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Surname Saturday. My Moore & Cannell Ancestors from the Isle of Man, Who Settled in Perquimans County, North Carolina.

My seventh great-grandmother, Sarah Moore, was a Quaker. She was born about 1721 in Perquimans, North Carolina, and died 15 April 1791 in South Carolina. She married fellow Quaker, Thomas Lamb, on 1 October 1746 in Perquimans, North Carolina. This … Continue reading

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The Ancestry of my 4th great-grandfather Peleg Rogers. Too many men named Peleg and Shadrach Rogers/Rodgers!

Peleg is Biblical name, evidentially quite a popular name in the 1700s and 1800s in the United States! It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Ishmaelites and the Israelites, according to the “Table of … Continue reading

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My Quaker Lamb and Moore Ancestors in Virginia and North Carolina. Later Doty/Doughty Primitive Baptists in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.

The furthest I can take my Lamb ancestry back with certainty is to my Quaker 8th great-grandparents Henry Lamb and Elizabeth ____. Henry Lamb was born about 1697 in England. He was banished to Virginia from England, for utterances of … Continue reading

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