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Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] query
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 21:46:07 +0000
John,
Evidence is strong that Amanda King d/o of John and Lucy King is a very likely candidate to be Laurence Piper's wife.
I stumbled on her a couple of days ago, while trying to eliminate the Maryland born Amanda's I mentioned earlier. The two also in Oldtown, Amanda Crabtree and Amanda Stallings were still living with their parents in 1860. That eliminated them as prospects. Then I widened the search to Amandas born in 1838 + or - 2 years and found Amanda King enumerated immediately after Laurence Piper's family. Checking the 1860 census showed John & Lucy King both born in Virginia and no Amanda living with them. So, she cannot be eliminated, yet.
This information (VA born parents & Amanda born in MD) is consistently reported by Laurence's wife in succeeding census data.
On the other hand, Amanda Cresap, d/o James Cooper Cresap, reported to have been born in Hardy County VA, removed to OH by the time she was 2 years old. There is no evidence that she ever came to MD. Though I cannot prove beyond and doubt that Amanda Cresap married James Piper, born in England, all the bits and pieces of evidence discovered point strongly in that direction. James came to Licking County OH with his father in 1840 and is enumerated there with his father in 1840 & 1850. Like his father he is a saddler. Licking County partially boarders on Coshocton County, where James Cooper Cresap settled.
Though James Piper & Amanda Cresap were not from the same town in OH, the likelyhood that they would meet each other seems greater than the chance meeting of Oldtown's Laurence and Ohio raised Amanda Cresap.
Don't you just love searching out the possibilities????
Carol
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