William Saffer - RE: William Saffer

Of course the records attached are good; the problem is connecting William Saffer to Valentine Sevier as a son.

The SAR doesn’t list him for instance:

NameValentine Sevier[User-submitted-comment]SAR Membership12531RoleAncestorApplication Date22 Apr 1899SpouseJoanna Goode SevierChildrenGovernor John SevierHousehold Members
NameAge
Name
Elijah Embree Huss
Name
Anna Maria Sevier Huss
Name
Henry Huss
Name
Sophia Garriette Sevier
Name
Major John Sevier
Name
Sarah Hawkins Sevier
Name
Governor John Sevier
Name
Joanna Goode Sevier
Name
Valentine Sevier
Name
Joseph Goode
Name
Ann Bennet

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I “think” (not sure) Y DNA on a detailed test will be the best bet? ATDNA will be too “fuzzy,” at least for me, because it’s quite possible Valentine descendants & William descendants inter married.

Another thing you could look at is a detailed timeline of William’s known locations & plot them against the known locations of Valentine & his family.

Thank you Erica. That is a question for me as well. I just keep bumping in to this dna piece. It seems William Saffer is connected somehow. In this ancestry profile, the immigration record lists a Valentine as father, and John in 1740. It's complicated when the same name is given multiple generations in families. There is, for instance, a William Saffer in every generation until it gets to my father, in our family line. The ancestry profile did plot a group of them moving to Tennessee from the same Fairfax land area. William Saffer stayed in Virginia. I will look into that more, as well as the immigration record. There may have been others on that ship.