Hi John Maggie and All, John brings up an interesting point. I have birth certificates for Samuel (1783) and Daniel (1770) from NH State Archives that list Milford as the place of birth. I can't be certain that I did an exhaustive search for births of the siblings. The Smith Vital Records are indexed through given names that start with S. That will help me identify the existence of others. Amy's date of birth in the Lyndeborough History differs from what Maggie has. I've been waiting to see what Rannie has on this. I think a deed for Daniel would clarify where in pre-Milford the family was located to get an accurate place of birth. I agree that Amherst, NH is a likely place for the marriage. Unfortunately I do not have the Milford or Amherst history's. I'll take a good look at Vital Records when I am there it two weeks. Sherry ---------- From: John F. Chandler[SMTP:JCHBN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 1998 9:45 PM To: BLANCHARD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Maggie's geneology project [was: Sherry's] 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