Ron, Mary Bridges Stubbs David was born in ab 1762 in Maryland. In the Thomas book it tells of John's wife and Mary or Mollie as she was called coming from Maryland to SC. John Stubbs, Jr. died in 1792 and Mary died in 1839. I am descended from their youngest daughter Dorcas M. Stubbs who married Joshua Moses Odom. Dorcas and Joshua Moses Odom had one daughter Mary Ann Odom who married Spencer J. Strickland. Spencer and Mary Ann are my g-g-grandparents. Spencer J. Strickland was the executor of Mary Bridges Stubbs David's estate. I have copies of it and the estate papers of John Stubbs, Jr. I use a library computer so I don't always have my information available to me. I will send you all the children of John and Mary Bridges Stubbs, Jr. next time I come to the library. Hope this will be the beginning of sharing information. ---------------------------------------------- Original Message From: ""<RBul1865@aol.com> Subject: [SCMARLBO-L] Mary Bridges Stubbs David Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 03:00:46 EST > >In a message dated 3/5/02 7:58:38 AM, DOR@white-star.com writes: > ><< Hi Ronald, > >I too am descended from the Bridges of Marlboro County. John and Mary >Bridges Stubbs, Jr. are my 4th g-grandparents. I have a lot of Bridges >information and would be glad to share any I have with you. > >Doris Strickland Blythe >Charlotte, N. C. >> >================= >Hello Cousin Doris and thanks very much for your kind offer to >share information. Actually, I am also interested in the Stubbs >family, about which I know very little, but need to because of >their close connections to the Bridges and Conner families. > >I have just sent out a message to the Marlboro list thanking the >many kind folks on the list who have written to me with useful >information, while telling thwm of my attempt to catch up with >my replies. > >I would love to have any information that you could conveniently >copy into the body of an e-mail, but I have a Macintosh computer >and am having problems trying to open attached files that some >have sent me, as it seems that my computer cannot handle >documents written in Microsoft Word, which most are. > >I am happy to learn that Mary Bridges and John Stubbs had children. >I knew that the Thomas history said that they had been married >before she married John David and had daughter Eliza at age 46, >but I did not know if she had Stubbs children. I am glad that she >did, and I know that you are even more pleased. I looked up Eliza >David Bridges in the census of 1860 and found her age then to be >54, which would place her birth in 1806. If her mother, Mary Bridges >Stubbs David, was 46 in 1806, then she would have been born in >1760, give or take a year. However, I had a kind member of the >Marlboro list send to me directly the information that Mary Bridges, >daughter of John Bridges, Sr, was born on 17 Dec. 1781 and that >she died on 17 Jan 1828. I wrote back asking if these exact dates >came from a Bible record, and the reply was that it probably came >from a grave stone, and those from such an early time are rare, > >If she was really born in 1781, then the Rev. Thomas in his history >was off on his dates by some 20 years, it would seem. Then again, >he did have trouble now and then in keeping John Bridges and son >William straight. I am not complaining, though, because it is wonderful >to have material collected as early as 1890 from persons who still >remembered having heard stories in their youth from men who had >served in the Revolutionary War. > >Can you help me on the birth date of Mary Bridges? I would also love >to hear more about the family that she had with John Stubbs, Jr, >as well as about John himself. Thanks for your kind offer. It is very >good, indeed, to communicate with new cousins, even those in which >the degree of kinship uses up most of the fingers on one hand. Let's >see, of the top of my head, I almost underestimated here, as I believe >that you would be my 5th cousin, once removed, as I am one >generation closer to John Bridges, Sr, than you would be. That is still >treasured kinship, even if I did learn about it only this week. > >Best regards, Ron Bullock > >P. S. - I have just admitted my lack of knowledge about computers >in this and a previous message to the list, so I might as well confess >now that I do not know how to access archive messages on lists such >as that for: CONNER-L@rootsweb.com. Might I ask someone at their >convenience to tell me how to do this? > > _____________________________________________ Free email with personality! Over 200 domains! http://www.MyOwnEmail.com