Hi RI Rooters; Recently, cousins Donna Potter and Barry Browning have had correspondence regarding the confusing Smiths and their relationship to the notorious Gereardys. While I am descended from Richard Smith, the Smiths above are descended from John Smith. I mistakenly got involved wih this line when I thought that my Mary Reynolds who married John Tefft was the daughter of Robert Reynolds (her father actually was Thomas 2, John 1 of Westerly), but............that is another story. If you really want to read about the Gereardys, get out your CD #180, RI Genealogies Vol 1, p 486. A wonderful treatise on Jan Gereardy and his father Phillip, and their nefarious activities. This article confirms that Jan's wife was Renewed Sweet, nee Maribah, but her name changed when her mother remarried to Ezekiel Holliman. Who was he with a name like Ezekiel to change his stepdaughter's name?? Savage also mentions this name change in his Genealogical Dictionary of New England. Secondly, yes, Phyllis Gereardy's sister Mary did marry her husband John Smith's brother Jeremiah. John also had a brother Daniel, and sisters Mary and Hannah. Charlie B Charles I Bearse Morrisville PA To Be Remembered May Be The Secret To Immortality

This article confirms that > Jan's wife was Renewed Sweet, nee Maribah, but her name changed when her > mother remarried to Ezekiel Holliman. Who was he with a name like Ezekiel to > change his stepdaughter's name?? ...Ezekiel Holliman....just a wild guess...any connection at all to the elusive upline of the Nicholas Holley/Holloway/Holway m.1 Patience Mott; m.2 Mehitable Phillips? The line appears to come from Sandwich MA along with the Worden lines coming into Kingstowne RI...but...where does this Holliman line come from? Barry Hale Browning