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From: "Ruth L. Dunlap" <>
Subject: Re: SURNAME TOLLE__IN
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:46:32 -0500


Joan-
The old handwriting of the letter "s" had a tail making it look like an "f"
to us - if that helps any, but you may already be taking that into account.
An unfamiliar surname is often very hard to read.

Where did you get the 1733 account record? I am interested in getting
estate papers (Deakins) from 1744 (about the same time period). I wrote PG
Co. Court House as I thought they might have the loose papers (sometimes
called estate packets) but they tell me EVERYTHING is at the MD archives
Hall of Records in Annapolis.
Ruth in Illinois

-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Marie Meyering <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:55 AM
Subject: SURNAME TOLLE__IN


>OK, everyone, I am back at square one trying to figure out who was
>listed as WILLIAM HARBIN's next of kin in his final account in 1733.
>His oldest son, John Harbin, (aged 22), was one but the other is someone
>I have never even heard of, and that is the puzzle. It is James Villars
>TOLLE___IN (it looks like an "sc" written almost on top of each other,
>followed by an "f", then "in"). What would that be in 1733
>handwriting? TOLLEFSIN? Does anyone have that name in their line? The
>VILLARS part of it intrigues me no end - the last son (b 1731) has a
>middle name of Villers/Villiers/Villars/William too, but why we do not
>know. Some say it was after his mother's family, but I am skeptical,
>for one thing because there were other sons before him mothered by her.
>
>Comments, please.
>
>Joan Marie in Oregon
>
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