Folder MS0247.02.01

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1844 December 7 (typed letter see printed version in SC MS 247.01.10.01) re: cargo of hides and selling to rancheros, going to San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Francisco and impressions of California)

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Howard M. Fitch Compiler – Key to Pictures (poor quality photocopies of photographs):

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1976 May 29 letter discusses where the Girdlers originated, Girdler and Howard Fitch, the Stacey connection, Ann Lipscomb who married Samuel Oldham, John Lipscomb who married Dinah MackGehee, a daughter of Thomas MackGehee alias for James MacGregor, who fled Scotland to save his life, James was son of Patrick MacGregor, chief of the Gregor clan. This information comes from The Lipscomb Genealogy by J.W. Lipscomb, published in 1959 and mainly about the South Carolina Lipscombs.

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1976 September 22 story about Thomas Mackgehee alias James MacGregor is true. Ann Lipscomb must be the granddaughter of John and Dinah Mackgehee Lipscomb since John Lipscomb had only one beother all of whose descendents have been traced (Bob is not among them).

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1976 October 15 Thanks for additional genealogy data – appears that Bob’s family is descended from the kings of Scotland, including Duncan, who was done in by Macbeth.

Scope and Contents 1978 May 8 Jimmy says it has taken some time to but the attached together in which he wrote Nancy’s (his wife) uncle Howard [Fitch] about various family photographs that may exist. The attached is 13 typed pages of genealogy of the Fitchs, Orvis, Girdlers, Kimballs, Severance/Severans, Clements, Coffin, Church, Churchill, Waitstill, Montagues, Downing, Winthrop, Upham, Beers, the Puritan settlement in New England, King Philip’s War, the Bay Colony, Hulda Smith, Pequot War, Denslow,...

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[1979] August 4 asks Bob to contact him when he hears from Joe Girdler asking for any information that Joe might have.

Scope and Contents 1979 August 11 handwritten letter telling about relatives writing “Marblehead Memoir” containing letters written by members of our family as far back as your great-grandfather, Captain John Girdler. The “Memoir” is being written by Jim Harrison, husband of Joe’s cousin Girdler Fitch’s daughter, Nancy and Win Pierce, whose line departs from ours back with the children of great great grandfather, Lewis Girdler. Bob says he has seen a copy of the “Memoir” and asks if there are any other...

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(Aiken, S.C.) to Joe H. Girdler (Hilton Head, S.C.) dated August 18, 1979.

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[1979] August 29 thanks for letter but Joe is not a genealogy buff. Only has stuff sent by Bob’s father and Reynolds.