This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Severance, Barton, Murell, White, Fairchild Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JeB.2ACI/647 Message Board Post: I am looking for a Severance family which may be the same as or confused with a Severance family from Boston, MA in about 1700. The crossover point is a John Severance II and wife Catherine, possibly a Fairchild. This John was born 1676 in Boston. At some point, some sources say he emigrated to Berkeley Co with his wife Catherine then had a son John III in 1702 who married Ann Barton. Their son Thomas c 1738 married Susannah Murrell and they had Paul and Robert Murrell who moved up to Darlington Co where there are a number of Severences living to this day. There is another tradition too. A John Severance and wife Catherine came from Europe about 1700 and had a Daughter Sarah Severance who married a John White and these descendants stayed in Berkeley and Georgetown. This John died in 1740 also in Darlington and there doesn't seem to be a record of his having a son John. Are these the same John/Catherine or were there two Mary