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From: "Janson Ayer" <>
Subject: Re: [AYER] [AYERS] Cornet Peter Ayer
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:42:36 -0500


Hello Liz and everyone,

I am so happy to see the traffic coming through on the Ayers mailing list. I will copy the Ayer list in this email to hopefully stir up some traffic.

Liz, I would be very grateful for any pictures you have or could supply. The pictures of the graves near Ayer's Village and in the Haverhill area are probably of most interest. Yes, I am aware that Cornet is a military prefix and in my genealogy program it is listed as so. However when exported to an html file it automatically adds it to the beginning of the name, as it did with Serg., Dea., ect. I will make a note of it on the site to clear up any confusion.

I have not done much research with the Ayer's that went into New Jersey, then on to Virginia, and then on across the South. However, my main goal is to cover as many descendants of the immigrant John Ayer of Haverhill that I possibly can. In my dream world it will be fairly simple, however in the real world it will take a lot of time, effort, and help for other sources such as yourself.

I look forward to hearing more out of you Liz, as well as hearing from others!

Best,
Janson

> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:05:29 -0400> To: > From: > Subject: [AYERS] Cornet Peter Ayer> > I didn't go very far into your list of descendants, because mine > splits off from yours in the second generation--I'm descended from > John and Hannah's son Obadiah. But I did notice one thing. Cornet is > a title, not part of the person's name, just like Serg (Sergeant). > I've seen that propagated as part of Peter Ayer's name in many > places, but it should be just Peter Ayer. Cornet was a military > title. I've seen it equated to that of captain and also described as > being the lowest commissioned officer's rank. I don't know which is > correct, but it definitely is not a part of his name.> > Liz> > > -- At 10:51 PM 9/20/06, you wrote: >My cousin who lives near Haverhill just sent me some Ayer graves and>general cemetery pictures from the Ayer's Village Cemetery. Is that the>one you are talking about? That cousin is on a whole different line, not>my Ayres line. The cemetery that I visited is the one next to the Haverhill historical museum. I'm not certain of its name. The pictures I have are from the Pentucket Cemetery, and the person who took them said it was in the town of Haverhill "where all the Ayers's are buried." I'm assuming that is the same cemetery, but can't be sure. >My Ayres are supposed to have come from the Haverhill group, I am>guessing about 1700?? but I have no proof. My last concrete person is>Lewis Ayres, b. 16 Oct 1761 in Howell, Monmouth, NJ and his father could>have been Benijah. Can you tell me any more about them? I have two Lewis Ayres names. One was born about 1800 and the other in 1844, so they're both too late for your Lewis. And their Ayres family was already in upstate New York, not still in New Jersey. I do have a Benajah Ayer born in 1715 in Woodbridge, New Jersey, who could possibly be the same person as your Benijah, but I don't have any descendants for him.> Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.> Checked by AVG Free Edition.> Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.6/428 - Release Date: 8/25/06> > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

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