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A brief summary of each of the sons of Samuel-II Gentry is continued from the first half of this article. The individuals covered include: Nicholas, Joseph, Allen, Simon, John, Richard, William, Samuel and Nathaniel Gentry.
We can guess only very roughly the date of Nicholas' birth, or for that matter, that of any of Samuel's children. Nicholas' placement in the order of Samuel's children is suggested by a date of marriage apparently earlier than any of his younger brothers. A gift, by Nicholas' father-in-law Richard Brooks, to Nicholas and Mary, of 100 acres of land along Dirty Swamp in Louisa County, Virginia, was probably made on the occasion of their marriage<2a>. In addition, he was the first of Samuel's children to sell his land in Louisa County and buy land in Lunenburg County, Virginia..
[Samuel-II's son Nicholas is clearly identified as the husband of Mary Brooks in the deed of gift from his father-in-law. He was distinguished in Louisa County land records by the appellation "the younger" in distinction to Nicholas "Senior", who was Nicholas-II and his son Nicholas "Junior". Note. It has been mentioned in this Journal before, but bears emphasizing again that Mary Brooks was NOT the wife of Samuel-II's brother, Nicholas-II, in spite of repeated assertions to the contrary in genealogical literature of every imaginable variety. Nicholas Sr.'s wife Jane is mentioned in his will and in a Louisa County deed dated 28 Nov 1776 [Book E-124], "Nicholas Gentry and wife Jane of Trinity Parish and Louisa County, deed land ..." [at a time when Samuel's son was in North Carolina]. Unfortunately, once faulty information has spread, it becomes very difficult to correct.]
Nicholas and Mary sold their Louisa County land in 1746<2b> and joined other members of the family of Mary's father, Richard Brooks, in moving south to new land opening up in Lunenburg County which was formed from Brunswick County in 1746. Richard, his sons Elisha Brooks and Richard Brooks Jr., two sons-in-law, Nicholas Gentry (husband of Mary Brooks) and David Gentry (husband of Sarah Brooks and Nicholas' uncle), and a brother, Robert Brooks, with their respective families all moved within a span of a few years beginning in 1747. Nicholas probably had a prior arrangement with Robert Brooks for the latter to obtain a land grant in Lunenburg County<1e> and then sell a portion of it to Nicholas. In any case, he did buy from Robert, 108 acres of land on the North Meherrin River at the mouth of Reedy Creek<3a> (see Figure 1).
Nicholas may have been accompanied by his younger brother William from the start, or William may have joined him a year or two later. In any event, both Nicholas and William were listed in the first Lunenburg County tax lists along with David Gentry, and Robert and Richard Brooks<4>. It may have been further pre-arrangement within the Samuel Gentry family for Nicholas and William to move south, scout out the land, and send word back if the rest of Samuel's family should join them. As discussed later in the description of Joseph Gentry, this did indeed occur.
Nicholas was living close enough to upper Reedy Creek where his brother Joseph later bought land that he could witness a number of deeds involving both Joseph and members of the Brooks family. Nicholas and his brothers Joseph and Simon were living close enough together in 1757 to be assigned by the County Court to maintain a road in their vicinity. In 1765, he was assigned road duty again, this time with Joseph and Richard Gentry. Nicholas and Mary sold their land in two installments, in 1766 and 1767, shortly before leaving Lunenburg County to live in Surry County, North Carolina<3b,c> where vacant land was becoming available. Nicholas' brother, Richard, witnessed both of these deeds, and it is very possible that he was living on a part of Nicholas' land prior to its sale (Richard is not known to have had any of his own) and then joined Nicholas in moving to North Carolina.
In 1768, Nicholas was listed in a Rowan County, North Carolina tax list along with Joseph Gentry<30b>, but they were probably living far apart. Nicholas, and his brother, Richard, appear to have settled briefly near the Arafat River on the north side of the Yadkin River. Richard was involved in a Rowan County Court order in 1768<17> that involved road layout along the entire length of the west-to-east-running portion of the Yadkin, including the mouth of the Arafat River. In 1771, shortly after Surry County was formed from Rowan County, Nicholas witnessed two deeds on the north side of the Yadkin River near the Ararat River<5a>. That same year he appeared in Surry County tax lists and was taxed for three tithes (Nicholas plus his sons Allen and Artha) along with Samuel (his son?) and Richard<30c,d>. There is no indication from the tax list as to whether he was still living north of the Yadkin or had moved farther south. The following year, in 1772, Nicholas, Samuel, and Richard appear to have been located somewhere in the Deep Creek area. Nicholas was taxed for one tithe for himself plus one for his son, Artha. His son, Allen, was listed separately. Succeeding year tax records are missing until the end of the Revolutionary War. Thereafter, Nicholas was recorded repeatedly along with members of his family in the Surry County tax records<30e>.
Both Nicholas and Richard probably traveled down the Yadkin to Deep Creek, then went upstream along the south branch of that creek. Richard went on to the headwaters of Deep Creek before finding land (see Richard below) while Nicholas stopped at Fisher Creek, a small tributary of South Fork Deep Creek. He settled on land there for which he received title in 1784<5b> (see Figure 3). He later sold this land, part of it to his son Artha (referred to as "Arthur" later in South Carolina, but spelt in North Carolina with variations of "Artha", "Athe", etc.). In 1789 he received two more grants of land nearby on Deep Creek<5d,e> where he lived until his death, presumably in 1800. (He signed two deeds in June and July 1800 transferring the last of his property to two sons, Allen and John<5g,h> but he was not in the 1800 federal census which was completed in April 1801.) There is no mention of his wife Mary in any North Carolina references where relinquishment of dower rights was not required in deeds, but she appears to have been still living at the time of the 1790 federal census.
Joseph's only appearance in Louisa County records was as a witness in 1762 to his father's final deed of sale of the family's Dirty Swamp property<6>. Prior to that, it is this writer's proposal that Joseph became the focal point for movements by Samuel's family in following Nicholas and William to Lunenburg County. Joseph's name can be found in a wide variety of references in the county -- deeds, tax lists, parish records, court records, etc. (only a portion of which are listed in the reference section of this article). In 1752 he purchased a rather large area of 490 acres on Reedy Creek originally granted partly to Michael Mackey and partly to Abraham Cocke<7a>. We speculate that the size of the purchase may have been partly to accommodate his brother Allen's family which probably accompanied him to Lunenburg County, but also in anticipation of a follow-up move by his parents and younger brothers from Louisa County.
[Samuel sold parcels of land in 1752 and 1753 which coincided with the departure of Joseph and Allen's families and presumably there was no longer a need for this land. Between then and 1757 when he sold an additional portion of land, Samuel himself and younger members of his family had moved to Lunenberg County and was identified as a resident there in the 1757 deed. We suggest that Samuel's son, Richard, remained on the family plantation in Louisa County until 1762 when the final sale of land occurred, then Richard also moved. None of them purchased land so we presume that they moved in with Joseph (and perhaps pushed Allen out to find land of his own).]
In 1756, Joseph sold 274 acres of his Reedy Creek land to William Shelton who was living in Albemarle County<7b>. Shelton is believed to have been his wife's grandfather and apparently did not use the property personally for he resold it in 1762 while still living in Albemarle County. Shelton may have subsidized the land's use by Gentrys during that time. By 1762, the land Joseph originally purchased may no longer have been needed as different family members moved away to other locations. Joseph continued to occupy at least a part of his land along Reedy Creek until 1766 when he moved to North Carolina as evidenced by a county court summons that noted he was no longer a resident of Lunenburg County<8>. He returned in 1770 to complete the sale of the last of his land in conjunction with his brother Allen and wife Mary who were listed as co-owners. An interesting little tidbit of history is that Agnes was unable to travel at the time (pregnant?) and her waiver of dowry rights was handled in Surry County, North Carolina<7g,h>.
In North Carolina, Joseph was listed in 1768 in two Rowan County tax lists in the period just
before Rowan County was divided to form Surry County<30a,b>. He settled first along the
north-south portion of the Yadkin River where he received a license in 1772 to operate a ferry
service across the river<9>. He bought the land where he was living in 1774, and sold part of it to his oldest son, Samuel. Another part he sold to Matthew Brooks, son of Robert Brooks of Lunenburg County. Matthew had witnessed one of Nicholas Gentry's final land sales in
Virginia and had probably moved to North Carolina at the same time as Joseph<10a,b,c>.
He is thought to have been the father-in-law of Joseph's son, Samuel. (The ferry location later
became known as Matthew Brooks Ford.) In 1787 Joseph received a grant for land along the
Fisher River, on the north side of the Yadkin, an area that later became a much reduced Surry
County<10>. Not long after, he and Samuel sold the last of the Yadkin River property to
Brooks and to Joseph's son-in-law, John Ridings. Samuel remained on the south side of the
Yadkin along Dills Creek and Forbush Creek. Joseph's younger son, Shelton, moved with his
father to property of his own north of the Yadkin and his family remained there long after
Joseph's death in April 1813. Joseph left a will, written much earlier, naming all his
family<11>, and his widow, Agnes, also left a very abbreviated will in 1826.
