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in reply to a message by Retrospectre
OP, what is your current earliest record (of a real person, not character) of the spelling “Samantha” or “Samanthe”? I’ve been sifting through familysearch records and most of the earliest ones (1780s - early 19th century) are just from indexes that could have transcribed the wrong name or the right name with the wrong spelling/variant. I’m just curious what your earliest one is that you’ve found.
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I could definitely do with some help on that as all the earliest forms I found were Semanthe or Semantha. The oldest Samantha I could verify was from the 1840 census and this 1830 headstone which is very hard to read https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129966530/samantha-barrett
There's also a Trumbull Ohio tax record from
1823 that has a Samantha Smith. But everything I can check before that is too hard to read or actually Semantha. I have not been thorough, there's likely an earlier one.
There's also a Trumbull Ohio tax record from
1823 that has a Samantha Smith. But everything I can check before that is too hard to read or actually Semantha. I have not been thorough, there's likely an earlier one.
This message was edited 1/4/2025, 2:34 AM
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