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Rachel,
Do you have any documentation on this James Ashworth born 1737 in England and wife Catherine (I have Smithe as her maiden name)?
I'm a descendant of the James Ashworth born 1756-74 in South Carolina who married Keziah Dial and migrated to southwestern Louisiana circa 1804. Someone has been trying to make my James a son of your James and Catherine for a decade or more, but I've never been able to identify the person who started this tale or find any documentation whatsoever that would prove that your James and Catherine even existed, much less had the up to 10 children (the count varies according to source) they are claimed to have brought into the world. The names of the children are Benjamin, Catherine Lenora, Jacob, James, John, Joseph, Joshua, Moses, Rebecca, and Tapler. I understand that some of these may be real people who existed in the region (North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia) in the 1700s and 1800s, but I don't recall ever finding anyone who treats them as a single family.
My Ashworths are mixed race (amerindian and caucasian) and known locally in Louisiana as redbones, though it is not a name they generally approve of.
LV Hayes
e-mail: lvhayes@worldnet.att.net
blog: http://laredbones.blogspot.com/
web site: http://home.att.net/~lvhayes/home.htm
Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redboneresearchgroup/ (open only to bonafide Redbones)
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