...that they were English aristocracy that moved to America
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And she was pissed when she found out the truth. May have even denied that the test was accurate.
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I don’t know where I’m going with this. But I want to know more about this man, James Due, and his life.
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I hope I can find out more about him. He and his family also lived with a freed man named Jack Ware.
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If it’s the same man, there is a grave for a freed man named Jack Ware in Hancock, NH where my ancestors lived.
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Found a small ref to him in an article about this town: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/13/travel/four-inns-twohundredsomething-new-hampshire-john-hancock-never-slept-this-inn.html …
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I hope I can find out more about my 6th great grandfather. Like I said, I don’t want to claim an identity that’s not mine.
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Because I am white and I’m not gonna start saying something different like the millions of white ppl who claim to be 1/64 Cherokee
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I do suspect that my family is not really unique in this respect either.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
About 10 years ago I saw a really fascinating doc once about descendants of Sally Hemings, most of whom were previously unaware. Some were African American, some white. I mostly remember the shitty behaviour by the society of descendants of Jefferson who completely dismissed them
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Yeah the narrative spun about her has been very bad. Trying to make it like some romance story when it was anything but.
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