First up is the original will of Jacob Huggins, Sr. Things to look for: 1) his wife is mentioned a few times. Her name is Mary. 2) Jacob signs by mark. As has already been mentioned in the posting of one of Jacob's deeds., the Jacob Huggins from Onslow Co was literate. 3) One of the executors (and he is also a witness to the will) is John Campbell. Sutton Ward's son, Thomas, died seven years after the date of this will--John Campbell was made the guardian of his two children.
Next is the original marriage bond for Jacob Huggins Jr and Susanna Ward from the Caswell Co, NC records. Worth noting is the man who co-bonded the wedding. This is not the elder John Ward who first came into Orange Co--he always signed by mark. Also, we know from court and estate records that Sutton's son, John, had died prior to Feb 28, 1816. So this is not him, either. That leaves only the John Ward who married Linney Compton in 1809 (the bond on this wedding was Sutton Ward).
When you say Jacob Huggins of orange and Jacob Huggins of Onslow who were the wives of these men? I am getting confused. I have Jacob Douglas Huggins who married Susanna Ward, Jacob Huggins Jr who married Salomey "Sally" Roberts, and Jacob Huggins Sr who married Frances Cooper. I am trying to decide who we are talking about in each.
ReplyDeleteOh and it's possible that the Jacob who married "Sally" married Mary Acres 3 years later or that it is another Jacob all together. It should be noted that I have 5 DNA matches with my MRCA being Luke Huggins and his wife Nelly. who were the parents of Jacob Sr who married Frances Cooper. At least if this turns out not to be the case I will be very confused indeed.
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ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned in another comment, my apologies for not having been around for the last few weeks due to family health issues.
I'd first of all like to thank you for reminding me of the Mary Acres thing. I'd forgotten all about it. I now have someone who is (hopefully) going to pull the original wedding bond for that marriage. I kept looking for Huggins wedding bonds in Orange Co with every spelling variation I could think of. Your reminding me helped me finally find it--turns out it's indexed as Jacob "Haggans." The bondsman was Stephen Hart who is from a well known Orange Co family.
Since there is seems to be a fair amount of DNA 'opposition' to the actual paper trail, I suppose that the best thing for me to do is work up another full posting where I recap everything and then go into the DNA stuff.
In the meantime, if any Huggins descendents would like to send the DNA results they have, I realize that our email addy just isn't showing. So:
Our email is: the name of this blog, but just make sure to link all three words together into one, @gmail.com.
I will say this: any company who names a specific person as the MRCA is not doing you any favors. DNA genealogy deals in probabilities, not specifics.
Kevin
Well here is how I figure ancestryDNA does the MCRA links. Since they have the power of the trees (which I know can have errors and maybe all my matches and I used the same misinformation to lead us to Luke Huggins.) (side note: What we need is to trace to someone really descended from the Luke Huggins lines and see if we match them) anyway they use the power of the trees to suggest MCRA. So I get my actual DNA matches and it compares our trees to hit at who our MCRA are. Not every match has that hint but I have about 30-40 that do out of my hundreds of matches. On Gedmatch alone I have over 40,000 matches and that will take a LOT of analyzing. My parents tested with 23 and me and I used AncestryDNA and transfered my results to ftdna. Wish now that I had just re-tested but it was cheaper to transfer.
ReplyDeleteCourtney--To say that the Trees 'can have errors' is a bit like saying that a full bathtub 'has some drops of water in it.' (Sorry, couldn't resist ;) ).
ReplyDeleteWhile I don't want to get into all this publicly--at least, not at this time--suffice it to say that in all the years Steve and I have been arduously researching and documenting lines (both our own and others) we have yet to encounter a single tree that was accurate. Sure, there have been a handful that got sorta close (but still generally contained glaring errors that usually resulted in the line eventually spiraling off into "Never-Never Land"), but a really accurate tree is the rarest animal in the forest.
Your mileage may vary.
For me, I tend to ask myself a question based on my own experience with them: "What good is something so potentially elegant as autosomal DNA testing when it is paired with what is the most inaccurate assemblage of information I've ever personally encountered?"
Still, from your recent comments, I can see that you are approaching all this with great caution and wisdom--so it will be interesting to see what you find out! Please keep us informed. Thanks.