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Susannah Green
The real Susannah Grigg was married to Lewis Burwell Green II. This is a duplicate, attached to the wrong husband.

Jon Arnon\
Susannah Green
moved to correct husband

John William Riddle

and

John William Riddle

Marcella: That 'chain' of needed merges is done.

Thanks Dan Cornett!

Bumping discussion to the top

Abigail Wadsworth has 2 full sets of parents.

Henry Andrews, of Taunton & Mary Andrews were added today.

Thanks for the help in correcting.

Abigail also has data conflicts.

A good way to get genealogy errors corrected.

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From https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/2Y1L-T77?cid=partn...

Abigail Andrews was NOT the the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Andrews. This was an error made by an early historian which has been resolved. The first clue is that Joseph Andrews did not name her in his will.

Abigail Andrews b 1646/7 in Taunton MA and who married in 1667 John Wadsworth of Duxbury was the daughter of Henry and Mary Andrews of Taunton and was named in her father's will.

See
https://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2007/20070619037he/20070...

I have also written the owner of the Find a Grave memorial and asked for a correction

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So the new entry is correct, it seems.

And now we need to identify the parents of Abigail Tisdale

Fixed Abigail Tisdale - she was a generation off (daughter of the next Henry)

Holy cow Erica Howton.

Thanks for all of the fixes.

She is Fantastic ---- We should call her Flash

Thank you, it gets easier the more you do it.

Edward Woodman, of Newbury has data conflicts. Unfortunately, If I contact the curator, I will not get a response. (Grrr)

Emily Kent Marget Done.

Thanks, Erica Howton

Capt. Thomas Stoughton - his "about" says he married Dorothy Talcott (Dorothy Stoughton) as his first wife and had a child.

I would do the add of Dorothy to Thomas as his wife except she has a husband with similar last name (Stroughton vs Stoughton) and her husband has parents. Also, Thomas's father is an MP.

Emily Kent Marget fixed. There were multiple small errors. Thank you for calling attention.

Elizabeth Reed has data conflicts on locked fields.

Emily Kent Marget Done.

I need more eyes on this problem.

Ens. George Sanders

I think there’s not enough George’s.

Savage wrote: “Very much confusion to this name exists, and it may not be wholly dissipat. by reducing two Georges to one.”

Erica Howton - Thanks so much for the fixes.

Do we have evidence supporting George Sanders, of Simsbury as a son of Ens. George Sanders ?

I uploaded the probate package documents and I just don’t know.

Mary Elizabeth Platt has 2 husbands in the "tree" but the source only has her with one.
Thanks for the help in clearing this issue on the "tree".

Emily Kent Marget Fixed

Erica Howton - Thanks for the fix. Happy Turkey Day!

This profile has a data conflict, due to different dates of death. I did a search on Ancestry. There are no documents, only trees.

Two of the trees have the year of death as 1826.

One tree has 1792.

Another tree has 1754.

DAR has 1800. http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?act...

The tree conflict has 1800 and 1826.

Google didn't turn up anything either.

Thoughts on what date to use?

William McIntosh, Jr.

I've recently had reason to explore the colonial tree of Massachusetts, and I discover that many profiles have unexpected and/or unsupportable places of birth and death. It's not clear exactly where these come from, but they are certainly quite inconsistent in web trees as well.

For example: Daniel Sumner

Daniel seems to have started his family in Princeton MA before moving to Halifax VT at some point, but web trees are little help because they're all over the place, and even have some of his kids born in Connecticut. Does anyone know anything about this family, and its ancestors?