Hi again Carruthers, (& Hodges, Bangs, & Wetheringtons/Witheringtons)
This is fascinating Gen at a very high level! Doris got a helpful message
started, and thanks to Thomas Carothers & Francis Hodges for developing this
string to a this high level.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/carruthers/
I also have a very high level of interest in this string because this John
Carruthers (at least ONE of these Johns) is the father of 'my' (presumptive) GG
Gm ' Rocksolannah Carruthers md John Witherington b abt 1703. This Carruthers
discussion is quite helpful to establish the Bangs and particularly 'my'
Witherington Gen connection. Seemingly the very important issue, if not the
seminal issue, is to establish the distinctions of the 2 John Carruthers
(assuming there aren't 3).
Following up, where are the best possible potential sources to look into this
issue? I would assume that the easily located sources have all been consulted.
About a yr ago we spent a goodly effort & amount of time following the seeming
very fertile Bangs connection to the Carruthers. In fact, we located some quite
interesting connections between the Bangs & Carruthers, including the Dean
Dudley New England Carruthers diagram, the trip by Jonathan Bangs w/John
Carruthers to New Bern NC to buy land, the Bangs seafaring connection, and much
else included in the Carruthers (& Bangs) Archives:
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/carruthers.html
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/b/bangs.html
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/witherington.html
I did wish someone could spend some time in the Yale Archives w/ the Bangs
papers. And in the quality sources mentioned by Francis Hodges, who has been at
this for long and quality time:
"Francis Hodges (not Hodge) married John's daughter, Frances Carruthers. I think
this is the same Francis Hodges who wound up in Dobbs County, about thirty or
forty miles west of New Bern; we have proof that he was an uncle of the
prominent Capt. Simon Bright Jr. (d. 1776), which is why I think Francis must
have had a sister who was Capt. Bright's mother.
When Francis Hodges declared headright in Craven in 1746, he listed six while
males in his household. I think these males (children at the time) are the other
Hodges listed with Francis in a 1769 Dobbs County tax roll. They are (1) Joshua
Hodges, who married Ann Raiford and later moved to Georgia. We know from
Joshua's Bible records that he was born in 1736, and that is why I do not think
John Carruthers (Joshua' maternal grandfather) could have been born as late as
1708, since he would have been a grandfather before he was thirty years old!,(2)
Francis Hodges Jr (I also have proof tht he moved to Georgia), (3) John Hodges,
(4) Richard Hodges, who stayed in NC and from whom I think I am descended (not
yet proved).
http://genforum.genealogy.com/carruthers/messages/618.html
As to Content Carruthers, has it yet been proved that she was from the prominent
Bangs family of Barnstable, Massachusetts?"
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/b/bright.html
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/h/hodges.html
Also, there is quite a sea going connection: Capt Bright, Capt Bangs, and a
number of W'ton connections, AWA the New Bern & extensive New England connection
to the ocean, etc. (why did Jonathan Bangs leave the Bangs New England home for
New Bern & property there? Was there a sea-going connection?)
There is much to consider here, and I've barely touched on the quite
extensive high quality contributions of Thomas Carothers, see above & below.
Barry Wetherington
http://genforum.genealogy.com/carruthers/
John C. and Content Carruthers,Craven Co.,NC 1750s - Doris Sanders 2/05/02
http://genforum.genealogy.com/carruthers/messages/606.html
a.. Re: John C. and Content Carruthers,Craven Co.,NC 1750s - Thomas Carothers
2/16/02
a.. Re: John C. and Content Carruthers,Craven Co.,NC 1750s - Francis R. Hodges
2/23/02
a.. Re: John C. and Content Carruthers,Craven Co.,NC 1750s - Thomas
Carothers 2/23/02
a.. Re: John C. and Content Carruthers,Craven Co.,NC 1750s - Francis R.
Hodges 2/23/02
a.. Re: John C. and Content Carruthers,Craven Co.,NC 1750s - Thomas
Carothers 2/23/02
b.. Re: John C. and Content Carruthers,Craven Co.,NC 1750s - Doris Sanders
2/16/02