what's the number of times the letter "n" appears in:
• various mcneill and mcpherson estates records and deeds from nc dept. of archives and history.
notes: "shoemaker john" was brother of "sailor hector" mcneill, both sons of neill mcneill who is said to have to have emigrated in 1740 and if so likely was with the argyll colony. shoemaker john is not found in existing records with any certainty, but there is a john mcneill in the early bladen tax lists, but he cannot be positively identified as shoemaker john himself. he died about 1786 as any hint of him disappears from the records about that time; his father died about this time as well. at any rate, shoemaker john did not own extensive tracts and may have owned as little as 100 acres if the tax lists reveal his identity, though i believe he--or his immediate family--inherited land from his father neill mcneill. mary's will was written in july 1790 and bequeathed lands, likely her dower land, to her sons neill and daniel, so it appears shoemaker john died intestate.
below, i have estimated all birth dates, however, the most accurate is marian's birth date. her first child was born in 1775 and her last child, of which she bore nine in all, was born in 1798. having born children for 23 years, and assuming she married around the age of 15 to 20, her birth year was probably around 1755 to 1760.
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The given text has seventy-one "n"s.
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