The timing of early moves by Allen's family is found in testimony given by his son, Meshack, in applying for a Revolutionary War pension<31a>. Meshack stated that he was born in Louisa County, Virginia (about 1748 based upon his age at time of testimony), and moved to Lunenburg County when he was 4 (about 1752). He lived there until he was 25 (about 1773), when he moved to Caswell County, North Carolina. Since Meshack's brother, Shadrack, was presumably older than he, we can estimate Shadrack's birth as being roughly 1746, and Allen's marriage perhaps 1745. This date of marriage and subsequent birth of Allen's children appear to have been somewhat earlier than Joseph's (the latter's oldest son, Samuel was born about 1748). However, Joseph appears to have taken a lead role in moving from Louisa County and in purchasing land in Lunenburg County, as might be expected of an older brother. Accordingly, we have already suggested that Joseph was the older of the two and that Allen lived with Joseph when he first moved to Lunenburg County.
Unlike Nicholas and Joseph who picked spots in Lunenburg County to settle then stayed there until they left the county, Allen moved around to several locations. According to Meshack's timetable, Allen arrived in Lunenburg County in 1752, probably living initially with Joseph on Reedy Creek. From Lunenberg deed records<12a-h> we can deduce most of his further movements. In 1755, he bought land from David Allen on Crooked Creek, farther east in the county. This was probably brought about by the arrival of his father, Samuel's remaining family from Louisa County to stay with Joseph, displacing Allen. In 1759 Allen Gentry and David Allen joined together in selling their adjoining holdings on the creek. Allen then moved a little farther east along the Meherrin River to Flatrock Creek where in 1761 he bought from his cousin, Hezekiah, land adjoining that of his brother-in-law, French Haggard (and close to land held by David Gentry, William Gentry and John Brooks). He sold this in 1764 but in the meantime, in 1763, he bought the 50 acres of adjoining land owned by his brother William. Allen moved back in 1768 to his brother, Nicholas' former plantation, when he bought 80 acres that Nicholas had sold the previous year. Allen then turned around and sold it plus an additional 20 acres in 1769. During his final years in Lunenburg County, Allen presumably moved onto what was left of Joseph's land where his parents were probably still living. In 1770 Allen joined with Joseph, who had left Virginia in 1766, in selling this property. (One wonders if this might have been brought about by the death of his mother.)
Allen did not appear in any more Lunenburg records after that, but instead settled in Caswell County, North Carolina. He visited briefly in Surry County in 1772, staying just long enough to appear in the 1772 tax lists for that county<30d>. Allen may have been enumerated in more than one location for that list because there are more Allens than can be accounted for. His son, Meshack, was also listed. One of the Allens included two taxables in the household, one of whom we may guess was his son Abednego.
[This excursion was probably prompted by the aftermath of the North Carolina "War of the Regulation" which culminated in the Battle of Alamance in 1771. A large group of dissidents (who came to be called "Regulators"), primarily located in the western frontier counties, were unhappy with illegal fees charged by officials and other misconduct by the colonial government of Governor Tryon. A loosely-organized gathering of these dissidents was dispersed by disciplined colonial militia troops which crushed the rebellion. As a consequence, a large number of settlers in the western counties moved to Kentucky or Tennessee. By 1772 about 1,500 had left and others were waiting only to sell their land before joining them. This wholesale opening of land available at cut-rate prices attracted prospective buyers from far and wide.]
Allen did not find what he wanted so returned to Caswell County. We have commented earlier that Allen's father, Samuel, may have been living with him until at least 1779. While Meshack lived for a number of years after his war service, in Halifax County, Virginia, Allen and the rest of his family appear to have lived initially on the North Carolina side of the Virginia border, although records are lacking. Allen, his son, Shadrack and presumably his father, Samuel were included in a 1777 tax list in the first year of Caswell County' s separation from Orange County. Allen and Shadrack were listed again in 1780 and 1784<13>. Allen was not in Virginia in 1789 when Meshack was listed in a Halifax County tax list but he and his son Abednego were in the 1798 list<14a,b>. Allen and Abednego must have moved back to Virginia during that period of time. It is unfortunate that census records are of little help. All of the Virginia census records for 1790 were destroyed. State census records for 1786 and 1790 federal census records for North Carolina both are missing Nash district of Caswell County (which became Person County in 1792). Accordingly, we have no record from that source, of the location or composition of Allen's immediate household nor the families of his children. The 1800 records for Virginia are also missing, but the 1800 census for Person County (which is not complete) shows Shadrack's family, and the family of Andrew and Mary Buchanan (Allen's daughter) living there.
Allen's wife, Mary, outlived him and was named in his will. She presumably moved in with
her son, Abednego, after Allen's death. They apparently moved soon after Allen's death back to
Person County where Abednego bought land in 1806 from his brother-in-law, Andrew Buchanan.
This may have been an attempt to move closer to the rest of Allen's family. Abednego moved
from Person County to Surry County, joining his brother, Meshack, in about 1807, a date which
may have coincided with his mother's death. He sold his Person County land the following year
The name Simon is not a common one in the Gentry family, but interestingly both Samuel and his brother David had a son by that name. It became a more common one in Samuel's family as Richard, and Allen's son Shadrack both had a son named Simon. It may have had some Virginia origin, or it may have linked back to the proposed ancestors of Nicholas the Immigrant in Essex, England, where there were a succession of Simons, and a Simon is thought to have been a brother of Nicholas.
This Simon's name appears infrequently in records in connection with Samuel's family. He probably moved from Louisa County to Lunenburg County along with other members of the family after Samuel sold a rather large portion of his land in 1753. We can speculate that he lived on a portion of Joseph's land along with his parents and younger brothers. He was named twice in Lunenburg County documents. In 1756 Simon and David were charged with laying out a new road to Reedy Creek Church<20a>. Then in 1757 after the road was approved, Nicholas and Joseph, along with Simon were included in a County Court order to provide manpower for maintaining the new road<20b>.
Simon's marriage to Susannah Brown was somewhat later in life than many marriages, but it
is possible that Simon had a first wife, in Lunenburg County, who died without record. We have
no way of knowing what led Simon away from his family to Cumberland County where he was
married in 1760, and where he lived until his death in 1792. He returned to Louisa County in
1762, long enough to witness the sale of the last of his father's land, and to probably help in
moving the last of any horses or other livestock and any household or farm equipment to
Lunenberg County. He returned to Lunenburg County in 1763 to appear in court in a case
involving disclaimer. For the rest of his life, he appeared in a series of Cumberland County
Court citations in which he was involved with inventorying estates, appraising estates, or serving as an executor for estates<21a>. Simon's activity with legal matters connected with estates leads one to wonder if he became a lawyer, or at least was closely connected with paralegal activities.
In a Lunenburg County Court order of October 1761, "Joseph Gentry, orphan son of John
Gentry" was bound to Samuel Gentry<25>. One must assume that this Joseph was a young
child, both of whose parents had recently died. ["Bondage" was the appropriate legal action
taken to provide care for a minor who did not possess property; "guardianship" was reserved for
the latter.] This Joseph has never been heard of since, so we may further assume that Joseph
died before maturity. Who was this John? The fact that the orphan Joseph was bound to Samuel
rather than any of Samuel's sons suggests that John was not a son of any of the latter. Moreover, none of Samuel's sons was old enough to have been his father. The logical conclusion is that he was an otherwise undocumented son of Samuel-II. There has been speculation as to whether a John Gentry who witnessed a deed in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1759<26> was this son of Samuel. If so, it would be a case of John accompaning his uncle David when the latter moved temporarily to Johnston County at that period of time. It is more likely that the John who was witnessing was David's son by the same name who was of the same approximate age as Samuel's John.
[Added May 2018] There are persuasive reasons to believe that an older son of John may have been the Richard Gentry who later moved to South Carolina, participated in the Revolutionary War, then moved to Surry County, and eventually to Rockcastle County, Kentucky. In this scenario, Richard is proposed to have gone to live with his uncle, Nicholas, after the death of his parents, and then accompanied Nicholas' family to North Carolina. Richard is further proposed to have joined his cousins, Nicholas Jr. and Samuel (Nicholas Sr.'s sons) in their travels to what became Spartanburg District, South Carolina.
Richard's name appears in Virginia records mostly as a witness. The first mention of Richard occurred in Lunenburg County in 1759 when he joined with Joseph in witnessing a deed for David Gentry. This was a somewhat unusual deed in that both principals were living out of the county at the time. Richard was among those who witnessed the final sale of his father's land in Louisa County in 1762<6>. This writer believes that Richard probably stayed in Louisa County on Samuel's land after the rest of the family moved, until the time came for the land to be sold. His next Lunenburg reference was in 1765, when he was assigned by the County Court to assist in road maintenance along with Nicholas and Joseph among others<16>. There is no record of Richard buying land in Lunenburg County, he probably moved in with Nicholas. This is especially likely because Nicholas and Richard appear to have travelled together from Virginia to North Carolina. Richard's last Lunenburg record was in 1766 and 1767 when he was a witness at the final sale of Nicholas' land<3b,c>.
