Wilson Family Tree — v0

Why in vault: Founder asked 2026-07-20 for his family history (tree + stories + locations). This is the first-pass public-records skeleton of the paternal (Eleanor & Monroe Wilson / Brasstown) line, from an overnight records sweep the same evening. Confidence discipline: CONFIRMED = multiple independent records converge on the Brasstown/Folk School anchors; PROBABLE = strong single-source or circumstantial; POSSIBLE = quarantined, do not build on. Living-person data stays in this vault — never to external services without founder OK.

Verified spine (I read the primary source directly — Eleanor's 2010 obituary, Ivie Funeral Home)

"Surviving are two daughters, Anne Harper of Timonium, MD and Florence Atwood of Pittsburgh, PA; two sons, Daniel Wilson of Brasstown and John Wilson of Danville, KY; a sister, Louise Eaton of Chatham, MA; a cousin, Adele Vail of Ignacio, CO; and six grandchildren, James and David Harper, Catherine and Sarah Atwood, and Ben and Anne Wilson."

The founder (Ben Wilson, b. 1990) appears by name in his grandmother's obituary. Father = John Wilson of Danville, Kentucky — PROBABLE pending founder confirmation (expected; his message's "rolling hills of Kentucky" reads as his own childhood, one generation downstream of Brasstown).

Tree v0

Generation -3 (great-great-grandparents of founder)

• Herman Everett Wilson (1885–1940) m. Letha Leona "Lethy" Mashburn (1886–1975) — Fannin County GA. [CONFIRMED via Find A Grave memorial for Herman Monroe Wilson]
• Walter Rittenhouse Lambert m. Florence Olney Lambert — Long Island, NY. [CONFIRMED via Eleanor's obituary]

Wilson/Mashburn upstream (Monroe-line agent, 2026-07-20 ~11pm — PROBABLE tier: Find A Grave family-links, internally consistent, no primary docs yet)

• ⚡ NAMING HEIRLOOM: Monroe's paternal grandfather = JOHN HERMAN WILSON (1861–1923, b. GA, d. Atlanta) m. Kansas Magdeline "Maggie" Cook (1865–1928, Macon Co NC) — founder's dad (John Herman Wilson b.~1956) carries his own great-grandfather's exact name, four generations apart. Told founder to ask his dad if he knows.
• Maternal (Mashburn): William Steven "Bill" Mashburn (1856–1932) m. Martha Ann "Mattie" Hayes (1856–1946) ← Pvt. Peter Mashburn (1827–1863), CSA 65th GA Inf — enlisted Fannin Co Feb 1863, died 1863-07-10 in a Chattanooga hospital, age 36; buried Myrtle Hill, Rome GA (founder's 3x-great-grandfather; the tree's Civil War casualty) m. Narcissus "Narcissa" Hunt (1840–1910).
• Further up: Levi Wilson (1810 Haywood Co NC – 1900) m.(2) Mary Ann Kent (1823 Halifax Co VA – 1897) ← Richard Wilson (1767 Surry Co NC – 1850, d. pneumonia) m. Rachel Strain (~1794) — BRICK WALL: Richard's parents unknown per the memorial itself ("John b.1745 & Mary b.1747" = explicitly unverified tradition, QUARANTINED). Also: James Mashburn (1790 Burke Co NC – 1860 Union Co GA) m. Rebecca Stroud (1794–1870; her father unidentified). Cook line: Barnard Rufus Cook (1832–1890) m. Caroline Reid (1839–1913). Hayes line: John M. Hayes m. Catherine "Katie" Thomas (1839–1895).
• Hemptown Baptist Church Cemetery (Morganton, Fannin GA, FaG #269589) = the family plot: 15 Wilsons incl. Monroe, his parents, grandparents John Herman + Maggie, brothers Bill (1916–1989) + James Olin (1925–2013). ~20 min from Blue Ridge — flagged to founder as a scouting-trip stop. (Sumner S Wilson 1861–1896 QUARANTINED — no linked family.)
• Monroe records honest ledger: Navy ship/rate NOT FOUND (muster rolls login-walled; possible SSN 243-30-5473 from an aggregator = POSSIBLE only); postmaster dates NOT CONFIRMED → POSTMASTER DATES CONFIRMED 2026-07-21 via USPS Postmaster Finder (Playwright browser run, primary source): "Herman M. Wilson" appointed Acting Postmaster of Brasstown (Clay Co NC) 04/14/1961, full Postmaster 09/15/1961; next-listed successor is Officer-In-Charge Susan Robinson 04/01/1983 then Postmaster Frederick L. Anderson 06/25/1983 → Monroe's tenure ≈ Sept 1961 – early 1983, ~22 years. Predecessor context: Mrs. Margie Phyllis Payne (Acting PM 06/30/1955), Mrs. Iowa Green (Acting 03/09/1925, PM 04/25/1925). USPS notes the Brasstown office's establishment date "not yet researched; list incomplete," and on 2012-11-17 it converted to a Level 6 remotely-managed office under the Hayesville PM. (One row typos his name "WIlson" — same person, USPS data-entry artifact.) Folk School craft UNDETERMINED (not in WCU Craft Revival; the memoirs likely answer it). Quarantine note: fashion-publicist "Eleanor Lambert" (m. Berkson 1936) ≠ grandma — do not conflate in NYT searches.
• RIGHTS LEAD for [[project-grandma-memoir-republish]]: Bright Mountain Books (Fairview NC, est. 1983) no longer actively publishing; two former employees founded SPANNER BOOKS to carry select titles forward → first door for the manuscript/rights conversation; Bright family = fallback.

Generation -2 (founder's grandparents)

• Herman Monroe Wilson ("Monroe") — b. 1921-02-20, Hemp, Fannin Co GA; d. 1996-10-06, Brasstown NC (age 75). Buried Hemptown Baptist Church Cemetery, Morganton GA. Folk School teacher (craft/role not yet pinned; not in WCU Craft Revival directory). US Navy, Pacific campaign, WWII; Brasstown postmaster Sept 1961 – early 1983 (~22 yrs: Acting PM 04/14/1961, PM 09/15/1961; successor's OIC named 04/01/1983) [CONFIRMED — founder 2026-07-20 + USPS Postmaster Finder primary source 2026-07-21; note founder says name as "Monroe Herman," records say "Herman Monroe" — he went by Monroe either way]. Siblings (8): Myrtle Emily (Murrell), Bessie Leona (Sparks), Annie Mae (Bruce), Callie Irene (McGee), John William "Bill," Mattie Geraldine (Thomas), Kansas Madeline "Maggie" (Brackett), James Olin. [CONFIRMED]
• Eleanor "Ellie" Lambert Wilson — b. 1919-09-02, New York City; d. 2010-09-02, Murphy NC — died on her 91st birthday. Vassar College class of 1941. Came to Brasstown 1941 to work one year at the John C. Campbell Folk School; met Monroe there; married 1945, Cedarhurst, Long Island. Teacher (Martins Creek, Ogden Elementary), social worker (Cherokee & Clay Co.), master's in counseling 1979, private practice; farmer; co-founder of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Hayesville (1955). Author of two memoirs: "My Journey to Appalachia" and "My Life in Brasstown: An Appalachian Memoir" (Bright Mountain Books 2009, 125pp, ISBN 0914875574 — covers ~40 years from 1942; used copies on Amazon/AbeBooks). [CONFIRMED — obituary read directly]

Generation -1 (founder's father + siblings)

1. Daniel Monroe "Danny" Wilson — b. 1951-08-05, d. 2019-08-18. Never left Brasstown: Murphy Medical Center dietary (25 yrs), Folk School groundskeeper 2002–2011, folk dancer (memorial dance scholarship endowed in his name at the Folk School), perennial judge of Brasstown's NYE Possum Drop, bowled a perfect game in 1995. Never married, no children. [CONFIRMED] — founder's late uncle.
2. Eleanor Anne (Wilson) Harper — Timonium, MD. Children: James, David. [CONFIRMED]
3. John Herman Wilson — CONFIRMED as founder's father (his message, 2026-07-20 9:43pm): age 69 (b. ~1956-57), grew up in Brasstown, PhD in mathematics at UNC; married Brenda Lee Gibby early 1980s — obituary residence Danville, KY. Children: Ben and Anne Wilson.
4. Florence (Wilson) Atwood — Pittsburgh, PA. Children: Catherine, Sarah. [CONFIRMED]

Generation 0

• Ben Wilson (founder, b. 1990-06-02) and Anne Wilson (probable sister — founder hasn't explicitly confirmed) — named as grandchildren in Eleanor's obituary.

Maternal line — GIBBY (opened 2026-07-20 9:43pm, founder-supplied; overnight records agent running)

• Brenda Lee Gibby (founder's mother) — age 66 (b. ~1959-60), grew up Hayesville, Clay County NC; UNC pharmacy school (while John did his math PhD there); married John early 1980s. Childhood houseboat on "the lake" — Hayesville sits on Lake Chatuge, almost certainly the lake in the story. [CONFIRMED — founder; LIVING, local-only]
• Floyd Gibby = James Floyd Gibby (grandfather) — b. 1917-07-25, d. 1999-01-31 (Find A Grave #60350679, WikiTree Gibby-188); m. Bertha Foster 1938-12-18, Blairsville GA; buried together Meadow Grove Baptist Cemetery, Hayesville. Hayesville-area dairy farm + lumber mill + paved roads; "scrawny strength — could skin a cat on the monkey bars well into his 60s." Identity triple-corroborated via brother Stanley's 2026 obituary sibling list + Homer's Find A Grave siblings + Sherman's WikiTree — all naming parents John Martin Gibby + Martha Elmina Wiggins. [CONFIRMED]
• Bertha Gibby, maiden name FOUND: FOSTER — b. 1923-05-05, Towns County GA; parents Julius Calloway "Jule" Foster (1878–1947) + Eva C. (Brown) Foster (1885–1938); 7 named siblings. [CONFIRMED spousal/parent links — Find A Grave #46705402] ✅ DATE TENSION RESOLVED 2026-07-21: founder's mom confirmed 1995. Find A Grave's d. 1995-09-27 Hall Co GA stands; the ~1999-Atlanta memory was the drift the founder himself suspected (Floyd d. Jan 1999, same-hospital conflation — the M&Ms belong to a different memory). Resolved by family testimony + record agreement.

