At 01:37 PM 10/1/01 -0400, Chuck Liebow wrote:
>Interested in your Abigail Adams reference. Do you know of any proof
>Benjamin's Abigail was an Adams?????? We are still to my knowledge without
>any sure knowledge of her lineage.
You are absolutely correct. I was too hasty in identifying this Benjamin
and didn't notice I have alternate names for the spouse of "Abigail
Thompson" and "Abigail Goodwin". All three are just suggestions from web
correspondence; no proof that I know of.
But it sounds like
I recently picked up a copy of Samuel Eliot Morison's "The Story of Mount
Desert Island" (Little, Brown and Co., 1980). I'll attach the information
in it on Bunkers below. This would appear to be the family of Benjamin
Bunker, b. 1710 at Oyster River (the Louisburg veteran), who married
Abigail Adams.
Dave Larkin
From "Story of Mt. Desert Island" by Samuel Eliot Morison:
Captain William Owen RN, founder of the settlement on Campabello Island,
New Brunswick, wrote an amusing account of a cruise to M
Dear Dave and All Interested Bunkers,
Please note that Abigail's surname is not established. There are at
least two ancestral lineages attributed to her, and we (the BFA) haven't
been able to make certain which one is correct.
Benjamin is Dover branch 3rd generation (James2, James1).
Thanks, Dave, for posting this.
Mary-Gene Page
Dave Larkin wrote:
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> I recently picked up a copy of Samuel Eliot Morison's "The Story of Mount
> Desert Island" (Little, Brown and Co., 1980). I'll attach the information
For what it is worth, My Father and his Father always said They were" Penn.
Dutch Quakers" My Quaker surnames in PA are Hiett/Hiatt and Beeson ---
Woolman.
Kate Kellum Billett snooks1@frontiernet.net
-said his Mother always said they were
>Pennsylvania Dutch.
> I would appreciate any information you may have.
> Dorothy Schoenthal - e-mail dotirv@webtv.net
> Thank you. Dorothy Schoenthal.
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Forwarded to the list by Suzanne Bunkers:
I have been reading your papers on the Bunker family history. I am
interested because I have Bunkers in our family.
My Mother-in-Law was Mary Bessie Bunker born in Walnut, Iowa. Her
father was Nathan Bunker born 1851. Her grandfather was Andrew Melville
Bunker born in 1818 in Clarion County, PA. He was married to a Sarah
Howe.
The family had been in Blue Grass, Iowa but marriages put them in Sac
City, Iowa (northwest Iowa)
If you have run into any of