Richard first appeared in North Carolina records in 1768 when he was assigned by the
Rowan County (the predecessor of Surry County) Court to assist in a (road?) project that
stretched along the north bank of the Yadkin River from the Mitchell River junction to the point
where it turned south at the junction of the Little Yadkin River<17> (see Figure 3). This
passed by the Ararat River where his brother Nicholas witnessed a deed in 1771. We can
speculate that Richard and Nicholas were together in that locality from 1768 to 1771 before
moving across the Yadkin River into the south part of Surry County. Richard and Nicholas first
appeared in Surry County tax records beginning in 1771 when they were listed in the first
assessment for that county<30c,d> which was only for a poll tax and not for property. It
may have been then or shortly afterwards that Richard filed for 180 acres of land on the head
waters of Deep Creek near a hill called Fox Knob (or Fox Nob). He received title to this in
1784<18a>. Thereafter he appeared frequently in deed references as a witness, but was not
a principal again until 1810 and 1811 when he sold his property<18b,c> not long before he
died. Beginning with the post-war tax lists of 1784, Richard, and later his sons, appeared
regularly with frequently one or another of his sons being assessed the tax for all or a part of the property<30e>.
William first appeared in any records in 1750, living with David Gentry in Lunenburg County at the time of one of the first tax lists<4>. His brother, Nicholas was included in the same tax list but enumerated separately. The year before, Nicholas and David were both listed for the first time - but without William. This may have been a case where William became liable for tax in 1750 [which was age 16 at the time], suggesting his birth in 1734. Two years later, in 1752, William was listed next to Nicholas Gentry while David was listed in a different enumeration district. The name of his wife, Lucy, appears once in Lunenburg County Court records in 1759 [or 1758? -- the records are not clear about the date] when William and Lucy participated as plaintiffs in a suit for debt<22>. His oldest child, Claiborne, was born in 1761 according to testimony many years later by Claiborne when he applied for a Revolutionary War pension in Tennessee<31b>. William bought land for the first time in 1760. He sold this land in 1763 and did not appear in any Lunenburg records after that<23>. He is presumed to have moved to North Carolina at about that time.
William was in Surry County, North Carolina, in 1772, living along the Yadkin River, near
or with Joseph. William was a carpenter and an interesting part of his history is his presence in the records of the Moravians of Old Salem. He was hired to build a bridge across Muddy Creek on the road from Salem to the Yadkin River. The Moravian records show this bridge to have been completed by the end of 1772. They then hired him to build an extension of this bridge but within a few months, William had died of drowning, perhaps in connection with the building. Lucy, who eventually remarried in 1787, was named in May 1773 to administer his estate<24> and was left to raise a family some of whom continued to live in that same area for many years afterwards.
Samuel-III is not mentioned in any of the Louisa County or Lunenburg County records. The earliest apparent reference to him is in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1761 and 1762, where a Samuel Gentry served as a chainbearer for the surveying of two plots of land<27>. This physically demanding task must surely have been undertaken by a younger man than Samuel-II, who at that time would have been approximately 70 years of age. Thus, it appears that the chainbearer Samuel must have been Samuel-III. This was at a time when David Gentry was involved in Johnston County, and Samuel had probably accompanied him on this expedition. There is also a brief reference in 1767 when apparently this same Samuel witnessed a deed for land on the south side of the Meherrin River opposite Gentry holdings on the north side. This was recorded shortly after Mecklenburg County was separated (in 1764) from Lunenburg County<28>. It is interesting that this particular deed involved land that William Allen had earlier obtained by a trade which was witnessed by David and Hezekiah Gentry, with John Daniel of Johnston County, North Carolina, in exchange for similar property Allen held in Johnston County. This was the same William Allen of Johnston County who is thought to be a brother of the David Allen and Reynolds Allen mentioned in the Johnston County surveys.
There have been speculations that Samuel was married to a sister of the David, William and Reynolds Allens with whom he associated. The same speculation is true for Allen Gentry and for the first wife of David Gentry. This would in part explain the association Samuel had with William Allen, both in Johnston County, North Carolina, and in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It might also be a clue to what happened to Samuel between 1767, the last reference in Virginia, and 1780, the first reference in Surry County, North Carolina. If the relationship was true, it would be reason for Samuel to have remained with the Allens instead of joining his Gentry siblings when they left Virginia.
Whatever the connection of Samuel with David Gentry and the Allen family, he appears to
have followed the Gentrys that moved to Surry County rather than following David's family to
South Carolina when he left Virginia.. Accordingly, one must conclude that the younger Samuel was a brother of the Surry County Gentrys. Moreover there is no record of the name Samuel being found among the immediate descendants of David, whereas understandably, it was a common name in the family of Samuel-II. Samuel was probably living with his mother on his brother, Joseph's, plantation during most of his time in Lunenburg County and left about the time Joseph sold this land in 1770. Samuel-III is found in scattered references in Surry County, the earliest probably being in 1777 when a "Samuel Gentrey, Auther Gentrey, and Saml Jentery" signed a petition dealing with land entries. [It is very difficult to distinguish between references to Samuel-III and Samuel-IV (son of Joseph) in Surry County records]. Samuel had settled on 400 acres on Fox Knob, close to Richard Gentry, when he filed for a state grant in 1780. He was taxed for the use of this land in 1781 when tax lists were resumed following the war and appears to have been taxed again in 1782 and 1786<30e>. He did not receive title to the land until 1792<27a,b> by which time he had left Surry County, moving to Spartanburg District, South Carolina. Whether his land was unsuitable for farming, or for whatever reason, Samuel apparently abandoned it until it was sold after his death by his four sons in 1801 as heirs of their deceased father<29c>. Samuel and his family appeared in the 1790 South Carolina census. His sons were in the 1800 census but Samuel and his wife were missing so Samuel is assumed to have died shortly before then.
Even less so than his brother, Samuel, Nathaniel does not appear in any Virginia references.
He may have stayed in Lunenburg County after his brothers left, but at some time he moved to
South Carolina, ending up in Spartanburg District where other members of the Samuel-II family
also settled. There are a number of land and court records referring to him there and he appeared
in the 1790 census. Some time before 1800 he apparently moved, for the only other reference
after that time was in 1810 in Pulaski County, Kentucky where he is presumed to be the
Nathaniel Gentry that was recorded there.
Whatever the relationship, the Allens and Gentrys had strong and continued personal and business connections. David Allen sold land to Allen Gentry in Lunenburg County, then later Allen Gentry and David Allen jointly sold their adjoining properties. In Johnston County, we have Samuel surveying land belonging to David Allen which adjoined Reynolds Allen. Land owned by William Allen in Johnston County was traded for land in Lunenburg County and additional land was later bought by William nearby. These Allens, namely David, William and Reynolds are said to be sons of Robert Allen of Hanover County who in turn was a brother of Richard Allen Jr and a son of Richard Allen Sr of New Kent County, Virginia. Samuel's wife, Ann, may have been a sister of these two Allens which would place Robert's sons as first cousins of Samuel Gentry's sons. A final possible connection with the Allen family, other than the naming of Allen Gentry, may be the naming of Richard Gentry for a grandfather or great-grandfather, Richard Allen.
Another group of cousins and in-laws were members of the Brooks family.
By the terms of
the will of Richard Brooks Sr of St. Paul's Parish in 1731, we know that he
had a wife Mary, and sons Richard Jr and Robert among
other heirs. Both Richard Jr. (Richard-II) and Robert (Robert-II) had close ties to the
Richard-II Brooks (wife Elizabeth)
Robert-II Brooks (wife Tabitha)
As indicated in the introduction, this and the previous article have addressed the question of evidence relating to Samuel-II, including his birth, marriage, and death, and also an identification of his children. The next article in this series will review the evidence relating to Samuel's brother Nicholas-II. While much is known about his family from the book "The Gentry Family in America", for the sake of completeness, there is still much to be said concerning his life. We will then go back and pick up the oldest son of Nicholas-I, namely Joseph Gentry. In doing so, we will try to piece together some of the loose ends of a group of Gentrys living in Hanover, Henrico, Louisa, and Albemarle Counties that have not been tied into the main trunk of the Gentry family tree. At some time in the future, we will return to Samuel's family with articles about his other sons and discussing individual members of his family more in detail.
