[or-roots] MELVIN LINE and a Dow offer

[glenkc7mbm at comcast.net]

I do not remember off hand on the info Les had sent, I am thinking there was a name change in the Melvin line,and there are several William Melvin with uncomplete data, that I have not had time to check on at the Genealogical Society Library and unfortuneatly we do not have much on Nova Scotia at out CCGS Library, May get a chance Saturday to check some things as I am Librarian that day.
Glen

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Glen A. Jones

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From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net> 

> Eugene; 
> 
> I just went poking around to further study whether we are linked, 
> 
> http://www.petteefamily.org/allfam/b53.html#P2801 
> 
> traces your line back to; 
> 
> William Melville 306 died UNKNOWN. 
> Spouse: Florence. Children were: Robert Melville. 
> 
> Interestingly enough I had thought we had a Robert Melville in our line, but 
> I don't have him. One of the theories is that my Melvin line is actually 
> Melville, from house of Melville in Scotland, and one of the ancestors did 
> supposedly changed his name to Melville in the 18th century. 
> 
> Actually, I just checked and his name change was imposed; 
> 
> Melvin 244090a JOSIAH JR. MELVILLE: BIRTH: Groups of Palmer Families 
> (Melvin Line), by Emily Wilder Leavitt, also in Vital Records of Concord 
> Massachusetts. According to this book his name was changed by the NH 
> Legislature to Melville, the original form of the present Melvin. 
> PARENTS: PALMER GROUPS by Leavitt 
> 
> This name change also applied to children. 
> 
> * * * * * * 
> 
> you might want to check out; 
> http://www.espl.org/mearscol/pagendxs/simpson/fowndx.htm#Melvin 
> 
> and 
> 
> http://www.espl.org/mearscol/pagendxs/simpson/d40972.htm 
> 
> there is some info on Avra and his wife's family there, though it is a 
> little suspect since the same family group is listed as being 5th through 
> eigth generation?? 
> 
> I was looking for William in my family tree and the first one we have is 
> born in Nova Scotia about 1798. 
> 
> I searched HQ books for more info on your folks and got sidetracked by 
> chasing one of MY Samuel Melvins, which led me to spend half an hour 
> downloading pages from a book only to discover I had downloaded almost the 
> whole book last year sometime, then I wandered off on my French line because 
> I ran across another of my Samuels in "the book of Dow" which if anyone out 
> there has Dows I am willing to ATTEMPT to locate them in the book; 
> 
> Dow, Robert Piercy, 
> The book of Dow : genealogical memoirs of the descendants of Henry Dow 1637, 
> Thomas Dow 1639 and others of the name, immigrants to America during 
> Colonial times, also the allied family of Nudd 
> Claremont, N.H.: R.P. Dow, 1929, 1012 pgs. 
> 
> Robert breaks his arm patting himself on the back for his wonderful 
> organizationa improvisation where Samuel's wife is listed as adgxfafa which 
> make her 1st b. of fifth b. of first b. of fifth b. of ? b. of 7th b. of 
> fourth b. of progenitor Henry. Or at least I think that is what he means, he 
> calls it by generation where I have put born, and I still haven't figured 
> out how you are supposed to find any of these people in the book since they 
> are only indexed that way, no page references and the blankety blank thing 
> is NOT organized by generation but apparently starts with a goes to aa then 
> aaa and so on, except not quite??? 
> 
> Les C 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: EugeneMelvin.roots at comcast.net 
> Subject: [or-roots] MELVIN LINE 
> 
> Glen, 
> 
> I believe we come from different lines of MELVIN. 
> 
> My line goes back to WILLIAM MELVIN and MARY BENSTON of Maryland about 1650. 
> 
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