passed along. Everything helps. > >It would unrealistic to think that everything we come across is error >free. We don’t know if written records were recorded correctly. We >don’t know if persons reading and transcribing records have interpreted >them accurately. With very little information about the stones at the >Street Hamrick home place, I have no way of knowing whether they are >recent or have been in place many years, or who placed them there. I >did notice that the monument to Patrick Hamrick was erected in September >1999. It seems to echo exactly what you preach. Was it built by >supporting members of this list? ( only joking) > >Returning to the regurgitation of bad genealogy, if Patrick Hamrick was >the first, where are all the Patrick Hamricks? If Moses Richard did not >exist, why did Price Hamrick have sons named Moses and Richard? If >Price’s father was Jeremiah, why don’t we see a son named Jeremiah? Why >are there so many George Hamricks both laying down and walking around? >(These irritants, Patrick supporters, just won’t go away, will they?) > > >From available records there apparently was a ship named Snow Lowther >and it came to Philadelphia in 1731 with a load of Germans, among whom >was a man named Hans Jeurg Hamerich. He apparently married another >German named Nancy Cook. They likely had children. What happened to >those children? Did they just vanish? > >How did the folks in North Carolina know about Moses Richard and Hans >George? Were they just ignorant hillbillies who knew nothing? Did they >just pull names out of thin air so as to confuse subsequent >generations? Did they go so far as to erect phony tombstones? > >On the LDS site, upon entering the name Patrick Hamrick, one file says >he was the son of Hans George. Ironic, huh? > >After I sent my original message to the list, I received a couple of >messages from people who said they no longer send anything to the list >because they had been put down for whatever dissenting opinions they >expressed. That isn’t nice, Patrick descendants. Even if 95% of the >list supports the Patrick notion, that doesn’t make it correct. > >Anyway, folks, I don’t have all the answers and I don’t think you do, >either. Hopefully, we’ll learn more. Maybe something that will satisfy >everybody. > >Bill Davenport > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com