Hello Sherry. I sent this earlier but it returned. > I have been trying to edit Pat's file which I downloaded. Col. Jotham > and Elizabeth never had a son, Jotham Jr. The Jotham she refers to as the > husband of Mrs Margaret SPEARS was of their son of Jonathan and was the > grandson of Col. Jotham. This Jotham and Margaret couple never had > children. > Pat's reference in her material is: > + b. Stearns, Ezra: Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable > ... 30 Families. Boston, MA, 1911 > I recall getting some copies of this material from either Fletch or > Albert and I posted my findings of some errors in the material (many > moons ago). Col. Jotham only had 8 children and not 9. > Jotham Jr., being the son of yet another Jotham, is down another line > and is in the LDS listings as "Relative: Benjamin Thomas Blanchard", an > elusive character as I do not have a year or place to go with him. > I notice also in Pat's data that she has my grt grandfather listed under > "Children of Hannah" when he was of Wm. Henry's first marriage to Maria > TIMLIN along with his brother Edward Sherburne (1858-1860), sister Mary > Elizabeth (1859-?) and younger brother, Monson Goudge (1864-1900). > These errors can be seen with a quick browse through the chapter re. the > Blanchard family in Miller's 1873 text off my homepage - > http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ai020/Profile.html > -- > John & Fletch - Would it be possible to add this lineage and reference to > Pat's file? > -- Rannie > >