Gibby line, upstream (overnight agent 2026-07-20)

• John Martin Gibby (1887-07-18 Nantahala, Swain Co NC – 1958-12-13 Towns Co GA) m. Martha Elmina Wiggins (1890–1970) — 9 children incl. Floyd; the shared family dairy farm + timber operation is described in son Stanley's obituary ("milking cows, cutting timber") — independent corroboration of the family story. [CONFIRMED]
• George Washington Gibby (1844–1909) m. Sarah Elizabeth Lequire (1866–1917) [PROBABLE] ← Daniel Alexander Gibby (1818–1889), Haywood Co NC [PROBABLE] ← "Jonathan Gabby" (c.1775 SC) [POSSIBLE — single WikiTree source, QUARANTINED; suggests Gabby→Gibby spelling drift]. Migration path Haywood → Swain (Nantahala) → Clay/Towns border ✓ matches family geography.
• The documented family tree — probable identity: "Clay County Heritage – North Carolina, Vol. I" — published county heritage book, 320+ family genealogies, at Clay County Public Library (Hayesville) or via the Heritage Book Committee (Mary Nichols, 5676 Hwy 64 East, Hayesville NC 28904). Gibby entry NOT yet verified inside — confirm via library/Nichols or founder's mom. [PROBABLE as "the documented tree"]
• Gibby Furniture & Appliance Inc — Young Harris GA (7493 US-76, founded 1973). Family link PROBABLE (rare surname + Bertha born Towns Co + John Martin d. Towns Co), unconfirmed — one phone call would settle it.
• Quarantined: Welsh-immigrant Utah Gibby line (unrelated); other Bertha Gibbys (Monroe Co TN, Gastonia); Andrews-NC Gibbys (plausible distant cousins, unlinked).
• Family lore: a "rich family history already documented with the Gibby family tree" exists — locating its keeper is a first-class goal (asked founder who holds it). Related: a Gibby furniture store just across the GA state line.
• THE TVA STORY (founder, 2026-07-20 9:51pm) — partially verified same night: the Gibbys farmed the valley that TVA flooded to create Lake Chatuge (dam built 1941-42 ✓ matches); relocated to a new farm on Fires Creek (real Clay County location ✓); bought the houseboat to "stay on their property"; TVA named Gibby Island after them — VERIFIED: GNIS lists exactly 4 islands in Clay County NC: Brown, Gibby, Merry, Penland (hometownlocator GNIS mirror). The island had "a great tire swing." Unverified remainder: that TVA named it for this family (naming attribution) — plausible (GNIS names typically derive from prior landowners), chase in TVA land-acquisition records.
• Anne = founder's sister CONFIRMED (founder 9:51pm); dad's sister Anne (Eleanor Anne Harper) is a separate Anne — naming pattern continued.

Lambert/Olney line (opened 2026-07-20 ~10:15pm, third overnight agent running)

• Walter Rittenhouse Lambert (Eleanor's father) + Florence Olney Lambert (Eleanor's mother) — Long Island NY. Founder's breadcrumb "another generation back were the Olneys" was already confirmed by the obituary (Florence's maiden name). Maiden-name-as-middle-name pattern runs ≥2 generations.
• Providence rumor decoded: family lore says "related to James Rittenhouse, a founder of Providence RI" (he was nearly named Rittenhouse). Records: no James Rittenhouse among Providence founders; Thomas Olney (c.1600-1682) WAS one of the original 12 Providence proprietors (deeded by Roger Williams 1638, first town Treasurer — Wikipedia, read 2026-07-20), and had a son named James Olney.
• ⚡ PROVIDENCE CHAIN CONFIRMED (third agent, 2026-07-20 ~10:40pm) — 11 documented generations Eleanor → Thomas Olney: Eleanor Lambert Wilson (1919–2010) ← Walter Rittenhouse Lambert (1875 Manhattan – 1943, Green-Wood Cemetery) + Florence Armitage Olney (1889 Rome NY – 1975), m. 1912 ← Florence's parents James Preserved Olney (1856 Nantucket – 1928 Rome NY) + Adella Rogers ← William Russell Olney (1828–1889) + Sarah Mary Salisbury ← James A. Olney (1783–1862, Westernville NY) + Lucy Burt ← William Olney (b. 1756 PROVIDENCE RI – 1846 Westernville NY) ← Nathan Olney (1720–1788) — verbatim from the primary 1889 published genealogy: "Nathan⁵ (William⁴, William³, Thomas², Thomas¹)" ← William⁴ ← William³ (b. 1663, m. Catharine Sayles 1692) ← Thomas² ← Thomas Olney¹ (c.1600–1682), Providence founder. Sources: Find A Grave + WikiTree cross-matched, WikiTree citing "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Olney" (1889), p.28, archive.org. Caveats: gens 1–4 captured via the book's generation-notation string; OCR-relay — final verification = view p.28 page image directly. The "upstate NY" family memory is explained: the Olneys were the upstate family (Rome/Westernville, Oneida Co) — Eleanor herself was born NYC.
• Rittenhouse origin UNRESOLVED (best open thread): no Rittenhouse anywhere in Walter's documented ancestry (father John James Lambert 1846–1905, Manhattan merchant; mother Josephine Oakford (1853/55–1885) — her parents unnamed in any located record; grandparents Jeremiah Lambert + Garetta Van Dyke Vliet). The family's 4-generation maiden-name-as-given-name pattern (Barbara Van Dyke Lambert · Marion Selmes Olney · Burt Olney ← Lucy Burt · Eleanor Lambert Wilson's middle-name habit) makes Josephine Oakford's mother's maiden name = Rittenhouse the leading hypothesis. Needs NY/NJ vital indexes ~1850–1874 (login-walled). Germantown-PA Rittenhouse link: pure speculation, unchased. Founder was nearly named Rittenhouse — he'd have been the 5th generation of the pattern.
• Memoir correction: first book = "My Journey to Appalachia: A Year at the Folk School" (Bright Mountain Books, 2004, ISBN 0914875310).
• Period color (sourced): NYT 1945-10-19: "Miss Lambert Wed to Herman Wilson — Vassar Alumna Bride of Navy Man" (the founder's Navy detail, corroborated by the NYT); NYT 1916 birth announcement places the Lamberts at 15 E 10th St, Manhattan. Florence's uncle Burt Olney founded the Burt Olney Canning Co (Oneida NY, ~3,000 employees at peak; d. 1914 — reportedly by suicide; handle with sensitivity in any family-facing write-up). One agent line rendered Eleanor as "Eleanor Rittenhouse Lambert Wilson" — SUSPECT/unverified, obituary says Eleanor Lambert Wilson; do not propagate.

Across the pond (England pass, 2026-07-20 ~10:50pm — agent + my own verification fetches)

• Emigration CONFIRMED (primary compiled record, Hotten 1874): ship Planter, London permit 1635-04-02, arrived Boston 1635-06-07. Passenger list verbatim: "Olney, Thomas... 35 Shoemaker / Olney, Marie... 30 / Olney, Thomas... 3 / Olney, Epenetus... 1." Group left St. Albans with the parish minister's certificate.
• CONFIRMED (St. Albans Abbey parish registers, Brigg 1897 transcription): Thomas Olney m. Marie Ashton 1629-09-16; Marie bapt. 1605-08-25; her parents James Ashton + Alice; 8 siblings — sister Alice m. Thomas Angell (another Providence founding family; published NEHGS genealogy covers the Ashtons via the Angell line = cheap next widening).
• DEAD END (documented, stop): Thomas Olney's own parents — no credible source; "Mary Small" = known 1887 Austin transcription error; Norman/Domesday/royal-descent claims = unsourced genre-garbage (flagged even by the 1889 book itself). All real English residency = Hertfordshire, NOT Olney-Bucks (that's just surname etymology).
• ⚡ ROGER WILLIAMS DESCENT — STATUS: LIKELY, NOT CONFIRMED. Do not present as settled. Chain: Catharine Sayles (m. William Olney³ 1692) ← John Sayles + Mary Williams ← Roger Williams — multi-source on WikiTree, clean generational math. MY verification attempt (direct fetch of the 1889 Olney genealogy text): confirms the 1692 marriage but is SILENT on Catharine's parents, and reveals a SECOND Olney-Sayles union (Elizabeth Olney³ m. a John Sayles) = the conflation risk is real, not theoretical. Austin's 1887 RI dictionary full text unreachable tonight (file too large for fetch tooling — got A-B only). Next key: Austin's Sayles + Olney entries via page-targeted access, or NEHGS/AmericanAncestors (public library cards often include access), or Moriarty TAG 20:228 (1944).
• CONFIRMED consolation (1889 book verbatim): "Lydia² (Thomas¹)... married Joseph Williams, a son of Roger Williams, Nov. 26, 1669" — the Olney and Williams families intermarried within one generation regardless.
• Widening ranking (agent): 1. Sayles→Roger Williams (verify first) · 2. Ashton via the NEHGS Angell genealogy · 3. Goodspeed (4 gens already on WikiTree) · 4. Wiggins (claimed progenitor Thomas Wiggins, Wigan→Surry Co VA 1600s) · 5. Mashburn (claimed progenitor Edward Mashborne b.1676 London). Low/no value as stated: Myers, Burt, Salisbury (founding-family link NOT supported), Rogers (identity collision unresolved), Foster/Brown (too common w/o anchors), Lequire (Huguenot hunch unresolved, needs login-walled sources).
• Minor unresolved: "Discovered" vs "Deliverance" child name; 7-vs-8 children; 1889 book's "Marie Small 1631" vs parish-register "Marie Ashton 1629" (registers win pending Austin read).

Family-memory vs records (gentle corrections, records win)

• Eleanor died 2010 (not 2011), age exactly 91 (not mid-90s) — on her birthday.
• Eleanor born New York City, parents Long Island (obituary); founder's "grew up upstate NY" may be family shorthand — check her memoir.

Stories & color (sourced)

• Eleanor's arc is the family's founding romance: Vassar-educated New Yorker → one year at an Appalachian folk school in 1941 → married the local teacher → 60+ years in Brasstown → wrote it all down in two books. The memoirs are the single best primary source and have not been read yet — only jacket copy.
• The 106 Settawig listing's own copy: "hand-milled wood & forged hardware... Ellie's own stained glass still glowing in the sunroom"; the land includes the historic community springhead that served Brasstown before running water.
• Danny: the uncle who stayed — Folk School groundskeeper, folk dancer, Possum Drop judge.

Open discrepancy

Listing says the house was "built in 1941 by Eleanor & Monroe" — but she arrived in 1941, they married in 1945, and the memoir's publisher blurb says the Wilsons "bought a dairy farm in Brasstown" in 1949. Likely marketing simplification (house built 1941, Wilsons acquired later — which also matches Eleanor's obituary listing "farmer"). Resolver: Clay County Register of Deeds chain-of-title for 106 Settawig Rd (not yet attempted).

Quarantined (do NOT build on)

• "Warren Wilson Farm School" references — unrelated institution, surname coincidence.
• ~40 same-name Monroe/Eleanor Wilson Find A Grave memorials with no Clay/Cherokee County tie.
• A "Folk School dairy farm" worker reference (Rick Carter, late 1960s) — possibly the school's own dairy, not the Wilson farm; kept separate.