Selected References (continued)
(Note. These are references that are representative of a much larger body of references to the various members of Samuel Gentry's family)
1. Lunenburg County Original Land Grants
Denis Hudgins"Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants", "Vol IV (1732-1741)" and Vol V (1741- 1749), published by Virginia Genealogical Society, Richmond, 1994
3. Lunenburg County Deed Book
4. Landon C. Bell "Sunlight on the Southside, Lists of Tithes,
Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1748-1783", 1974, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore.
|1748 p.60||Hugh Lawson District ["Between Hounds Crk and Meherrin"]|
|Nicklas Jentrey||1 tithe|
|1749 p.102||Hugh Lawson District ["being on the north side of the Meherrin River"]|
|Nickles Gentrey||1 tithe|
|Ritchard Brooks (adj Nicholas)||1 tithe|
|David Gentry and Robert Brooks||2 tithes|
|1750 p.158-59||List of Richd. Witton|
|Nicholas Gentry||1 tithe|
|David Gentry and Wm. Gentry||2 tithes|
|1752 p.180||List by Lyddall Bacon|
|Nicholas Gentry||1 tithe|
|William Gentry||1 tithe|
|p.210||List by Richd. Witton|
|David Gentry||1 tithe|
|(Only selected years following 1752 reported)|
|1764 p.236||List by Henry Blagrave (alphabetical -- not necessarily adjacent)|
|Allen Gentry||1 tithe 50 acres|
|Joseph Gentry||1 tithe 118acres|
|Nicholas Gentry||1 tithe 108 acres|
5. Surry County Deed Books
7. Lunenburg County Deed Book
8. Lunenburg County Court Order Books
9. Jo White Linn, "Abstracts of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Rowan County, North Carolina, 1763-1774", Salisbury, NC, 1979. Transcribed from microfilm copies of the original minutes.
10. Surry County, NC, Deed Books
11. Surry County, NC, Will Books
13. Caswell County, NC, Tax Lists
14. Halifax County Tax Lists
(from microfilm image copies of original)
|a.||Personal Tax List B, 1789|
|b.||Personal Tax List B, 1798, June 21|
|[Listed in order: white tithes, black male adults, black males 12-15, horses, amount of tax]|
15. Halifax County Court Book
17. Jo White Linn op. cit., "Abstracts of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Rowan County"
18. Surry County, NC, Deed Books
19. Jo White Linn, "Surry County, North Carolina, Will Abstracts Vol I-III, 1771-1827", Salisbury. NC 1974, p.107
21. Katherine Reynolds, "Abstracts of Cumberland
Will Books 1 and 2, 1749-1782", Southern Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1985.
23. Lunenburg County Deed Book
24. Mrs. W. O. Absher and Mrs. Robert K. Hayes, "Surry County, North Carolina, Court Minute Abstracts", Vol I (1768-1785)
26. Weynette Parks Haun, "Johnston County, North Carolina, Abstracts of Deed Books A-1 to D-1, 1759 thru 1771", Durham, NC, 1981.
28. Katherine B. Elliott, "Early Settlers Mecklenburg County Virginia, Vol II", reprinted Southern Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1983, p.133:
29. Surry County, NC, Deed Book
30. Surry County, NC, Tax Lists
Gentry references in journals (with successive changes in title) published by William P. Johnson, and transcriptions by this author from originals on file in North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC
|Joseph Gentry + negro Ned||2 taxables|
|Samuel[-IV?] Gentry||1 taxable|
|Joseph Gentry||2 taxables|
|Nicholas Gentry||2 taxables|
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(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – Countywide mental health services are being launched in response to community feedback gathered from the Community Mental Health Assessment. In order to ascertain and respond to needs locally, the County of Santa Barbara, in partnership with community mental health and wellness partners and stakeholders, developed a survey which was completed by over 5,000 community members in addition to focus groups and phone calls to gather additional information.
Globally and nationally the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many people’s mental health and created new challenges for people already suffering from mental illness and substance use disorders. The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors authorized the use of federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to first assess the needs and presently to implement strategies and services to address the needs.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the lives of many Santa Barbara community residents. For example, survey results showed that 42% of survey participants had someone close to them diagnosed with COVID-19, 21% of participants had someone close to them hospitalized with COVID-19, and 15% of participants had someone close to them die of COVID-19. Consistent with current national mental health and substance use findings, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health symptoms and substance use have increased. More specifically, approximately 61% of survey participants reported worse mental health due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, participants reported experiencing an increased level of anxiety and depression symptoms.
Key priorities heard through the community included:
- Social Connection Opportunities
- Accessibility to Resources
- Education and Stigma Reduction
- Variety of Accessible Services and Supports
Through a request for proposal process, five local organizational providers have been awarded funding with most services currently in place and others to begin in the near future. Providers include CommUnify, Community Promotores Network, Santa Barbara Response Network, Transitions Mental Health Association, and the Lompoc Valley Community Health Care Organization.
Community gatekeepers will be developed through training community members, agencies, businesses, places of worship, parents, neighbors, law enforcement, therapists, or schools on identifying people needing mental health support and helping with resource linkage.
Social connection opportunities and education will be offered through various groups, and “Stressbusters” programming, that will teach resiliency skills, reduce stigma surrounding mental health, provide mental health education and help with linkage to community resources. Activities are being offered in parts of the county including gardening, hiking, meditation, yoga and walking groups. Classes will be offered in Mental Health First Aid and Youth Mental Health First and Cafecitos will lead conversations on mental health and protective factors.
To learn more about these new services being offered, please call the Behavioral Wellness 24/7 Access line at 1-888-868-1649. To learn more about the County of Santa Barbara Department of Behavioral Wellness, please visit https://www.countyofsb.org/274/Behavioral-Wellness.


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Daisy Dawson has the ability to understand and talk to animals—a skill that brings her lots of fun and adventure! In this charming second installment of the series, Daisy is off on an expedition. Her mission: impress her teacher with pictures of two shy otters for her science project on animal habitats. Together with her pals Boom the dog and a pack of chatty squirrels, Daisy has to keep her wits about her to brave the scary river and discover the secret pond where the otters live. Will the fivesome be able to make it there safely? Will the otters be too frightened of her to come out of hiding? Young readers will wish that they had Daisy’s amazing abilities too, and will surely delight in this fun new series and learn a thing or two about animals.
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Although anime conventions have re-opened their doors (with or without COVID-19 policies in place), we at Coherent Cats currently have no plans for future in-person panels. In lieu of convention appearances, here is a written addendum to Asexuality in Manga and More. Since we last discussed asexuality in manga, more and more relevant to the conversation have become available in English.
Please see Asexuality in Manga and More for an overview of Japanese terminology for asexual and aromantic identity. This post will primarily borrow the wording of the official English translations when discussing a specific series.
The rest of this post contains discussion of sexual content and anti-asexual and aromantic prejudice, as well as potential spoilers for all series mentioned.
I Want to Be a Wall
The first volume of the josei series I Want to Be a Wall by Honami Shirono, which looks at a lavender marriage between an asexual woman and gay man, has recently been published in English. The translation describes Yuriko as asexual and “incapable of romantic attraction,” which in succinct English terms would be considered aromantic.
Yuriko has an appreciation for fictional romance as a fan of boys love, but does not desire romantic love or sex from other people. At one point, she muses on what draws her to the genre: “What I like about BL is that all the characters are men. There’s no girls, like the protagonists of shoujo manga or the heroines of shounen manga. […] It’s a place that has nothing to do with me. I can pretend like I don’t feel out of place.” With this, the manga pulls away from stereotypes that asexual people recoil from any sort of romance as well as that BL fans are straight women turned on by gay sex (not that there’s anything wrong with either). For Yuriko, BL provided an “escape” from the heteronormativity at her Japanese high school. She encounters more prejudice about being a virgin abroad in the United States, but also learns about asexuality as an orientation from a white Englishman there.
Yuriko and her husband Sousuke both have childhood flashbacks about alienation and frustration, with feelings they couldn’t identify until adulthood, drawing parallel lines between their situations that collided in marriage. Just as Sousuke had to watch his crush date girl after girl while keeping his love a secret, Yuriko had to watch her friend prioritize a boyfriend and be pressured by her to start dating too. Heteronormativity drove them apart from their peers, but ironically brought the two of them together.
They may be legally married, but they know they don’t romantically love each other. Instead, I Want to Be a Wall stands as one of the clearest depictions of a queerplatonic relationship in manga. They’re LGBTQ people committed to each other as husband and wife, but don’t have sex or even share a bedroom. They aim to support and learn about each other, but will never fall in love. The manga makes this clear with how elated Yuriko was to learn about asexuality, and how Sousuke has decided to always harbor a love for his childhood friend. It has the same fuzzy feeling as a love story, but will not inevitably lead to romance.
Though the English version from Yen Press provides many translation notes on Japanese culture and otaku fandom, it contains no definitions for asexuality or other information on Japanese LGBTQ culture outside the comic. The storyline already portrays them, but it seems like a missed opportunity for readers to learn more about asexuality in Japan.
