Urggghhh!
The assistant historian has sent all my information in to the Mayflower Society historian in Virginia, and he has determined that I do not have enough proof.
The generations without the proof, you will remember, are that Hannah Susan West Rushton is the daughter of Levi West, AND that Levi West is the son of Samuel West. (see West Pedigree Chart) Neither Susan nor Levi have any birth record, baptismal record, or marriage record, where you could expect to find parents listed. Levi doesn't even have a death record, and Susan's does not give her parents' names.
Lots 15 and 16, River PhilipWe still have leads, which is to look in the Township Books for where these events took place, and hope that they are mentioned. The Township Book of River Philip is the one I really want to see - that's where Levi may have been married and had children, and where Susan was married. The Westchester Book sounds promising also.
As I said in my August 19 2020 post about the first Rector Land Grant part 2 :
Delightfully, the Planters from New England brought with them their Township form of government. My favorite part of that system is the keeping of Township Books, where everything, and I mean everything, was recorded. From marriages to where to build a road. From how to cut your pig's ear so everyone would know that was your legal swine, to ordering the sheriff to arrest a violent drunk who was cursing out the tavern keeper, an old lady whose husband was too sick to get out of bed.
Copies of the Township Books can be found in the historical society of North Cumberland County (closed for Covid), the Public Archives of Nova Scotia (closed for same reason), the Mormon Family History Library in Utah (closed, same reason), and the Mayflower Society in Boston (you guessed it, closed.)
Maybe by this summer I will be able to drive somewhere to an open museum?
So, it will be a while before this quest can continue.
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