Next keys (in value order — updated 2026-07-21 04:50)

1. Founder confirms dad = John Herman Wilson + Anne = sister ✅ CONFIRMED 7/20 (9:43pm + 9:51pm messages).
2. Scan/read the memoirs — founder owns SIGNED copies of both (confirmed 10:28pm; no ordering needed). One phone-scan session triple-serves: KDP-republish manuscript ([[project-grandma-memoir-republish]]) + Monroe-line color + atlas stories.
3. FOUNDER ACTIONS READY (drafted + fresh-eyes-verified 2026-07-21): (a) submit Monroe's NARA archival request — full fill guide at 2026-07-21-monroe-nara-records-request.md ($70, no signature needed, suggest doing it with dad); (b) send the Spanner Books rights email — copy-paste draft at 2026-07-21-spanner-books-rights-outreach-draft.md (to spannerbooks@gmail.com); (c) one HCPLC branch visit → Fold3 WWII Navy muster rolls = Monroe's ship + service number same-day (in-library-only access, verified).
4. Mom's line unstarted ✅ OPENED + built out 7/20 (Gibby/Foster lines above); remaining Gibby keys = Bertha death-year (ask mom), Clay County Heritage Vol I Gibby entry, Gibby Furniture call.
5. Clay County deeds search (1941-vs-1949 house question).
6. Blocked-tonight retries when needed: Find A Grave county-scoped search (needs correct locationId), Chronicling America (403'd), 1950 census (JS portal; FamilySearch login-walled — no accounts without founder OK).

Key sources

• Eleanor Lambert Wilson obituary — Ivie Funeral Home (read directly 2026-07-20 via text proxy; children/grandchildren passage quoted above)
• Herman Monroe Wilson — Find A Grave
• Daniel Monroe Wilson obituary — FetchYourNews Clay Co. (sub-agent read; my re-fetch 500'd)
• My Life in Brasstown — Amazon · AbeBooks
• 106 Settawig listing video
• USPS Postmaster Finder — Postmasters by City (interactive form, run via Playwright 2026-07-21: Brasstown NC full postmaster list, Monroe's 1961 appointments primary-sourced)
• Full sub-agent extract with all sources preserved in session transcript 2026-07-20.

2026-07-21 research round 1+2 (34 agents) — structural updates

Full per-person findings + sources: 2026-07-21-lineage-research-partA.md + partB.md. Site (all three views) updated same morning. Headlines:

• Olney chain VERIFIED against the 1889 book, verbatim; both undated generations pinned: Thomas Olney² 1632–1722 (m. Elizabeth March 1660); William³ b. 1663-06-25 (m. Catharine Sayles 1692-12-20 [corrected 7/21 per Arnold], Wenscot Farm); William⁴ 1694–1771 (m. Phebe Angell 1716 — Angell family marrying back in, 3 generations after Marie Ashton's sister Alice m. Thomas Angell); Nathan⁵ b. Nov 1720 (day 20-vs-27 in-book conflict), m. Elizabeth Goodspead, Saratoga move c.1765-70. RW-via-Sayles: the 1889 book NEVER names Catharine's parents, zero RW links — CONFIRMED negative; stays unproven.
• New parents found (all PROBABLE unless noted): Martha Wiggins ← Rev. Abraham Lincoln Wiggins (1854–1924) + Clara Whiteside (1859–1916) ← Jason Holland Wiggins + Betsy Kirkland / Whitesides Sr + Ledbetter. Julius Foster ← Lumpkin Gaither Foster + Mary A. (census-continuity case; "Hooper" struck as unsourced). George W. Gibby's mother ← Rowena E. Rowland (~1818–1895). Sarah Lequire ← Wm Nathaniel LeQuire (1833–1918, Thomas's Legion) + Susannah Thomasson ← Joseph "Little Frenchman" LeQuire Sr (1798–1872, CONFIRMED) ← John LeQuire c.1755–1847, Rev-War pensioner (CONFIRMED — his 1832 sworn testimony = NC-born, kills the "born in France" lore). Adella Rogers ← Edgar Rogers (1837–75) + Mary A. Sharp (1845–1923) ← Jacob "Jake" Sharp (1817–88), NYC streetcar magnate, Boodle Board scandal + Catharine Munson. Sarah Salisbury ← Hiram Salisbury + Sarah Burt ← Preserved Salisbury (the James Preserved Olney name source). Lucy Burt ← Richard Burt (1745–1825, Saratoga Co NOT Oneida; r2-downgraded to PROBABLE). Mary Ann Kent ← Wm Alexander Kent + Catherine Dudley Taylor (Halifax VA). Narcissa Hunt ← Stephen Hunt + Nicey Johnson. Katie Thomas ← Wm Hunsucker Thomas + Nancy Willis. Rebecca Stroud ← Peter Stroud Jr + Margaret Curtis. Jeremiah Lambert (now 1812–1866) + Garetta (1824–1903) ← William Lambert + Sophia Melick (NJ).
• Corrections: Josephine Oakford b. 1855 (not 1853); buried Green-Wood Sec K Lot 17634 with a previously unknown first child Anita B. Lambert (1874–1882, b. New Brunswick NJ — redirects the Rittenhouse hunt to NJ; her 1885 NYC death cert = likely parent-naming unlock). Narcissa REMARRIED (William Dean, ~1863-69) — not a 47-yr widow; unmarked grave. "Armitage" = middle name (mother was Sharp). John M. Hayes = 1831–1864 (d. mid-war; Catharine's CSA widow-pension file at GA Archives = unpulled goldmine). Levi Wilson's 1st wife = Leah Johnson (d. 1845 childbirth); NC→GA move ≤1845. Richard Wilson d. 1850-04-11. Rachel Strain = 1773–1851. LeQuire "France" lore contradicted. Gibby age-gap resolved (1884 marriage, no earlier wife). Gibby Island attribution now PROBABLE (Clay County Progress 2026: "Part of John's original farm remains visible as Gibby Island"); JMG d. Dec 1958 logging accident. Marie Ashton d. bef. 1659-09-15 [POSSIBLE only].
• Process notes: 1 r2 agent failed (Sarah Burt Salisbury verifier returned a test stub — she stays PROBABLE on r1 evidence; re-verify sometime). One agent's "no Julius FaG memorial" claim was a demonstrated search false-negative (memorial 16161999 exists) — flagged in partA. POSSIBLE-only people kept OFF the viz: Lucy "Airies", Preserved's wife Mary, Cora Wilson Cook, Mary Adaline Hooper (struck).
• Top open keys after this round: Josephine's parents via NJ records/1885 death cert (Rittenhouse) · Eva Brown's parents (1938 GA death cert = the unlock) · Catharine Sayles's parents (RI vitals — the RW question) · Catharine Hayes's widow-pension pull · Nathan Olney birth-day page image · Marie Ashton death record.

2026-07-21 sibling-strategy round (18 agents) — structural updates

Founder-suggested method (siblings → their records → shared parents). Full findings: 2026-07-21-sibling-round-partC.md + partD.md. Headlines:

• ⚡ ROGER WILLIAMS DESCENT — ANCHORED per the pre-registered test. Austin 1887 read as page images by two independent agents: OLNEY entry p.353 names Catharine Sayles "of John & Mary (Williams) Sayles" (verbatim, quoted in partD) + 1670 deed in John Sayles's own words: land "which my father-in-law Mr. Roger Williams gave me." Caveats attached: Austin's Sayles child-list omits Catharine (his standard daughters-via-married-family pattern, but an absence); Austin's printed Mary Williams b. "Aug 1638" vs better-sourced Aug 1633 (eldest child); d. 1681-vs-1684 open. Remaining closer: Arnold's RI Vital Record. Status: PROBABLE-to-CONFIRMED; present as "high probability descent," never flat fact until Arnold. Chain: Ben → 11 Olney gens → Catharine Sayles ← John Sayles ⚭ Mary Williams ← ROGER WILLIAMS (c.1603–1683). Note the poetry: RW's 1638 deed gave Thomas Olney his Providence land — both sides of the tree meet in one document.
• HOOPER REVERSAL (sibling strategy working as designed): Julius Foster's brother Erastus Hoyt Foster's 1927 GA death cert (IMAGE viewed) names mother Mary Adeline Hooper — reverses the morning's "struck as unsourced." Both Julius parents now locked (father = Franklin Calloway Foster, CONFIRMED death cert + census); 9 siblings; quarantine: uncle Julius Woodfin Foster ≠ nephew Julius Calloway.
• New lines: Susannah Thomasson ← James Madison Thomasson (1809–1891) + Susannah Rebecca Truitt (1817–1890, date variants) ← Levi Truitt Jr (d. 1830, WILL-anchored CONFIRMED) + Susannah Morgan; Lemuel Thomasson (b. 1785) PROBABLE; ~19 Thomasson/Truitt siblings incl. Judge Levi Isaac Trewhitt. Rachel Strain ← Andrew Strain Sr (c.1750–1826) + Mary (maiden disputed Burgin/Cathey/Reed), 5 dual-sourced siblings. Clara Whiteside: 11 siblings; parents' dates pinned (Whitesides Sr 1829–1919, Ledbetter 1827–1919); Noah Whiteside + Malinda Lynch PROBABLE above.
• Walls that held, with yield: Richard Wilson — decisive NEGATIVE: zero Wilson wills/estates in three independent Surry Co record sets → redirect to Wilkes/Stokes/Rockingham/Ashe; "Ireland" birth lore flagged vs Mortality Schedule's Surry NC. Eva Brown — new filter: BOTH parents SC-born (1900 census); GA Archives Virtual Vault (free, pre-transcribed parent fields) = the project's best new tool — needs a browser session (Ray task). Josephine/Rittenhouse — Jane E. Oakford (1855–1880, Green-Wood Sec 81, w/ John M. + Almira Oakford) = first-ever birth-family candidate, POSSIBLE/uncited; her plot confirmed as the LAMBERT family plot (10 burials, no Oakfords); DATE CONFLICT logged: FaG b.1855/NJ vs her cited NYC death index b.~1853/NYC (parents both b. NYC) — unresolved, weakens (not kills) the NJ redirect.
• Downgrades/corrections (honesty ledger): Malachi Rowland + Sally Caylor → POSSIBLE (single uncited compiler; OFF the viz); Rowena's d. 1895 → uncorroborated, now "aft. 1880"; round-1 Watkins-as-Thomasson-daughter contamination = chronologically impossible, killed by the round's own cross-check. Contradictions logged, not adjudicated: GW Gibby d. 1909-vs-1915; Daniel Gibby birthplace Haywood-vs-Anderson SC; James Preserved Olney b. Nantucket-vs-Westernville (1925 county bio).
• Ops: session WebSearch cap (200) exhausted mid-round — future rounds budget accordingly or run in fresh sessions.
• Top open keys now: Arnold's RI Vital Record (RW closer) · Josephine's 1885 death CERT image + Jane E. Oakford's death record + 1874 Lambert-Oakford marriage via Reclaim-the-Records-style free NYC indexes · Eva Brown via GA Virtual Vault browser session · Richard Wilson in the redirected counties · Bertha 1995-vs-1999 (ask mom — still open).

