I just had to throw in the fact that my Sinclair ancestor---John Sinclair,
according to
a newspaper article written after an interview with his son---James Sinclair,
was
abiding by the non-clan custom a long time ago.
"....evidently being at the time 7-8 years of age. He was as wild as any
beast, and
lived on fish which he killed with a stick. He was run down with horses, and
captured and of course could not talk........"
Now you have to understand that from what I have learned through General
Sessions
Court papers, this son James could just as easily made the whole thing up!
Paper: "The New Era" Union Co. SC, April 8, 1897.
Lisa
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