Advice before editing this pre-1700 Huston profile?

Question

I have information to contribute to the profile of James Huston. This is what I can add:

• firm death date 5 Feb 1762
• official guess of age 77 at death
• computed birth year of 1687
• source for reason/timing of two burials:
  • First Presbyterian Cemetery
  • Wilmington & Brandywine

These are the sources I am using:

• Tatnall Tombstone Collection in Delaware Vital Records,1650-1974 (Haggerty-Johnson) (card file index)

Should I contact one of the pre-1700 projects or know about any style guidelines before proceeding? Thank you!

Answer 1

Hello Roger,

Do you have any more source information? Any links? We need to be able to find where the source information came from. A quick search took me to FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2531989?availability=Family%20History%20Library

You could contact someone from the Scotland Project for help with him before he went to America.

Thank you!

Missy 

Comments

A few sources I found in a quick search:

• "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2XN-ZZ6 : 6 February 2020), James Huston, 27 May 1721.
• "New Jersey, Church Records, 1675-1970," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGRS-D32H : 3 October 2019), James Houston and Mary Crafford, 27 May 1721; citing Marriage, Salem, New Jersey, British Colonial America, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey.
• "Delaware Vital Records, 1650-1974," database with images, FamilySearch(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9R-VWMC : 16 April 2022), James Huston, 05 Feb 1762; citing Burial, Brandywine, New Castle, Delaware, United States, First Presbyterian Cemetery And Wilmington & Brandywine, Delaware Public Archives, Dover; FHL microfilm .

A child baptized in the Holy Trinity Old Swedes church in Delaware, but he was born in Scotland?

• "Delaware Baptisms, 1697-1886," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7HC-3Z6 : 10 March 2018), James Husten, 12 Feb 1721; from Baptism, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, reference ID , Delaware Public Archives, Dover, and Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, IX: The Records of Holy Trinity Old Swedes Church, (Wilmington, Delaware: Historical Society of Delaware, 1890).