James Stone wrote: > To complicate matters for ya'll, think of this. > Although this may not pertain to your Douglas(s), it did to > several. Frederick Douglass, black abolitionist and newspaper editor, > became a role model for several individuals. Some of those, whose > surname was Douglas, started adding the second s to their name to be > like Frederick. I like to think that abolitionists of all races whose > surname was Douglas practiced this 'variation.' > > James > in Idaho > -----Original Message----- > From: wdouglas@postoffice.swbell.net <wdouglas@postoffice.swbell.net> > To: NCSCOTS-L@rootsweb.com <NCSCOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Sunday, August 01, 1999 7:24 AM > Subject: Duglass or Douglass > > >Searching for information on John Benjamine Douglass (Duglass) born > 1807 > >in NC. Married Mary Gosdin 1836 in Henry Co. GA. > > > > > >==== NCSCOTS Mailing List ==== > >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~help/index.htm >Find out how to operate this > list and get information about other Rootsweb features. > > > > Mr Stone, While you information may be correct, I do not feel its applies to most Douglass. Some time its simply as miss spelling entered into the records. However, the two s Douglas could show my forefathers came from Scotland by way of Ireland. In any case thats why I subscribe to this mailing list to find information on my releative John Douglass in NC where he was born and not this type of useless information. For one thing it has nothing to do with Scotts of NC. Yours Aye, William