Re: Robert Coles and Mary Hawxhurst
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Re: Robert Coles and Mary Hawxhurst
Walter Weeks 12/26/06
Totally understandable.I have a lot of trouble when I post because I'm thinking faster than I type.I make a lot of mistakes:)My habit is to compile a document that I can proof about 50 times.Even then I make some obvious mistakes that I find later.
Mill John Townsend was married first to a Johanna (I think that was her name; depends on what source you trust.)Their daughter was Hannah.
Mill John's second wife was Esther, of the Cider Tub fame.By the way, piracy was viewed differently then (see http://www.bucklinsociety.net/pirates_of_rhode_island.htmhttp://www.bucklinsociety.net/pirates_of_rhode_island.htm and http://www.thepiratesrealm.com/New%20England.htmlhttp://www.thepiratesrealm.com/New%20England.html) and so I found your reference to Blackbeard very intersting.Since I believe my gggg grandfather, Stephen Sands, was a descendant of James Sands of Block Island, I have read a lot about the Sands family.The following is fun.
"Captain Kidd...also visited Block Island around 1699, where he was supplied by Mrs. Mercy (Sands) Raymond, daughter of the mariner James Sands.The story has it that, for her hospitality, Mrs. Raymond was bid to hold out her apron, into which Kidd threw gold and jewels until it was full.After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy removed with her family to northern New London, Connecticut (later Montville), where she bought much land.The Raymond family was thus said to have been "enriched by the apron." "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kiddhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kidd
Anyway, it would be fun to know what motivated Esther to go to North Carolina.