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From: "Carey Bracewell" <>
Subject: [BRASWELL] Correction
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 05:16:31 -0500

Dear Listers,

I wish to correct an error in my E-mail last Saturday (12 May 01): as
Cousin Randy kindly pointed out, ZEBULON LEWIS's widow was named "Jane", not
"Alice" {IW Wills & Accounts, Vol. 4, 1733-1745, pp. 215-216}. Thanks,
Randy, for the reminder that the worst notes are still better than the best
memory <g>.

Patent and deed evidence still confirm ALICE as the wife of JOHN
BRACEWELL, SR. (b.c. 1690). Still undetermined is whether it was JOHN SENIOR
or JUNIOR who married ZEB LEWIS's widow, JANE. By the time the LEWIS account
current was rendered (22 Feb 1741/42; Ibid., p. 398) JOHN 149 would have
been at least in his early 50's. Considering the short life expectancy of
his times, JOHN 149 would have been lucky to still be alive in 1742, let
alone spry enough to take on another wife. But late marriages did occur--
my ggg-gf RICHARD 145412 for instance remarried at age 83.

We don't know when ALICE died. A hint that she may have expired in the
Winter of 1734-35 is appended to BRASWELL to COBB {IW DB 4, pp. 379-380} in
which ALICE appointed her "well beloved friend", THOMAS JARRELL, to
acknowledge the deed in her stead on 22 Nov 1734.

Randy raised the question of BRACEWELL vs BRASWELL. Colonial records
show BRASWELL had become the dominant spelling by 1700. Therefore most
researchers accept the convention of using "Bracewell" for the first two
American generations, "Braswell" thereafter. A study I did years ago turned
up that at least 85% of Rev. ROBERT BRACEWELL's lineal descendants still go
by "Braswell".

Carey

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