Re: Manes, Seth I 1776 VA
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Re: Manes, Seth I 1776 VA
Diana Chesser 3/28/05
I don't know if this is helpful but I found it in some information that a Williams researcher provided.
Memoirs of Ina Ryland
Prepared November, 1997
EMIGRANT
Excerpt from letters written in 1920 to Jesse D. Gustin, by Samuel Jasper Manes, born 1840: grandson of Seth Manis, born 1762.
My great-Grandfather father, was the first Manes supposed to ever be in the United States.He came from Wales as a bound boy at the age of eleven and settled in Virginia.His bed from the age of eleven until he was twenty-one was a soft clay brick hearth before an old-fashioned fireplace.The morning he was twenty-one, he arose early and with a mattock turned over every brick on the hearth.When his master called him to task about it, he said that the hearth had been his bed for ten years, adding "I'm going to leave you and I thought I would make up my bed before I left. "Not liking the look in the Youn man's eyes, the master turned and away.
So the name of the first Manis to come from Europe to this country has not been uncovered, as such.We probably have his name among our Manis family, but so far haven't found the records to put him in the position as the first Manis.
He probably arrived between 1690 and 1700.
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Re: Manes, Seth I 1776 VA
Diana Chesser 9/27/05