Thomas Nims - DAR Ancestor #: A083841

Private User

6/10/2021 at 2:56 PM

The DAR recognizes this ancestor for his patriotism during the War of Independence from England. It also confirms that he had a daughter, Ruth, married to Samuel Guile / Guild. I found this omission while checking out a pending merge on Judith Stoughton Smead. It connects a line descending from her son, William Smead, II ("Jr.").

https://www.geni.com/list/descendants/6000000176176889914#12

If this all checks out, it would be appropriate to connect Ruth to her parents, merge the lines, and add Thomas Nims to the DAR project.

So far, I find no problems with it.

Private User

6/10/2021 at 2:58 PM

Ruth Guild

Judith Smead

https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000000966301263?to=600000017...

Judith Smead

Private User

6/10/2021 at 4:43 PM

Joel Guild seems to represent the lowest point in the line to be merged. And all the facts seem to check out reasonably.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84973711/joel-guild

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84902859/daniel-guild

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20845960/sarah-elinor-bates

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84844558/charles-henry-bates

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118888255/charles-walter-bates

Private User

6/10/2021 at 4:49 PM

On second thought, the pending merge for Joel Guild doesn't appear to be a valid match. But that only means that particular Joel Guild (the suggested match) doesn't belong in this tree, at least not at that specific location. So I will remove that one.

Private User

6/10/2021 at 6:20 PM

Ruth's parentage has to be cleared up first. For comparison, here's where the two lines diverge, beginning with the one already established on Geni:

(Here is where Ruth Guild should be, daughter of Thomas Nims and Esther Martindale).

For her husband, Samuel Guild, I requested a merge with a third matching profile for him. His place of birth should be Wrentham, but everything else matches perfectly.

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Now for the line that I think should be merged with the above (after connecting Ruth Guild):

The missing daughter: