Re: Jemima Somers b. 1825 Somers Point
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Re: Jemima Somers b. 1825 Somers Point
Dorothy Kinsey 6/16/03
Dottie --
This is getting really interesting! The research was done by a great aunt of my husband's, probably in the thirties or forties. Her work ws generally sound but not without errors, I have found. Based on what you are saying, I think this may have been one of them.
What she recorded was that Jemima D. Somers was born May 15, 1825 and died May 26, 1885 in Philadelphia. She married Charles Thomas Davis. She said Jemima was the daughter of Elizabeth Ann Somers and her cousin, Lt. Richard G. Somers, who were not married. She said that Elizabeth died when the child was quite young, and that Richard, who was born in 1799, died at sea in about 1844. Unfortunately, she did not record her sources.
The part about Richard certainly seems to be a mistake. He just can't be found and is, I suspect, a confused combination of the naval hero and perhaps Richard I. Somers.
Now the information you sent me is that Elizabeth Ann swore "on the 24 day of February 1825 that she was Delivered of a female bastard Child on the 15th day of March last past." I'm wondering if our great aunt got the date wrong (third month of Quaker vs. standard calendar?). Or perhaps she got the Jemima wrong, and ours was really Jemima Doughty Somers instead? Do you know what her birth date was and what became of her?
Thanks, again, for your assistance and persistence. And while I'm at it, you don't happen to know of an Elizabeth Kinsey or Kimsey who was born about 1780, probably in Cumberland Co., who married John P. Dare and died April 1816 in Deerfield, do you? Just thought I'd ask!
Lauren
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Re: Jemima Somers b. 1825 Somers Point
Dorothy Kinsey 6/17/03
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Lauren deMoll 6/18/03
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Jean F. Call 8/14/09
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Re: Jemima Somers b. 1825 Somers Point
Lauren deMoll 6/18/03
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Dorothy Kinsey 6/18/03
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Lauren deMoll 6/19/03
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Re: Jemima Somers b. 1825 Somers Point