Friday, August 16, 2013

Marlow, New Hampshire & the Missing Squidoo

Silly title, because -- my source for this post has been taken down.

There was a very informative Squidoo lens, which apparently had to be locked due to spam infiltration.  I hope they didn't mean me....

Here's the link in case it comes back up...

http://www.squidoo.com/marlowhistorynh

So, the lens was a very interesting page from "owlperson" -- here's owlperson -- http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/owlperson

They had a lot of good local history about Marlow, New Hampshire and a lot of it related to the Mack family.  I will keep checking the link to see if it comes back up.  Anyway, a good chunk of it had to do with the Mack family, which as previous blog posts indicate, intrigue me due to the relationship to Joseph Smith.  I posed the question to owlperson about the possibility of African ancestry coming from the Mack line.  I received this reply, and I am posting it here because it's very informative and has new leads for me to follow:

owlperson said:
Hi, I'm really sorry that the Marlow-Lyme lens had to be withdrawn because of spammers coming through links to a Forum which turned out to be spam-heaven; however, I found your last message still intact. 

 I wouldn't be in the least surprised to find African blood in any of the descendants of the Marlow folk for exactly the reason you state. I looked up some members of the Mack family in one of the Carolinas (I think) and found them to of quite dark skin tone. I believe Macks had plantations on Barbados. I suspect that Aaron Huntley I of Lyme, related to the Macks, had an alternative family in the Carolinas. I would not be surprised if they were people of color. 

Also, although Solomon Gee, one of our early settlers from Lyme and also related to the Mack family, was apparently a clothier, that would have involved, at the least, importation of cotton and exotic fibers, but probably also cotton cultivation. The related DeWofe family of Lyme and RI was involved in every sort of trade you can imagine, including slave trade. I have a puzzle here in Marlow, a fellow living with or beside Lois Huntley (" called a widow" before the death of her husband Christopher Ayers) called Libares Aries (Libares Ayers?). Doesn't it sort of make you wonder who he was, what his role was, what his ancestry was, and what he looked like??

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