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Date Posted: 22:16:24 01/02/12 Mon
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Post 297 A: An Internet Falsehood correction, 01/02/12.
Searching for information on the Scarboroughs on the internet I happened upon a site, http://scarboroughgenealogy.org/Scarborough3.html, by Cynthia McDaniel.
I found on this site a "Special Note" regarding Mary Littleton. According to someone who had e-mailed Mrs. Daniel on the net "Mary Littleton...married Gilbert Jones,II" and not Col. Edmund Scarborough.
They included this:
"That this is correct is shown by an application dated 28 Fed 1633/34 by Mary Jones for a grant of administration dbn on the estate of her father Sir Edward Littleton of Henley, Salop [PCC Act Books]."
I went to the Huntsville, Alabama Public Library, Genealogical Section today, January 02, 2012. Indeed they do have this "PCC Act Books]. It's 'American Wills & Administration in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1857', Compiled by Peter Wilson Coldham.
I asked the librarian about the books the "[PCC Act Books]" might be. She looked on the computer and said "we have it under Reference H929.3." She showed me the books.
I looked in the index for "Jones, Mary" and "Littleton", any Littleton. I found only one Littleton on page 127.
It read as follows:
"Graham, John, of Charles Town, South Carolina, bachelor. Probate to William Littleton. (May 1755)."
Under the index for "Jones, Mary" I found only one reference. It was on page 83. It read as follows:
"Davis, John, of H.M. ship Sea Horse, who died in Boston, New England. Probate to Evan Jones with similar powers reserved to his wife, Mary Jones.(Feb.1725)."
That is all! That's all there was! I have paper copies I made so I could prove it. On the web site I mentioned there was a reference also to the "Shropshire Archaeloogical Society, Series 4, Vol. III, Part 2 (1913), p.307." The librarian looked it up for me and wouldn't you know it, the oldest that exists of that reference here in the good ol' U.S.A. is at the University of Florida. It goes back to the 1920s addition. To get the 1913 you have to go to England. It seems someone went to a great deal of trouble to try and disinherit the Scarborough descendent from there true bloodline.
It seem the book 'Southern Kith and Kin', by by Jewell Davis Scarborough, (C)1957, is probably the most correct.
It reads:
"2. Col. Edmond Scarborough, 1 the second son of Captain Edmond and Hannah Butler Scarborough, came to America with his father. He married Mary Littleton, 2 daughter of Col. Nathaniel Littleton, in England, and patented vast tracts of land in Virginia."
I hope this corrects this mistake someone made accidentally or intentionally.
End Post 297 A: www.voy.com/40560/, teltalheart=Michael D. Barnes
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