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Which Douglas line are you researching? Dates and places help making connections.
Abigail Douglass who was married to James Lewis,
and lived in Ohio.
Who is your earliest known Douglas ancestor?
do not know exactly quite yet

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At 22:25 on May 20, 2015, William Douglas said…

There has been some discussion about this on Donna Wasser's page

Betsy, your post had not made it through the system when I posted mine or I would have worded it differently! You obviously dispute the Mordecai Mitchell theory!

I have since discovered that Alexander had a will. Aaron and Abigail are not listed. He had 5 children, 3 sons (John, Matthew, and Thomas) and 2 girls, Elizabeth and Nancy. 
Alexander Douglas wrote the Will and dated it 31 Jul 1800.

At 20:23 on May 20, 2015, William Douglas said…

OK!

Your Abigail Douglass is quite well documented as far as her descendants are concerned.

Abigail Douglass b: 1747 in Black River Pond, Morris, New Jersey, USA married abt 1770 James Lewis b: NOV 1747 in New Jersey, USA

There appears to be some debate about her ancestors.

??? Mordecai Mitchell Douglass, born sometime between 1694 and 1730 and his wife Mary had two sons, John and Alexander.

John is said to have been born on 18th March 1764 and died on 31st January 1882 and Alexander is said to have been born about 1730 in Scotland

So, clearly something is not quite right!

Legend also has it that three brothers inherited a farm too small to support three, so they drew lots; the losers boarded a ship for America in the 1730s. The losers have been named as Alexander or Mordecai Douglass. Maybe both?

John apparently married Elizabeth (Betsy) Ford, born circa 1764 in Surry, North Carolina, United States and died in 1815

Alexander is reputedly the father of Aaron Douglass Abigail Douglass, who married James Lewis. James's sister Pheobe Lewis married Aaron Douglass

It would be god to get a definitive answer to this.

At 19:54 on May 20, 2015, Betsey Heath Howes said…

Hi Dorene,

Abigail Douglass and James Lewis are my gr x 4 grandparents.   Our cousin Mark D has done a DNA test that links us to William (1610) of New London's line.   My line is Abigail Douglass b 1747 and James Lewis b abt 1746 s of Levi, Anna Lewis m James Briant, Lydia Bryant m Jacob Mitchell, Mary Mitchell m John Perry Lewis (they were third cousins), Charles Pumphrey Lewis m Fern Pratt, Mary Imogene Lewis my grmo. Proposed Douglas/s ancestry for Abigail b 1747 Chester NJ, Aaron b 1753 and Sarah b 1755 (sibs) is William b 1710 New London wife unknown, William b 1666 and Hannah LNU, Robert b 1639 and Mary Hempstead, William b 1610 and Anne Motley.

Betsey Howes

At 18:59 on May 20, 2015, William Douglas said…

Welcome to our group, Dorene,

Are you able to put any dates to Abigail or James Lewis? It might help place them in someone else's family tree.

Yours aye,

William

 
 
 

Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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