Dear Daniel: I have been trying to "sort out" all the Bird families of NJ, and came across your web page. VERY NICE!!! Because I work in Rahway, I have spent a lot of time looking into the families of Jeremiah Bird, b 1675, and Joseph Bird, b 1680, of Rahway ward, Elizabethtown, Essex Co, NJ. I think they were brothers. I noticed in you ancestral file that you have Benjamin Freeman Bird as a son of Joseph Bird and Elizabeth Marsh of Rahway. According to the Morris County marriage records, BF of Roxbury married Milly Reeves of Roxbury, Morris Co. In the abstract of wills, there is a will of Esther Freeman,1787, wife of Benjamin Freeman of Hanover, Morris Co, in which she mentions her daughter Elizabeth Bird. I was thinking that this Elizabeth might be the mother of Benjamin Freeman Bird, not Elizabeth Marsh. There was at least one family named Bird living in Roxbury at the time - there is a David Bird and an Andrew Bird in the 1778 tax rolls. perhaps Ben's father is one of these men, or one of their sons. Let me know what you think of this. I'm trying to fond a marriage record of Elizabeth Freeman to a Mr. Bird abt 1770 in Morris Co. Judy Judy Jamieson Pisano jupisano@hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/~jupisano "To a physicist, everything's relative; to a genealogist, everyone's a relative!" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com