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Comment by William Douglas on March 15, 2015 at 14:47

Patti, that is very interesting.

You might light to look at this Saunders Family History

Comment by William Douglas on March 15, 2015 at 14:35

Russell,

Is Judith Moorman's husband John Bruce Douglas (1698-1761)?

Comment by Patti Oldham Pinkley on March 15, 2015 at 14:04

I just rediscovered a letter from James C. Douglass to his first cousin, Hannah Douglass Saunders from the mid 19th century. They are all Douglass's of Mordington of Delaware and Virginia, now West Virginia.
His letter provides information on the Douglass's of Nova Scotia.
From that info I realized that the connection is through Sir Robert Douglass of Glenbervie and his son William, 2nd Baron of Glenbervie and Baron of Nova Scotia. The James Douglass mentioned in the James C. Douglass letter appears to be Sir William's first cousin, James Douglas/s 1st Lord Mordington, son of Sir William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus, and Elizabeth Oliphant. Sir William Douglas, 11th Earl of Angus, 1st Marquis Douglas was his older brother.
James C. says in this letter that James Douglas/Douglass came to America with William Penn in 1682 and formed an ironwork partnership called Douglass, Vaughn and McMooter In Philadelphia.
James C.'s father, Walter, bought an iron mill in Delaware and renamed it Mordington Mills after the family's ancestral Scottish home of Mordington.
James C. was in possession of a family crest with "Jamais Arriere" which he said was of the Scott-Douglass family who owned large estates in Nova Scotia. Their Douglas ancestry (Douglass name was the American version to distinguish between themselves and their Scots family) "being through Sir William Douglas espoused to the daughter of James Douglas" whom he styled as Baron of Ardit "who died 1660-1685 during the reign of Charles the 2nd".
The Sir William mentioned appears to be the 2nd of Glenbervie who married Anne Douglas, the daughter of James Douglas of Stoneypath and Ardit, who became one of the 1st barons of Nova Scotia on May 30, 1685.
This letter is an original document copied and a part of a genealogical book on the Saunders Family of North America. Later another portion of the Canadian family went on to Australia.
I rediscovered all of this information because of a new free website providing access to over 40,000 genealogy books, gengophers.com.

Comment by Bob Henry on December 24, 2014 at 12:58

Hey, Russell, you've been busy with this one!

Have a nice Christmas,

Bob.

Comment by William Douglas on October 15, 2014 at 15:08

link to Tennessee family bibles: http://tnsos.net/TSLA/Bibleproject/search.php?keyword=&surname=...
There appear to be 7 bibles listed

Comment by Patti Oldham Pinkley on April 29, 2012 at 16:07

I had know a bit of this previously. I have info on James Douglas named surveyor in PA. I just have to figure out how to send a link to actual archive pages.

Comment by Bob Henry on April 28, 2012 at 18:26

Good stuff, Russell, keep 'em coming!

Bob.

Comment by Deborah Ann Hill-Hampton on March 2, 2012 at 0:19

I have ancestry I can help if needed

Comment by Lane Kraft on August 3, 2011 at 8:10

I am a descendent of the John Douglas mentioned in the book "Douglas Genealogy: The Descendants of John Douglas of Middleborough, Massachusetts: Douglas Nobility of Scotland" by Joseph Lufkin Douglas (it is free to download if you are curious, it is now public domain). Whether or not we are actually linked to Douglas nobility is still a question for me as he does not actually mention who John Douglas's father is. However, he was supposedly kidnapped and brought to the U.S. in approximately 1707 where he lived in Boston, and later when to live in Middleborough, Massachusetts.

Comment by Deborah Ann Hill-Hampton on March 2, 2011 at 17:43

My family made it to nova Scotia but I haven't figured out how they ended up incalifornia and Texas. Still working on it. Debby Hampton from douglas and drysdale names

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