Need help merging Colonial Americans?

Emily Kent Marget

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I6674... Birth date looks estimated. Unlikely there’s a record or Mike Marshall would have cited it.

Emily also see https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/...

(Hynson biography)

DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth, who married (first name unknown) Rogers; Jane, who married Philip
Holeager; Mary, who married William Glanville; …

Private User - merging done around Capt. Joseph Louis Crockett

Private User

https://www.geni.com/list/ancestors/6000000003230786792?compare_id=6000000205739195943#4

Indeed big differences.

This I think needs to be picked apart.

Let’s try not to merge for now.

I found the match for the new Gedcom at Major Anderson

Deborah Ann TOWER - done. Good catch.

Deborah Ann TOWER

You refer to

Robert Tower & Dorithe ‘Dorothy’ Tower Parents of John Tower, Sr., of Hingham

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tower-4827 Shows Jonathan Tower who married Katherine as born 1602 in Cornwall, which is no where near Hingham, Norfollk, England.

How does that work?

Debbi, we have to be extra cautious and think through every so called record across countries.

Luckily, we do have a good historic handle on the English emigration to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620 - 1640), and most are documented, not only in vital records, but in scholarly studies published in peer reviewed journals. If you don’t see that kind of citation, or a published family study, you can presume its an amateur effort. And, those are only good if they meet the Genealogical Proof Standard:

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People didn’t move around in 1600 like we do now. And, it’s a red flag to see s child in a family settled in one place born in a county clear across the country.

The distance between Norfolk and Cornwall is 402 miles. Before cars and trains.

You are blessed with a common-enough surname, which suggests you need be extra careful to distinguish locations.

Private User - not match for https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000203938049086?return=match%3B&to=6000000000435831731 & James Briggs, Jr.

Private User - who is the father to be selected if merged? That’s why I left it. I tried some sourcing effort but I’m not sure. Are you?

Private User - I've posted the citations from the Manchester vital records to both James McCartney (marriage and children's records) and his son, William McCartney (birth and marriage).

Private User - I found the issue for William McCartney
His mother's death date was posted as her birth date. I've also fixed her relationships.

FamilySearch noted there were two different Anna Collins. The elder one was the mother in law of Jacob Goss who was tortured by Tories. So, we need to look closer at the Anna’s. I think the kids might still be different and we have date issues making the families look alike.

I think we should match FamilySearch for the family of

James G Briggs Sr
Male
1753 – 17 February 1833

And

Anna Catherina Collins
Female
19 April 1760 – 24 November 1807

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/collaborate/MS9T-PFL

There is uncertainty as to the parents of William, b. 1777. Others give his father as William Briggs, brother of James. Since the 1790 Rowan, NC census shows only three sons for James (James, 1779; Richard, 1783 and Joh…?

James Briggs Sr. (b. abt 1753 in Rowan Co., NC) married Anna Collins and lived along the Yadkin River area in NC, along with many Sarratt/Surratt neighbors. A number of these
neighbors moved from Davidson Co., NC, to Brown Co., about 1836-37, including John Sarratt, Samuel Briggs, John Briggs (and wife Constance Peacock), Elijah Lanier and wife Sarah
Sexton, and John Boss.

Later, several other families moved to Brown Co., including Henry Briggs, Samuel J. Peacoc k, Henry Clark Nothern, Calvin Hill, etc.

James and Anna Briggs had children:

James Jr., Richard, John Lemuel, and Philip, along with Sarah, Ann and Catherine. (It is speculated by one researcher that they also had three other children, as noted in census counts, but their names are not found at this time.)

(Note: We believe James Briggs' father was Thomas Briggs but can't prove it.) James Briggs Sr. stayed in Rowan Co., NC. as far as can be determined; at least he is not found in Brown Co. records yet.)

Gary Allen Singleton - in fact, I couldn’t find documentation on William A. Briggs but did on his (I presume) brother James G. Briggs, Sr. (see msg above, posted from https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/collaborate/MS9T-PFL)

I don’t know the children of William A, but do of James G. Briggs, Sr., and they include a James Briggs, Jr.

Your Elizabeth Brewer shows as only distantly connected, which probably means more work to be done. relationship path

Private User - two different Anna Collins seems to solve the Briggs merge request, at least for now.

Thanks, I’m so glad we all looked further.