Posted By:	Sidney Holdrege
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	Subject:	Mary Lanier, daughter of Thomas Lanier & Elizabeth Hicks of Granville County, NC
	Post Date:	January 22, 2007 at 18:19:40
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/lanier/messages/1422.html
	Forum:	Lanier Family Genealogy Forum
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Everything I have ever seen written on the children of Thomas Lanier and Elizabeth Hicks has revealed nothing of what happened to their eldest child, Mary, who was called Molly. At the North Carolina State Archives, I recently found a document among the estate papers of Thomas Lanier, dated 7 March 1811, which begins, “James Vaughan, who is the only surviving executor of Thomas Lanier decd, and guardian, Solus, of his unfortunate daughter (Mary Lanier) deaf & dumb from her infancy and is at present about seventy years of age, as he believes...”