John Garrett, of Upper Darby - Details

I've been working on my Garrett line again and it has all gotten cold on me, but I've been using this site:

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/GARRETT_FAMILY_OF_ISLE_OF_WIGHT,_VA

mainly because it lists my ancestor Dolly (Garrett) McCary, daughter of James Garrett and I've been trying to make sure the connections going on back are correct. I knew I was on the right trail when I found a duplicate profile for James that was created by a Sumerel, which is the same family as my Sumrall line that is part of this lineage.

Anyway, in tracing from Dolly back up, when I got to this John Garrett, of Upper Darby here on Geni, the info for this ancestor is totally different from what it on the site I've been working from. Actually, the info on the other site fits better geographically than the info here on Geni. There are just soooo many John Garretts and easy to mix things up. But notice that this one on Geni died in Pennsylvania but the one on the site that includes James and his daughter Dolly on our lines died in Nansemond County, VA:

GENERATION TWO

MR. JOHN GARRETT II (c1588 Plymouth, Devon England-AFT 1657 Nansemond Co., VA) m. Unknown.

Joyning to patent of Mr. Jno. Garrett, butting on land of Wm. Story &c. Renewal of patent dated 15 Oct. 1652. He is mentioned from 1636-1650 as follows, per Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, published 1912 by George Cabell Greer:

John Garrett II, was granted land 200 acres on Indian Creek, on a branch of the Nansemond River at the head of Beaver Dam Creek. On 23 May 1642, William Eyres received 750 acres in Upper Norfolk. Co., upon an arm of the western branch of Nansemond River, adj. John Garrett and Thomas Powell for Trans. 15 persons, one included John Munday. William Denson, a neighbor of John Garrett, was a Quaker, who petitioned the local court on 6 Sep 1657, as a "gentleman" to receive 400 acres on the western branch of the Nansemond River, in Nansemond Co. (formed from part of Isle of Wight Co. in 1640), adj. John Garrett. This was one of the few locations permitting Quakers to worship without fear of reprisals or persecution. Quaker records show he founded the Chuckatuck Quaker Meeting House near where he resided, one of the oldest Quaker Meeting Houses in the new colonies.

and I don't think all the children connected to him are correct. Some died in Pennsylvania, some in Virginia, one in Puerto Rico, one in France, etc. It just seems to be a jumble of geography among the connected chldren. But I'm just wanting to get my own line correct on Geni so my kinship pathways are valid.

I see in the profile notes where in one place it states his parents are unknown and in another it states:

"Birth seen as June 1602 at Hosse, Derby, Leicestershire, England, son of William Garrett & Bridget Garrett (Bridon). But these origins are not proved."

but those unproven parents are the very ones he's connected to.

However, on the Garrett genealogy site I'm following, his father is not William Garrett but John Garrett I:

GENERATION ONE

JOHN GARRETT (c1541 Plymouth, Devon, England-27 Oct 1626 [will probate Exeter Consistory Court] Plymouth, Devon, England).

In 1572, he was a Privateer [an armed ship owned by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping]. Privateers were essentially pirates with government protection in order to pursue less than legal goals in wealth, dominance, and control of the seas. Being a privateer was only legal in relation to the countries you had papers for. Buccaneer is a term that is basically the French/Cajun slang term for privateer. He served in the Atlantic and Caribbean.

In 1572, he became a member of the crew of Francis Drake and attended all his robberies expeditions to the Caribbean. Together they plundered many Spanish ships, towns and villages. He was also on the ship Golden Hind (Pelican) Vice Admiral Francis Drake on a trip around the world in the years 1577-1580. In 1588 he participated in the successful repulse Felicissima Spanish Armada (Invincible Armada) with Admiral Sir John Hawkins. In 1589 he took part in expeditions English Armada (Contra Armada, Invencible Inglesa) in Spain and Portugal under the command of Admiral Francis Drake. The invasion ended in utter disaster.

AND, I'll throw in some side info on this John Garrett I that makes a whole lot of sense to me regarding his expedition to the Caribbean and him also having an unknown wife. My son Len got DNA results on a test he did earlier this year that show 13% indigenous Caribe DNA. We already had some farther back ancestors who came from Barbados, West Indies that this DNA report made sense of but this would also help explain my son having 13% indigenous Caribe and 20% Portuguese / Spanish DNA, IF grandpa John's unknown wife was from there. I know that's all speculative, but it fits where he was traveling around and 'could be' another piece of the puzzle for my son's DNA results for those particular groups being so high. It's definitely worth consideration and makes this John Garrett's father being the above-mentioned John Garrett I a much more likely ancestor than William Garrett or any other.