I Wanna Be Your Girl
I Wanna Be Your Girl by Umi Takase, available exclusive on the digital app Mangamo, features an aromantic mentor figure to his young transgender, lesbian, and questioning students. Takase tells I Wanna Be Your Girl from the perspective of Hime, a cisgender girl with an unrequited love for her childhood friend Akira. When they start high school, Akira decides to wear the girl’s uniform and come out as a transgender girl to her classmates. Hime starts wearing Akira’s abandoned boy’s uniform in solidarity, though she doesn’t identify as trans and doubts the sincerity of her own actions.
In chapter 28, Akira asks for love advice from Sasaki-sensei after being repeatedly ignored by her crush in favor of Hime. Sasaki tells her, “you can’t stake the whole of your self-worth on someone else’s opinion of you,” and in the process comes out to her as someone who doesn’t fall in love with anyone. Chapter 29 delves into his past, where his classmates assume he has secret crushes and his family members beg him to get married and have children. In the present, he’s fulfilled by his bonds with his students. Society may act like aromantic people don’t exist, but he teaches Akira that you don’t need validation from others.
Takase uses an aromantic character like Sasaki to show how a person defines their own LGBTQ identity. Society perceives a person’s orientation by their current partner or history, which makes someone like Sasaki without any even harder to fit into a box. He identifies as aromantic even if others assume he’s a straight man and place heteronormative pressures onto him, just as Akira remains a girl even if her classmates misgender her. As a result, Akira lets go of the heteronormativity around being validated by attraction from a straight boy as well.
Mine-kun is Asexual
Irodori Comics has emerged as a new publisher of LGBTQ manga, specifically doujinshi available digitally. Their LGBTQ-themed doujinshi are published under the Irodori Sakura imprint, and one of their first releases was Mine-kun is Asexual.
Isaki Uta tells the story from the point of view of Tomoe Murai, a straight allosexual woman in college, who confesses to Mine, her bi and asexual friend. At first Mine hesitates to start dating because he’s sex-repulsed and worries a partner would expect to have sex. Murai likes him so much she decides to try dating without kissing or sex. Mine believes love and sexual desire aren’t the same thing, and is happy to find someone willing to give him a chance.
Their relationship goes well, though Murai admits she gets lonely. When one of her friends suggests that Mine is just secretly gay and manipulating her in order to appear straight, she defends him and shuts her down. Eventually they break up, but Murai makes it clear that Mine is in no way “lacking.”
Nameless Asterism by Kina Kobayashi has love triangles and mistaken identity on par with Shakespeare. Middle schooler Tsukasa has a crush on her best friend Washio which she intends to take to her grave for the sake of their other close friendship with Kotooka, then finds out Washio actually likes Kotooka. At the same time, Kotooka keeps her love for Tsukasa as well as her knowledge of Washio’s feelings for herself a secret due to internalized lesbophobia. On top of all this, Tsukasa’s fraternal twin brother Subaru disguises himself as her and hangs out with his classmate Asakura to keep him away from the real Tsukasa.
Subaru goes to extreme cross-dressing measures to prevent Tsukasa from dating anyone because he emotionally clings to the idea of being one-and-the-same with Tsukasa, so the thought of her entering a romantic relationship with someone disgusts him. In Subaru’s mind, he can befriend Tsukasa’s BFFs Washio and Kotooka, but can’t date Tsukasa’s partner (regardless of gender). Even then, Subaru doesn’t understand the appeal of dating a stranger in general. When Asakura asks out Tsukasa after having never spoken to her before, Subaru finds it “creepy.” In English terms, he’d be considered romance repulsed.
When Subaru explains to Asakura that being confessed to would forcibly “label” him, Asakusa wonders aloud if he could be “aromantic” in the English translation. Subaru doesn’t recognize the term, and doesn’t understand putting a name to his feelings anyway. By distancing Subaru’s complex from labels, Kobayashi clarifies that he does not represent aromantic identity while at the same time acknowledging the existence and validity of aromantic people. Romance certainly repulses him, but that doesn’t necessarily make him identify as aromantic.
Asakura posits that Subaru could one day fall in love. Indeed, Kobayashi describes Subaru as “a boy who is afraid of change more than anyone–yet, ironically, ends up changing more than anyone.” By the final volume, he goes from seeing Asakura as his enemy to his friend. In a reflective inner monologue, he even says he didn’t know the true meanings of friendship and love “at the time.” Nameless Asterism ends with many unresolved conflicts and unrevealed secrets (including Subaru’s cross-dressing deception), so readers don’t know how and when Subaru’s understanding would change.
Perhaps if Nameless Asterism had run longer, the two boys would have eventually fallen in love. Unlike when Asakura asked Tsukasa out as a stranger, their friendship would serve as the basis for romance and dating. Instead of portraying aromantic identity as something to inevitably grow out of, it speaks more to fluidity and impermanence of perspectives and the self, similar to Bloom Into You by Nio Nakatani.
Sex Ed 120%
In Sex Ed 120%, storyboarder Kikiki Tataki and artist Hotomura combine sexual education facts with slice of life antics. A young physical education teacher named Tsuji resolves to educate her students about sex as well; starting with a lesbian in a relationship, a BL fangirl, and an aromantic asexual. Kashiwa describes herself as “not really interested in romantic love,” but takes intellectual interest in Tsuji’s lessons as a biology and zoology enthusiast. When she comes out about not understanding romance, her lesbian classmate Moriya notes the similarity between expectations to “find the right person” and for lesbians to “move onto” men.
Kashiwa’s presence makes it clear that everyone should have sex ed, even if they have no plans to date or have sex. Indeed, the second volume shows how anyone can be sexually harassed regardless of their gender presentation or sexual orientation when it happens to her. In general, Sex Ed 120% strives to be as inclusive as possible with how it touches on feminist issues and LGBT culture. In the third volume, Tsuji laments that “even if more people know about the the LBGT community, life is still difficult for asexual people in a society that considers romantic relationships the norm.”
The Vampire and His Pleasant Companions
The manga The Vampire and His Pleasant Companions by Marimo Ragawa adapts Narise Konohara’s novel series of the same name about a white vampire named Albert from Nebraska who accidentally ends up in Japan. Al finds himself in the care of a Japanese man named Akira, who agrees to provide Al human blood in exchange for help with his embalming business. Unfortunately Al has no fangs and little to no supernatural abilities, besides taking the form of a bat during the day and a human at night.
In human form, Al often sleeps in the same bed as Akira and even gives him goodnight kisses. Other characters assume they’re a gay couple, but so far they only have sexual and romantic tension. Al gradually falls in love with his roommate, while Akira makes his disinterest in dating anyone clear. When a gay coworker named Muroi asks out Akira, Akira turns him down even as “an experiment” the same way he’s turned down men and women before: “I don’t plan to pair up with anyone! […] I–I don’t feel any kind of desire for anyone! I’m frigid!”
At first Al doesn’t recognize the word frigid due to their language barrier, so Akira defines it as, “I don’t get turned on. I can’t get it up.” He describes his situation in physiological terms, but seems disconnected from sexual attraction on a social level as well. In another instance, he’s baffled when Muroi asks if he and Al “experiment” together when they’re alone. He doesn’t consider potential sexual situations the way others might, though seems painfully aware of his difference from other people.
After Akira explains, Al reassures him (in broken Japanese) that, “but… heart stand up. You love with your heart, it not like sex.” Al distinguishes arousal and sexual desire from love, encouraging him to date even if he won’t have sex. He knows Akira wouldn’t have sex with him even if they became a couple, but loves him anyway. Akira doesn’t repeat his intent to stay single, as if Al’s distinction between sex and romance makes a difference. He doesn’t identify as asexual, but Al still supports the idea of people who don’t experience sexual desire finding love. With the manga still publishing in English, it remains to be seen how exactly the relationship between them will develop.
How Do We Relationship?
The story of How Do We Relationship? by Tamifull begins when college classmates Saeko and Miwa drunkenly come out to each other as lesbians and subsequently try dating. Volume one does not directly involve asexuality, but touches on relevant issues. Miwa hesitates to have sex, though she has fantasized about it, which causes friction in their budding relationship. A straight friend named Rika assures her that not all couples have sex, which validates such relationships even if they aren’t represented.
Chapter 14 touches on expectations for sex and relationships again with another friend named Ucchi, who doesn’t see the appeal of being in a relationship compared to time spent by herself. When her friends insist being single is the same as loneliness, she gets insecure about the expectation for her to fall in love and mature into a woman. She explains that she would have to change herself to be accepted by society, and Miwa compares that pressure to her own as a lesbian and encourages Ucchi to live an authentic life.
I Think Our Son is Gay
Openly gay mangaka Okura tells I Think Our Son is Gay from the point of view of Tomoko, the mother of a closeted gay boy who wants to support her son without forcing him to come out. Her youngest son Yuri also supports his older brother Hiroki in subtle ways. When their father suggests that boys “normally” take interest in girls, Yuri asserts that he himself has “absolutely no interest in romance or girls.” In the first volume, Tomoko cannot tell if Yuri spoke from the heart or to just deflect from Hiroki’s hidden interest in boys.
