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From: Nathaniel Taylor <>
Subject: Re: English origin of Mrs. Jane Poole (nee Greene) ofTaunton-Dorchester-Boston
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:39:16 GMT
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In article <>,
"John Brandon" <> wrote:


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> I think these facts together almost certainly prove the ancestry of
> Mrs. Jane Poole of New England.

Agreed; and her armigerous status too (named as a child in the
visitation record signed by her own father). Wherever the ancestry may
lead (or not), she's a ripe candidate for inclusion in the NEHGS 'Roll
of Arms' of armigerous immigrants. Her husband made it into the roll
long ago (he is no. 57) but more recently-identified seventeenth-century
women are being added now (e.g. Anne Derehaugh Stratton of Salem). I've
compiled a surname index to the existing published roll and am working
on an on-line index with basic identifying details. Once this is
available online (maybe sometime next spring) it would be nice to go
back over some of what has been posted here on seventeenth-century
American immigrants (especially your posts, John) and see who can be
added to the roll. It would be interesting if the roll could turn into
an authoritative list of known armigerous folk who made it to New
England or to Virginia before (say) the Revolution. Most of them will
still not have traceable medieval ancestries, but they would form an
interesting prosopographical cadre. I expect that most of the 200-odd
early American immigrants with known medieval ancestry are also known
armigers or had an armigerous mother or grandmother. I wonder just how
much the two groups (armigers & those with known medieval descents) will
overlap.

Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net

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