Sylvia Benton
Honor Code SignatorySigned 7 Jun 2017 | 9,097 contributions | 913 thank-yous | 672 connections
Born in North Carolina. The next 4-5 years spent with an Army Dad, going from North Carolina to Alabama to Germany to Washington to Georgia and finally to Virginia, where I stayed from the age of 6 to 21. Then I returned to North Carolina.
I have a branch of family that was part of the movement of Moravians down the Great Wagon Road into North Carolina. I love visiting their graves and seeing the headstones written in German.
My French lineage actually comes from Alsace-Lorraine, Ingersheim, France, Calvados, Lion-sur-mir, France and Calvados, Hermanville, France. I became quite proficient at searching the Calvados Archives and the Haut-Rhin Archives. My Irish lineage comes from Londonderry, Ireland. John Glen immigrated around 1750 and settled in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Soon after, the name began to appear as Glenn.
This week's connection theme is the Puritan Great Migration. Sylvia is 17 degrees from John Winthrop, 17 degrees from Anne Bradstreet, 18 degrees from John Cotton, 17 degrees from John Eliot, 18 degrees from John Endecott, 17 degrees from Mary Estey, 17 degrees from Thomas Hooker, 15 degrees from Anne Hutchinson, 18 degrees from William Pynchon, 18 degrees from Alice Tilley, 16 degrees from Robert Treat and 18 degrees from Roger Williams on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
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