In volume two, Yuri’s genuine disinterest in romance becomes more apparent. A flashback reveals that he once hurt a girl’s feelings by not going out with her, but he simply wanted to be friends. (Subaru has a similar backstory in Nameless Asterism.) In fact, he didn’t understand any of the romantic love between his classmates. He may not be as insecure about his orientation as his brother, but has still faced problems socially because of it. In the present, Yuri decides that his familial love for his brother satisfies him.
Even More Manga
There are plenty more “aro/ace-applicable characters” out there, even if they’re not at the forefront of their respective series. Other recent examples include but are not limited to Kira in My Androgynous Boyfriend, Izutsumi in Delicious in Dungeon, and Sasu in The Case Files of Jeweler Richard.
Of course, the manga listed here only scratch the surface of works available in Japan. There are probably many more manga incorporating and representing asexual and nonsexual identity that are unavailable or even unknown to us. For example, the boys love manga Hatsukoi Catharsis (“First Love Catharsis”) by Nuko Hatakawa follows the relationship between a self-identified nonsexual man and an allosexual man.
In the English manga market, we have more on the way. Kodansha announced the license of Is Love the Answer?, another manga by Uta Isaki (creator of Mine-kun is Asexual). The self-contained volume follows an aromantic asexual woman navigating amatonormative society. More manga by the openly asexual mangaka Yuhki Kamatani are available than ever, including the ongoing Hiraeth: The End of the Journey and the upcoming Shonen Note: Boy Soprano.
When you look at all these manga (including those in Asexuality in Manga and More), some patterns start to emerge. For one, some of these manga began digitally on Pixiv (Hatsukoi Catharsis, I Want to Be a Wall) or were self-published (Mine-kun is Asexual). These alternative avenues from printed magazines may allow more freedom to explore asexual and nonsexual identity, just like zines and webcomics among English-speakers.
Asexual and nonsexual characters also tend to appear in manga delving into sexuality and/or romance: Scum’s Wish, Devils’ Line, Bloom Into You, etc. They question what constitutes romance, how sex plays into it, and what society expects of people. These issues apply to anyone regardless of orientation, but it’s interesting to see asexual and nonsexual characters included specifically.
Similarly, asexual and nonsexual characters tend to be found in manga with other LGBTQ characters, including stories about LGBTQ social issues. I can’t account for every manga in existence, but every title listed here with a designated asexual/nonsexual character also has at least one lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender character. Sometimes they are one and the same: Kanzaki in Devils’ Line, Mine in Mine-kun is Asexual, Someone-san in Our Dreams at Dusk. Other times, they may be a side character in a manga with another main LGBTQ character: Kashiwa in Sex Ed 120%, Sasaki in I Wanna Be Your Girl, etc.
Asexual and aromantic share spaces with LGBTQ more often than not, which includes the manga genres of boys love and yuri. Both genres have increasingly incorporated LGBTQ vocabulary, such as lesbian in Still Sick and gay in Go For It Nakamura. As realistic gay and lesbian portrayals continue to grow in yuri and BL (not that there’s anything wrong with the more divorced from real life), so apparently will other LGBTQ identities like asexual and nonsexual. Manga like Sex Ed 120% and I Think Our Son is Gay look at BL and yuri from an LGBTQ lens, and also advocate for respecting asexual people in their exploration of social issues. Representation should not be seen as competition between identities, but rather how intertwined they can be in manga.
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Great article – thanks for putting the hard work in to round up all these series!
A truly informative, detailed and wonderful post! Thank you very much for writing this!
Thank you for writing an update to your original post! Both that post and this one helped me a lot in finding ace secondary characters. Although I will say, it does make me sad to see a list of ace manga without the masterpiece that is Yuri to Koe to Kaze Matoi on it (;_;) (I assume because it’s not available in English?) But especially with Isaki Uta’s much more robust follow-up getting translated this Fall, it’s definitely an exciting time for ace manga in translation!


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Pyle said the group always had more women than men, although "we've been getting more men recently."
At the meeting, Betsy Fitzgerald, 81, of West Chester, discussed the history of the chapter, chartered in October 1973. The founders started the group for a simple reason: "They thought retired people needed to get together," she said. The chapter is one of seven in Chester County.
Fitzgerald told stories of a memorable bee-plagued picnic - "I brought a friend to that picnic, and she never came back" - and how in one of their meeting places, members practically had to climb over one another to get to their seats.
In 1995, the chapter was named state chapter of the year.
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For the anniversary celebration at the Elks Club at Wayne and Washington Streets, where the chapter has met since 1995, members brought all sorts of chapter memorabilia: proclamations on the group's formation, newspaper articles about charitable efforts, and old typewritten minutes.
Albums of photos showed the members on trips, one of the most popular activities that the chapter sponsors. Members go on day trips to local destinations or Atlantic City, overnight trips, and "mystery trips," where the travelers do not know where they are going until they board the bus.
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Betty Walker, 79, of Westtown, is president of the chapter this year. She joined after a friend told her about it: "I think that's how most people hear about it, by word of mouth."
Betty Macauley, 80, of Exton, was president from 1991 to 1993. She said that her most important contribution to the group was transferring the group's archives, which filled several boxes, to the Chester County Historical Society.
Her motivation was a practical one.
"I live in an apartment," she said, "and there just wasn't room to store everything there. I couldn't use my dining-room table."
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What is the group's key to success?
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The research center at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester has been named in honor of Renzo Pierpaoli, founder of Helicopter Support Inc. in Orange, Conn. His daughters donated $250,000 to help the museum preserve the history of the industry.
Send Milestones news to suburban staff writer Wendy Walker, The Inquirer, 120 N. High St., West Chester, Pa. 19380; e-mail it to PAmilestones@phillynews.com; or fax to 610-701-7630. Contact Wendy Walker at 610-701-7651 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Chapter dues are $8 per year, and members must also be members of the national AARP ($20 per year). For more information, call Helen Cumley at 610-455-0250.

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4 Profitable Ways to Invest in Your Dental Career
Invest in the Growth and Stability of Your Practice
Reaching a point in your dental practice where operations run smoothly and business is stable is no small feat. However, this is only the beginning of the journey. There is more you can do to increase business and expand your practice if you’re looking to make the most out of your dental career.
Sometimes, the best way to increase revenue is to focus on the business aspects of your practice, such as marketing, encouraging patient referrals, or analyzing your accounting books. Other times, it is the dentistry itself that can most benefit from your attention, like pursuing an orthodontics education and expanding your services.
Regardless of the route you take, growing your practice requires investment. That investment will involve a combination of your time, your energy, and your money, all of which you may be short on while working to maintain a successful dental practice. Because of this, it’s crucial to choose where you use those assets carefully.
If you’re unsure of the best option to invest in your dental career, consider the following four effective ways.
1. Keep the Patients You Have.
Repeat visits are not just more business, they are also more efficient and profitable business. These patients don’t require any onboarding, and you don’t have to pay for new advertising to acquire them. Additionally, word of mouth from loyal patients makes for organic, no-cost marketing.
If you want to retain your patients and develop a strong reputation, make exemplary service your priority. When you treat your patients, strive to demonstrate trustworthiness, compassion, and professionalism. Connecting with patients increases their confidence in your care, raising the likelihood they will want to return to you.
Because of this, developing a rapport with your patients is almost as critical as giving them excellent care, particularly if you plan on expanding your services by starting an orthodontic practice. Current patients with whom you’ve developed a strong relationship may be more likely to become your orthodontic patients too.
If you’re looking to better understand how to retain patients, consider The Patient First Manifesto by Bryan Laskin, DDS.
2. Take Advantage of Technology.
Advanced technology, such as same-day restorations and 3D imaging, can vastly improve your services. If you would like to increase patient comfort as well as the efficacy and efficiency of your procedures, consider investing in laser technology. Up-to-date technology can also be an advantage when starting an orthodontics practice.
However, you don’t just want the most cutting-edge equipment at your practice you also want to use all of the technology available to you to optimize the patient experience. We live in an era of convenience and streamlined services, so you will need to match or surpass the competition in that area in order to gain and retain patients.
To do this, make sure your website is easy to navigate on a smartphone. Keep social media accounts well-managed and up-to-date, and offer a patient portal that is simple to set up and use. Both your patients and your team can benefit from advanced and convenient technology.
3. Hire a Dental Consultant.
Because much of your schedule and funds are likely dedicated to the daily management of your practice, you may consider bringing in extra help and a fresh set of eyes while attempting to expand business and take in more revenue.
A dental consultant can take an objective look at your practice and identify both strengths and weaknesses. They’ll help you optimize your time, your team, and your talent and they’ll make sure you’re not losing any money through the cracks. They may also suggest starting an orthodontic practice.
