I'd love to have Thanksgiving Dinner with the family of Anne Pettipool and Richard2 Massey of Brunswick Co., VA - my 6-great grandparents. Naturally I'd want to know the names of both their parents, where they were born, the names of all their siblings, etc. I'd also like to know if he knew about the homemade coat of arms [with the weird crest reminiscent of the Coddington Masseys] in the possession of Richard's great great grandson, John Ross Massey of GA and TX. Almost as interesting, and with the same questions, would be my 4-greats - Richard4 Massey and unknown first wife [was she a STRICKLAND?] of Franklin Co., NC Martey's ancestors, John Massey and Lydia Sandlin of Bute/Granville, NC, would be a most interesting guest or host for him! [Martey: Have you done any recent updating on your early line?] Holiday Greetings to all! Theron Smith

Hello, this is Martey Massey. I haven't uncovered anything new really escept for this note I found in a book about Caroline County, Virginia. Date February 8, 1759 Agatha Marshall, Henry Lawson and Elizabeth Massey did not take proper care of their children. It is ordered by the Church wardens of Saint Mary's Parish to bind them out. I don't know if this is our Elizabeth or the Elizabeth of the Clatterback family or someone else and what happened. I have corresponded with others from the Cockerham family that we match DNA with, (I know that sentence is probably not grammatically correct), but they seem to think that the "facts" from the other book about Caroline County, Elizabeth and Cockerham is not really correct. They seem to think that the William Cockerham, the father, is really the son of a William Cockerham, who was a landowner. The book notes seem to lead to the fact that William is also indentured, but then how could he have afforded to pay the price for her/his transgression. Anyway, thanks for asking and this may be a brick wall that can only be semi-fixed with someone with another line from John and Lydia doing a DNA test. Martey -----Original Message----- From: Theron Smith <tl2smith@flash.net> To: massey@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 6:35 pm Subject: [MASSEY] Thanksgiving Dinner I'd love to have Thanksgiving Dinner with the family of Anne Pettipool and Richard2 Massey of Brunswick Co., VA - my 6-great grandparents. Naturally I'd want to know the names of both their parents, where they were born, the names of all their siblings, etc. I'd also like to know if he knew about the homemade coat of arms [with the weird crest reminiscent of the Coddington Masseys] in the possession of Richard's great great grandson, John Ross Massey of GA and TX. Almost as interesting, and with the same questions, would be my 4-greats - Richard4 Massey and unknown first wife [was she a STRICKLAND?] of Franklin Co., NC Martey's ancestors, John Massey and Lydia Sandlin of Bute/Granville, NC, would be a most interesting guest or host for him! [Martey: Have you done any recent updating on your early line?] Holiday Greetings to all! Theron Smith ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MASSEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message