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From: "Ronald Hagen" <>
Subject: [NYSUFFOL] Roll Call- Too Many Sarahs and Too Many Fithians
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:28:53 -0700

The Suffolk County Fithians seem to have had a thing about Sarahs in the
late seventeenth century. Samuel Fithian, son of William Fithian might have
married two Sarahs while his nephew Jonathan Fithian, son of Enoch, married
another. Moreover there are three candidates for these Sarahs. Peter
Norris' will indicates that his daughter Sarah married a Fithian and had
several children. Will indications also have Sarah Burnet, daughter of
Thomas Burnet's son Lot also marrying a Fithian. Additionally a Sarah Moore
is said to have married a Fithian though I have not seen summaries of the
documentation.

Three Sarahs and three Fithian marriages at about the same time would seem a
good match except that none of the Fithians has been named with specific
Sarahs. Children attributed to Sarah Norris and Samuel Fithian make it
likely that Sarah Norris was Samuel's first wife. The other two Sarahs
would have been married to Samuel or Jonathan Fithian at about the same
time. Sarah Burnet would have been the first cousin of Jonathan Burnet but
that would not have mattered much then.

Has anyone ever sorted this out. All three Sarahs have at one time or
another been attributed to Jonathan.

Ron Hagen

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>Subject: [NYSUFFOL] October Roll Call
>Date: Wed, Oct 4, 2000, 1:11 AM
>

> Hello everyone,
>
> October's roll call will focus on just one generation of your SUFFOLK COUNTY
> family. It will be a twofold project, including data and also a bit of
> 'color.'
>
> 1. Select a family -- husband, wife, and children -- and give whatever
> birth, marriage, or death dates and locations you may have for each one of
> them. (You may submit one for each of your Suffolk County families.)
>
> The second step is optional, but I hope you'll find it interesting.
>
> 2. Share with us what you have learned about this family. Have there been
> any stories passed down through the generations? You may choose one family
> member to feature, or the family in general. Has your research turned up
> clues to their daily lives? How were they affected by wars, the weather, or
> by the frequent and sometimes deadly epidemics? Did they live their entire
> lives on the same land where their parents had lived, or did they forge ahead
> on their own?
>
> This Roll Call is for the full month of October, so take your time and post
> when you're ready, but I do hope that each of you will participate. We all
> collect and record the names, dates, and places for our families, but the
> stories give them life!
>
> Don't forget to replace the subject line with the head of household of the
> family you choose to feature. I ask in advance for permission to place your
> Family Stories on the new SUFFOLK COUNTY webpage, along with the other
> accounts of early life in the county. In the happy event that you have
> photographs of the persons you feature, please send them to me OFFLIST and I
> will include them with your accounts.
>
> I will leave you with a thought to ponder...a hundred years from now, what
> will be the stories told about YOU? [gasp!]
>
> LaRae Halsey-Brooks
>
> Suffolk County listmgr.
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