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The first edition (August 22, 2006) had a few problems that I thought should be fixed quickly. The vast majority of the changes were to fix bad grammar or poorly worded sentences. Nothing new was added except perhaps in the rewording of some sentences. Those who have purchased the first edition probably wouldn't want to buy the second edition for the changes really are minor. (I proofread the book before publication, but still managed to miss all of this.) Details below.

Page / Paragraph number / Details of changes

64 p2 reworded.
77 needs a blank line after tax record table.
80 p2 “who fit age-wise.” should be “who fits age-wise.”
82 reword last sentence, seems to say Robert who married Katherine is same one who married Elizabeth George, but it should say their son is the same one.
82 didn’t mention death of Elizabeth Minor Williamson.
86 second marriage of Elizabeth Vivion, reworded.
96 p6 “on that the” to “on that date the”
98 p2 “Ann was just” to “Ann George was just”
98 p3 “According to others” to “According to other researchers”
98 p5 Turner to [Turner]
98 p7 “In summary,” to “To summarize the book and other sources,”
98 p8 reworded last two sentences.
99 footnote 294, reworded slightly.
100 p6 reworded slightly.
100 p7 “There were on” to “There were no”
101 p3 reworded last sentence.
101 p4 neither to either.
102 p2 reworded.
102 last para, Turner to [Turner]
107 Jonadab p2 reworded.
116 children, reworded some of them slightly.
118 bolded Frances West’s name, added approximate birth date.
124 p5 reworded slightly.
129 p1 grammar.
130 p9 reworded.
133 last para, spacing.
142 p7 “I’ve little” to “I’ve seen little”
145 p7 moved to p6 ahead of current p6.
147 p7 “John George he sued” to John George sued”
152 lastpara. Richard isn’t John’s 1st cousin.
154 p2 moved to pg 155 last para before children.
161 p1 “there” to “their”
178 p7 “that George” to “George”
184 p2 removed parenthesis.
188 William M. Morris to William N. Morris. Fixed index also.
194 removed blank line.
215 p4 “Sarah George was listed” to “Sarah George listed” also reworded second sentence.
225 p7 “who married to” to “who was married to”
233 p6 “he was not be a menace” to “he would not be a menace”
234 “proves that” to “prove that”
235 last two para were duplicates of each other (more or less). Consolidated them and added “I don’t know who (if anyone) Lewis might have been named for. Perhaps someone in his mother’s family.” further up to balance out the page and not upset the pagination, formatting, etc.
244 “Reuben George, Administer” to “Reuben George, Administrator”
254 “Martha and Elizabeth’s mother” reworded.
255 “he return” to “be returned”
273 “in 1797. and the land” to “in 1797, and the land”
275 p2 shouldn’t be there. I left it in though so as not to ruin the pagination and index.
356 Mary Virginia Brown’s death date is actually marriage date. Fixed that and index entry.
389 footnote 23 “birth years” to “birth year”
397 top of page, para needed blank line between it and table above. Moved everything down one line and to next page where there was extra blank line. Removed it. This changed index for three names which I manually corrected in index.
405 p4 rephrased last sentence.
405 p5 “with them.” to “with her.”
427 1900 census entry had two titles, removed one.
435 “where they” to “where the”
439 “where they” to “where the”
440 p1 made a couple of cosmetic changes.
441 p3 moved footnote.
441 p5 reworded to make clear who I was referring to.
454 p1 closed quotation.
457 p6 “Co,” to “Co.,”
461 p4 rephrased last paragraph.
495 p4 swapped with p3
495 p6 “torn” to “tore”
522 figure 94 moved down two lines
523 adjusted down a couple of lines due to problem on 522, index entries also adjusted to accommodate.
536 p5 reworded slightly.
537 p2 reworded slightly. Bolded Michal Meacham’s name.
553 p2 reworded to reduce by one line to fix p6 and p7 which had no space between them.
560 p2 “that Joel died” to “Joel died”
566 p3 “Moses (or Moses)” to “Mose (or Moses)”
584 last para, no line.
604 spacing problem
608 p5 removed parenthesis.
609 p8 “John Dudley also had a sister” to “John Dudley also had a daughter”
631 “(thought that doesn’t prove anything).” to “(though that doesn’t prove anything).”