George that is a great idea. Did COl Banks have children or randchildren? It would be a travisty of these papers were lost thorough someones ignorance. JUDIE ----- Original Message ----- From: George F. Sanborn Jr. <seorasog@attbi.com> To: <MEYORK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [MEYORK] History of York.........Vol. 3 > Hello All, > > If I could jump in here, some of Col. Banks's notes on certain families are at the > York Historical Society by the Old Gaol Museum in York, and other papers are at the > Bangor Public Library. (I have not used the ones in Bangor, but have used the > others.) Moreover, I was told some years ago by a man who was definitely in a > position to know that the unpublished manuscript of Volume 3 of the History of York > was in private hands in York or someplace very close to York and the person who had > it was not about to turn it over or allow his name to be repeated. I hope that > whoever it is has made arrangements for it to either be published or be eventually > turned over to an appropriate facility. My informant would not tell me who the > person is because he did not want to go back on his word to the person who has the > manuscript. Unfortunately, my informant died some years ago. We need to get our > genealogical bloodhounds on the trail of this before it is too late. > > George Sanborn > > > Dana Edgecomb wrote: > > > The papers that were left in Col. Banks office are at the Library > > of Congress. The LDS has filmed them, and you can rent > > them from a Family History Center. I have looked at some > > of them, there are many reels. > > Dana Edgecomb > > > > At 06:55 PM 1/6/03 +0000, you wrote: > > > Bruce is correct, there was a Vol.3 planned for the genealogy of > > >families of York county......I dont know if the papers still > > >exist for that volume. If anyone on the lists of Ma-Bay or MeYork > > >has info they are willing to share. > > > > > > >> My understanding is that Banks wrote two volumes of this history > > > before he > > >died. He supposedly had notes for Volume 3, but died before he completed the > > >book. > > > > Maybe SKS can confirm/refute my understanding of the situation. > > > > Bruce Bardes > > > > Cincinnati > > >-- > > >Administrator for Ma-Bay-Colony-L@rootsweb.com > > >Bunnydust@attbi.com > > >MBC archiver (postings) > > >http://archiver.rootsweb.com and > > >put Ma-Bay-Colony in the box > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > > > > CAME,Arthur: under the spelling of Cham, this emigrant was granted > > > land at > > > > > Exeter,NH,1664; and 1669 he had a house at York; it's believed he > > > came to > > > > > New England with John FROST. His wife was Violet(___?)she was still > > > living > > > > in > > > > > 1720; Arthur and Violet had 6 children,all lived to marry. [genealogy in > > > > Volume 3 which I dont have] > > > > > -------------------------------------> > > > > > > transcribed by: > > > > > Cynthia > > > > > Administrator for Ma-Bay-Colony-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > Bunnydust@attbi.com > > > > > MBC archiver (postings) > > > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com and > > > > > put Ma-Bay-Colony in the box > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > > > records, go > > > > to: > > > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > > > records, go to: > > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > >============================== > > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > > >go to: > > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >