Hi Jack,
??? Yeah, very inconvenient when even somewhat unusual given names are used in unrelated lines. At least all of the 15 Estridge/Eastridge Daniels I have found are all from my line. It will be a bad day when I find one who isn't!
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? The Essex and Caroline families intermingled with the same families, especially the Sneads, and in a couple of cases appear in the same records together because of that but seemed to have nothing to do with each other aside from that. The Caroline Daniels were slightly involved with the Harrisons before the Essex Daniels moved to Caroline, but the Essex Daniels were very close to the Harrisons in Essex so both associated with the same Harrisons in Caroline.
? A story I have told before, but it shows how bad things were before Y DNA came along. My ancestor, Estridge Daniel 1782-1852 (2nd great grandson of William 1680-1765 of Caroline) owned land that bordered that of Henry Daniel 1786-1783 (great grandson of James Daniel non-biological son of William of Middlesex) for over 20 years and when Henry sold it, he sold it to Estridge. Only Y DNA proved they weren't related.
?? We are probably up to at least 20 to 30 unrelated Daniel lines before 1800 in Virginia alone! No idea how many unrelated Daniel lines were in North and South Carolina before Virginia Daniels started migrating south and west.
Best,
Kevin
Kevin Daniel