Re: Father of Solomon, Thomas and Peter Imes
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Re: Father of Solomon, Thomas and Peter Imes
Roberta Iiames 1/01/00
Roberta, I think you had told me some Imes families had gone south, to the Carolinas and Georgia (by the late 1700's, definitely before 1800, North and South Carolina had become sepaarate states).My feeling is that the father of Thomas, Solomon, Peter and Mary Ann was from one of those families.Records for 1790 and 1800 may have been lost during the Civil War when some courthouses were burned.I have been surprised by the high literacy rate among Thomas Imes/Iams' descendants... apparently the family took education very seriously, even on the frontier.I think that attitude is responsible for the quantity of written reminiscences and diaries produced by Thomas' descendants.I tend to trust the memories of family members on birth dates and places since they are more nearly "first-hand witnesses" to the events recorded.Rosemary
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