Re: Joshua Stockstill - Natchez District, MS, the Missouri Terr., Kentucky, LA.
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Re: Joshua Stockstill - Natchez District, MS, the Missouri Terr., Kentucky, LA.
susan tucker 3/03/07
Hi Susan,
We have correponded before. I'm Joshua & (Mary)LaviniaKnight> Thomas & Harriet Virgina Warden> Benjamin & Rachel Varnado> David Quitman & Josephine Medora Burge> Elizabeth Aletha & Charles Thomas Lee. (Mary) Lavinia (I can't get used to calling her Mary as her mother called her Lavinia in her deposition & I've seen her as Lavinia in some church records) was daughter of Elizabeth Betsy Harper & John Knight, Sr. Elizabeth's first husband. Elizabeth Harper Knight married Matthew Sims in Madison Co.,KY & they & their blended families migrated down the Mississippi to Natchez & from there to St. Helena Parish, LA where Matthew had a Spanish Land grant. The Harper family was connected to the settlers who followed Boone from NC to KY. The Harpers & Knight came originally from Prince William Co., VA. John & Peter Harper were among the first group of men to help build Ft. Boonesborough. The Sims family did own a schooner which sailed from the north shore of Lake Pontchatrain across to New Orleans & on to Pensacola in what was then West Florida & back carrying cargo & passengers.
Marcie
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Re: Joshua Stockstill - Natchez District, MS, the Missouri Terr., Kentucky, LA.
Linda Taylor 5/27/09