2026-07-21 Phebe Angell crack (founder-prompted audit → targeted agent)

• Founder caught a bio OVERCLAIM on Phebe's page ("reaches back to Thomas Angell" as fact vs the tree's honest ?) — fixed, then the wall cracked same hour: Phebe Angell b. 1697-10-10 Providence, last child of James Angell² (Thomas¹) + Abigail Dexter [PROBABLE — uniqueness-plus-age-fit: only marriageable-age Phebe Angell in the entire Providence family at the 1716 Olney wedding; neither book cross-states it]. Sources: Angell 1872 family No.3 p.13 + Austin 1887 ANGELL entry (verbatim in agent return). Death UNFOUND → still no timeline bar. Chain if held: Phebe³ (James², Thomas¹) → Thomas Angell, original settler.
• NEW STORY LINE: Rev. Gregory Dexter (Abigail's father) = the London printer who printed Roger Williams's "A Key into the Language of America" (1643), later Providence Baptist pastor — 2nd London thread + 2nd RW connection. Added w/ Abigail Fullerton (ahn 2822/2823).
• DOWNGRADE (came free): the Alice-Ashton ⚭ Thomas Angell attribution is NOT documented on the Angell side — 1872: "unable to learn the surname of his wife"; Austin prints "Alice ( )"; the seed = a 1716 deposition ("uncle James Asten"). Earlier tree-doc phrasing stated it as fact via the England pass — now held at PLAUSIBLE-unproven on both Alice's node and Marie's page context. NEHGS Angell genealogy = the settle-it source.
• Contamination flag: Daniel Angell⁵ m. Phebe OLNEY (reverse-direction match) — do not merge.

Estimation methodology (2026-07-21)

Founder authorization, verbatim: "faded line for people with an unknown birth or death date based on average life expectancy at the time. As long as we have an anchor date... well informed assumptions as long as they are documented and we can disprove them later."

Rules (E1–E5):

• E1 marriage anchor: est_birth = marriage_year − 25 (men) / − 21 (women).
• E2 child anchor (if no marriage year): est_birth = earliest_known_child_birth − 27 (men) / − 23 (women).
• E3 death: est_death = (real-or-estimated birth) + 62 — adult life expectancy for people who reached adulthood — floored at (last-seen-alive year + 3) when such a record exists (Rowena "after 1880", Mary Adeline Hooper alive June 1925, Lemuel "after 1849").
• E4: a real documented date always overrides its estimated half; mixed bars keep the real end solid.
• E5: every estimate carries a one-line basis (anchor + rule) shown in the tooltip and on the person page; nobody with NO anchor at all is estimated.
• Cap: est_death never exceeds 2026 or precedes a documented event the person participated in.

Rendering: estimated bars are faded (50% opacity, dashed outline) with a short fade-out at whichever end is estimated; estimated years carry a leading ~ in the timeline, fan, tree, table, tooltips, and person pages. Each estimated person's page has an "Estimated dates" block with the basis and the disprove-me note.

Who got estimates (22 people, ahn · ~birth–~death · basis):

• 23 Adella Rogers Olney · ~1866–~1928 · E2 (daughter Florence b. 1889 − 23); bounded by parents Edgar Rogers (d. 1875) + Mary A. Sharp (b. 1845) — ~1866 fits the bound
• 29 Mary Adeline Hooper · 1856–~1928 · E3 floored (1856+62=1918 < alive-June-1925 + 3)
• 45 Sarah Mary Salisbury · ~1833–~1895 · E2 (son James Preserved b. 1856 − 23); consistent with mother d. 1840
• 49 Rowena E. Rowland · 1818–~1883 · E3 floored (after-1880 + 3)
• 89 Lucy Burt · ~1794–~1856 · E1 (m. 1815 − 21)
• 101 Martha Jane Watkins · ~1810–~1872 · E2 (son William N. b. 1833 − 23); consistent with husband 1798–1872
• 131 Mary (Strain) · ~1750–~1812 · E2 (daughter Rachel b. 1773 − 23); same era as husband Andrew Sr (c.1750–1826)
• 204 Lemuel Thomasson · 1785–~1852 · E3 floored (after-1849 + 3)
• 353 Elizabeth Goodspead · ~1733–~1795 · E2 (son William b. 1756 − 23)
• 705 Phebe Angell · 1697–~1759 · E3
• 1408 William Olney Ⅲ · 1663–~1725 · E3
• 1409 Catharine Sayles · ~1671–~1733 · E1 (m. 1692 − 21)
• 1410 James Angell · ~1653–~1715 · E1 (m. 1678 − 25)
• 1411 Abigail Dexter · ~1657–~1719 · E1 (m. 1678 − 21)
• 2817 Elizabeth March · ~1639–~1701 · E1 (m. 1660 − 21)
• 2820 Thomas Angell · ~1626–~1688 · E2 chained on son James's ESTIMATED birth — weakest class; fits the arriving-young ~1636 cohort lore; era, not date
• 2821 Alice (surname unproven) · ~1630–~1692 · E2 chained — weakest class
• 2822 Gregory Dexter · ~1630–~1692 · E2 chained via daughter Abigail — weakest class; TENSION: his documented 1643 London imprint of Williams's "Key" argues for an earlier birth — a ready disproof to chase in Dexter biography
• 2823 Abigail Fullerton · ~1634–~1696 · E2 chained — weakest class
• 5633 Marie Ashton · 1605–~1667 · E3; a POSSIBLE pre-Sept-1659 death record, if verified, overrides
• 11266 James Ashton · ~1578–~1640 · E2 (daughter Marie bapt. 1605 − 27)
• 11267 Alice (Ashton) · ~1582–~1644 · E2 (daughter Marie bapt. 1605 − 23)

NOT estimated (E4 — real dates already pinned, drawn solid for the first time instead): Lumpkin Gaither Foster (1856–1925), Franklin Calloway Foster (1830–1911), Harriett Foster (1826–1880), Mary Barnard (1609–1676). Skipped entirely (no anchor or living): the four unknown-placeholder wedges, living family.

2026-07-21 frontier round 4 (13 agents) — structural updates

Full findings: 2026-07-21-frontier-round4-partE.md + partF.md. The standing nightly loop (/family-research-round, manifest 2:41am system|sonnet) starts tonight. Headlines:

• ⚡⚡ ST ALBANS CONVERGENCE (day's crown jewel): Roger Williams's mother was Alice PEMBERTON of St Albans — Roger Pemberton's 1627 will names "my cosen and Godsonne Roger Williams" (verbatim, NEHGR 43); James Williams (d. 1620/21, merchant tailor) will-corpus CONFIRMED, identification PROBABLE per Waters 1889. Both English lines (Olney/Ashton) AND RW's maternal family trace to the same Hertfordshire town the 1635 Planter party left. New nodes: James Williams + Alice Pemberton (ahn 11276/11277). POSSIBLE-tier off-viz: Robert Pemberton (grandfather candidate), the 1564 Alice baptism, RW siblings. Cornwall theory quarantined.
• CORRECTION: Olney–Sayles marriage = 1692-12-20 (Arnold Vol.2 pp.137+163, double cross-indexed, both citing Providence Book 1 p.423). Prior figures (28th from the 1889 relay, 18th variant) both wrong. Arnold also enumerates SIX children of William+Catherine incl. William b. 1694-10-06 (= our William⁴, independently confirming that link) — but is SILENT on Catharine's parentage (only Mary 1652 + John 1654 recorded for John & Mary Sayles) → RW descent stays anchored-per-Austin; new closer = John Sayles's probate. RW's six children independently reconfirmed (Mary b. Aug 1633 ✓); a later same-name Roger (Scituate 1735 line) quarantined.
• ALICE-ASHTON⚭ANGELL: NEARLY DEAD. St Albans register: James Ashton's daughter Alice was buried as a CHILD 1613/14; zero Angell⚭Ashton marriages in the register. The sisters-link is now register-CONTRADICTED (was: plausible-unproven). The Phebe/William-Ⅳ third-cousin hypothetical dies with it. Also new from the register: Epinetus Olney bapt. 1633/4 — matches the Planter passenger list's toddler "Epenetus" (register + ship list now corroborate); Sara Ashton pinned 1619/20; Lidia Olney PROBABLE sister of Thomas¹.
• ESTIMATE SYSTEM WORKING AS DESIGNED — ~16 estimate-halves retired by real dates same day: Gregory Dexter c.1610–1700 (the flagged 1643-imprint disproof FIRED; "Olney, Northamptonshire" birth = unsourced 1859 tradition w/ wrong county — Bucks); Thomas Angell 1618–1694 CONFIRMED (arrived on the Lyon WITH Roger Williams) + Alice d. 1695; Abigail Dexter b. 1655-09-24; Abigail Fullerton d. 1706; James Angell d. 1711; James Ashton bur. 1651; Alice (Ashton) bur. 1643; Lucy Burt 1790–1876; Sarah Mary Salisbury 1835–1924; Richard Burt 1745-04-17–1825-10-29; Lumpkin Gaither Foster 1856-10-12–1925-06-03 CONFIRMED via his own GA death cert (Virtual Vault browser run WORKED).
• Virtual Vault verdict: coverage ends 1927 → Eva Brown's 1938 cert is OUT of coverage (that open key is impossible as stated; her wall needs GA Archives order/other doors). But the sweep pulled Foster gold: Lumpkin's cert + Osborn Calliway Foster's cert naming mother "Malindy Osbon" = first primary support for Harriett Malinda Osborn (Osborn Calliway 1862–1926, PROBABLE uncle of Julius).
• OAKFORD/RITTENHOUSE: founder-hands documents now cert-numbered: Lambert–Oakford marriage = Manhattan cert #923, Jan 22 1874 (Municipal Archives order = trivial); John M. Oakford death #16353 (unpullable via open routes), Almira #3603; John M. Oakford's 1898 probate = the decisive next document. Both r2s landed DOWN honestly: Almira→Josephine link formally POSSIBLE (her 1885 death record names parents' birthplaces, not names; the plot's one documented child is Jane E.).
• Sarah Burt Salisbury r2-redo: cleared + parents John Burt (1775–1871) + Sarah Olney [PROBABLE; Sarah Olney = DO-NOT-CONFLATE with our Providence Olneys until anchored; Sylvester-vs-FaG child-count discrepancy logged unmerged]. Lucy "Airies" POSSIBLE→PROBABLE candidate (doc-only). Richard Wilson: clean 4-county negative (Wilkes/Stokes/Rockingham/Ashe) + reusable NC Archives AXAEM JSON API + best lead = Aquilla Wilson will c.1802 Rockingham.
• Tooling landmines (for /family-research-round): WebFetch summarizer false-negatives on large djvu.txt (use curl+grep); raw _djvu.txt can truncate ~25-30 pages (use fulltext inside.php); Wikipedia dates = don't import unverified.
• Top open keys now: John Sayles probate (RW closer) · founder orders: Manhattan marriage cert #923 + John M. Oakford 1898 probate · Eva Brown via GA Archives (post-1927 certs) or SC-side doors · Aquilla Wilson will c.1802 · Alice Pemberton 1564-baptism verification · Thomas Olney's own St Albans baptism (still unfound).

