My Quaker ancestors include John Marshill and his wife Ruth Hadley. I am reading a short volume titled, Nantucket Genesis, the Tale of my Tribe,?by Mary Barnard. It is a story largely of her Barnard ancestry. I am reading it largely for the Marshall connection. Mary Barnard's grandmother was Mary Melissa Marshall. Mary Melissa was the youngest child of Robert Marshall and Catherine Huffines. Robert was the great grandson of John Marshill and Ruth Hadley through their oldest son Jacob (Margaret Cypert) and his son Jacob (Hannah Andrew). Robert was disowned by Cane Creek MM in then Orange County, North Carolina,?Oct 1820, probably for marriage out. Mary Melissa never knew her father; he died before her birth in Hancock County, Indiana in 1840. Catherine's second husband, James Denney, raised her. Mary Melissa's husband was Samuel Lee Barnard, a descendant of Thomas Barnard and his wife, Elinor. Thomas Barnard, according to Mary Barnard's book, along with Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussy, Richard Swain, Peter Coffin, Stephen Greenleaf, John Swain, and William Pile purchased 1/4 of the island of Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew. Some of these purchasers moved to the island and some did not. Mary Barnard indicates that they were not necessarily Quaker when they first settled the island. Connie Marshall Thompson