The final question applies here as well. Perhaps I'm off-topic here, but it seemed worth a quick querying poll anyway. Fingers crossed. --Barry (p.s.1784 +/- 13 is only stepwise better by 1)
On 1 May 2023 Barry Gates wrote on Adams-30122:
The death date of "before 1 May 1797" is due to her not being listed as Oldham Sr's wife in his will of that date. That is filed in Annapolis, in the 1798 folder, recorded (elsewhere? there?) as him dying (or probated?) 22 Jun 1798. In the text, his wife is listed as Mrs. Jemime Gates, which others in the past mis-recorded as Mrs. Jennie, and somehow came to the surname Dowe or Drew, I believe simply due to the existence of such a person in available records of that time. This is in fact, Jemima Alburtis (family originally Alberti, also aka Burtis, Bustis, etc.), who married a John Potts in colonial New York. This may be the John Potts who sough passage for his family or himself out via the Quakers of New York during the Revolution, or not. There is an additional person enumerated on the immigration or emigration of son-in-law Garret VanBuskirk (see NYC Trinity Church records of 1779, albeit later compiled summarized) and daughter Annie Potts, which I believe was after the Loyalist evacuation, say 1785-1789. I find no marriage record in NY or NJ or MA or NS or NB for Oldham and Jemima, but available records are so very far from comprehensive that this statement does not rule out any of those areas. I am most optimistic for rediscovery of era newspapers and their indexing, still holding an answer, but will accept any reasonable documents narrowing a previous date from 1797 for Jemima's marriage. Calnek-Savary offers at best that the last record they can find for Thankful is that the birth of perhaps-still-putative son Samuel in 1772 would require her alive then. As stated above, only a record for *A* John Potts (which?) is found between 1772 and 1782. Further research is welcome. That said, the death of Thankful is sometime, indeed ANYTIME, between 1772 and 1797. I believe this brings us to the survey of the events in Calnek-Savary, a hundred or so years ago, once again, with more modern records, but nothing additional gleaned. So, I absolutely dislike suggesting this date, but maybe "about 1785" with a note that this is plus or minus 14 years (!!!), is better, until any next singular record then goes and throws that out the window too? But even that seems too extreme. Does anyone else have a better suggestion?
