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Surnames: Soules/Souls/Soule
Classification: Query
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Message Board Post:
Apparently our branch of the family were approved for membership but that there is no
proof that the Bildad who was born in Pembroke to Moses and Eleanor Souls is the same
William who came to Indiana. In the final settlement of William Souls Sr's. estate
there is mention of the sale of bushels of salt he was owed money from in Pompey, NY. I
checked the census there and discovered him on the 1800 and 1810 census as William Sauls
and Wm Soles. I also show his brother, Issac bought land in the Onondaga county of NY in
1816. Has anyone found any other evidence? I thought he started using the name of Bildad
when he came to Indiana but now it shows he was using the name William in New York.