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Wow. I'm getting excited reading this, Frankie. We may indeed have related families! Let's go crazy and theorize here for a minute.
First my background:

Allegedly my ggggg-grandpa was Richard Gwin, b. ca. 1748 in Jamestown, VA, who married ca. 1773 in Jamestown to Sarah Chesley, who was born ca. 1755 in Jamestown. Their son Isham moved into what's now eastern Tennessee where some if not all of his children were born, one of whom was my ggg-grandpa John Gwin, b. 1792 (whose 9 children were Isom, Mary, Thomas, William, Sarah, MaryAnn, Martha, Chesley, and Louisa) and who is buried in Wilsonville, AL (I have a photo of his tombstone).
All this and much more is on my website at http://www.zianet.com/jmcdgwin/gwinrichard.htm if you haven't seen it already.

OK, here's what you wrote:

We have some names in common, and maybe we have a related family. My gggg-grandfather was Thomas Gwin b. 1764 VA, married Elizabeth Littleton and had thirteen children. The first son was named Richard, another son Chesley. Thomas came to first Fairfield Co. SC, later moving to York Co, SC where he had a large farm. Thomas migrated to SC with his mother Elizabeth whose maiden name may have been Dove, a brother John and we think another brother Isom also came with them. We are not sure if Isom did indeed live at anytime in SC. I do not know where in VA the family was originally, or if they came from another state to VA. Supposedly Thomas's father died in 1776 in VA but that is only a guess. We do not have even his name. Gwin at this time may have been spelled Guinn. SC census records have it both ways for Thomas beginning with the 1790 census. Hope to hear from you.
Frankie Cramer jcflcramer@msn.com

To which you answered:

Hi John,
We have emailed before about our common names, and the last time you even suggested a scenario of possibilities for our two Gwin families being the same. My Thomas born in VA 1764, had two brothers Isom and John on neither of whom I have much information. There may have been other children that I don't know about. Now, Richard and Sarah could not be my Thomas Gwin/Guinn's parents, unless their birth dates are wrong, and also my family notes tell me that Thomas's father died 1776 in VA. Now having said all that, Thomas named first son Richard and another one Chesley, so I still feel that there is a connection. Or maybe these names were not that uncommon, although Chesley would certainly imply a family name. I do wonder if we have the same family just don't know how to make it fit. I have kept your email suggesting that Richard might be in factÝan older brother to Thomas. I can't get that to work either, but I will give this all another look. Talk to you later, and thanks for keeping in touch.
Frankie--25 Mar 2003

 

2004------If above is correct, I, John M. Gwin, 56, am 6th cousin once removed to Frankie Cramer.