Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 06:14:00 -0700 From: "main@njgf.groups.io" To: marshallelake@gmail.com Subject: [njgf] New-Mostly South-Jersey Genealogy Forum - Digest #112 1a. Re: VEAL/STRONG search From: Carol Boyd Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:54:26 PDT One of our dearest and relentless researchers Margarette Ogle for many years tried to prove her genealogy to a Tabitha. She was never to absolutely prove Tabitha's birth name. I will go through her papers that I have as we conversed back and forth for years and I may be able to help you. Margarette passed away a few years back without making a connection we always felt it was a Garretson line but could not prove it. Carol Boyd 1b. Re: VEAL/STRONG search From: Mark Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:31:18 PDT Carol, I found a GarPaDoVe message written by Margarette G Ogle on 10 Jul 2006 to Joan Best… "I have just found your post on Rootsweb for Tabitha Godfrey who md. Elijah Garretson. This is my line and I have hit a brick wall in tryng to find her parents. I have the Garritson/Garretson and all other spellings pretty well singled out, but that information has not given me a clue. Several researchers say she is d/o Andrew and Elizabeth Corson (I think it is), but this is incorrect. She could be a g.dau. I would appreciate any help you can give me. I have ordered a lot of wills from NJ, but none mention a daughter Tabitha. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is my stonewall.” No records have shown up proving who Tabitha' parents were, but circumstantial evidence suggests Andrew GODFREY Jr & Ann HAWTHORNE; it is believed by some that they had children: James GODFREY b 1751, Tabitha (GODFREY) GARRETSON b 1756, Rebecca (GODFREY) SMITH b 1760 and Nicholas GODFREY b 1768 among possible others. Ann (HAWTHORNE) GODFREY, died sometime before 5 Jan 1770 when at Cape May Co NJ the widower Andrew GODFREY Jr married secondly to Mrs. Abigail (SOMERS) SMITH 1726-1831, who was the widow of Jeremiah SMITH 1723-1763. She would have brought into this GODFREY household 6 SMITH children: Jeremiah b 1752, William b 1754, Abigail b 1756, James b 1757, Jesse b 1760 and Daniel b 1763. Tabitha GODFREY married 6 May 1777 Cape May Co NJ to Elijah GARRETSON and early GARRETSON researchers believed that among their children was a daughter, Mary, who married Enos VEAL. One reason for this might have been that after Enos & Mary moved to Indiana in 1816 they continued corresponded with the GARRETSONs of Cape May Co NJ. The problem is VEAL researchers have Enos VEAL married 25 Feb 1793 to Mary G (they add the name SMITH) and say she was born 27 Mar 1775, two years before Tabitha married Elijah GARRETSON. I strongly believe Mary was a daughter of Tabitha and that Mary was raised in Elijah GARRETSON’s home, but I don’t know who her father was. Quaker records mention Elijah GARRETSON being accused of having an illegitimate child, but they don’t name the child. Maybe it was Mary, but where did the SMITH name come from? If I’m right about Tabitha’s parents, there would have been plenty of opportunity for Tabitha and a SMITH to have had an illegitimate child. Another nagging possibility is the widow Abigail (SOMERS) SMITH was willed by her husband a slave girl name “Tab”. Could Tabitha be Tab and she had an illegitimate SMITH child? In any case, my many atDNA matches to the descendants of Enos VEAL and Mary SMITH makes me wonder if at least part of that DNA is coming from Mary, meaning she must have had at least some GODFREY and/or GARRETSON in her. I don’t know if this would have helped Margarette G Ogle's dilemma. Probably not. Mark P