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Negative result
Negative: Early Providence records hold no Gurney; bounds the Quinapaug interest
The Early Records of the Town of Providence (town-meeting and probate volumes swept) hold no Gurney of any spelling; the only near-name is a distinct Thomas Garnet family of Providence. The 1655-1675 town and deed volumes are clean, which bounds John Gurney's unlocated 'Quinapaug' interest - a Providence-jurisdiction frontier share carried into his 1663 inventory - as one the Providence record never registered. (The separate 1690s Providence John-and-Sarah Gurney household sits in volumes outside this sweep and is unaffected.)
Search scope
- Searched: The Early Records of the Town of Providence (printed edition) — Providence town-meeting and probate volumes (vols 1-5, 8, 11, 16)
- Coverage window: 1636 to 1700
- Search: Broad Gurney-variant sweep of the printed town-meeting and probate volumes for any Providence Gurney.
- Results reviewed: 0
- Limitations: Volumes holding the distinct 1690s Providence John-and-Sarah Gurney household were not in the swept batch.; Transcript-level read of a printed edition, not an image read of the Providence manuscript books.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Finding Record coverage: a continuous 1641-1663 civic/land/court/probate footprintThe Providence record class is another surviving class that holds no Gurney, qualifying the footprint's silence beyond his towns.
Related context
- Provides context for Finding Finding: Quinapaug line = unrecorded Providence-jurisdiction frontier shareCross-unit: the silent Providence records bound John's unrecorded Quinapaug (Providence-jurisdiction) frontier share.
Sources
- The Early Records of the Town of Providence. 21 vols. Providence: Snow & Farnham, City Printers, 1892-1915., vols 1-5, 8, 11, 16 (town-meeting and probate), body and index
Topic file location: Colonial record coverage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000183 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000183.json
This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.