Where was your family 280 years ago? (Yes, Cammie, this is coin related)

Russ · October 19, 2003 7:15AM

Mine was in New York, already on the third generation in this country. The original progenitor of my family arrived at Raccoon Creek, Maryland on the ship Kent in August of 1677 and quickly moved to Hempstead, NY, where he made rope for a living. His children already had children when that coin was minted.

I just think it's pretty cool to wonder if any of my ancestors ever used that coin to buy something.

Russ, NCNE

cosmos66 · October 19, 2003 7:18AM

I think my family was still living in caves considering I look like the missing link.

291fifth · October 19, 2003 7:19AM

In Ireland, probably rejecting this coinage so it would have to be "unloaded" on the American colonies.

Bulldog · October 19, 2003 7:21AM

Damned if I know!

DHeath · October 19, 2003 7:26AM

Sir Robert Heath, attorney-general of Charles I, was granted the Cape Fear area, incorporated as the Province of Carolina, in 1629.

Since then, we've been able to reduce the holdings to about 10 acres.

stujoe · October 19, 2003 7:49AM

The onlypart that I know about back that far was still in Ireland at that time. They didn't come over until 1792.

lathmach · October 19, 2003 7:59AM

My family was most likely still in Mass. My ancestor John came to the colonies in 1634. He had a Puritan following, and lived with the Pilgrims in Scituate when he first came, then founded the town of Barnstable.

Ray

Rnealw · October 19, 2003 7:59AM

Well one bunch was in Scotland another in Penn. and another in virginia. And on group was causing Trouble in France.

Deadhorse · October 19, 2003 8:05AM

Thanks to my my Grandfather's brother (my Granduncle?) and all his extensive research and documentation, I can tell you that they were farming in what is now Virginia having come here from Wales in 1645.

Probably growing that nasty tobacco, I'm sure. I know they made liquor/moonshine and traded it to native Americans.

I could tell you the ship and more details if I wasn't stuck at my office on a Sunday afternoon.

I do know that having come from Wales they did have to buy a couple of vowels as soon as they got here. Those who understand the Welsh language will know what I mean.

GaCoinGuy · October 19, 2003 8:19AM

Glascow, Scotland for my dads side of the family(came to America circa 1670), somewhere in Ireland for the moms side(arrived circa 1700)......and once they got over here, a little Cherokee and Creek indian thrown in for good measure.

tjkillian · October 19, 2003 8:21AM

My relatives were still living in Wurzburg, Germany as they did not come to North Carolina for twenty more year (in 1743), probably drinking lots of good German beer with all their debased money.

Tom

LanLord · October 19, 2003 8:23AM

This history could get long as I'm somewhat of a "hinze 57"

Some of my ancestors were here for many centuries (or even mellenia) as I have two tribes of Inidan in me

Most of my family was still in England, Germany, Ireland, and several other smaller European countries.

At the time of those really cool coins, my family was either still in Europe or fighting the whiteman in the new world.

Nic · October 19, 2003 8:26AM

Mine were in Germany and Ireland.... peace loving people!

. K

DHeath · October 19, 2003 8:26AM

They say all men ascended from apes except the Welsh, and they came from Wales.

Lakesammman · October 19, 2003 8:27AM

My "family" didn't exist - ALL my ancestors were in Sweden.....

Mine is the first generation to dilute the bloodline.

psxchelly · October 19, 2003 8:29AM

Moms side of the family was in China... Dads side was hanging out in Portugal... not sure what they were doing though, I have trouble remembering what was going on yesterday.

chelle

wingedliberty · October 19, 2003 9:23AM

Ukrainian serfs working the farmland subjugated by the Russian czar. (No kidding, I did extensive research).

khayse · October 19, 2003 9:40AM

Jail?

-KHayse

1jester · October 19, 2003 9:46AM

Keith, your ancestors are from Australia??

ConstellatioCollector · October 19, 2003 10:41AM

I'm a mutt. My German relatives came over in 1611 (stayed in New Jersey area). My Irish descendants came over in 1830s (New York)and made their fortune in the Shasta Gold Rush (California) then helped to found the First National Gold Bank of San Francisco (Now is Crocker Bank or whoever owns that bank now?).

ConstellatioCollector · October 19, 2003 10:42AM

If it was "Jail" in Australia then it's known as "gaol".

Louis · October 19, 2003 10:44AM

Virginia.

morganbarber · October 19, 2003 11:46AM

Half of my family was in Sweden. One quarter were in the Ukraine, and the other quarter were all over, including New England.

mgoodm3 · October 19, 2003 12:21PM

My namesake ancestor came to the US from Germany in 1694. I believe they were mainly in North Carolina. So I guess they were spitting out kids in 1723.

MadMarty · October 19, 2003 1:34PM

Sorry can only trace back to the civil war, before that it's all a blur! Somewhere in my family tree, we have a hitman know as the Iceman (Richard Kuklinski). That's way freaky!

MacCrimmon · October 19, 2003 1:37PM

Paternal line were still in the Alsace in 1723.....headed for America in 1750. My famous Scot in America was the Overseer at Mary Ball Washington's Ferry Farm from 1768 to 1772, and probably had been here since at least the late 1600s, but alas the critical records burned in Church fires long ago.

And then those pesky Cherokee cousins, well, who knows how long they had been hanging in the Carolina hills.....

nwcs · October 19, 2003 9:44PM

280 years ago my father's side was still in Austria. My mom's side was already well established in the Roanoake Virginia area. They're the Atkins and Huddlestons and so on in that area.

razorface1027 · October 19, 2003 10:14PM

I'm told that I'm from Stuart bloodline(Scotland) , the bloodline of Mary Stuart (a.k.a. Mary, Queen of Scots, sobriquet... Bloody Mary). With all that said....WHERE'S ME CASTLE?......

LucyBop · October 19, 2003 10:22PM

This Mexicana snook across the Border at a young age....... not sure what/who/where my family was or is.... 280 years ago....

1957joe · October 19, 2003 10:29PM

My family was in Mass. and RI at that time. I am decended from 7 or 8 of the Mayflower passengers. If only somebody way back then felt about coins the same that I do!

MacCoin · October 19, 2003 11:12PM

fathers side was living free in the Maine woods until my mother side moved them the to indian island and made them weave baskets and make boat for a living at slave wages.

Popcoin · October 19, 2003 11:42PM

William Deveny (now spelled DeVinney) came from Dungannon, Ireland in about 1710 to Manmouth, NJ.
They moved to Penn. in about 1740 and then to Rutherford, NC in about 1770. I was born in 1946 in Morganton, NC which is not far from there.

So the answer is Manmouth, NJ.

Larry

Where was your family 280 years ago? (Yes, Cammie, this is coin related)

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