Thank you AGAIN, Kate, for the information!
[My husband is descended from Fords (originally "Faure" -- French Huguenots)
in VA. There are many Johns & Josephs in those Fords. I will try to find
out more about the Fords of mine through those Fords and see if I can
connect all of these up! Since I live in N.C. and get to the NC State
Library frequently, I will work on them from here, too. That library has
SOME Mississippi records, but they're not complete]
It is really great to have all of you Calvit cousins helping each other. I
will be very happy to help at this end (NC) if someone has questions.
Norma Preston
Hillsborough, NC
normachp(a)mindspring.com
-----Original Message-----
From: lucygilbert <lucygilbert(a)email.msn.com>
To: CALVIT-L(a)rootsweb.com <CALVIT-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [CALVIT-L] HESTER FORD'S family
HI - again--I used this summary for years and it was not until I got
the
orginal will that I found out that there was much more than a listing of
the
heirs--you could tell from the will who were the older and who were
the
younger children--etc. It was when I reviewed the orginal will that I
realized that John Ford had to be older than Robert Ford--and Robert Ford
was born in 1752 or so because he had to have a daughter Hetty (Hester,
esther) old enough to marry and have children by 1790 or so. there is
documentation in Robert Ford's will that he is the father of Hetty Ford
who
married John Spires--the John Spires listed as witness on Joseph Ford
is
his
grandson-in-law. Kate
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edwin Calvit" <bcalvit(a)earthlink.net>
To: <CALVIT-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CALVIT-L] HESTER FORD'S family
> Belinda,
> I was looking in the Natchez Court Records, 1767 - 1805, Abstracts of
Early
> Records, Vol. 2, (McBee) today and ran up on the will of Joseph Ford,
Adams
> Co., dated 6 Nov. 1804. I knew you were looking for any info on the
Fords.
> Wife: Rebecca
> Sons: John, Thomas, Joseph, Robert, and George (listed in that order, I
> don't know if that's the order of age or what)
> Daughters: Esther Strawder and Elizabeth Ford
> Grandchildren: George Holliway, Elizabeth Ford
> Executor of Will: John Ford
> Witnessed by : Robert Ford, John Spires, Jacob Gaice?
> These should be all of his children that were living in 1804.
> Let me know if I can be of any more help.
> Benny Calvit
> bcalvit(a)earthlink.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <BandB4951(a)aol.com>
> To: <CALVIT-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 11:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [CALVIT-L] HESTER FORD'S family
>
>
> > Hi, Norma,
> >
> > Gosh....I wish I had some kind of answers for you about your Hester
FORD
> and
> > other info. I have only recently been putting my FORD pieces together
and
> > with that my CALVIT.....so I am still floating around out here trying
to
> make
> > sense of it all. I have a list of children for Joseph FORD but I have
no
> way
> > of knowing yet as to whether it is complete or correct. For the
children
> of
> > Rebecca ? and Joseph FORD, born: 1726, died: November 06, 1804 in
> Natchez
> > Dist., MS, I show:
> >
> > 1. Joseph FORD, Jr., md. Cynthia EDWARDS
> > 2. Robert FORD
> > 3. George FORD
> > 4. Margaret FORD, md. ? HOLLOWAY
> > 5. Thomas FORD
> > 6. John D. FORD, born: 1766 in VA, died: September 11, 1844 in
Franklin
> > Co., MS, md: Elizabeth CALVIT IN 1784 in Natchez Dist., MS. (I'm
still
> > looking to find who Elizabeth CALVIT's father is and,
also, to confirm
> that
> > John D. FORD is the son of Rebecca ? and Joseph FORD born in 1726.)
> >
> > I am forwarding my response to the FORD list as well. Maybe someone
can
> help.
> >
> > Good luck. Let me know if you find any connections to any of them.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Bellinda
> >
> >
>