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>For those Quartermans of the "Three Thomas" line (Thomas I, Thomas II, Thomas >III), Renchie presents an enigma. If I were a novelist, I would jump on her >story. She stikes me as something of a rebel. Maybe, but if so her first husband was a planter, her second a Colonel, and her third the pastor of Midway, which in a Congregational community meant the man in charge. I've put your text in a web page about her: http://www.quarterman.org/who/renchie.html Also in there is her epitaph, which indicates that somebody thought very highly of her. >Incidentally, my genealogy projects for 2003 include tracing out the Normans. > I've seen a great deal of chatter among descendants of Dochester S.C. Normans > on the Norman genealogy message boards. They all seem to trace back to a Cap >tain Richard Norman born in--get this--Dorchester, England. The family settle >d around Marblehead in Massachusetts. Some may have spent time in Connecticut > before migrating to South Carolina. There were quite a lot of them in the Go >ose Creek area, perhaps even before others arrived. It's all sketchy at this >point. Beyond the Three Thomas line, findng out more about William Norman, wh >o went to Mass. to look for a pastor in 1684, may tell us all a little more ab >out what went on behind the scenes to precipitate the migration. You might find some Quartermans among records related to Normans along the way, which would be even more interesting. >I'll pass information along as I find it. Looking forward to it. >-Connie John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org> [ This is the Quarterman book discussion list, book@quarterman.org [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.quarterman.org/booklist.html