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From: Elise Jourdan <>
Subject: Re: [PIATT] Phantom John
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:23:59 -0400
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For Laverne,

As I said before, I think John & Frances is possible, but
considering the status of women in his era, I doubt that he
would be identified as her husband. I have not gotten out
Joe Kearney's charts, but, if my memory is good, he was a
Franchman living in a mainly Dutch settlement and to have
identified him as John of France seems more likely. People
were much closer to the old country than we are all these
generations later and it never crossed my mind that it meant
anything other than identifying his ancestry.
Who knows? Perhaps he flaunted his difference from the
rest of the community. I would also think his appearance
would have immediately identified him as not being Dutch.
The French and Dutch do not have the same coloring or body
type.
I have temporarily put away my Piatt work and gone back
to working on my current book. I will be leaving next
Satuday [28th] for two weeks out west and I need to finish
up some work on the Quaker families named Coale before I
totally forget what I have done.

Elise

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