2026-07-22 frontier round 5 (16 agents, partG/partH) — structural updates

Full findings: 2026-07-22-frontier-round5-partG.md + partH.md. Headlines:

• ⚡ Goodspeed/Wooding line extension, shipped to roots.rdco.dev: Elizabeth Goodspead (ahn 353) gets her first-ever REAL date — b. Oct 10, 1731, Rochester MA (PROBABLE, Goodspeed genealogy + Rochester VR) — retiring the old ~1733 estimate (E2, chained on son William's 1756 birth) per E4; her death stays estimated at ~1795 (E3), unchanged. Six new ancestors added behind her: her parents Stephen Goodspeed (ahn 706, b.1706–d.1763) and Bethiah Wooding (ahn 707, b.1711 PROBABLE–ed1773), and their parents Nathaniel Goodspeed + Sarah King (ahn 1412/1413, CONFIRMED existence, m. 1705, estimated dates) and Peter Wooding + Elizabeth Mallot (ahn 1414/1415, CONFIRMED, m. 1696 Beverly MA, Peter's 1717 death real). Site pages + bios written for all six; Elizabeth's own bio rewritten to reflect the new birth and parents.
• Reconciled: Stephen Goodspeed's death year is 1763, not 1776. partG's original frontier pass read the 1907 Goodspeed Family Genealogy and reported 1776; partH's same-round follow-up read the identical book and found 1763 corroborated by a second, independent passage about son Hosea's age at his father's death. The 1763 reading rules — it has the internal cross-check the 1776 reading lacks. Drawn on the site as d:1763.
• Reconciled: GW "Wash" Gibby's death date stays 1909 — no change to the Gibby line. partG surfaced a federal TVA Cemetery Relocation database row giving "Gibbey, Wash" a 1915 death (paired with a birth year, 1860, that contradicts his well-established 1844 birth). partH's independent read of the same underlying string decoded it as cemetery-relocation-survey metadata (the plot's own active span + relocation destination plot, not a person's birth/death years) — if correct, the 1860/1915 pair was never about Wash Gibby's own life dates at all. Per the founder's standing instruction, 1909 stays the displayed date; the 1915 figure is not adjudicated as proven, just explained plausibly. No Gibby node touched.
• Unresolved, logged not adjudicated: Alice Pemberton's baptism, 18 Feb 1564 NS vs 1565 NS. partG's frontier pass cited the register's year-heading as "1563-4" (full-text search) → 1564 NS; its own r2 follow-up went back to the actual page image and read "1564-5" → 1565 NS, one year later. The page-image read should weight higher, but a third independent check is recommended before either date is presented as settled. Alice Pemberton (ahn 11277) is undated on the site either way (b:null); this affects only the doc-record, not the drawn node.
• Doc-only date pins, Oakford (HOLD list — not added to the site): John M. Oakford's death is June 19, 1898 (not the working "January 1898"), cert #16353, age 72 at death (→ b.~1826). Almira Oakford: b.~1832 (was ~1835), d. June 5, 1870, cert #3603. Both cross-matched independently by two research passes hitting the same GGG cert numbers, though neither pass viewed the certificate image itself — PROBABLE, not CONFIRMED. No Rittenhouse maiden-name evidence found for Almira; do not tag her "Rittenhouse" anywhere. The Oakford↔Josephine link and the Rittenhouse hypothesis both stay off-site per the standing POSSIBLE-tier quarantine.
• Doc-only, quarantined (Pemberton upstream — HOLD list, not added to the site): Robert Pemberton of St Albans (Alice's father; d./bur. July 16, 1578) — burial now independently CONFIRMED via a direct primary-register page image (upgraded from "accepted on premise"), but his identification as the Visitation of Hertfordshire's Robert stays PROBABLE. Katherine/Catherine Pemberton (Alice's mother, widow by 1578) — POSSIBLE only; a "maiden name Stokes" claim circulating on one secondary site is unsourced, do not adopt. Siblings John/Mary/Sara Pemberton (baptized St Albans 1563/1566/1568) — POSSIBLE, doc-only. Ralfe (Raffe) Pemberton — clarified this round as a genuine grandson of Robert (2nd son of Roger Pemberton + Elizabeth More), resolving the "Ralfe vs Roger" scribal-error question left open last round; still POSSIBLE, doc-only.
• Two honest dead ends, logged not chased further this round: Eva Brown's SC-side parentage (every online-index route hit a login wall or a lead-gen fake) and Thomas Olney's own baptism (confirmed genuinely absent from the complete, intact St Albans register — a real negative). Aquilla Wilson's will does NOT name a son Richard, weakening (not killing) last round's "best lead" for Richard Wilson (b.1767)'s parentage.
• Top open keys carried forward: a third independent page-image check of Alice Pemberton's baptism year (1564 vs 1565 NS) · John Sayles's probate, the RW/Sayles closer ("Providence Book of Probate p.64," an unverified WikiTree citation to a volume outside the 21-vol printed Early Records series) · Aquilla Wilson will image order (NC State Archives, Rockingham Co. OW/172) to confirm the heir list is complete · Eva Brown via GA Archives mail request or a FamilySearch session (both founder-hands) · order the actual Oakford certificate images (#16353, #3603) from NYC Municipal Archives — the direct settle for the Rittenhouse question · TNA PROB 11 Roger Pemberton's full 1627 will and HALS's 1578 St Albans archdeaconry admon book, both undigitized.

2026-07-23 frontier round 6 (partI/partJ) — Goodspeed/Wooding parents + Robert Pemberton + Alice Pemberton date settled

Full findings: frontier research slicers partI (slicer A) and partJ (slicer B). Headlines:

• ⚡ Nine new ancestors added — Goodspeed/Wooding two more generations upstream + Pemberton settled: Total ANC grows from 124 to 133 nodes. Implementation notes: truncation of index.html from a prior aborted pass was repaired; all content restored with round-5 entries plus new round-6 entries appended correctly.

• Alice Pemberton baptism date SETTLED: 18 Feb 1565 NS. Third independent check (per the round-5 recommendation) confirmed the page-image reading. Register verbatim: "Alice Pemberton doughter of Eobort" — year heading "1564-5" → 1565 NS. The 1564 reading is eliminated. ANC entry for ahn 11277 now carries b:1565, d:1634 (CONFIRMED). This also confirmed Robert Pemberton's paternity from the same register entry.

• Robert Pemberton (ahn 22554) CONFIRMED and added to the tree. Father of Alice Pemberton (ahn 11277), Roger Williams's mother. Burial confirmed July 16, 1578, St Albans Abbey — Brigg 1897 parish register transcript (archive.org). Three sibling baptism entries in the same register name him explicitly as father: John, Alice, and Sara Pemberton. Birth estimated ~1535 (E2 from first child). Site page: robert-pemberton.html. The Pembertons are of the same St Albans parish as the Olney/Ashton families who sailed to Providence in 1635 — both English lines of this tree trace to one Hertfordshire town.

• Nathaniel (2) Goodspeed (ahn 2824, b.1642–d.1670) + Elizabeth Bursley (ahn 2825, b.1649–d.1707): parents of Nathaniel (10) Goodspeed (ahn 1412). Birth and death of Nathaniel (2) confirmed from Goodspeed 1907 p.55 and the 1670 Plymouth Colony probate (Wills vol.3 p.19), which names Roger Goodspeed as his father and gives estate £72. Elizabeth Bursley's baptism March 25, 1649, confirmed from Goodspeed 1907 ("daughter of John and Joanna (Hull) Bursley"). Both PROBABLE tier.

• Roger Goodspeed (ahn 5648, eb:~1615–d.1685) + Alice Layton (ahn 5649, eb:~1618–d.1689): parents of Nathaniel (2) Goodspeed (ahn 2824). Original Barnstable settlers, 1639. Roger's paternity of Nathaniel (2) CONFIRMED from the 1670 probate. His own English origins are explicitly unknown per Goodspeed 1907 verbatim: "it has not been learned from what country Roger (1) came, nor in what vessel, nor when" — and the same of Alice. Real death dates for both: Roger d.1685, Alice d.1689, both Barnstable MA.

• John Bursley (ahn 5650, eb:~1599–d.1660) + Joanna Hull (ahn 5651, eb:~1620–ed:~1682): parents of Elizabeth Bursley (ahn 2825). Captain John Bursley was an original Barnstable settler from Lothrop's congregation; married Joanna Hull (daughter of Rev. Joseph Hull, the town's first minister) November 28, 1639, confirmed in Lothrop's own church diary. John died 1660; Joanna remarried Dolor Davis.

• John Woodin (ahn 2828, eb:~1620–ed:~1718) + Mary Johnson (ahn 2829, eb:~1632–d.1681): parents of Peter Wooding (ahn 1414). Per Delorey, American Genealogist vol.64 (October 1989). Peter's birth confirmed from Rowley MA Vital Records: "Peter (Wooden), s. John, Mar. 13, 1674" — this also retired the old round-5 estimate (eb:1671), replacing it with a real birth date (b:1674, E4 rule). John Woodin was a brickmaker who died "att Carolina formerly of Haverhill" (estate admin June 30, 1721). Mary Johnson died c. February 12, 1681, Ipswich MA; the Edmund Johnson household connection is POSSIBLE only (Anderson 2005 found it "unlikely").

• Peter Wooding (ahn 1414) date upgrade: round-5 had eb:1671 (estimated). This round confirmed b:1674 from Rowley VR — E4 rule applied, estimate retired. Trail updated to "Rowley MA → Beverly MA → Rochester MA".

• ANC count: 118 → 133 (round-5 had grown from 118 to 124 but those 6 entries were missing from the truncated file; this round restores them and adds 9 more). build-people.mjs: 122 → 131 person pages. people-bios.json: 116 → 125 entries (9 new bio entries added, plus nathaniel-goodspeed and peter-wooding updated to name their parents).

• Reconciled contradictions this round:

  • Elizabeth Bursley's maiden name: slicer A used "Bursley," slicer B's Delorey-sourced data agreed. Ruling: Bursley.
  • John Woodin's death: slicer A gave "est. 1721" (from the estate admin filing), slicer B gave "died att Carolina formerly of Haverhill" (verbatim). Both slicers' data consistent; estate admin June 30, 1721 = the date of the administration grant, not necessarily the death date (he likely died earlier). Drawn as ed:1718 (estimated from eb:1620 + 62 per E3, floored by the 1718 Florida/Carolina trajectory).
  • Nathaniel (10) Goodspeed's birth: round-5 had eb:1680 (E1 from 1705 marriage); round-6 corrected to eb:1670 per Goodspeed 1907 p.55 verbatim "Nathaniel (10) born 1669 or 1670." Updated in this round's ANC entry.

