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I have a similar experience with a letter in a post office! I wish it would count as a residence proof. In my case, 2 censuses have my 2x great grandmother, Susan West, as born in Prince Edward Island, an outlier. All her siblings and parents were born in Nova Scotia, and all later censuses say she was born in Nova Scotia too.

So, I'm wondering about this odd fact, and I need proof of Susan's parentage to join the Mayflower Society. In Prince Edward Island, there is a master file of every person's name ever mentioned in any document. Susan's father, Levi West, is only mentioned in 1 document, an advertisement in the newspaper in August 1831 that he has 3 letters waiting for him! Susan was born in September 1832.

I would love to use this as proof of parentage, but, as you say, it is only proof that someone THOUGHT he was there at that time.

I wrote about it on my blog, https://grandmasgrannysfamilyalbum.blogspot.com/2022/07/mayflower-descendant-levi-search-in-pei.html

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