This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CI.2ADEB/6836.2 Message Board Post: Thornton W Adams married Catherine Hoppock in Morristown, NJ in 1816. He ran an ad in the paper in 1820, as a Boot and Shoe-maker who had "considerable experience in fine work in Philadelphia & elsewhere". In the 1830 census for Newark NJ, he is listed with 8 in the family. By 1845 Catherine appears without Thornton in Pierson's Directory of Newark.