• Top open keys carried forward: John Sayles probate · Aquilla Wilson will image (NC Archives) · Eva Brown GA Archives request · Oakford certificate images (#16353, #3603) NYC Municipal Archives · TNA PROB 11 Roger Pemberton 1627 will · HALS 1578 St Albans archdeaconry admon book. Next frontier opportunity: Goodspeed/Wooding line now pushed to ~1600 in England; the next generation (Roger Goodspeed's English father Robert Goodspeed, d. England 1658) is in English parish records — a natural follow-on.

2026-07-24 frontier round 7 — Kent/Morgan parents + Hull line extension

Full findings: SLICER A (Hull line) + SLICER B (Kent/Morgan). 7 new ancestors added; ANC grows from 133 to 140 nodes. Build output: 138 person pages (the AHN 11303 placeholder and AHN 22605 entry merge into existing stubs by slug). Headlines:

• Hull line extended two generations upstream: Joanna Hull (ahn 5651, wife of John Bursley) is confirmed daughter of Rev. Joseph Hull (ahn 11302, bapt. 1596 Crewkerne Somerset – d. 1665), Barnstable's first minister. Joseph's father is Thomas Hull "the Younger" (ahn 22604, eb:~1565–ed:~1627) of Crewkerne; mother is Joanna (Peson) Hull (ahn 22605, eb:~1572–ed:~1634). Joseph's baptism confirmed from Crewkerne St Bartholomew parish register. Thomas Hull the Younger's parentage not yet established. First unknown mother slot: ahn 11303 (placeholder "Unknown [first wife of Rev. Joseph Hull]") — Joanna Hull's mother; Joseph's second wife was Jane (surname unknown); which wife bore Joanna is unresolved. Do not draw ahn 11303 until confirmed.

• Kent parents found (PROBABLE): Mary Ann Kent (ahn 33) ← William Alexander Kent (ahn 66, b. 1794, d. 1861, Halifax County VA) ← Alexander Kent (ahn 132, b. 1755, d. 1841, Cumberland → Halifax County VA). Alexander confirmed as PROBABLE via WikiTree + two-direction Geni corroboration (Alexander's profile lists William among children; William's profile lists Alexander as father). No primary record (will, deed, census image) directly accessed — PROBABLE pending Halifax County probate or tax record. Alexander's parents (Robert R. Kent + Mary Ligon Kent from Geni) are POSSIBLE only, not drawn.

• Morgan parents found (PROBABLE): Susannah Morgan (ahn 207) ← Rev. James Morgan Sr. (ahn 414, eb:~1729–ed:~1804) + Mary 'Molly' Davis Morgan (ahn 415, eb:~1736–ed:~1805). DAR Ancestor #A132519 (James Morgan Sr., oath of allegiance Randolph County NC, January 18, 1785) is the only non-FaG corroboration. Named father in FaG memorials for at least three independent children (Perminter FaG 14905063, Elijah FaG 7632882, Susannah FaG 290362333). Death c. 1804–1810 NC — two conflicting secondary sources; 1804 used as better-supported. DO NOT use "James Isaac Morgan" — the "Isaac" middle name appears only in Susannah's FaG, not in the father's own memorial. Mary 'Molly' Davis Morgan: dates from Perminter's memorial (1736–1805); PROBABLE pending any primary corroboration.

• ANC count: 133 → 140 (7 new AHN entries: 132, 414, 415, 11302, 11303, 22604, 22605). Updated entries: AHN 66 (story + parent reference to ahn 132), AHN 5651 (story + parent reference to ahn 11302). Build: 138 person pages (2 new slugs — rev-joseph-hull, alexander-kent — plus updates to joanna-hull, william-alexander-kent, susannah-morgan pages).

• Implementation note: index.html ANC block had cascading apostrophe parity issues introduced during this round's edits (mixed U+2019/U+0027 string delimiters in AHN 22554 + new entries). Required multi-pass scanner repair before build would succeed. people-bios.json had entries written with U+201C/U+201D as structural JSON delimiters (non-standard) plus raw newlines inside strings; required a custom tolerant JSON parser to re-encode. Both files are clean as of this round's final commit.

• Top open keys carried forward (unchanged): John Sayles probate · Aquilla Wilson will image (NC Archives) · Eva Brown GA Archives request · Oakford certificate images (#16353, #3603) NYC Municipal Archives · TNA PROB 11 Roger Pemberton 1627 will · HALS 1578 St Albans archdeaconry admon book · Halifax County VA probate/tax record for Alexander Kent (ahn 132) · Crewkerne parish for Thomas Hull the Younger's own parents · identity of Rev. Joseph Hull's first wife (Joanna Hull's mother).

2026-07-25 frontier round 8 — Kent/Hull parents confirmed + Morgan/Wilson story corrections

Full findings: 2026-07-25-frontier-round8-partM.md (Slicer A) + 2026-07-25-frontier-round8-partN.md (Slicer B). 3 new ancestors added; ANC grows from 140 to 143 nodes. Build: 141 person pages. Headlines:

• ⚡ Robert Kent Sr. (ahn 264) CONFIRMED as father of Alexander Kent (ahn 132) — primary document. Halifax County VA will (Oct 10, 1782, probated July 17, 1783) names Alexander Kent explicitly as an heir. First primary document directly accessing the Kent parentage chain. ANC[264] added to tree; ANC[132] story updated with CONFIRMED finding. Alexander's own NARA pension file S38113 simultaneously confirmed his Revolutionary War service: private in Capt. Hughes Woodson's company, 10th Virginia Regiment, Col. Edward Stevens commanding; 3 years Continental line, March 1777 – March 1780 Philadelphia; battles Brandywine, Germantown, Stoney Point; pensioned $8/month from June 28, 1825; listed in 1840 Halifax County pensioner census age 84.

• ⚡ Richard Hull (ahn 45208) and Alice Hull (ahn 45209) confirmed as parents of Thomas Hull the Younger (ahn 22604). Two independent primary anchors: (1) Richard Hull's will (dated 10 Feb 1558/59, proved 6 Jun 1559, Archdeaconry of Taunton, Somerset) — previously identified "bef. Oct 1559" corrected to "bef. 6 Jun 1559"; (2) Crewkerne St Bartholomew parish register (D/P/crew) marriage entry 11 Jan 1572/73 verbatim: "Thomas Hull the sonne of Alice Hull widdow married with Johane Peson the daughter of Richard Pesinge and Margery his wife the xj-th daye of January" — confirms Alice's maternity without relying on either will. Both new AHN entries added: 45208 (Richard Hull, d. bef. 6 Jun 1559, Somerset) and 45209 (Alice Hull, bur. 20 Oct 1587, Crewkerne — burial from parish register, corrects "bef. 20 Oct 1587" framing derived from probate date). Crewkerne marriage register also independently CONFIRMED by Slicer B.

• "Rev." prefix for James Morgan Sr. (ahn 414) REFUTED and corrected. Ministerial titles belong to sons, not the father: Rev. Perminter Morgan (b. 29 Aug 1755, ordained 1791, first pastor Mountain Creek Baptist Church) and Rev. James Morgan Jr. (pension S7251, born Baltimore County MD) are the ministers of this family. James Morgan Sr. held civic roles as Justice of the Peace and Major in the Militia. Family settled "old Rowan County (now Guilford and Randolph Counties) along the Uwharrie River" after arriving NC 1764. Name field updated: "Rev. James Morgan Sr." → "James Morgan Sr." A second James Morgan Sr. (WikiTree Morgan-15829, b.~1724 Glamorgan Wales, Rowan County NC) frequently conflated with DAR A132519 in secondary sources — note for future rounds.

• Richard Wilson (ahn 64) "born in Ireland" alternative CONFIRMED ABSENT from primary source. 1850 Macon County Mortality Schedule (primary) states Surry County NC birthplace unambiguously. "Wilson Richard" listed on page 16 of 1800 Iredell County NC census per USGenWebArchives (PROBABLE; column/age data unverified). Aquilla Wilson will (Rockingham County NC c.1802) heir list fully established via Geni: Richard is absent from the named heirs. CONFIRMED clean negative: no Aquilla Wilson heir in Haywood or Macon County NC. Aquilla-as-father hypothesis unchanged at POSSIBLE.

• Early Records of Providence Vol. 4 as source for June 1670 Sayles-Williams deed REJECTED. Vol. 4 content demonstrably starts circa April 1672; exhaustive grep of all four volumes (Vols. 1–4) found zero June 1670 records and zero "father-in-law" language near Sayles or Williams. Previous round suggestion that Vol. 4 held this deed was incorrect. FamilySearch microfilm 0022117 page 64 remains the single unchecked primary path.

• ANC count: 140 → 143 (3 new AHN entries: 264, 45208, 45209). Updated entries: 132 (CONFIRMED father, Rev-War story), 414 (Rev. prefix removed), 64 (Round 8 negative evidence), 22604 (Crewkerne register primary anchor added), 1409 (conf updated), 415 (conf updated), 11303 (conf updated). people-bios.json: new entries for robert-kent-sr, richard-hull, alice-hull; updated for richard-wilson, alexander-kent, catharine-sayles, unknown-first-wife-of-rev-joseph-hull, thomas-hull-the-younger, james-morgan-sr.

• Implementation note: Extensive encoding repairs required before build would succeed. Edit tool introduced U+2019/U+2018 curly quotes as string delimiters and backslashes before opening/closing quotes in 8+ ANC entries (ANC[64], [132], [414], [415], [1409], [11303], [22604], [22605], [45208], [45209], [264]) plus FRONTIER_HINTS. The extractBlock function in build-people.mjs does not handle // comments — an apostrophe in a comment at byte ~91557 was causing ANC block extraction to short-circuit at AHN 182. Required multi-pass Python byte-level scanner/fixer plus a U+2019 apostrophe substitution in the comment. Both files clean as of this round.

• Top open keys carried forward: FamilySearch authenticated session — microfilm 0022117 page 64 (Providence probate book) for Sayles-Williams deed · Rev. James Morgan Jr. pension S7251 (NARA) — sworn testimony naming father + NC county · Eva C. Brown 1938 Hall County GA death certificate (FamilySearch Georgia Death Certificates 1919–1998) — parents by law · Absher "Stokes County NC Wills 1790–1864" (physical library: NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest) — search for Wilson testator naming Richard · Archive.org reel populationsc18000029unit — Iredell County page 16 to confirm Wilson Richard age bracket · John Sayles probate · Aquilla Wilson will image (NC Archives) · Oakford certificate images (#16353, #3603) NYC Municipal Archives · TNA PROB 11 Roger Pemberton 1627 will · Crewkerne parish for Thomas Hull the Younger's own parents · identity of Rev. Joseph Hull's first wife.

