Harriman, Tennessee,
                                    March 21, 1921.

My dear Miss Kingsbury:- Your letter of the 15th received,
which is of much interest to me.

First the sketch of Judge Wm. Brown Reese of Tenn., taken
from Appletons, page 219, is interesting although not new
to me as I knew all of this.  Judge Reese was a brother of
Julia Reese who married Samuel Martin.  Judge Reese and
Julia Reese Martin were children of John James Reese and
his wife Elizabeth Brown of S. C.  Elizabeth Brown Reese
was a daughter of Mr. Brown and his wife Miss Porter of
S.C., and grand-daughter of Mr. Porter and his wife Mary
Mackey (Mackay).  Mary Mackey married Mr. Porter in the old
country and emigrated to S. C.  They were both of noble
birth, her family being wealthy, and his poor.  On account
of her marriage to a poor nobleman, her family was
displeased and she was so unhappy that they concluded to
emigrate to S. C.  This may not help any, but I think it is
interesting.

I have tried the S. C. Historical Society for data of the
family of Rev. Thomas Reese, but they have nothing on his
family, every thing being about him, which we don’t need.
I do hope you can yet get this data from Miss Nelson or
at least learn where to get the Reese book (which I am
willing to buy) as I feel sure it will give the data we
need.  I feel confident James Reese of Jefferson County
Tenn., was a son of Rev. Thomas Reese of S. C., but this is
the proof I still need.  Every thing else or all the other
links in the chain are O.K.  I shall keep trying to get
proof that James Reese was a son of Rev. Thomas Reese and I
hope you will.  In the meantime, wont you please give me all 
the eligible C.D. ancestors in this line, so that I will have
them all ready when we get the proof for this
missing link?  As I understand it, you are looking up the
services of Rev. Thomas Reese and will let me know about
him, then we have David Reese, “Signer of the Mecklenburg
Declaration”, Gen. Thomas Polk, “  “    “   “     “
     “     “.  Are there any other eligible ones in any of
these lines known to you?  If so, I want them with the
necessary proof & etc.

I don’t suppose it would do any good to write to Porter
Farquharson Cope, 4806 Chester Ave., Philadelphia, about
the Porter-Brown query in Hathaway’s Register, as I
guess that has been too long ago for him to be alive.
What do you think about this?  Please accept my thanks for
the Hill data, not my family, but many thanks all the same.

Always your friend,

CKH/K


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