To all our friends in MEREDITH-L rootsweb.com wisdom@tampabay.rr.com sent the following request. My knowledge of these given names is limited so I turn to you for help, Please give any information to Hurston's addy, to the MEREDITH-L Rootsweb.com addy and anyone else interested in these given names. Thank you, Jerry Bluchp56@aol.com P,S, MEREDITH-L@rootsweb.com administrator (Judy) please contact Bluchp56@aol.com =================================================================== Happy Friday late afternoon Hurston, I have turned to the experts in the Meredith surname link for help...Your questions are worth getting straight true answers thus I regret my answer(s) would only be guesses. If you have any detailed or furthur thoughts please send to MEREDITH-L Rootsweb.com or one of the following gentlemen: ronhm@aol.com, Jack.Meredith@mba.wfu.edu =================================================================== Subject:Reese and Samuel Merediths (Philadelphia and Virginia) Date:3/19/2004 11:50:35 AM Central Standard Time From:wisdom@tampabay.rr.com Reply To: To:Bluchp56@aol.com Hi, You seem to have a lot of info on names, etc. regarding Merediths. I am curious if you know of a connection between Reese Meredith the merchant whose family was so indelibly tied up with our nation's early days in the Quaker areas. Samuel Meredith was Secy of Treasury, I believe, and married a very socially prominent Cadwalader. Ann Meredith married Hill who was closely associated with Ben Franklin, and Margaret married into another very prominent family, the Clymers. About the same timeperiod in Virginia (old Amherst Co, near was Samuel Meredith (Col, I think) who married Patrick Henry's sister and lived in Winton before moving to Kentucky. At that same time, there was living in old Amherst Co, Va another Reese Meredith (or Rice). To be honest, it is this Rice/Reese/Rhys Meredith that interests me. Do these names Samuel and Reese occur so frequently due to Welsh naming conventions, or is there a connection? Any idea? Thanks. Hurston Anderson