Can you help connect a Delaware Governor?

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More than half of the historic governors of Delaware are not yet connected.  Can you help to connect them?  I've made a list of the governors that need to be connected to the tree below.

Additional sources and bio improvements would be most helpful (with a few exceptions - some profiles are marked "under construction" - for these, please leave bio notes in the comments).

Thank you in advance for your help to connect all of the Delaware Governors!

1st Governor: Dr. John McKinly - connected!
6th Governor: John Cook - connected!
15th Governor: James Sykes - connected!
16th Governor: David Hall - connected!
17th Governor: Nathaniel Mitchell - connected!
19th Governor: Joseph Haslet - connected!
20th Governor: Daniel Rodney - connected!
21st Governor: John Clark - connected!
22nd Governor: Jacob Stout - connected!
23rd Governor: John Collins - connected!
26th Governor: Charles Thomas - connected!
27th Governor: Samuel Paynter - connected!
28th Governor: Charles Polk Jr. - connected
29th Governor: David Hazzard - connected!
30th Governor: Caleb Prew Bennett - connected!
33rd Governor: William B. Cooper - connected!
34th Governor: Thomas Stockton - connected!
35th Governor: Joseph Maull - connected!
36th Governor: William Temple - connected!
38th Governor: William H. H. Ross - connected!
39th Governor: Peter F. Causey - connected!
41st Governor: William Cannon - connected!
42nd Governor: Gove Saulsbury - connected!
44th Governor: James Ponder - connected!
45th Governor: John P. Chochran - connected!
46th Governor: John W. Hall - connected!
48th Governor: Benjamiin T. Biggs - connected!
49th Governor: Robert J. Reynolds - connected!
50th Governor: Joshua H. Marvil - connected!
51st Governor: William T. Watson - connected!
52nd Governor: Ebe Tunnell - connected!
53rd Governor: John Hunn - connected!
54th Governor: Preston Lea - connected!
55th Governor: Simeon Pennewill - connected!
56th Governor: Charles R. Miller - connected!
57th Governor: John G. Townsend Jr. - connected!
58th Governor: William D. Denney - connected!
59th Governor: Robert P. Robinson - connected!
60th & 61st Governor: Clayton Douglass Buck - connected!
62nd Governor: Richard McMullen - connected!
63rd & 64th Governor: Walter W. Bacon - connected!
65th & 69th Governor: Elbert Nostrand Carvel - connected!
66th & 67th Governor: J. Caleb Boggs - connected!
68th Governor: David P. Buckson - connected!
70th Governor: Charles Layman Terry Jr. - connected!
71st Governor: Russell W. Peterson - connected!
72nd Governor: Sherman W. Tribbitt - connected!

If you're able to connect one, please leave it in the answers/comments.

thanks!

in Requests for Project Volunteers by SJ Baty G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
edited by SJ Baty

All along I've been planning to award the best answer to whoever solves the last one.  Looks like we're down to only one remaining:

36th Governor: William Temple !!!

It should be easier now, as I have found a 2nd marriage to Catharine (Kate) Lowber, with two more kids.
A HUGE thank you to all of you who helped in this challenge.  I'm just in awe - I originally thought a few would get done and this would drag on for months.  In total, all of the governors were connected in 8 days!  Absolutely astounding.

Thank you all!

Awesome job! All of you who helped with this should stand in a circle, turn to the left, and then pat the person in front of you on the back. wink

44 Answers

+5 votes

49th Governor: Robert J. Reynolds

I linked him to his mother so he will show up connected on Monday or Tuesday.

by N Gauthier G2G6 Pilot (293k points)
marked as connected!
+6 votes

58th Governor: William D. Denney

I linked him to his mother's line so he will show up connected on Monday or Tuesday.

by N Gauthier G2G6 Pilot (293k points)
marked as connected!
+6 votes

70th Governor: Charles Layman Terry, Jr.

I'm working on this one, but I haven't yet found a way to connect him.

by Vic Watt G2G6 Pilot (357k points)
he will show as connected tomorrow.

70th Governor: Charles Layman Terry Jr. 

Governor Terry now connected (overnight) & annotated.

I was working his wife's line (Irby) and I see that S. Stevenson was working in parallel.  We now have two fathers (Benjamin Irby) for Governor Terry's wife Jessica Irby.  She has a brother Benjamin, I'll use the extra ID # for the brother.

marked as connected!

only one left!
+5 votes
# 48 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Biggs-1794 will show as connected tomorrow. not the most direct route but will be connected.
by S Stevenson G2G6 Pilot (249k points)
marked as connected!

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