I must have missed Mandy's original comments and I would like to be able to read her submission, since I descend from the Ephraim of North Carolina lineage. Can someone send the original message? Nell in Florida In a message dated 1/6/2004 5:48:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Mandy, > This is mind boggling stuff and if true would merge group 20 with > many other groups that DNA is showing appear to share an Ephraim ancestor > (d. 1750 Rowan Co, NC). These families would by implication be descendants > of Ephraim of CT but the proof for this jump I thought was missing. > But how do you know that your Nathaniel was not the one that > previous work suggests was born in England? I suppose there are no group > 20 men who still have the Pennington surname or else DNA could help here? > Do we know if there are any Pen(n)ingtons still living in NJ who descend > from one of these early Morris Co, NJ Pen(n)ingtons. I thought from what > is on the web at Gencircles (and some files here list descendants of these > Morris county Penningtons) that these families daughtered out! Nick. > Nell