Hi all, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harlow Chandler" <chandler@firstva.com> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 4:44 PM > ***-----Original Message----- > ***From: LeeTodo@aol.com [mailto:LeeTodo@aol.com] > ***Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 6:25 PM > ***if someone sees a problem with this line that I missed. > *** > ***Richard Warren > ***Mary Warren - Robert Bartlett > ***Mary Bartlett Foster - Jonathan Morey > ***Jonathan Morey - Hannah Bourne > ***Thankful Morey - Thomas Swift > ***Thankful Swift - Nathanael Wing Jr. > ***Olive Wing - Enoch Swift Jr. > *** > ***Thanks, > ***Lee > > I replied a little while ago citing the Bartlett MFIP. To expand a bit, > _Mayflower Descendant_13:33-4, "Plymouth , Mass, Vital Records" has the > family of Thomas Swift and wife Thankful, and the list concludes with "The > above named Thankful Swift ye Daughter deceasd abot May 26, 1754." > > This is the record cited by Robert S. Wakefield in the Bartlett MFIP. > > However, there is an article in the NEHG Register by Lydia Brownson and > Maclean McLean (125:248) which in a footnote speaks of Thankful Swift and > Nathaniel Wing (and cites this same Mayflower Descendant article which says > she died a year before the marriage!). It identifies her as the Thankful > you have. I cannot explain this and I have a thunder storm coming over me > right now and have to unplug the computer--sorry to be so abrupt with the > information. Maybe you have found an explanation for this seeming > inconsistency, or maybe it's something to look into further. Good luck. I haven't seen any more on this question here; but thought people might be interested in this web-page and comments therein: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=raywing&id=I2000273 You might want to determine how many Thankful Swifts were available and of the right age in Wareham in 1755. Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com