In a message dated 8/29/02 2:16:42 AM, veeb@getfreeinternet.co.uk writes: << Hello, John and Shelly and anyone else studying TAPSCOTTs The Nancy TAPSCOTT you are discussing was Nancy4 (Henry3, James2, Henry1) TAPSCOTT and was the same person as Nancy5 (Nancy4, Henry3, Edney2, Henry1) TAPSCOTT. >> Hello Lin and all, I SHOULD have caught all of this before now, but am feeling rather fragmented since I am attempting to get ALL of my various family data together to get it on a rootsweb site. As I am getting to a point where something is not exactly clear, I am having to seek out clarifying data. Now that this issue is resolved, there is now the issue of this tie between these Tapscotts and the Baynes who are descendants of the William Swift and Frances Waddy family of Caswell. Shelly's family has two Lea connections, one which takes her back to the Swifts, to a daughter of William Park Swift and his wife Sarah Tate: Mary Street Swift who married John Lea, son of Henry Lea and his wife, Mary Street. [YES THERE ARE A LOT OF COUSIN MARRIAGES HERE!] Mary Street Swift is a sister of my Frances Tate Swift who married John Windsor Tapscott. Her other Lea connection was with the marriage of Swananoah Lea with her Thomas Baynes. Swananoah Lea was a daugher of Benjamin Lea who was sister to Elizabeth Lea, wife of Thomas Jefferson Tapscott, son of John Windsor Tapscott. We know that John Windsor Tapscott was cousin to the blind, Nancy Tapscott, by way of her mother Nancy, daughter of Henry Tapscott of Caswell. But that does not give a close family tie of blind Nancy to the Baynes/Swift family. [By the way the Baynes are of the same family who had the Old Baynes County store in Caswell] There MUST be another family connection, but WHAT? Now I have discovered that William Swift had a marriage prior to his marriage to Frances Waddy, which brought three daughters into his family, Mary, Margaret, and Sarah. Margaret and Sarah were married to Williamsons, whose descendants settled into Caswell; Mary was married to James George in Goochland County, VA; and my intention at this point is to determine if this connects to the George/Ann Edney Tapscott marriage in Virginia; and, hopefully, at the same time locate the first wife of William Swift, who may have been a Park, another Waddy, or a Street, judging from the naming of the children of Mary, Margaret and Sarah. Also, our Thomas Rice of Caswell may have been the Thomas Rice who helped to inventory the estate of the Rev. William Swift in Hanover County, VA. in 1838. The genealogical adage that for every "new" person one adds to a lineage, that creates at least two more problems, has proven itself many times over on these families. Best regards, John Fox Winston Salem, NC

I'm very interested in this discussion since an ancestor married into this family before marrying into the one from which I descend. It was my understanding that William Park Swift was the s/o Rev. Wm Swift and Frances Waddy who was the d/o Anthony Waddy and Sarah Parke. I am connected to this group this way: My 4th Great Grandmother Martha JONES had previously been married to Thomas WILLIAMSON before she married Thomas NANCE Martha JONES Williamson's son Nathan WILLIAMSON married Sarah SWIFT and had Elizabeth WILLIAMSON who married Samuel SMITH who was s/o Samuel SMITH (my ancestor) and Martha NANCE [d/o Martha JONES Williamson Nance] In other words the grandchildren of Martha Jones Williamson Nance married each other. I have another connection this way: My 3rd Great Grandfather Samuel SMITH (husband of Martha NANCE) had a 1/2 sister through his father, John SMITH's marriage to Martha Potter whose name was Rachel SMITH. Rachael SMITH married William RUSSELL and had a son Charles Charles RUSSELL married Margaret WILLIAMSON who was d/o (I believe) Hawley WILLIAMSON and Margaret SWIFT Hawley Williamson was the s/o Thomas WILLIAMSON and Martha JONES In a publication "Genealogy of the Smith Family of Rockingham Co., North Carolina," by J. Fletcher Smith, there is this: >She had one brother who moved to Virginia; one sister who married a man by >the name of Potter and moved to Tennessee; another sister married a Mr. >Trotter, and moved to Western North Carolina; and another sister married a >Mr. Micheux and moved to Burke County, N.C. > >After her father (5), Mr. Nance, died, her mother married a Mr. >Williamson, and they had two children, a son and a daughter; this daughter >married a Mr. Prather, and the late Robert Prather of Guilford Co., N.C. >was a descendant of this marriage, and also a large family of Swifts & >Graves were descendants of this half-sister and half-brother of 'Martha >Nance'. Al Thomas and Swift Williams and John and old Calvin Graves of >Caswell Co., N.C. were her relatives. I'm trying to find and connect all of these people. The Prather I think I have found and they are as follows: Leonard Deakins PRATHER who married Frances WILLIAMSON, who was the d/o Thomas WILLIAMSON and Martha JONES. They had Robert Richardson PRATHER who married someone and had two children . . . [I haven't gone further] I would like to further fill out these connections and to locate the GRAVES and THOMASes mentioned in the quote. And to find the SMITH and JONES ancestors (plus a few others <G>) Hope you all can help. K. McGee Smith Gurley Nance Hudson Bibb Byars Allen kmcgee03@earthlink.net At 09:43 AM 8/29/2002 -0400, Bebenjohn@aol.com wrote: <snip> >Now I have discovered that William Swift had a marriage prior to his >marriage to Frances Waddy, which brought three daughters into his family, >Mary, Margaret, and Sarah. Margaret and Sarah were married to >Williamsons. . . hopefully, at the same time locate the first wife of >William Swift, who may have been a Park, another Waddy, or a Street, >judging from the naming of the children of Mary, Margaret and >Sarah. Also, our Thomas Rice of Caswell may have been the Thomas Rice who >helped to inventory the estate of the Rev. William Swift in Hanover >County, VA. in 1838. > >The genealogical adage that for every "new" person one adds to a lineage, >that creates at least two more problems, has proven itself many times over >on these families. > >Best regards, >John Fox >Winston Salem, NC <snip>