I don't think marrying one's cousin back than mattered as it is now. You should see my Virginia lines. My charming John Smart (son of John Smart & Betsy Hilton) bought land in 1795, least half of it to his mother a few years later only to sell it from under her in 1807 and move to Maine. Gotta love them............ Have never been that far north but it sure sounds like a beautiful place. Wish there was a site that listed everyone's Smart's to see if any of them connect. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dick<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:42 PM Subject: [NHROCKIN] SMART Families in Rockingham county It's nice to know there were so many smart families from Rockingham county. I wish that some of it had rubbed off on me, but I have so many cousins there, I guess my line suffered from too much in-breeding! I guess the smart ones left earlier-on. I'm still smart enough, though, to wish I'd been born there, too! Dick Marston, MARSTON MANOR, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dickmarston/<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dickmarston/> Compiler: Marston Family & Hampton, N.H., Genealogies, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=Dick-Marston&I11.x=41&I11.y=8<http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=Dick-Marston&I11.x=41&I11.y=8> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=hampton-nh<http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=hampton-nh> Administrator: MARSTON Mail List [[email protected]], and MARSTON FTDNA Project, http://www.familytreedna.com/public/marston%2Dmasten%2Dmastin%2Dmerston/<http://www.familytreedna.com/public/marston-masten-mastin-merston/> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message