From: "'Annette Truesdell' atrue@garlic.com" Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 11:51:05 -0700 > Thomas LAKE (b c1735) is said to be "a descendant of the Maryland family > whose parents moved to New Jersey" but Y-DNA does not back that up. > (Could there have been more than one LAKE family in early Maryland?) I've seen that document in your database but I don't know of any primary records that would support the idea that Thomas Lake was a MD Lake, especially since the dna of a descendant of his matches Milt Lake's dna. I noted in my previous posting regarding Thomas Lake who died in Newberry, SC, that my info came from descendants of Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth Reeder, so I don't have primary sources either, only family histories. They claim he was born in Hunterdon Co., NJ. Since Elizabeth Reeder is said to have been born in Mercer Co., NJ and her mother, Susanna Gano in Hunterdon Co., NJ, it is reasonable to assume that Elizabeth's husband, Thomas Lake was also born somewhere in NJ and that's where they married. Clues as to their migration into Virginia and the Carolinas can be inferred from an excerpt found in THE MAKING OF A TOWNSHIP Being an Account of the Early Settlement and Subsequent Development of FAIRMOUNT TOWNSHIP GRANT COUNTY, INDIANA 1829-1917 Edgar Baldwin Printing Company, 1917 Page 223, 224, 225, 226, 227 with photo of old homestead REEDER FAMILY (By Bishop Milton Wright) Assuming what was written in 1917 regarding the Reeder and Gano family can be relied on... Joseph Reeder the third married in Hopewell, New Jersey, about 1740, as his second wife, Susana Gano, daughter of Daniel Gano, and great-granddaughter of Francis Gano, a wealthy Huguenot, of Rochelle, France, who, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, barely escaped martyrdom by fleeing with his children and their families, about 1686, first to Guernsey Island, and thence to America, and he died at New Rochelle, New York, aged one hundred and three years. Joseph and Susana had a large family, of whom six sons lived to have large families, and all of them settled in the Miami Valley, Ohio. In 1763 he had settled in Loudoun County, Virginia, and his son, Joseph, the fourth, having married Anna Huff, in New Jersey, removed to the same county in 1766, and a number of years later removed to Hampshire County, now in West Virginia, and lived on the Great Cacapon River, whence with all his family he removed to Hamilton County, Ohio in 1789...If Thomas and Elizabeth did reside in Loudon, VA for awhile, it is probable they removed there because her parents were living there. > Annette, are you convinced that this Thomas LAKE served in the Rev War in > New Jersey? There was another Thomas LAKE (b c1760) who lived in Amwell. Assuming it is accurate, evidence for his service comes from a SAR Membership Application of William Calhoun Lake dated 7 Sep 1927 citing the Thomas Lake who served in Daniel Bray's 2nd Regiment was his ancestor and the same as the one who died in Newberry, SC. Now, whether Thomas Lake of Newberry, SC actually was the same as served in Bray's Regiment, who knows. There are numerous Thomas Lakes in the county at the time. Some can be readily identified as belonging to a specific family, and many cannot. That's the problem with the Newberry Thomas Lake. His descendant's dna links him to the Gravesend family, but just where is the question. There are many trees on Ancestry that show him as the son of Nicholas Lake and Mary Johnson. This is not accurate because their son Thomas was the one who married Michal Williamson, removed to the NY land grants with his brothers and was my ancestor who was a Loyalist and fled to Canada. Other trees cite him as being the son of Thomas Lake and Jannetje Stryker. We know that's not accurate because their son, Thomas had a will dated and proved in 1787 in Bethlehem, Hunterdon Co., NJ. If I had to guess, I would think the most likely ancestors of Thomas Lake who died in Newberry, SC were Abraham Lake and Classje Langestraat. This would be his most likely, but not proven link to the Gravesend family. Their descendants in NJ are the most elusive to place. Too many of them were named Daniel, John, Abraham and Thomas and lived all over Hunterdon Co., NJ at the same time. Trying to place men with these names in the correct generation, let alone the correct family group has been difficult at best. Too little information in land and probate records to clarify. Again, only a guess.