Learning how to take advantage of your strengths and work to improve any weaker areas in your practice can prove to be a worthwhile investment.
4. Consider Orthodontic Continuing Education.
If you feel your business is optimized and stable, consider expanding your dental career by branching out with orthodontic continuing education.
An orthodontics education can help you expand the services you offer, which gives you the opportunity to quickly and significantly increase your profit. Adding just three to five new orthodontic cases to your practice per month can increase your revenue by $150,000 to $300,000 per year.
Keep in mind that many of your current patients can become orthodontic patients as well, which means that you don’t necessarily need to start from scratch when starting an orthodontic practice. This will save you both time and money dedicated to marketing and onboarding.

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I remember when I would enter the World Press Photo Contest as a photographer; I spent a lot of time trying to guess what the jury wanted to see. In my experience as a judge, that doesn't work and there are at least two reasons why. One reason is because juries like to be surprised. They want to see something new and be intrigued. The other reason is that it’s simply not possible to predict how a jury made up of so many genders, cultures and specializations will vote.
The way I see it, the jury's selections should be a mirror for the profession. We should reflect what photographers are doing, and photographers should feel free to submit the work that they are proud of. It doesn't matter if it's not a massive story about a spectacular event. It might be a really simple story that's just beautifully told. Don't be afraid that a subtle, nuanced story from a remote rural area won't be seen or taken seriously—it will. Think of the jury as curators. We will look at all of the submitted work and choose what we respond to the most. And you never know what that will be, so don't be afraid to submit something out of the ordinary.
Also, remember these three words: less is more. You can submit up to 12 photos in a story, but I would submit six frames if it makes for a stronger story. I think it's critical that photographers be concise. There is nothing more tedious for a juror, who will look at 100,000 images or more, than to be presented with work that is thoughtlessly edited or sequenced. Lead the jury with your photos so that they aren't forced to imagine how it could have been edited.
So if you're sitting in your studio trying to predict how the judges will vote, you're wasting your time. My suggestion to every photographer is to submit only your very best work—whatever resonates with you and whatever you think you have done best.
Best of luck to all,
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February 20, 2012
Design, Build, Production: The cost-reduction continuum
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February 24, 2011
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How does one go from meager beginnings to being CEO of a multi-million dollar firm and named as a Champion for Change by the White House?
The story of John Calhoun, Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Management Services (IMS) located in Jackson, Mississippi, is that of the classic entrepreneur overcoming hardship through intellect and a strong work ethic. His entrepreneurial drive began early when he, at the age of 12, mowed lawns with his older brothers for their business.
In February 1996, he and Rod Hill founded IMS, a full-service consulting, engineering, emergency response, management and operations firm helping public and private clients improve the environment and infrastructure. However, he was no overnight success story. Prior to starting IMS, he and Rod had two businesses that – in their words – “failed miserably”. They learned from the obstacles and stumbling blocks and successfully started IMS Engineers.
Since its inception, the firm has grown from a two person staff to more than three hundred and the multi-million dollar operation is one of the largest minority-owned engineering firms in the nation. “Our number one goal is to provide the best services possible - every opportunity we get,” said Calhoun.
In 2006, IMS was named to the prestigious Inc. 500 list as one of America’s fastest growing companies for the fourth straight year. That year, IMS ranked 449th in the nation with a 3-year sales growth of 330.1%. IMS was also named to the 2007 Inc. 5000, the first ever list of the 5,000 fastest-growing businesses in the country with a rank of 833rd and a three-year sales growth of 414.1%. IMS was also ranked 30th on the 2008 Inner City 100 Award for the fastest growing inner-city businesses in the U.S. for the fourth straight year.
IMS Engineers is a Small Business Program 8(a) graduate and holds multiple MBE certifications with state and local municipalities; and has acquired and executed contracts throughout the United States. While participating in the 8(a) program, IMS garnered several contracts to include an 8(a) Set-Aside IDIQ Construction Contract worth $281,000 to a $20 million small business set-aside contract for debris monitoring and quality assurance aervices in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
SBA’s 8(a) Program is an essential instrument that helps firms that are majority owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals gain access to government contracting and premier business development tools. Participation in the program is divided into two phases over nine years: a four-year developmental stage and a five-year transition stage.
Calhoun is a product of the Jackson Public Schools and received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Memphis State University. He received an MBA from Jackson State University - and a Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi.
Through his 8(a) certification, SBA sponsored his completion of post-doctoral executive education studies at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, the Center for Closely Held Firms of the Sellinger School of Loyola University, and the University of Texas.
Prior to founding IMS Engineers, Calhoun taught Strategic Management and Human Resources classes full-time at Jackson State University. For the past several years, he has taught graduate students in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Professional Development - in the College of Business. He has also served on multiple business and community Boards and Commissions including that of Senior Advisor to the Mayor of Jackson where he was the chief architect of the Metro Jackson Housing Partnership and the Jackson Hinds MINCAP fund, an institution that lends millions of dollars to minority businesses in the Jackson Metro Area.
Calhoun received his award as the Mississippi SBA’s 2011 Small Business Person during a ceremony in Jackson, MS on June 14, 2011. He was judged on his company's staying power, growth in number of employees, increase in sales and/or unit volume, current and past financial reports, innovations of product or service, response to adversity and contributions to aid the community.
For more information about SBA’s procurement related programs and services, contact the Mississippi District Office in Jackson at (601) 965-4378, the Gulfport Branch Office at (228) 863-4449 or visit the Mississippi SBA website at www.sba.gov/ms.
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Add the tomatoes, broth, baking soda, parsley, bay leaf and salt and pepper. Bring up to a boil, then turn down to a simmer. Simmer for 10 minutes or so over medium-low heat. The baking soda will foam up and help neutralize the acids from the canned tomatoes and you won't taste it at all.

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Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday, emphasized strict adherence to the rule of law for good governance and sustenance of the social contract between the state and the governed.
Because of the problem that may arise as a result of strict insistence on legal formalism, he, however, said some forms of derogation are allowed within the legal norms to ensure that the rule of law remains potent.
Dogara, in a message to a summit, themed “Strengthening the Rule of Law Through Technology”, organised by the Law Students Association of Nigeria held in Abuja said everybody is equal before the Law.
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A list of summer office hours of all Brookville Local School buildings.
Registration is beginning for the Brookville picnic 5K run/walk and fun run on July 28th. The entry fee for the race, with a t-shirt, is $25 if register before July 18, 2018. The fun run is $15. Proceeds to benefit the Brookville Band Association.
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''WHITE CHERRIES'' is an emerging music duo that brings a modern twist to the band members influences growing up, a fusion of folk, rock and electronic music that they brand as Folktronica. The band consists of producer/guitarist Abie Toiber and vocalist/lyricist Fernanda Romero. The two met in Los Angeles, having both come from Mexico City, and bonded over their passion for music and creativity.
This is their first album together, a passion project that the two collaborated on for the sole purpose of making music as a form of expression for themselves and a vehicle to reach likeminded people. Starting the band simply as a hobby, now ready for the big step!!!


2 militants killed in Shopian encounter
Srinagar: Two unidentified militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of south Kashmir on Wednesday, police said.
Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the Chakura area of Shopian district following information about the presence of militants there, a police officer said.
He said the search operation turned into an encounter after militants opened fire at security forces’ positions.
He said two militants have been killed in the operation. The identity and group affiliation of the slain militants were being ascertained.


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In a recent paper this week, medical doctors at the Mayo Health center verbalize they’ve uncovered the clarification for a mysterious coronary heart situation that had all of sudden killed over a dozen young, healthy members of a first rate-knit Amish community. The perpetrator? A previously undiscovered genetic mutation that runs in households.
Ogle author Michael Ackerman, a coronary heart specialist and professor at the Mayo Health center College of Medicines and Science, is moreover director of the Health center’s Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory. For years, the lab has investigated circumstances accurate thru which seemingly healthy other folks died with out a clear cause, hoping to unearth contemporary suggestions our genes can send us to an early grave. In many of these circumstances, other folks’s hearts simply stopped beating, a situation otherwise is named cardiac arrest.
Per Ackerman, the accelerate to unraveling this explicit thriller modified into a prolonged one.
“The medical examiner first contacted me and my compare group over 15 years ago, after the deaths of two Amish siblings finally of leisure play over four months’ time,” Ackerman suggested Gizmodo via e mail. “For me, in eventualities admire these, it’s both atrocious play or genetic. [But] there modified into no come fixed with interviews with the family that this modified into atrocious play, so we hunted for the genetic clarification for sudden cardiac death.”
As is in overall the case with smaller, remoted communities of parents, the Amish possess more in in fashion genetically with one one rather than other folks dwelling in a conventional popular community wreck with their neighbors. Unfortunately, the less genetically various a inhabitants is, the more uncomplicated it’s for inappropriate genetic prerequisites to emerge and be handed correct down to the following period. These prerequisites are in overall recessive, which come it takes having two copies of the terrible genetic variation—one inherited from every father or mother—for symptoms to repeat up. Individuals that carry staunch one copy of the coarse variation in overall end up with out a health complications, and even in the occasion that they’ve kids with one other provider, there’s handiest a 25 percent likelihood a teenager of theirs will possess both copies.
