Re: Renchie Norman and Dorchester, England

[DaneBowen@aol.com]

Connie -

Regarding Norman's being born in Dorchester, England, that is not so remarkable. The Dorchester Company was re-organized as the Mass. Bay Company.  The father of New England was really the Rev. John White of Dorchester, England, and the Old White Meeting House in Dorchester, SC and Midway, GA were probably named for him. Geo. Way, a Merchant Adventurer, was from there and Henry Way the Puritan from nearby.

The name of Dorchester was taken to Dorchester, Mass., founded before Boston, Dorchester Neck, Dorchester Heights (where Geo Wash placed the cannons to frighten the British out of Boston, Dorchester Street; the first Dorchester, SC, then Dorchester in Dorchester, SC, and finally, a village in Liberty Co., GA near Midway.

The date of Norman going from SC to Mass. to look for a minister was not 1684 but 1694.

Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Carlton (Carleton), Luker, Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Maverick, Richey (Ritchie, Richie, Ritchey), Spence, Sumner, Way, and Wells families.