Sorry it was no help I am kind of hardened to this sort of thing when looking for Howells After you hit the brickwall nothing seems to help My brick wall is with a Stanford Howell born in Ill. in 1832 Married Adeline Northrup in Oregon in 1862 He was my ggrand father If you go to the referance you will note a Stanford Howell in that family I have not been able to prove he is the one,even though I know he lived in Oregon City at the right time That is why I knew about Caswell Good hunting ----- Original Message ----- From: <SHStu@aol.com> To: <HOWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 12:20 PM Subject: [HOWELL] Re: Ark info on a CASWELL HOWELL > In a message dated 1/23/2004 9:00:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, > HOWELL-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > X-Message: #2 > > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:18:33 -0500 > > From: "rpotter" <rpotter20@comcast.net> > > To: HOWELL-L@rootsweb.com > > Message-ID: <001901c3e157$342eea00$ae9b3b44@net.frtprk01.fl.comcast.net> > > Subject: Re: [HOWELL] Re: HOWELL-D Digest V04 #14 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > If you will go to Howell Research Room 1850 Washington County,Arkansas > > page 335B,line #19,House #99,Family #99 > > You will find a James E Howell family with Twin boys > > Caswell and Preston age one > > Maybe this will help > > Good hunting > > RPotter - thanks for those - will have to check that particular one but there > seem to be several CASWELL HOWELLs that are not mine.....Mine was supposedly > b in NC, 1820 maybe Wake Co - in 1850 Thomas Co, GA Census - he was in a MARY > ALLEN's household along w/his wife & 6 ch.....his bro, BARNEY B. HOWELL, who > also came down into GA w/him & married in GA was in the house next door. So > from 1850 I've got him......there was a CASWELL HOWELL & a BARNEY or BARNABUS > HOWELL in the Greene Co, NC 1815 Tax list - but this was before mine were born - > Each one had 1 poll tax .......Supposedly, according to old info from 1919 > book, (tho not proven,) my HOWELLs were in Edgecomb & Greene Cos, NC back > earlier.....There were also CASWELLs there in those areas, so whether there was an > old connection between the HOWELLs & the CASWELLs or whether the name could have > come about from friendship between the 2 families or from the Gov Richard > Caswell's name is still up for speculation...... > I do know that there are usually so many ch in these HOWELL families that it > makes sorting them out very, very difficult - but doesn't stop any of us from > trying.... > Many thanks for that bit & will go back to the Research Room to take a > look... (Just caught your email - or you in my area? Comcast is our cable system & > some I know use comcast DSL.....) > Sarah Howell Studstill > > > ==== HOWELL Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. >