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    1. Re: Edmund, James H., Harrison and Edward
    2. I have thought that it would be a challenging project to determine the destination of all 10 of Edmund's sons. Did David die in Albemarle? We know that James, Edmund's son, stayed in Hanover, but there are eight more to be accounted for. I think I can put my finger on several that stayed in the Hanover/Richmond area. I've just never attempted to connect all of them. Harrison and Edward, my great grandfather, Andrew Jackson, their sisters Georgiana and Lavinia are listed in the household of their parents, Carter and Louisiana Via in the 1850 Hanover census. For Harrison and Edward to have gone to Albemarle to train under James H., the "master coachmaker" seems to indicate that the somewhat distant cousins had stayed in touch, doesn't it? I do not think that H and E were bound out. The family was fairly prosperous yeomen farmers/planters. It owned several hundred acres of land and some slaves (sad to say) and were never in debt until after the War. More likely they were apprenticed or simply learning from a master who also happened to be kin. In the South especially, one was cousin regardless of the number of times removed. Janelle

    05/23/2006 06:23:12