MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Here's a song we sang in high school choir.=0A"The more you study, the more= you know.=0AThe more you know, the more you forget.=0AThe more you forget,= the less you know.=0ASo why study?=0AThe less you study, the less you know= .=0AThe less you know, the less you forget.=0AThe less you forget, the more= you know.=0ASo why study?"=0AFunny what you remember after 45 years=0AJay= =0A=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: Mike Hitch <mikehitch@mikeh= itch.com>=0ATo: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com=0ASent: Thursday, August = 21, 2008 3:24:50 PM=0ASubject: Re: [LDR] Understanding Cousins: But what ab= out aunts and uncles??=0A=0A=0AJohn L. sez: "The more one knows, the less c= ertain anything gets." Maybe=0Ashould be altered to state "The more one kno= ws, the less one finds one=0Aactually knows..."=0A=0ABest Regards,=0AMike H= itch=0A"So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains and we ne= ver even=0Aknow we have the key."=A0 -Eagles=0A=0A=0A|-----Original Message= -----=0A|From: lower-delmarva-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com =0A|[mailto:lower-= delmarva-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf =0A|Of Johnlyon0@cs.com=0A|S= ent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:21 PM=0A|To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb= .com=0A|Subject: Re: [LDR] Understanding Cousins: But what about aunts =0A|= and uncles??=0A|=0A|"Bruce L. Nicholson" <brucen@maine.edu> wrote:=0A|>=A0N= ow, I gather from this discussion that my William =0A|Nicholson's "friend" = James Nicholson indeed could have been =0A|his "cousin" James Nicholson. = =A0Is this a correct =0A|interpretation of this current discussion of the u= se of the =0A|term "friend" in colonial times?=0A|=0A|Bruce, and other frie= nds, Romans and countrymen (or, as one of =0A|our incipient Presidential ca= ndidates says in about every =0A|other sentence, "My friends"): I can only = repeat that "friend" =0A|is a very busy word, into which anyone can be stuf= fed, as =0A|needed.=A0 So the answer to your question is "He could have bee= n =0A|a cousin, yes.=A0 But definitely?=A0 You need more data." =0A|=0A|As = far as the Quaker possibility goes in the original inquiry, =0A|not at all = likely.=A0 The general sense from all records is that =0A|when the term Fri= end, meaning Quaker, shows up, there's =0A|usually immediate contextual evi= dence to validate it. =0A|=0A|I can add here, not to introduce new confusio= ns, that the word =0A|"cousin" actually once served a similar sort of gener= al =0A|purpose, beyond kinship.=A0 As the OED says, one of its meanings =0A= |was "as a friendly or familiar term of address or =0A|designation".=A0 It = also served legally once upon a time as =0A|equivalent to "next of kin", wh= en applied to anyone more =0A|distantly related than parents or children.= =A0 =0A|=0A|The more one knows, the less certain anything gets.=0A|=0A|John= =0A|***************************************=0A|QUESTIONS about POSTING GUID= ELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING?=0A|Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mai= ling List FAQ:=0A|http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm=0A|------------= -------------------=0A|To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email t= o =0A|LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word =0A|'unsubscr= ibe' without the quotes in the subject and the body =0A|of the message=0A|= =0A=0A=0A***************************************=0AQUESTIONS about POSTING = GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING?=0AVisit The Lower DelMarVa Roots = Mailing List FAQ:=0Ahttp://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm=0A-----------= --------------------=0ATo unsubscribe from the list, please send an email t= o LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' wit= hout the quotes in the subject and the body of the message=0A