John, thank you for your response. I am sure the Dewees researchers appreciate it, I certainly do even though I am not a Dewees researcher. The whole idea of this list and the Jackson County Rootsweb site is to share information. The postings are clearly noted as being from "Pioneers of Jackson County" by John House. Mr House wrote what he learned from the people who were living in his day, as well as what he learned from his own research. Memory is a funny thing, as we all learn when we try to pull something out of our own families. These bios are not meant to be primary source data, but rather to point researchers in a direction, although there is a lot of truth in them, at least most of them. :) Many of them simply give a glimpse of Jackson County as it was. This one was very successful since it got this very helpful response from you. I am getting all kinds of responses from these postings. Let me make it very clear that I am simply typing and posting bios from the book, hoping that some will be of value to someone. Not all of them are my ancestors, and not all of them show up in my database - even as Casto connections. I try to answer your questions but if you post your remarks to the query board, instead of directly to me, you may find someone else - like John - who knows a lot more. Thanks again, John. Betty "John C. Dawson" wrote: > Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/142 > > Surname: DEWEES > ------------------------- > > As a member of the Dewees National Research Team for the Dewees Family > Archives, I must refute the prior posting by Betty Briggs. The Dewees' > are NOT from France and they were never, and I mean NEVER a part of Lafayette's > French Army. This came from a book written by Daniel S. Dewees, "Recollections > of a Lifetime" which is written as an autobiography and early WV history. > This fact has been proven a long time ago. > The Dewees history in West Virginia, especially in Jackson County, comes > from brothers Joshua, Samuel, and William Dewees, as well as the brother > Isaac Updegrove Dewees from Gilmer/Calhoun County (the father of Daniel > S.). These were all sons of John Dewees and Mary Updegrove who moved to > Fayette County, PA in the latter part of the 1780's from Misspillion Hundred, > Kent County Delaware. The father John Dewees and his brothers did fight > in the Revolution, but as colonials in the Delaware Line. John Dewees is > a direct descendant of Adriaenz Hendricks de Wees (b. 1595) of Amsterdam, > the Netherlands. His grandson Gerret Hendricks Dewees emigrated to the > United States, ca. 1680, and settled in New Amsterdam (New York) and then > to Germantown, PA. > > This myth of French descent has often misled researchers and in fact all > of the above facts are not only documented but stored in the Dewees National > Archives in Philadelphia, PA. I have worked with the Dewees family in Jackson > County for many years, submitted data that was proven. > > ==== WVJACKSO Mailing List ==== > I am looking for old photographs of Jackson County residents and buildings that can be added to the Jackson County WVGenWeb pages. > If you have any to share, send them to Lshockey@citynet.net