Recent notes have elicited several comments.
(Ref. 1) Sally Baughn has corrected the record as it pertains to Eve Baumgartner who married Mordecai Boughan/Baughan/Vaughan. Sally was very modest in her recital and used the pronoun, "we", where it might have been more appropriate to use "I". Her voyage of discovery was told in Beyond Germanna in the volume 3, number 4 issue. Her search had taken her far and wide until she was able to make an important connection. In note 187 here, which lists immigrants to Northern Virginia, correct the wife of Michael Aylor to Sarah Boughan, the daughter of Mordecai Boughan and Eve Baumgartner.
Sally asks if the parents of Mary Zimmerman (who married Mordecai Boughan, Jr,. as his first wife in 1801) are known. I would draw attention to the family of John Zimmerman (1737-1819), the son of John Zimmerman, who married Ursula Blankenbaker. John, Jr., was married three times and I do not know how the children divide among the wives. One child was Mary, born ca the time of the Revolution, who has not been given a husband. Based on the name, Mary, the age, and the lack of an assigned husband, this Mary is a strong candidate.
Ann in Kansas (Abaugh9618@aol.com) asks about Maximilian and Uriah Rector. Larry King's " Rector Records " does not even list Maximilian, and assigns Uriah as a son of Harmon (number 4 in the notes here). In Beyond Germanna , v.9, n.3, Tommie Brittain presents circumstantial evidence that Uriah and Maximilian were brothers. They probably had another brother, John, at whose marriage (to Chloe McPherson), Maximilian was a witness on 29 September, in Botetourt Co., VA. In the same issue of Beyond Germanna , John Alcock relates his searches among the "loose papers" in Fauquier Co., VA, where he found the lawsuit of John Peyton Harrison against Uriah Rector in 1784. Uriah was the youngest son and heir at law to John Rector who had been "killed by thunder" before John made a deed for sale of land to Harrison.
Harmon's will mentioned three sons, but he only named one, Harmon, Jr. Some people had assigned Uriah to Harmon, but they failed to note that two John Rectors had been merged into one John. When split apart separately, the new John had to be assigned to Harmon based on a record which named a son of Harmon as John (this point was shown by John Alcock). It was Barbara Vines Little who found that one John Rector should be split into two men. Her research is given in Beyond Germanna , v.8, n.2.
While mentioning these modern day researches, much of it started with the findings of John K. Gott who found the lawsuit which made it clear that John Rector (#2) was married twice. The lawsuit was reported in BG :2:1. An analysis by John Alcock was published in BG :6:6.
There is a moral to be drawn from all of this research. Most everyone had been happy with the reported structure of the Rector family. There was not much evidence of any problems. Almost accidentally, evidence was found to the contrary. You have to ask, "When the evidence is all in family X, how will it change?" Perhaps it is best to remember that every assignment up your tree has a probability attached to it. More work should be done on improving these probabilities rather than collected sheer numbers of ancestors.
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