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Facts and Events
! Youngs Family of Vicar Christopher Youngs by Selah Youngs Jr. Pub. N. Y. 1907 Moore S. Kenton Fam Gr. sheets in poss. of RubyHenderson, 562 Driggs Ave. SLC
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- Several sources say that Christopher Youngs' daughter Margaret married Capt. Joseph Youngs, which is confusing because other sources say they were brother and sister. For example, Source:The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, p. 52:246, shows Margaret marrying Joseph Youngs.
We know that Joseph Youngs, Margaret's brother, married Margaret Warren, the proof being ironically, just one page before this above statement, in the same installment of "Genealogical Gleanings in England". This proof consists of, the will of Thomas Warren dated 4 Mar 1641[/42?]. This will clearly names his daughter "Margaret Youngs, the wife of Joseph Youngs". (It also names the two children of "Mary Youngs, my daughter, wife of John Youngs" to be Mary Gardiner and Benjamin Youngs, showing that Joseph's brother John married, for his third wife, Margaret's sister Mary (Warren) Gardner.)
Joseph's brother Christopher mentions, in his will dated 19 Jun 1647, his sister, the wife of Joseph Youngs, which may be the reason for suggesting that sister Margaret married what would have to be a different Joseph Youngs. Probably as a result of trying to resolve all this, Joseph Wickham Case, the compiler of the Source:Southold town records, 1651-1787, suggests there are "two Joseph Youngses" in Southold, even though he admits he cannot determine anything about the origins of the second one. If it was true, it would make it confusing trying to sort out the records of two distinct Joseph and Margaret Youngs.
However, I am unaware of any record of Rev. Christopher Youngs' daughter Margaret (the sister of Joseph and the younger Christopher) after she was mentioned in her mother's will of 1630, nor any evidence that she came to New England. Thus, it seems more likely that Christopher colloquially referred to his brother's wife as a sister, rather than the more accurate sister-in-law. such imprecion was not untypical in colonial times.
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