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From: Sutliff <>
Subject: Re: Hardy line (?)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:54:55 +0000


Clarence Morris wrote:

> > Here is what I have (but I have found a few mistakes so am still researching)
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > Richard hardy "Esq"
> > born 1567/1577
> > Place Wetwang, East Riding, Yorkshire, England
> > Death 1645 @ Isle of Wright Co. Virgina. U.S.A
> > married Alice Wilson
> > born 12 Jan 1588 @ Shillington, Bedfordshire, England
> > Alices father was Robert Wilson
> > children.
> >
> > 1. Richard Hardy JR.
> > born 1604 married Sarah Mayo
> > Died 14 April 1655 at Isle of Wright, VA
> > 2. Thomas hardy
> > born 1606
> <snip>
> >
> > Generation 8
> >
> > Thomas Hardy
> > born 1605/6@ Westmoreland Co. England
> > died 4 Jan 1678 @ Bradford,essex Co. Mass
> > married Lydia 1634
> >
> > Thomas hardy came from England and was one of the twelve men specially chosen
> > by Govenor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633 to settle a
> > plantation at Agawan (now Ipswich)
> > This is all that I have found and have gotten this from websites and from
> > other researchers on the Hardy family.
> > I know to alot of people this doesn't sound much but it is more then what I
> > started out with and I am hoping with
> > the kindness of people especially in England that I can correct, fill in
> > blanks and find new information.
> > It has only been the last few years since I found my family and we are trying
> > to find a history .
> > Thankyou all for listening.
> > Sharon

<snip>

Thanks very much for sending the additional information by priavte email which you
have found on the internet. Sadly none of this changes any of the facts. That part
of what you sent which appears in Wurts changes nothing as it is a flawed work.

Your gateway ancestor is Thomas Hardy of Ipswich, Rowley and Bradford. His
biography can be found in _The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England
1620 - 1633_ by Robert Charles Anderson, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 1995) volume II, pp. 858-61.

His ancestry is UNKNOWN. That he is shown as a son of a Virginia family has no
foundation with known facts. All of this other ancestry, correct or incorrect, is
not relevant.

In addition to the above, please consult _The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway
1844 - 1916_ by Dean Crawford Smith (Boston, 1990) pp. 280-8. This gives a complete
account of Thomas Hardy.

Good luck,

Henry Sutlif

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