2026-07-26 frontier round 9 (partO/partP) — Goodspeed English line extended three generations + Sayles/Hull/Williams/Morgan enrichment

Full findings: 2026-07-26-frontier-round9-partO.md (Slicer A) + 2026-07-26-frontier-round9-partP.md (Slicer B). 4 new ancestors added; ANC grows from 143 to 147 nodes. Build: 145 person pages. Headlines:

• ⚡ Goodspeed English line pushed three generations back: Robert Goodspeed (ahn 11296, bapt. 1578 Wingrave, Bucks – d. 1658/61) identified as Roger Goodspeed's (ahn 5648) own father, via G. Andrews Moriarty's 1928 NEHGR article quoting the Wingrave parish register and Robert's own 1658 will verbatim (bequeaths to sons "Roger, Bennett, and Thomas... if they or any of them return from beyond the seas" — matching Roger's known 1639 Barnstable emigration). His parents Robert Goodspeed Sr. (ahn 22592, m. 1552 – bur. 1600) + Isabel Allyn (ahn 22593, m. 1552 – bur. 1583/4) and grandfather Nicholas Goodspeed (ahn 45184, d. 1557/58) also added — all PROBABLE tier, DOWNGRADED from the round's self-assigned CONFIRMED per this tree's standing convention (secondary-compiled-genealogy verbatim quote ≠ directly-examined primary register image, same tier already used for Goodspeed 1907 and Austin 1887 citations). ANC[5648] updated with fa:11296.

• CONTRADICTION LOGGED, NOT RESOLVED: Slicer A (partO) proposed adding Alice Harris (ahn 11297) as Robert Goodspeed's wife and mother of Roger Goodspeed; Slicer B (partP), which ran the dedicated verification dispatch on this exact question, explicitly instructed NOT to draw an ahn 11297 mother slot, citing Goodspeed 1907's existing "explicitly unknown" language on Roger's origins as a possible (but ambiguous) negative on his mother's identity too. Given the direct disagreement between the two independently-dispatched slicers on the same question, the implementer did NOT add Alice Harris or an ahn 11297 mother link this round — the conservative call, consistent with this tree's "never overclaim" discipline. Founder-hands: resolve whether Goodspeed 1907's negative is about immigration circumstances only (in which case Alice Harris, well-documented as Robert's wife per Phillimore's Bucks Marriage Register 1609, is very likely also Roger's mother) or extends to parentage; if resolved in Alice Harris's favor, add ahn 11297 next round.

• Rev. Joseph Hull's second wife re-corroborated as Agnes, not "Jane." Two more independent sources this round (NEHGR Vol.25 1871 verbatim passenger-list quote + Hull Family Association's own vetted errors page) agree with the round-8 correction already on the tree. Age arithmetic on the same 1635 passenger list also resolves that Joanna Hull's mother (ahn 11303) is Joseph's unnamed FIRST wife, not Agnes — Agnes was only 25 in 1635, too young to have borne children listed ahead of her on the same manifest. A citation-integrity flag was also logged: the tree's own "Narragansett Historical Register Vol. I p.145" citation for the POSSIBLE "Joanna" first-wife name could not be verified at that location this round — flagged for correction, not removed.

• Sayles/Roger-Williams chain gets two more independent-of-Austin anchors, still PROBABLE not CONFIRMED. Catharine Sayles (ahn 1409), John Sayles (ahn 2818), and Mary Williams (ahn 2819) stories all updated with: an 1702 Daniel Williams quitclaim deed (Narragansett Historical Register Vol.3, independent of Austin) naming Mary [Williams] as mother of John Sayles Jr.; two 1653/1659-60 Colony and town records documenting John Sayles's civic role; and a second, independent 1694 land record plus a fuller Sayles children list (still no Catharine named anywhere). Per standing rule, none of this closes the chain — it remains ANCHORED-PER-AUSTIN.

• James Williams (ahn 11276) story enriched: his own 1620 will independently confirmed to name a third child, "Katherine Williams," not previously on the tree (still a collateral relative, no ahn assigned); TNA Discovery catalog cross-check confirms Roger Pemberton's will citation; a new, unread TNA "Sentence" record surfaced as a lead only.

• James Morgan Sr. (ahn 414) and Mary "Molly" Davis Morgan (ahn 415) get a CAVEAT, not a downgrade. The Perminter Morgan parentage claim was found to rest on a single uncited paragraph duplicated near-verbatim across FindAGrave/Geni/WikiTree/MyHeritage — not independent per-child corroboration as the tree's existing rationale implied. Two dedicated period Perminter Morgan biographies name no father at all. A birthplace conflict (VA vs MD) also surfaced. Confidence tier stays PROBABLE this round; flagged for a future-round downgrade review.

• ANC count: 143 → 147 (4 new AHN entries: 11296, 22592, 22593, 45184). Updated entries: 5648 (fa link added), 11302, 11303, 1409, 2818, 2819, 11276, 414, 415 (all story enrichment, no tier changes). people-bios.json: 135 → 139 entries (4 new bio entries for robert-goodspeed, robert-goodspeed-sr, isabel-allyn, nicholas-goodspeed; updated for roger-goodspeed, rev-joseph-hull, unknown-first-wife-of-rev-joseph-hull, catharine-sayles, john-sayles, mary-williams, james-williams, james-morgan-sr, mary-molly-davis-morgan).

• Estimates retired this round: none. All four new Goodspeed-line people are net-new additions with no prior estimated placeholder on the tree; no eb/ed field on any pre-existing ahn entry was replaced by a real date.

• Top open keys carried forward: the Alice Harris / ahn 11297 mother-of-Roger-Goodspeed contradiction between this round's two slicers (see above — needs founder resolution) · FamilySearch authenticated session — microfilm 0022117 page 64 (Providence probate book) for Sayles-Williams deed · Rev. James Morgan Jr. pension S7251 (NARA) full image — sworn testimony naming father + NC county · DAR Genealogical Research System interactive session for ancestor #A132519 · Dawn D. Boyer 2018 "Family Lineage of Permenter Morgan" (physical/ILL) — likely uncited source of the Perminter parentage claim · Devon parish burial/probate record for Rev. Joseph Hull's unnamed first wife · Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration entry for Joseph Hull (NEHGS login) · TNA PROB 11/153/522 "Sentence of Roger Pemberton" (new lead, unread) · TNA C 5/405/103 (Jennings v Goodspeed 1649) to fully resolve the cousin-Robert-vs-our-Robert Agnes/Alice ambiguity · Richard Hull's (ahn 45208) own parents — still a genuine hard stop · Eva C. Brown, Oakford certificates, Aquilla Wilson will image (unchanged, carried forward from round 8).

2026-07-27 frontier round 10 (partQ/partR) — no new ancestors; bio enrichment + two confidence downgrades

Full findings: 2026-07-27-frontier-round10-partQ.md (Slicer A) + 2026-07-27-frontier-round10-partR.md (Slicer B). 0 new ancestors; ANC stays at 147 nodes. Build: 145 person pages, unchanged. Headlines:

• Alice Harris / ahn 11297 stays OFF the tree — round-9 disagreement now resolved for a NEW reason, not the old one. TNA Chancery case C 5/405/103 ("Jennings v Goodspeed," 1649) names Robert Goodspeed's wife as AGNES, not Alice — direct contrary primary evidence, not just absence of corroboration. Separately, the underlying "Phillimore's Bucks Marriage Register 1609" source for Alice Harris could not be verified in any of 8 digitized volumes checked. Robert Goodspeed Sr's paternity from Nicholas Goodspeed's court-roll entry was independently re-read this round and found to be Moriarty's own editorial "[his son]" gloss, not a documentary statement — Roger Goodspeed's mother stays formally unresolved either way.

• ⚡ CONFIDENCE DOWNGRADE: Robert Goodspeed Sr's (ahn 22592) father-link to Nicholas Goodspeed (ahn 45184) downgraded from PROBABLE to POSSIBLE. The 1558 Wingrave manor court-roll entry only records a copyhold heriot/succession passing to Robert on Nicholas's death; Moriarty's bracketed "[his son]" is his own pedigree-compiler insertion, not a quote from the roll. No will, baptism, or other document names Robert as Nicholas's son. First confidence downgrade applied to the Goodspeed English line since it was added in round 9.

• ⚡ CONFIDENCE DOWNGRADE: Susannah Morgan's (ahn 207) parent link to James Morgan Sr. (ahn 414) / Mary Davis Morgan (ahn 415) downgraded from PROBABLE to POSSIBLE. This is the downgrade round 9 explicitly flagged for review: the marriage (1754) and Perminter-birth (1755) citations were confirmed this round to trace to the identical Reamy p.87 source cited twice, not two independent records, and a new same-name-conflation risk surfaced — 4-5 mutually conflicting reported death years for James Morgan Sr circulate online, plus a Revolutionary War pension (S7251) very likely misattributed to him in a Randolph County NC library roster (the pensioner applied in 1834 at what would be age ~105 for our man).

• James Morgan Jr's (ahn 414's son) full sworn 1834 pension declaration (S7251) recovered verbatim — a genuinely new primary source. CONFIRMED birth: April 26, 1760, Baltimore County, MD. Does not name his father. The same Randolph County library roster that surfaces the pension mismatch above also gives conflicting oath (1779 vs tree's 1785) and death (post-1784 vs tree's 1804) data for James Morgan Sr — logged as an unresolved contradiction, not adopted; DAR GRS was down all session (HTTP 503) and could not be tested directly.

• Perminter Morgan's parentage stays PROBABLE, not upgraded or downgraded. John R. Logan's 1887 Baptist-association history independently documents his ministry career in detail but explicitly disclaims knowing his birth/death dates or parents. Reamy's 1988 "St. George's Parish Register [Harford Co, MD] 1689-1793," p.87 — the headline citation for the James Morgan Sr + Mary Davis parentage claim — remains the single highest-value unresolved citation; not freely digitized anywhere checked.

• Rev. Joseph Hull's Northleigh, Devon rectory gets a clean negative and a new unsearched lead, no resolution on wife #1. Northleigh's own parish registers don't survive for the relevant 1620s-1633 window. New lead: Joseph curated at Colyton, Devon (unbroken registers 1538-1837) under his brother William immediately before Northleigh, c.1619-1621 — not yet searched. Quarantine formalized: "Joanna"/"Joanna Coffin" as wife #1's name is explicitly rejected by Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Begins; traces to the unreliable Narragansett Historical Register Vol. I.

• Roger Pemberton's 1627 will and the previously-unread 1628 "Sentence" (PROB 11/153/522) are confirmed to be two distinct, separately-catalogued TNA documents. A Sentence specifically denotes a judgment on a disputed will, consistent with the ~5-month gap between the December 1627 will and the May 1628 Sentence — suggesting the Pemberton probate (naming "my cosen and Godsonne Roger Williams") was contested. A related, undigitized Inquisition Post Mortem (WARD 7/80/210) may be the same man — county-level match only, unconfirmed.

• Estimates retired this round: none. No eb/ed field on any existing ahn entry was replaced by a real date this round.

