Darby Owen Sullivant, Sr

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Because I had this guess that Darby Sullivan(t) was actually Margaret's father, I started doing some research on his name. An Ancestry.com search yielded a starting framework - several family trees had a Darby Sullivan born 1669 and died 1715 in Bath Co, NC (the same place the land was). Interestingly enough, a series of Ancestry.com and internet searches yielded two potential matches: Records from Christ Church in Barbados, an English colony, cite that a Darby Sullivant, the son of Humphrey and Alice Sullivant, was baptised 18 October 1668 AND a Derby Sullivant, the son of Owen and Catharine Sullivant, was baptised 11 April 1669. Considering a decent margin of error when it comes to birth dates, either of these children could be the Darby Sullivan(t) who was the father of Mary and Margaret in NC about 30 years later. What really got my wheels turning though was the fact that he was born in Barbados, the very same place that Thomas and Margaret DeVane claim to have been before arriving in North America.