Hello everyone, I've been off this list for several months and am trying to get caught up. The archived messages are a great idea and enabled me to read all the messages relating to the Hartman topics. I had been writing to John Chandler the past few days about the Hartman/*Boston Transcript* series, and John answered some of my questions. He's a great resource for the group (as are others!) At the Essex Institute library in Salem, MA, a few years ago, I found an old scrapbook with the seven J.C.H.Y. columns pasted in. I had hoped that there was an 8th column somewhere,as the ancestor that I was seeking info about, <JOSIAH>, was tagged as #54, and the column ended with #45. I assumed that the next week would pick up with #46 and get to my <JOSIAH>, but there were no more columns in the scrapbook. From the archived messages about Hartman and from the conversation with John, I am led to believe that there were no more columns...just my luck! I also come away with the feeling that a search for more written by Hartman about the JOSEPH BLANCHARD line has been unsuccessful, even in the N.Y. libraries (except, of course the 1939 NEHGS article). True? I have a typed genealogy which has been in my wife's family for about fifty years, but which is unreferenced and undocumented. Omitting the vital stats, line is as follows: JOSEPH BLANCHARD d. 1637 DEACON JOHN BLANCHARD d. 1693 JAMES BLANCHARD b.1666 d. 1704 JOSIAH BLANCHARD b.1698 JOSIAH BLANCHARD b.1733 d. ca.1850 ASA BLANCHARD b.1769 d. ca.1850 AMOS BLANCHARD b.1791 d. 1836 JOSHUA PETTINGILL BLANCHARD b.1820 d. 1884 ABRAHAM LINCOLN BLANCHARD b.1863 d. 1945 ELDON CRAWFORD BLANCHARD b.1889 d. 1966 RAYMOND ELDON BLANCHARD b.1911 d. 1980 SANDRA LOUISE BLANCHARD (My wife) In trying to corroborate this typed genealogy years ago, I ran across two great sources that seemed to verify the list: Hartman's NEHGS 1939 article and Wm. Cutter's 1914 book, "New England Families".The latter was especially useful in that it carried the line four generations forward to documented ancestors. (It could be that the person who typed the genealogy copied it from the Cutter book) That brings me to the challenge put to me by our John Chandler: To prove that the JOSIAH (2) whom Wm. Cutter, in "New England Families" 1914, named in generation number V was the same as the JOSIAH whom Hartman identified on page 232 of the NEHGS article. Cutter writes: "(V) Josiah (2) Blanchard, son of Josiah (1) Blanchard, was born in Concord, June 23,1730 (sic). He married (first) at Lincoln, Massachusetts, January 30, 1755, Elizabeth Pierce. He removed to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and married there (second) April 7, 1762, Elizabeth Hobbs. In 1790 he was living in Sturbridge, and according to the census had in his family two males over sixteen and four females. Children, born at Sturbridge: Mary, September 17,1763; Ann, March 12,1765; ASA (MY WIFE'S LINE aeb), July 4,1769; Abigail, July 13, 1771; Bernard, _____14, 1773; Amos, April 13,1775. By wife Elizabeth he had at Lincoln: John, born May 9, 1755. Perhaps other children. He removed to Barre, Vermont, where he died about 1800. Children not recorded at Sturbridge: Abijah; Betsey, 1779; Lucy.1779 died September 26, 1864, married David Richardson; Rachel, 1781, married Peter Nichols." Hartman's 1939 NEHGS article, page 232 reads: "vi JOSIAH, b. 10 Dec.1733, m. at Lincoln, 30 Jan. 1755, ELIZABETH PIERCE, b.10 Oct. 1732, daughter of GEORGE and HANNAH PIERCE. Child: Josiah,b. at Lincoln 9 May 1755" (This branch ends here, in the article.) It appears to me that Cutter has done the research, but our John has reservations based on past experience with Cutter's work, and I respect John's skepticism. Cutter makes the connection that the JOSIAH who was of Concord-Lincoln-Sturbridge moved to Barre, Vermont, but doesn't offer proof. It seems to me, getting back to John's challenge to me, that what I need to do is to find some record or other independent source that shows ASA's father and mother were JOSIAH and ELIZABETH HOBBS...or some reference that shows siblings of ASA with ties to Concord-Lincoln-Sturbridge and Barre. I do not have access to those records, and before I venture on this long, long journey of "write-and-wait-and-wait-and-write-and-wait-and-write-and-wait, using the overland mail to contact libraries and genealogical societies in both locations, I thought I would see if anyone on the list has already come across the appropriate documentation or has access to any of the records of those places. Here's hoping....... Albert E-mail: skipb@nh.ultranet.com Date: 12/16/97 Time: 19:00:30 ------------------------------------ ALBERT EDWARD BELANGER 128 Middle Road Brentwood, NH 03833 (Researching: BELANGER, BLANCHARD, GAGNON, HUGHES, RACE, ST.PIERRE, EDMINSTON, MARINO, MEALEY, Oregon Trail 1851, PETTINGILL, SEAL, STEWART) ___________________________________________________________ JOSEPH BLANCHARD 1637 d 1997 12 16 DEACON JOHN BLANCHARD 1693 d 1997 12 16 JAMES BLANCHARD 1666 b 1704 d 1997 12 16 JOSIAH BLANCHARD 1698 b 1997 12 16 JOSIAH BLANCHARD 1733 b 1800 d c 1997 12 16 ASA BLANCHARD 1769 b 1850 d 1997 12 16 AMOS BLANCHARD 1791 b 1836 d 1997 12 16 JOSHUA PETTINGILL BLANCHARD 1820 b 1884 d 1997 12 16 ABRAHAM LINCOLN BLANCHARD 1863 b 1945 d 1997 12 16 ELDON CRAWFORD BLANCHARD 1889 b 1966 d 1997 12 16 RAYMOND ELDON BLANCHARD 1911 b 1980 dn 1997 12 16 SANDRA LOUISE BLANCHARD (My wife) 1997 12 16