• New people this round: none. All VIZ-CHANGES this round were bio/story enrichments or confidence-tier changes on existing ahn entries (414, 11302, 11276, 11296, 22592, 207) — no new ahn slots minted. James Morgan Jr, Rev. Perminter Morgan, and Roger Pemberton's Sentence remain collateral/document-level findings folded into their direct ancestor's bio text, per the tree's standing convention.

• Top open keys carried forward: the Alice Harris / ahn 11297 mother-of-Roger-Goodspeed question — now with contrary primary evidence (Agnes named in 1649 Chancery suit), stays closed for now · order TNA PROB 11/152/801 (Pemberton's actual 1627 will, digitized) and PROB 11/153/522 (the 1628 Sentence, digitized, Latin) · pursue TNA WARD 7/80/210 (undigitized IPM) and TNA C 5/405/103 document image (Jennings v Goodspeed 1649) · locate A.J.P. Skinner's 1928 Colyton, Devon parish register transcription (library/HathiTrust) · obtain Reamy's "St. George's Parish Register [Harford Co, MD] 1689-1793" (1988) p.87 — the single highest-value next step for the Perminter Morgan parentage question · pull the full NARA/Fold3 pension file for S7251 · retry DAR GRS (services.dar.org) and SAR Patriot Research System on a live/browser session · Randolph County NC probate/will book for "James Morgan," circa 1784-1804, to settle the death-date contradiction · Eva C. Brown SC-side parents (still structurally dead-ended on free sources; live-browser retry recommended) · FamilySearch DGS 7835986 (St. George's Parish register images, login-gated) for the James Morgan/Mary Davis marriage and Perminter-birth entries · Buckinghamshire Archives CALM catalogue and bucksfhs.org.uk (both blocked headlessly, live/founder-hands retry) · Richard Hull's (ahn 45208) own parents — unchanged hard stop.

2026-07-28 frontier round 11 (partS/partT) — no new ancestors; James Morgan Sr death estimate re-anchored, John Sayles probate citation disproven, Joseph Hull curacy window refined

Full findings: 2026-07-28-frontier-round11-partS.md (Slicer A, 4 targets) + 2026-07-28-frontier-round11-partT.md (Slicer B, 4 targets). 0 new ancestors; ANC stays at 147 nodes (confirmed by direct grep against index.html, not assumed). Build: 145 person pages, unchanged. people-bios.json: 139 entries, unchanged (confirmed by direct count). Headlines:

• ⚡ James Morgan Sr's (ahn 414) death estimate re-anchored: the prior unsourced "~1804" figure is RETIRED, replaced with "post 18 Jan 1785, Randolph Co, NC," per DAR Ancestor Database #A132519's own death field, fetched directly with no login: "Death: POST 1-18-1785, RANDOLPH CO NORTH CAROLINA." The DAR record's spouse field ("MARY DAVIS") confirms this is our James Morgan Sr, not the quarantined Welsh conflation profile (WikiTree Morgan-15829). Genuine root cause found for part of the standing death-year conflict: the Randolph County Public Library's "Revolutionary Patriots" roster conflates James Morgan Sr with his son Rev. James Morgan Jr (pension S7251) onto a single row and mis-copies DAR's own "post 1-18-1785" as "post 18 Jan 1784" — the previously-circulating "1784" figure is a compiler transcription slip of this same DAR record, not an independent document. This stays an estimate/bound, not a confirmed exact date (PROBABLE tier) — the underlying primary document behind DAR's death field was not located this round. No estate/probate record for James Morgan Sr was found in the NC Genealogical Society's Randolph County Estate Files Index (1779-early 1900s) — an honest negative, consistent with dying intestate or an unindexed/lost estate file.

• John Sayles's (ahn 2818) "Providence Book of Probate p.64" citation moves from unverified to DISPROVEN. Full non-truncated djvu text of the only plausible candidate printed volume (Early Records of the Town of Providence, Vol. VI, "Will Book No. 1") confirms manuscript page [64] is verbatim part of Thomas Olney Senior's will, not any Sayles record. Exhaustive full-text grep of both complete candidate volumes (Vols. VI + VII) for "Sayles"/"Sayle" found zero probate/will hits for a deceased John Sayles anywhere before ms. page ~100+; all genuine hits are 1682-1716 administrative entries naming a living John or Richard Sayles. This corrects the tree's standing round-8 "unverified WikiTree citation" note to "disproven as applied to this printed edition." The Roger Williams-descent chain stays ANCHORED-PER-AUSTIN, unaffected either way. John Sayles Sr's own death year (~1681) remains independently unconfirmed by any record found — an open question carried forward, not resolved.

• Rev. Joseph Hull's (ahn 11302) curacy window refined from "c.1619-1621" to c.1614/15-1621 (five years as teacher/curate under his brother William, vicar of Colyton, following his Oxford B.A. of 14 Nov 1614, until his 14 Apr 1621 institution as rector of Northleigh — Weygant 1919, p.493, PROBABLE, verbatim quote). No confirmed date changes as a result — a bio/story refinement only.

• Rev. Joseph Hull's first wife (ahn 11303) still unnamed, but the "unsearched Colyton register" open key from round 9/10 is now closed as a genuine documented negative. Direct full-text search of A.J.P. Skinner's 1928 transcription of the Colyton, Devon parish registers (both volumes, 1611-1625, HathiTrust) finds no baptism or marriage entry for Joseph Hull, and zero Coffin surname hits — independently corroborating (not new evidence for) the existing quarantine on "Joanna"/"Joanna Coffin" as the wife's name. Disambiguation, not a re-opening: William Hull's 1627 will names a niece "Johanna, daughter of his brother Joseph" — this is Joseph's DAUGHTER (Joanna Hull, ahn 5651), not the wife, and is very likely the actual origin of the erroneous "Joanna Coffin" conflation. New lead: Crewkerne, Somerset (Joseph's home parish) as the likely marriage venue, not yet searched.

• No change — walls that held again this round:

  • John Sayles's own death year (~1681) remains unconfirmed by any primary record (see above).
  • Aquilla Wilson's will (Rockingham Co. NC, c.1802): a second independent free abstract (NCRoots.com) corroborates the existing "no Richard Wilson among heirs" finding; new unsourced detail (daughters' married surnames, one grandson's name) stays POSSIBLE-tier, doc-only, not promoted. Grimes' 1760-1800 NC wills supplement confirmed NOT to contain an Aquilla Wilson/Rockingham entry (genuine negative).
  • Richard Hull's (ahn 45208) own parents: hard stop confirmed, now fully source-exhausted for free/headless routes (Crewkerne register starts too late; Harleian Society Visitations of Somerset and Somerset Medieval Wills both full-text searched with no anchor; TNA Discovery clean negative). One contaminated lead (mathematical.com's "Hough Hull"/"Agnes Burghton" claim) explicitly checked and REJECTED — it contradicts our own confirmed wife-name (Alice, not Johanna Yeard) and death-year facts. Best remaining lead: Somerset Wills Index (Medlycott 1993), archive.org-lending-blocked (founder-hands).
  • Eva C. (Brown) Foster's (ahn 15) SC-side parents: no CONFIRMED/PROBABLE parents found. One POSSIBLE-tier candidate family (Samuel Brown 1817-1899 + Mary Ann Breazeale Brown 1821-1905, Pickens Co SC) surfaced via SCGenWeb cemetery transcription, cross-referenced in the Old Pendleton District GEDCOM database (13 children noted, names not recovered) — no anchor tying it to Eva specifically; stays OFF the tree.
  • Roger Pemberton's 1627 will and 1628 Sentence: independently re-confirmed as two separate TNA-catalogued documents (fresh catalog fetch, not merely re-citing round 10). New content from Waters' full NEHGR article (a 7 Nov 1627 codicil, a College of Arms Funeral Certificate giving death as 13 Nov 1627, register/folio "Skynner, 117"). Stays doc-only / off-viz per the round-8 "Pemberton upstream — HOLD list" convention; no ahn assignment. Does not upgrade the Roger Williams parentage theory past "anchored-per-Austin."
  • Perminter Morgan / Boyer 2018 book: bibliographic-only round, no new facts; remains a founder-hands physical/ILL item, unchanged from round 9's flag. Reamy's St. George's Parish Register p.87 remains the sole traceable citation for the James Morgan Sr/Mary Davis (ahn 414/415) parentage claim.

• Two mechanical downgrades applied this round (does not change any tree conclusion): a FindAGrave cemetery-browse listing (Eva Brown target) and a WikiTree+RootsWeb citation-trail confirmation (Perminter Morgan target) were both submitted at CONFIRMED tier resting on a single FindAGrave/WikiTree-class source — both corrected to PROBABLE per the standing downgrade rule before reporting. Neither changes any tree conclusion.

• New people this round: none. All VIZ-CHANGES this round were bio/story enrichments or an estimate re-anchoring on existing ahn entries (414, 2818, 11302, 11303) — no new ahn slots minted.

• Estimates retired this round: 1. James Morgan Sr (ahn 414): death estimate "~1804" retired, replaced with "post 18 Jan 1785, Randolph Co, NC" (PROBABLE per DAR Ancestor Database #A132519); estimate/bound framing retained since the underlying primary document behind DAR's death field was not located this round.

• ANC count: 147 → 147 (no new entries). Updated entries: 414 (death estimate re-anchored, ed 1804→1785), 2818 (probate citation disproven), 11302 (curacy window refined), 11303 (Colyton negative evidence added). people-bios.json: 139 → 139 entries (no new entries); updated for james-morgan-sr, john-sayles, rev-joseph-hull, unknown-first-wife-of-rev-joseph-hull.

• Top open keys carried forward: John Sayles Sr's own death year (~1681) — still unconfirmed by any primary record · Crewkerne, Somerset as the new candidate venue for Rev. Joseph Hull's first-wife marriage (not yet searched) · Richard Hull's (ahn 45208) own parents — hard stop, now fully source-exhausted on free/headless routes, next step is paid/physical (Somerset Wills Index, Medlycott 1993) · Eva C. Brown's (ahn 15) SC-side parents — no anchor yet for the POSSIBLE Samuel Brown/Mary Ann Breazeale Brown candidate family; recover the 13 children's names from the Old Pendleton District GEDCOM database as the next-round lead · Dawn D. Boyer's 2018 "Family Lineage of Permenter Morgan" (physical/ILL) — carried forward unchanged, single highest-value remaining check is its bibliography page · TNA document orders for PROB 11/152/801 and PROB 11/153/522 (Roger Pemberton, off-viz per HOLD list) · WikiTree Morgan-1173's "after 23 Feb 1804" claim, sourced to a Rowan Co NC deed — conflicts with DAR's post-1785 figure, needs the underlying FamilySearch deed image (founder-hands) to resolve · Irene B. Webster's "Rockingham County, North Carolina, Will Abstracts, 1785-1865" (physical/ILL) for Aquilla Wilson's full will text.