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From: Saundra Brown <>
Subject: [MDSTMARY] Barack Obama is kin to the Tarletons and Duvalls ofSouthern MD, KTY, England
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:58:42 -0700 (PDT)


Barack Obama is kin to

Anne Roselle Philemona Tarleton, daughter of James Tarleton and Anne Henning.

James Tarleton, son of George and Jane Tarleton

George Tarleton, son of John Tarleton of Hallwood, England.

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Jacob Duvall and Mary Miles

Mareen Duvall and Elizabeth Jacob

Mareen Duvall is Obama's 9xGreat grandfather who was a French Protestant called Huguenots who fled his homeland sometime around 1650 to escape religious persecution from Catholics and the French Crown. After a stay in England, he settled in maryland changing his name along the way to Duvall. Mareen Duvall is also the link between Barack Obama and Harry S Truman (Duvall is Truman's 9th great grandfather as well; and Barack Obama and Vice President Dick Cheney. Duvall is Cheney's 8th great grandfather.

"No more striking figure in colonial history is found than the personal achievements of this fleeing immigrant," J.D. Warfield wrote in The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland (1905). "He came as one of the one hundred and fifty adventurers, brought over by Colonel William Burgess. He settled near Colonel Burgess, in Anne Arundel County, on the south side of South River and became one of the most successful merchants and planters of that favored section."

Mareen Duvall Sr.'s great-grandson, John Miles Duvall, had a pretty adventurous life himself.
He served in the Revolutionary War. And, after that, he traded along the Atlantic Coast, but met his end at the hands of pirates in 1787, according to Kentucky: A History of the State (1887).
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Saundra Brown

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