THANKS. I have gone through this and have everyone connected. Janean Ray Legal Defender Office One Cascade Plaza Ste 1940 Akron, Ohio 44308 Ph. (330) 434-3461 Fax (330) 434-3371 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Kilby Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 1:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Mary Conway and James Ball Janean, you should know by know what a tangled mess of yarn these NN families are. Yes, it is complicated and confusing. There just were not that many marriage partners for the upper crust in those days. Canonical law be .....well, I'll just say it was widely ignored when it was inconvenient. The Seldons were a brief but much needed puff of fresh blood into this increasingly stagnating gene pool. Let's see if we can simplify it just a bit with regards to your line of interest: On Sep 18, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Janean Ray wrote: > OK gang slow down here a minute and let me catch up. LOL Who was > Richard-1 married to... aka the mother of James, John and Richard Selden (who m. > Elizabeth Chinn..... etc) It actually starts, as far as I can back so far, with John-1 of Elizabeth City County. He married Sarah-4 Ball (Richard-3, William-2, William-1). Bond in Lancaster County dated 14 OCT 1726. THEIR SON RICHARD-2 SELDON married Mary Conway, daughter of Edwin Conway III and Mary BALL (James-3, William-2, William-1) Bond in Lancaster County dated 21 OCT 1741 and a marriage contract (which I have not seen and do not know yet if it was recorded.) THEIR SON RICHARD-3 SELDON married Elizabeth CHINN, daughter of John Chinn and Sarah Yates. They were married in Lancaster County on 14 JUN 1803 (bond.) This was her 2nd husband. Her first husband was William O. Nutt, whom, as Elizabeth CHINN, she married in Lancaster on 6 NOV 1796. She died (as Elizabeth SELDON) in Lancaster in 1848, testate. By her husband Richard-3 Seldon, she had one son, Richard Y. Seldon, a doctor who died before his mother, unmarried and with no children in 1835. >From this point you are well advised to check out the Lancaster Estates Database which is on line from mbwm.org under "Lancasters Estates." from the home page. And believe me, this took me a long while to sort out when we did that database. > > I did not have Elizabeth as a child of John and Sarah Yates. I just > recently acquired a second brother. I had one Selden and that was > John who m. Sarah Ball and had no parents for him so I'm trying to get > these dots connected. I can assure you she is. By her first husband, William O. Nutt, she had a one daughter named Elizabeth Chinn NUTT who became the wife of Joseph Addison Carter, Jr. I'm going to leave it at there for now. Please check out the MBW database for more fun. I will only add one more thing: I am showing NINE children for John Chinn and Sarah Yates. This is John-4 CHINN (Joseph-3, Rawleigh-2, John-1). Wait until you get into the Dowmans with this bunch. Craig Craig ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message