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Author: pure_celtic
Surnames: Cassity, Randolph, Peters
Classification: queries
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In the Henry Wells article (which is the source of the idea that Garner was a descendant
of Pocahontas) the proposed connection goes like this:
John Rolfe/Pocahontas------Thomas Rolfe/Jane Poythress------Jane Rolfe/Robert
Boling--------John Bolling/Mary Kennon------Jane Boling/Col. Richard Randolph------John
Randolph/Francis Bland--------John Randolph/female Peters------female Randolph/male
Ashby-------Garner Ashby/John Cassity.
But it is documented that the John Randolph who married Francis Bland was born on 26 JUN
1742 in "Curles", Henrico County, VA and married Francis on 9 MAR 1769 in
"Cawsons", Prince George County, VA. Their son John, who Wells claimed to be
Garner's grandfather, was born on 2 JUN 1773. We don't have an exact birth date
for Garner, but since we know that her first child was born 14 Jan 1766, we estimate that
she was born 1745-1748. Obviously she cannot be the granddaughter of a man who was born
nearly 30 years after she was.
So, I'm not saying it's impossible that Garner has some distant connection to
Pocahontas; I'm just saying that she absolutely is not a direct descendant as it was
shown in the article written by Henry Wells.
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