Maggie wrote: > information about Amy [Ruhama] Smith, wife of Jotham Blanchard, > Jr. He was born in Billerica 9 Feb 1774, and was married 17 Aug 1796 in > Amherst, MA. I would hazard a guess that it was in Amherst, NH, not MA. > He died in 1847 in Lyndeborough, and she died in 1868, > also in Lyndeborough. She was born in Milford, NH, February 1778. It's > kind of hard to do much with a name like Smith. Any help out there? According to the History of Lyndeborough, he died 1847 Jan 21 and she died 1868 Feb 21. Note that Milford was not founded until 1794, so the place Amy was born could have been any one of the towns that contributed to Milford: Amherst, "Mile Slip", or Hollis. There might be a record of her birth in one of those places. It would be worth looking in the town histories for information on Smiths: Samuel Worcester, "History of the town of Hollis" (1879) Daniel Secomb, "History of the town of Amherst" (1883) George Ramsdell & William Colburn, "History of Milford with family registers" (1901). John Chandler