This was in response to me theorizing Elizabeth was either born or was a product of the South Carolina trade in the West Indies:
@ Erica Howton
My response:
1) The reason atDNA is important is because it gives the connection to the more immeidate people and places to begin looking for the paper.
2) For me, our Autosomal DNA takes us to the mid 18th century. 3.0 is as far back you can go to find those connections - In Elizabeth's case I MIGHT find DNA evidence for me since before 1750. Though we could push mtDNA evidence back 20 generations, we would not be able to take autosomal connections back any further back than that.
3) Charleston was the British port and strongest connection with the French West Indies as the French were colonizing those islands at that time. In 1750 Charleston was the "faucet"? between the colonies and the Islands as a source for slaves and sugar.
4) Elizabeth could easily have met and married Emanuel just before the war in Charleston. I haven't found any military records for Emanuel, but it looks to many that Scots immigrated into the United States from Scotland and Ulster Ireland to North Carolina and then immigrated south to South Carolina. That's the story for the McElveens - There are reasons to believe Richard Harvey might have been Emanuel's brother - and he might have joined the forces in SC. That's a whole other can of worms that I don't want to focus on now.
5) The book, "Study of Bulloch County, p. 16" it says William McElveen was one of the first to settle in Bulloch in 1787. He was discharged in the 1780s from the company in South Carolina. He married Elizabeth and Emanuel's youngest daughter (position of child in that family needs further research), but her sister was Martha Sheffiled. An 1850 Census says she was 72 at the time. That would put her birthday around 1777. That would put Elizabeth reasonably around 25-30 years old which is on track for a 3rd child.
6) That could make Susannah's birthday around 1780. She married William in 1804. William already had property then. But, it would seem less likely that Elizabeth's children were born in Georgia. William was born in Williamsburg and was the oldest son to a plantation owner just outside of Charleston.
7) back to the West Indies. The French sold St. Barthelmy to the Swedish in the 1780s. That's a little late for our story but possible. Elizabeth's parents would have been one generation earlier to make it a fit. The French immigrated to St. Thomas before 1780, but St. Domingue (Haiti) was close and THE PEARL of trade in sugar and slaves.
8) Claude (our frenchman above) would have made his autosomal connection about this time. 3.0 cM on 11 chromosomes would have brought him in contact with me and Paul in the 1750s.
9) Paul's autosomal connection with me and Claude is around 1750.
10) This gives ample opportunity for Elizabeth's parents (at least her mother) to have Elizabeth somewhere there around Charleston in the midst of the trade with the West Indies at the height of the slave/sugar trade.
11) Catharina Persdotter was born 1748 in Sweden. Elizabeth and Catharina may not be sisters, but first cousins and Cahtarina's uncle the Mariner?
it's close...but this is where I begin looking for paper.
