ok thanx - been on here, just didnt recognize "huntington" :) and you're correct, can be a pain - a couple times i just picked a date and read thru them :) quite interesting reading :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, Jul 26, 2010 9:40 am Subject: [LDR] huntington collection http://guide.mdsa.net/series.cfm?action=viewSeries&ID=TE1 it is not easy to navigate. You have to know volume and folio and hunt around o find out which microfilm at the huntington collection it is on. It is beyond e to give more detailed instructions as I just muddle through one way or the ther without a plan.....the page numbers are tricky too so that requires an xplanation from someone better able to describe it than me. ----- Original Message ----- rom: [email protected] o: [email protected] ent: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:28:52 -0000 (UTC) ubject: Re: [LDR] Look at the original will - example greetings - is this huntington collection online? would you share? thanx - obin -----Original Message----- rom: Lisa Just o: [email protected] ent: Mon, Jul 26, 2010 9:18 am ubject: Re: [LDR] Look at the original will - example id you get a chance to look at the inventories, accounts and lances associated with the probate at the Huntington Collection? ey might furnish additional clues that can explain the relationships. only had time to look up one account for John Smith in 1741 (Lib , f. 242), executor was John Smith and mentions there was another n Thomas, deceased, and legacies left to William Smith, Sarah ckman alias Smith, Diligence Richards alias Smith, Bridgit Sasield ) alias Smith, Comfort Smith, Charles Smith and the Accountant ohn Smith). n Jul 26, 2010, at 6:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: I did not know how to explain the below contradiction in the name of the husband of Elizabeth Smith. (Keddie also refers to James Smith). This is an example of the reason why we should check the original will whenever possible. After a giant struggle with the Huntington site, I managed to find Smith's will of 1739-40 below (vol. 22, folio 172). Voila - it said very clearly I JOHN Smith, Sr. of Somerset County etc. Of course here's the problem - was this copy on the Huntington site also a copy of an original will and were Cotton and Keddie looking at an entirely different copy. What a headache. Smith, Elizabeth, widow of John,All Hallows Parish, Somerset Co., 19th May, 1742; 10th March, 1742-3; 17th March, 1742-3. To cousin Sarah Patrick, dau.-in-law Sarah Hickman, and granddau. Bridget Hickman, personalty. To daus.-in-law Dillegane Rickard, Bridget Seasill, Tamer Day, Charity Maisey, Anne Bell and Elizabeth Collins, residue of estate. Exs.: Isaac Bell, John Rickard. Test: John Miller, Charles Mooney, Abraham Lynch. 23. 97. I can not understand why it is widow of John when it appears his name was James LOL. Smith, James, Sr.,Somerset Co.,23rd Mar., 1739-40; 27th Apr., 1740. To son John, ex., and hrs., 350 A. “Cow Quarter”, 200 A. “Isleington” 430 A. “Cords Lott”. To daus. Sarah, Bridgett, Diligents and Comfort and sons Charles and William, personalty. To wife Elizabeth, 1/3 estate. Test: Thomas Purkins, Race Clark, Samuel Showell. 22. 172. *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER- [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ************************************** ESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? sit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: tp://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ----------------------------- unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of e message *************************************** UESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? isit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: ttp://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message ************************************** UESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? isit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: ttp://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message