[email protected] wrote: > How about meeting in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia? Historically, this would be a good choice. Probably even more interesting than Newberry. BUT it's your next paragraph which instantly grabbed my attention! > Hugh O'Neal (Sr) had two estate administrations in Frederick County. > The > first fizzled because the administrator died and a couple of years > later, That's very interesting. How did you come by this information? > there was a new administration set up and Annie was named > administratrix. > Patience Milborn's father was a party to this. I don't have any info on Patience's parents. Could you share that, please? > This is a part of the O'Neal > story that has not been fully investigated. It's not for lack of interest. My father and I wrote to Winchester and got photocopies of the inventories (I wrote, he licked the stamps. <g> ) And Miriam York already had a transcript (with errors) of one of them. Other folks, especially cousin Don, have put in a lot of effort looking for any trace of Hugh and Ann's marriage in Delaware (or whatever it was called in those days), to no avail. I believe Ann O'Neall has also looked for that, since one of her ancestors, Emmet, apparently found something irretrievable. > William O'Neal also attended > Hopewell, but sometimes his records are shown without the "O." He also tended to sign his name "Oneall". Jill got some very interesting freight bills with his and Abijah's signatures on them. Anyway, I have copies of 2 inventories. The 1750 one (11 August 1750) seems to be signed (very hard for me to read) by Marquis Calmes (?), James something (maybe O'Neall, "his mark"), John Jones and, a paragraph later, Jesse Wood. The named administrator's name looks like Meredith Keton (?). Are we talking about the same paper? The 2nd one (13 August 1751) indeed names Ann ONeal (sic) administrat.... It is signed by John Milbourn (looks like -- is this Patience's father?), William Tolliffe, Evan Thomas and Anne A.O. "her mark" ONeal (sic). The appearance of Milborne's signature would lend authenticity to these documents as really being the inventories of "our" Hugh. Like other things concerning him, they have been disputed because of the date, which says Hugh had died already in 1751. The dispute centeres around the "fact" that somewhere, someone says that Hugh's last son George was born in 1754, altho I have no idea what the source for this info is. Ann O'Neall, a descendant of George's, has recently indicated she may have evidence George was born perhaps as early as 1751 or 1752, tho I don't know that she considers her results definitive yet. (Ann, are you listening?) Anyway, I would love to hear any more you have, especially in the nature of sources, on this subject. > There are good motel accommodations in Winchester. I don't recall > much in > Newberry, although it has been 10 years since I've been there. Of > course, > Columbia is nearby, and it doesn't take long to drive to Newberry from > > Columbia.. Btw, you forgot to sign your note and I don't recognize your e-mail address. I presume we are cousins, tho. I'm one of William's 4th-great-grandsons. Looking forward with great impatience to hearing more from you. John O'Neall Genas, France