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Dear Niven, Thanks for your message and your help. My address is:- 8 Tuscan Avenue Middleton-on-Sea West Sussex PO22 7TD United Kingdom. Roger. ----- Original Message ----- From: Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk> To: <sinclair@matrix.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 8:08 PM Subject: Re: John Sinkler > At 10:51 21/05/00 +0100, you wrote: > >I am descended from John Sinkler who was captured at Worcester 1651 and who > >eventually ended up in New Hampshire. > > > >Unfortunately I couldn't find any reference to him on the Clan Sinclair > >website. > > > >I know that his ancestry has engaged the attention of his descendants for > >some time but the last I heard nothing definite as to his origins had turned > >up. > > > >Is there any new information out there as to his ancestry that someone could > >point out to me? > > > >Thank you. > > > >Roger Coone. > Dear Roger, > > There are plenty of Sinklers in New Hampshire. > > If you can let me have your postal address, I will send you the details > from the > "St Clairs of the Isles" which covers several generation of Sinklers, St > Clairs and > Sinclairs in New Hampshire. > > The Sinklers run from John Sinkler who purchased 10 acres of land in Exeter, > New Hampshire in 1659 to an Ebenezer Sinkler who was buying land in Wentworth > in 1795 where the family already had land. > > Many of the Sinklers served in the armed forces. One, another Ebenezer, > was the > hero at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 where he was killed but, although > his widow > was left in destitute circumstances, she was denied a pension although she had > three children to bring up - all under 14 years of age. > > > Niven Sinclair > >[ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org > >[ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html > > > [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org > [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html > [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html