Bill: Do you have any Merritt from Huntingdon Pa. in the middle 1800's? I have a gg grandmother Elizabeth Merritt who married Andrew Thomas Fridley on 4-12-1839 in Huntingdon. They had 7 children and the parents and two children died of Cholera around St. Louis in 1851. According to a family letter in 1928 there was a sizeable estate from a Merritt in Huntingdon around that time. Thanks Bob ------------------------------------------------------------ Free Web Email & Filter Enhancements. http://www.freewebemail.com/filtertools/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Maryott" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:14 AM Subject: [MERRITT] Many Lost Merritt's > For those of you on the list that have never posted your Merritts, please take a moment and do so. I have over 400 descendants with the name Merritt, Merriot, Merrett and similar spellings all migrating from Rhode Island west. The name was originally Marryott, but many were using the name Merritt by 1850. I have found in my reseach that all searching requires looking for three consonants with any vowels. M ...R...T.. This means your Merritt relatives may have used the names Maret, Meret, Merit, Merritt, Meriot, Mariot, and many, many more. I read each and every post looking for connections and rarely find anyone who connects to my Merritt lines. The major states in the 19th century for my relatives were New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Connecticut, also surrounding other states and on West as far as Washington. > Bill Maryott > >