Re: Senator John Elliott

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.org>]

>A hint as to whether this Senator John Elliott's father married Renchie Norman:
>
>It's in the Senator's article.  His daughter was named Esther Amarintha.
>Could he have given her middle name after Amarintha "Renchie," who had been hi
>s stepmother until just four years before he married Esther Bullock?  
>
>His father died in 1791.  The Hon. John Elliott you have listed as Renchie's h
>usband also died in 1791.  Coincidence?  The evidence mounts.

Add to that that Early Deaths in Savannah, Georgia 1763-1803
says on page 157:
 Elliott, John: Liberty Co.; Mrs. Rinchie Elliott, widow, John
 Elliott, son, and John Whitehead, Esq., ltrs admr. (GG 1/5/1792,
 2:1; 4/19/1792, 1:1); Mrs. Rinchie Guildersleeve, John Elliott,
 Esq., Capt. John Whitehead, ltrs admr. (CM 2/20/1801, 3:5)

Let's see, Col. John Elliott and Amarinthia ``Renchie'' Norman
had a son John Elliott.

Senator John Elliott had a daughter named Esther Amarintha
and a father who died in the same year, 1791, as Col. John Elliott.

Yes, the coincidences mount.

And of course Stacy explicitly says they were father and son.
Stacy is sometimes wrong, but we have several other independent
pieces of evidence.

What appears to have happened here is that when we were compiling
the database for the book, we naturally concentrated on direct
ancestral lines, and we didn't examine the evidence already in hand
about the two John Elliott's closely enough to notice that they
were related.

As I was discussing with David Leon the other day, we will be
updating the database to reflect this relationship.

>-Connie

John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org>
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