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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Glen A. Jones</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans@verizon.net> <BR><BR>> Eugene; <BR>> <BR>> I just went poking around to further study whether we are linked, <BR>> <BR>> http://www.petteefamily.org/allfam/b53.html#P2801 <BR>> <BR>> traces your line back to; <BR>> <BR>> William Melville 306 died UNKNOWN. <BR>> Spouse: Florence. Children were: Robert Melville. <BR>> <BR>> Interestingly enough I had thought we had a Robert Melville in our line, but <BR>> I don't have him. One of the theories is that my Melvin line is actually <BR>> Melville, from house of Melville in Scotland, and one of the ancestors did <BR>> supposedly changed his name to Melville in the 18th century. <BR>> <BR>> Actually, I just checked and his name change was imposed; <BR>> <BR>> Melvin 244090a JOSIAH JR. MELVILLE: BIRTH: Groups of Palmer Families <BR>> (Melvin Line), by Emily Wilder Leavitt, also in Vital Records of Concord <BR>> Massachusetts. According to this book his name was changed by the NH <BR>> Legislature to Melville, the original form of the present Melvin. <BR>> PARENTS: PALMER GROUPS by Leavitt <BR>> <BR>> This name change also applied to children. <BR>> <BR>> * * * * * * <BR>> <BR>> you might want to check out; <BR>> http://www.espl.org/mearscol/pagendxs/simpson/fowndx.htm#Melvin <BR>> <BR>> and <BR>> <BR>> http://www.espl.org/mearscol/pagendxs/simpson/d40972.htm <BR>> <BR>> there is some info on Avra and his wife's family there, though it is a <BR>> little suspect since the same family group is listed as being 5th through <BR>> eigth generation?? <BR>> <BR>> I was looking for William in my family tree and the first one we have is <BR>> born in Nova Scotia about 1798. <BR>> <BR>> I searched HQ books for more info on your folks and got sidetracked by <BR>> chasing one of MY Samuel Melvins, which led me to spend half an hour <BR>> downloading pages from a book only to discover I had downloaded almost the <BR>> whole book last year sometime, then I wandered off on my French line because <BR>> I ran across another of my Samuels in "the book of Dow" which if anyone out <BR>> there has Dows I am willing to ATTEMPT to locate them in the book; <BR>> <BR>> Dow, Robert Piercy, <BR>> The book of Dow : genealogical memoirs of the descendants of Henry Dow 1637, <BR>> Thomas Dow 1639 and others of the name, immigrants to America during <BR>> Colonial times, also the allied family of Nudd <BR>> Claremont, N.H.: R.P. Dow, 1929, 1012 pgs. <BR>> <BR>> Robert breaks his arm patting himself on the back for his wonderful <BR>> organizationa improvisation where Samuel's wife is listed as adgxfafa which <BR>> make her 1st b. of fifth b. of first b. of fifth b. of ? b. of 7th b. of <BR>> fourth b. of progenitor Henry. Or at least I think that is what he means, he <BR>> calls it by generation where I have put born, and I still haven't figured <BR>> out how you are supposed to find any of these people in the book since they <BR>> are only indexed that way, no page references and the blankety blank thing <BR>> is NOT organized by generation but apparently starts with a goes to aa then <BR>> aaa and so on, except not quite??? <BR>> <BR>> Les C <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -----Original Message----- <BR>> From: EugeneMelvin.roots@comcast.net <BR>> Subject: [or-roots] MELVIN LINE <BR>> <BR>> Glen, <BR>> <BR>> I believe we come from different lines of MELVIN. <BR>> <BR>> My line goes back to WILLIAM MELVIN and MARY BENSTON of Maryland about 1650. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> or-roots mailing list <BR>> or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us <BR>> http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>