Leslie Could you send me some source material for Elizabeth Grant. She is one who has eluded me. Thanks. I am related to Miriam through John of County Tyrone (b. 1747). Banks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie Hope" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "'Banks Hinshaw'" <[email protected]>; "'Gregory Morley'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 7:40 PM Subject: RE: [Q-R] GIFFORD > Here's my Gifford line: > > William Gifford/Elizabeth Grant > Robert Gifford/Sarah Wing > Jeremiah Gifford/Mary Wright > Benjamin Gifford/Eunice Beard > Hannah Gifford/William Beeson > Jonathan L. Beeson/Miriam Hinshaw > Lillie Mae Beeson/the Rev.Stephen Davis Horine (my ggrandparents) > > Marilyn Monroe is also a Gifford descendant (and a Mayflower descendant) > if > her father is who he is said to be. > > leslie hope > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Banks Hinshaw > Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 2:23 PM > To: Gregory Morley > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Q-R] GIFFORD > > Greg, > > That is my line but I am not descended from William Gifford who married > Kezia Jones but from his sister Eunice, who married Jesse Hinshaw . The > William I mentioned was this William's great great grandfather. I am > interested in your source, which may very well be me. James Bellarts > states > the marriage of Jonathan Gifford and Eunis Beard is recorded in "The > Sherburn Legal Book, Book I, page 112. He also notes that they left > Nantucket and he documents a Eunice Gifford as born 20 June 1778 in North > Carolina. Bellarts failed to connect this Eunice to Jonathan and Eunice > from > Nantucket but I noted many years ago that Hiram Hilty says that a Jonathan > Gifford was rocf at New Garden Monthly Meeting between 1771 and 1775. For > this he quotes: Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert, "First Friends at New Garden in > North > Carolina", Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association, Haverford, Pa., > Autumn. 1945. The connection, once recognized, can be confirmed in > William > Wade Hinshaw. Jonathan Giffo! > rd descends through his grandmother Mary Wright from two Mayflower > passengers, John Soule and Francis Cooke, thus any descendent of Jeremiah > Gifford and Mary Wright has Mayflower ancestry. > > Happy Thanksgiving. > > Banks Hinshaw > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Morley" <[email protected]> > To: "Banks Hinshaw" <[email protected]> > Cc: "James Peacock" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:55 PM > Subject: Re: [Q-R] GIFFORD > > >>I need to look at this more closely but a cursory review of my sources >> indicate my 5G-grandfather, Nathan Stubbs, Sr., married Elizabeth >> Jones (dt. of Francis and Sarah (Jones) Jones), older sister to Kezia >> Jones who married William Gifford, b. 10-20-1773, d. 1813 (s. of >> Jonathan and Eunice (Macy) Gifford of Nantucket, MA). The source >> states this Gifford line descended from the Mayflower. Is this your >> William Gifford? (Source: Jones, C. B. (1951). Jones and related >> families. Marcellus, MI: Private) >> >> I wonder if this Gifford line is related to Lucy Gifford, who married >> Dewitt Randall, their son Charles Randall b. 9-3-1887, m. Mary Frances >> Taylor 5-19-1909 at Elk MM, West Elkton, OH. >> >> Regards, >> >> Gregory Morley >> Jones>Stubbs>Mendenhall>Taylor >> >> On Nov 27, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Banks Hinshaw wrote: >> >> Jim, >> >> I am descended from William Gifford the immigrant whoses children were >> (at >> least) Mary, John, Patience, Annaniah, William, Robert, and >> Christopher. I >> am from Robert's line (wife Sarah Wing) and his son Jeremiah. >> Jeremiah's >> grandson Jonathan migrated to North Carolina where I live today. I have >> some information on other William Gifford offspring. Which line >> interests >> you? >> >> Banks Hinshaw >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "James Peacock" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:53 PM >> Subject: [Q-R] GIFFORD >> >> >>> My wife was a Gifford and descended from William Gifford of Sandwich, >>> Massachusetts. Interested in other descendants of William Gifford and >>> your lines of descendants. 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