From the initiate, Ackerman and his group suspected a recessive mutation would be in imprint for what came about to the children, since their family tree had a historic previous of carefully related ancestors whereas the fogeys themselves looked completely healthy. Nonetheless their initial sweep failed to flip up possible clues.
Tragically, two more kids in the family would later die of sudden cardiac arrest as successfully, six and eight years after the first deaths, respectively. All of them, no youthful than 12, had been having fun with or exercising factual earlier than their deaths.
By the time of these newer deaths, even supposing, genetic expertise had evolved adequate for the group to possess a look at out taking a look all any other time. In explicit, they possess been now ready to scan a person’s total exome, the bits of DNA that the truth is program our cells to originate the building block proteins we want to live. And this time, they found a likely suspect: a duplication of DNA found in segments of the RYR2 gene to boot to in one other predicament that controls its expression.
The RYR2 gene helps regulate our coronary heart muscle’s calcium originate channels (CRC). These channels should always moderately home up the waft of calcium out and in of coronary heart cells to grab the organ healthy and beating as it will soundless finally of times of relaxation and stress alike. Individuals are already known to possessgenetic mutationsthat can stride away them with overactive CRCs—a situation that moreover raises their pain of sudden cardiac death. Nonetheless this explicit mutation looks to operate the reverse accomplishing, leaving victims with too few CRCs.
Because the group theorized, the children who had died all had two copies of the mutation, whereas the fogeys and unaffected siblings all had both one or no copies. They then chanced on a 2nd gargantuan Amish family, unrelated to the first, that moreover had a historic previous of healthy young other folks all of sudden dying of or barely surviving cardiac arrest. And when the 2nd family modified into examined, nearly all of those with two copies of the mutated gene had died or developed these symptoms.
The group’s findings possess beenrevealedWednesday in JAMA Cardiology.
“Sooner or later, thru a combination of expertise and tenacity, we found the answer,” Ackerman said.
The mutation and the location it causes—coined “calcium originate channel deficiency syndrome” by the group—soundless needs to be studied by assorted researchers earlier than it would be confirmed as an right dysfunction. Nonetheless to this point, 23 other folks possess been known with the mutation, with 18 having died, finally of the 2 households, whereas more family members are being examined by the group. Ackerman said his group’s work has been vastly liked and necessary by the households.
“The vitality of closure (figuring out the reality about what modified into behind all of these tragedies) and readability (being ready to set up out who does and who does no longer possess these markers) is fantastic, as you may perhaps perhaps imagine,” he said.
Our genes in overall impact our health in very subtle suggestions. Even those which possess a clearly difficult mutation don’t always turned into seriously sick. Nonetheless outdated tests haven’t been ready to repeat when anyone with the location will possess coronary heart troubles. And given how speedily lethal it would be, Ackerman expects that affected folks will need an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator that can intervene when the coronary heart loses regulate of itself. Extra importantly, even supposing, we are succesful of now salvage these other folks earlier than it’s too late.
“Regardless that we would no longer keep the lives of these precious kids and youth and young adults, we possess a diagnostic biomarker such that no more deaths from CRC deficiency syndrome should always soundless possess to ever happen all any other time,” Ackerman said.

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Francesca Moll in London -
Central and Eastern European and Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) countries have the fastest growing middle classes in the world, according to recent findings by a public opinion think-tank.
The Pew Research Centre report shows massive increases in the “middle income” populations in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Kazakhstan. All four countries’ middle classes grew by over 20 percentage points (pp) in the decade from 2001 to 2011.
The figures from Ukraine and Belarus are particularly impressive, with the share of Belarus’ middle class climbing nearly 32pp and that of Ukraine a staggering 41.4pp – some of the largest middle-class expansions in the world. Over CEE/CIS as a whole, the average growth of the middle class was 11.3pp.
A striking divide in the EU between established economies and more recent members exists. Founding member states and those that joined in the 1970s, 80s and 90s have seen a slowdown in the expansion of their middle classes, experiencing an average 3.8pp decrease. Countries that joined in 2004, such as Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland and the Baltic states, have seen a stagnation or slight increase, with an average 1pp growth.
The newest members of the union – Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia – on the other hand, have seen explosions in their middle-income populations, with average growth of 18.7pp.
These trends do not necessarily show that the CEE/CIS region is catching up with North America and Western Europe, though. In many of these countries, shrinking middle-income populations were a result of burgeoning “upper-middle-” or “high-” income groups. Notably, the Czech Republic has seen a 22pp decline in its middle-income population, while its upper middle has soared by nearly 20pp.
“Middle income” was defined by the report as those who live on between $10.01 and $20 daily, converted to 2011 prices and expressed in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. As the study admits, this is still “a standard of living that is modest by Western norms”. “Poor” was considered under $2 a day, “low” from $2.01 to $10, “upper middle” from $20.01 to $50, “and high” anything over $50.
The historic changes in CEE/CIS occurred alongside a doubling of those defined as middle income, worldwide. Few managed to cross the middle-income threshold in India, Southeast Asia, Africa or Central America, though. Globally, the majority (56%) of people remain in the low-income category, while 87% of the world’s high-income individuals live in Europe or North America.
Although European emerging markets, alongside China and South America, have made significant strides, the author concludes: “a truly global middle class is still more promise than reality.”
Jason Corcoran in Moscow - Russian banks are disappearing at the fastest rate ever as the country's deepening recession makes it easier for the central bank to expose money laundering, dodgy lending ... more
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Well the title says it all really, I have a real problem with saying no to buying birdcages! Everyone who knows me rolls their eyes when upon visiting my home they spot yet another one that I have added to my collection!!
Actually the same goes for cake stands too..hmm, Anyhoo, Our house isn't huge, its a Victorian mid terraced just over 100 years old so I've got to try not to keep all the pretties like I really want to!
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Experiment #010- FelixExperiment #010- Felix (2004) Season 1 Episode 131- Disney's Lilo & Stitch Cartoon Episode Guide
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- Disney's Lilo & Stitch Cartoon Episode GuideEpisode GuideTelevisionSeriesCartoon
- Walt Disney Television Animation
- Animation Studio: Wang Film Productions
- Distributed by: Buena Vista Television
- Cartoon Characters: Lilo, Stitch, Nani, Jumba, Mr. Pleakley, Captain Gantu, Experiment 625, Dr. Hamsterviel, Felix.
- Voice Actors: Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, Chris Sanders, David Ogden Stiers, Jeff Bennett, Kevin McDonald, Kevin Michael Richardson, Rob Paulsen; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois, Roberts Gannaway, Tony Craig.
- Produced By Clark Spencer.
- Music: Danny Jacob, Ali B. Olmo.
- Editor: Darren Holmes.
- First Aired on January 09, 2004.
- Originally Aired on The Disney Channel (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Season: 1
Lilo and Stich discovers an experiment who goes to neat and clean to messy and sloppy.
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November 12, 2013
Members of the Bethlehem Garden Club and town Highway Department plant bushes and shrubs as part of a new pilot project along Cherry Avenue in Delmar.
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Not even a week after the County Operations Millage was passed, promising to "preserve all county services", the Board of Commissioners voted to ax the Farmland Preservation Board, citing the defeat of the Farmland Preservation millage as evidence that the public does not value farmland preservation.
After it became clear that we would have to go for the operations millage I withdrew from the Farmland campaign. I ended up talking about Farmland Preservation, anyway, because people had so many questions about it. This is how I described these conversations in a letter to my County Commissioner:
I spoke to many people who were conflicted about the Farmland Preservation millage. They supported Farmland Preservation efforts but they thought that the millage was too much and for too long. They had practical questions about how the program would work. They wondered if it could be done cheaper. They wondered about a plan that had been designed before all of the talk about the burst of the "housing bubble". People had good questions, but the Farmland campaign was long on scenery and short on details.I feel used. I don't like putting my time and reputation on the line for people who can't do what they said they were going to do a week ago. And it's amazing to me that the Commissioners didn't hear the same sense of conflict about the Farmland millage that I heard.
I told people that a yes vote on the Operations Millage was supporting the Farmland Preservation Board. If they couldn't support the Farmland Preservation millage, they could still support the preservation effort by voting for the Operations Millage. I told them that the Farmland movement had a lot of momentum, and that if this farmland millage plan was voted down, they would no doubt come up with a more refined (and probably leaner) plan. The Farmland Preservation Board would still be at work, because that was one of the county services that we were saving.
Indeed, that is what we promised, that a yes vote on the Operations Millage would preserve all current county services. With a 90 vote margin, I don't think we can discount any constituency, even farmland preservation proponents.


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