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Started by Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 on Thursday, March 3, 2022
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Some years ago, I read material dealing with one branch of the descendands of Randolph Hunnicutt (1747-1833/4) in which some buttons had been passed down from generation to generation. The story was that these buttons had been on the uniform of Randolph Hunnicutt as a Major during the Revolutionary War. Randolph Hunnicutt has never been found to have had military service during the American Revolution. He is established as a Revolutionary War Patriot because of civil service in Cumberland Co., NC. His father-in-law, Thomas Collins, suddenly becomes much less of a figure in Cumberland Co., NC, politics about the same time MAJOR THOMAS COLLINS appears in the local militia. Could the "heirloom buttons" in this one branch of the family have actually belonged to Thomas Collins? Is anyone familiar with this story? Does anyone know in which branch of the family the buttons descended? Thanks for any help.

Michael Motes
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This Randolph Honeycutt/Hunnicutt has been confirmed by Honeycutt researchers as belonging to DNA Markers: R-M26

"It is documented that his father is John John Hunnicutt, Sr who was a son of Augustine Hunnicutt (1677-1743) Augustine Hunnicutt and Phoebe Crews (1677-1719) Phoebe Hunnicutt of Surry County, Virginia.
So far there is no Y-DNA test that proves Augustine is the next in this paternal line."
~ T Honeycutt
February 2022

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087
Re the buttons - I descend from his brother, John, so the buttons would not have come through my line (too bad - it would be awesome to find them!). John's daughter Hulda married John Elbert Carroll, and the name "Hulda(h)" was a family name until recently.

I am interested in the DNA, though Augustine would have been 9 generations back so I doubt there is any, or at least not much. Is there a place we can see if we have a connection? I'm on MyHeritage, familytreedna, and 23andMe, plus also uploaded to Gedmatch CH1471615.
-V. Austin (valaustin01@yahoo.com)

Hi, Valerie Austin
As I noted on my Geni profile, Honeycutt is my BIGGEST batch of DNA matching cousins.
I ran our 23&me Gedmatch kits and we are not closely related so it won't show at a commercial company but if you get used to comparing with CLOSE KNOWN Honeycutt cousins, you SHOULD be able to come up with a SNP that is representative of YOUR Honeycutts.
There are a few participators of the Y DNA project from FtDNA here on Geni. There are a few different Y haplo groups so that is a bit disappointing but is helpful in mapping the tree.
For ME, I have done DNA since about 2017 and soon discovered my Honeycutt cousins are matching me on a specific segments of two chromosomes-- 8 and 16.
Everyone gets TWO copies of each chromosome so you will need to discover which is copy 1 and which is copy 2. One from each parent.
Since you and I are not showing as a DNA match even when I lower the threshold to /5, I did a Match Both Kits.
Our second top DNA match is someone I know to be a Honeycutt. So this is promising :)

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087
Hi Cynthia,
Oh that IS promising. I'm traveling right now and all my dna logins are on my home computer so it will be a week or so before I can take a look - I'm not great at figuring out the DNA SNPs and connections but our common match is decent enough news for me since I am 9 generations removed. Actually, my dna seems to match up to records in every line in multiple directions, with only one mystery and that about 6 generations back. Rather boring, actually, lol.

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