Dear Mr. Hill:-

           I regret very
much that I have been so
long delayed in answering
your enquiries in regards
to the Reese family.  It is
not because I have not
tried to find what you
desire, but because I have
not yet been able to
get the satisfactory information.
Miss Charlotte Christine
Nelson of Mississippi has
not replied to my letter
asking for facts of the
descendants of Rev. Thomas

(page two)

Thomas Reese.  She gave
the “Reese book” as her
authority and I feel sure
she must have access
to it.  I am still hoping
she may yet write me
something that will help
you.  If she does not I
shall think she has a 
special reason for not
doing so.  The Miss. Society
from some cause has
lost the Pedigree papers
of their members of the
N. C. Society and have
written for copies of those
we have on file here.
We have agree to furnish

(page three)

them at the same price we get
from other Am. Colonial sisters and
our own members who ask for
a copy of their paper, this price
being decided upon by the “Board
of Managers, two dollars.  To this
we add twenty-five cents for blank(s)
furnished and sixteen cents for
postage.  For certified copies the
Notary’s fee is fifty cents.
They refused to pay this sum of
$2.91, although each member
was to pay her own fee.
Miss Nelson may have been
influenced by some member.
I shall make another effort
and write to Miss Robertson of
Charlotte who had used the
Reese-Sharp line.

David Reese and Gen. Thomas
Polk are both eligible ancestors,
but I am not sure about
Rev. Thomas Reese.  Will write
you about him later.

I am sending you some data
I have taken from different
sources; it is not what you need.

(page four)

but looks as if there is some connection .

If I get anything later
? from Miss Robertson
will let you know.

I am sorry I have never
heard anything from
Dr. Tyler.  I don’t understand
it, as he has always
kindly answered my
inquiries here so far.

I am enclosing some
facts of a Hill family
but I don’t know whether
they were connected with
yours or not.  I thought
it might interest you.


(page five)

I saw it in Hathaway’s Register
when I was looking for other
things.  With best wishes,

            Cordially yours,
            Mary Sumner Kingsley

Feb. 15th 1921
          

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