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From: "Joy" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Townsends, Purnells, Marshalls...
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:31:34 -0500
References: <976077.18361.qm@web52009.mail.yahoo.com><004801c73708$1bb325e0$0c00a8c0@Terri>


Would you have any info on a RILEY that
married a PURNELL?
Thank you,
Joy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Teresa Metz" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [LDR] Townsends, Purnells, Marshalls...


>I have my Worcester County Purnell information in front of me. Who are you
> looking for in particular? I have a bunch of stuff. My Grandfather was
> William Alton Purnell and I can trace back to William Purnell in England
> (father of Thomas 1619-1694 who came to America in 1635). There is a HUGE
> amount of information in the Snow Hill Library. It is all documented
> (bibles, family prayer books, etc). There is also book which shows where
> the
> old plantations stood with directions to houses, graves, etc. If this is
> your line I can snail mail you what I have if you wish. Just send me an
> email with your address. I also have Townsends on the other side of my
> family and am always looking for more info on that line. I haven't really
> dug deep there yet.
>
> teresa
>
> looking for Crockett, Lynch, Adams, Parkinson and a host of others
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marsami Millonzi" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:03 PM
> Subject: [LDR] Townsends, Purnells, Marshalls...
>
>
>> Is anyone tracing these surname [Townsend/Townsen, Purnell,
>> Marshal/Marshall] lines???? I am working on all three and then some. I
>> could use some assistance.
>> Thanks,
>> Marsi
>> Riverside,CA
>>
>> wrote:
>> In a message dated 1/12/2007 11:12:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>> writes:
>>> This discussion has been purely about the latter...i.e., NOT Rehoboth,
>>> DE
>>
>> n a message dated 1/12/2007 11:12:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>> writes:
>>> This discussion has been purely about the latter...i.e., NOT Rehoboth,
>>> DE
>>
>> Just as a matter of adding a tidbit to the significance of Rehoboth (on
>> the
>> Pocomoke) in Somerset history, it was the original homesite of Col.
>> William
>> Stevens - one of the most visible and active of the founding fathers of
>> the
>> county. He obtained the survey on 18 Jul 1665 for 1000 acres titled
>> REHOBOTH,
>> patented for him on 20 Feb 1665/6, "on the north side of and by the
>> Pocomoke
>> River side in Pungateegue Fields". As time went on, of course, it became
>> the site
>> of Rehoboth Town and Coventry Parish Church.
>>
>> As John Polk points out, Stevens, whatever his own persuasion, was
>> egalitarian on religious matters, having encouraged the Ulster
>> immigration
>> in the early
>> 1680s.
>>
>> His warrant rights for this 1000 ac are themselves fascinating: "to
>> William
>> Stevens for transporting himself and Elizabeth Stevens his wife, Thomas
>> Phillips and Robert Moore (200 ac) + 250 ac by assignment from Richard
>> Whitty for
>> transport of Richard White et ux. Elizabeth White, Ann Fisher, George
>> Phebus and
>> Patience Locker + 550 ac by assignment of Ann Hack, widow, for transport
>> of
>> Jacob Cloyse, William Clarke, Thomas Dab, John Seaman, William Seaman,
>> Simon
>> Carpe, Elizabeth Lent, Paul Sereeke, Morgan Abraham, James Fereby and Ann
>> German".
>>
>> Several of the folks on this list were among the well-known ancient
>> actors
>> in
>> Somerset, along with a bunch of surely indentured servants, etc.
>>
>> John
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