Hello Bill, Yep, you are quite right. I am descended from Christopher Edelen, the youngest son of Richard and Eliz. Banton and brother to Thomas Edelen that married Comfort Barnes.. It is strange, I feel that I know all these people I have read and studied them and their names, their history, etc, so much. David Middleton Edelen II Alabama ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Howard" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; "Norma Lundgren" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Thomas Edelen and Comfort Barnes Dyer > Dear List, > > Some care is needed here. I believe there are two separate Thomas > Edelens here. > > One is the son of Richard Edelen (abt 1636-abt 1694) and Elizabeth > Barton who married Comfort Barnes. > The other is the son of Richard Edelen (abt 1672- abt 1760) and Sarah > Hagen who married Mary Blandford. > > - Bye from Bill Howard > > On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Norma Lundgren wrote: > >> Yes, that is the one to whom I referred. I assumed that his >> daughters were not >> grand-daughters of this Richard, as Richard didn't call them grand- >> daughters (in >> the abstract). His son, the Thomas who married Mary Blanford had at >> least 2 >> daughters, Henrietta and Susanna, named in a different line of >> Richard's will. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gwen Boyer Bjorkman" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:12 PM >> Subject: [MDCHARLE] Thomas Edelen and Comfort Barnes Dyer >> >> >>> Is this the Thomas Edelen who m. Comfort Barnes Dyer ca. 1720? If >>> it is, he >>> did have step-daughters >>> that he named in his will. >>> >>> Gwen Boyer Bjorkman >>> [email protected] >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Norma Lundgren >>> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:58 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [MDCHARLE] Judge Thomas Baker Berry (1806--1880s)? >>> >>> >>> David, one of the grand-daughters to whom Richard Edelen left >>> "Friendship" was >>> Mary Lancaster. This is the line in his will abstract: >>> To grand-daus. Elizabeth (no comma) Corry and Mary Lancaster, each >>> of them 200 >>> A. land, pt. of Lawrel's Branch, pt. of Run At A Venture, and pt. of >>> Friendship, >>> lying in Charles Co. on Mattawoman Run. >>> >>> To Anne Neal, my grand-dau., and daus. of Thomas Edelen, to be >>> equally divided >>> between them, and to the hrs. of their body, the remaining pt. of >>> 3 tracts at >>> Matawoman, and when divided, Ann Neal take her choice. >>> >>> (NJL note: As far as I can determine, Thomas Edelen didn't have any >>> daughters.) >>> >>> - >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>> the quotes >>> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MDCHARLE- >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > "History is the consensus of survivors in authority" > "Reality is the weighted mean of individual perceptions" > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message