Dick, I got the following from a certain John Hover. It confirms that Phebe, first wife of my ancestor Elijah Shoemaker, is the daughter of Laban Blanchard. It also has information about Daniel Shoemaker's ancestry (given in the first few lines) which I believe is incorrect, based on the lineage you worked out, with much verification, to the Ulster Co., NY Schoonmakers. Please let me know what you think of it. p.281 Benjamin Shoemaker came to America from Holland, in the decade of 1620-30, and settled near Philadelphia. His son Benjamin, who is buried, and whos will is on record at Easton , Pa., (???) was the father of Daniel Shoemaker, who settled just west of the Water-gap in Pennsylvania -- now called Broadheads-where he owned a custom and flouring mill. About the year 1797, he visited Big Flats, in Chemung county, and Painted Post, in Steugen county with the intention of selttling there where large tracts of land p.282 were offered him for ninety cents and acre. But there being nothing but an Indian trail from Athens, Pa., to that territory, he returned and purchased about 1,000 acres of land in this town, mostly squatter claims. He had but one brother, Elijah, who settled in the the Wyoming valley, and who was tomahawked by Windecker (See my web page at http://www.pacwest.net/bigshoe/SHOEGEN.HTML) at the massacre of Wyoming. Daniel married Anna McDowell, by whom he had seven children, born as follows: Hannah, February 7, 1777, who married Isaac S. Swartwood; Elizabeth, January 22, 1779, wife of George Nyce; Benjamin, February 8, 1781; John, March 22, 1783; Robert, May 20, 1785; Sarah, May 26, 1787; Elijah, July 28, 1789, once sheriff, and afterward associate justice of Tioga county; Nicholas, January 27, 1792, who settled where his son William R. now lives; Daniel McD., Fegruary 24, 1795; who occupied the homestead of his father, where the cottage of John Bensley now stands; Anna, July 8, 1797, wife of William ross. Benjamin, who settled on Wappasening creek, in Pennsylvania, married Eunice Shaw, by whom he had seven children, viz.: Richard, Mary, elijah, Samuel, Daniel, Anna, and John. Elijah, son of Daniel Shoemaker, married first, Phebe daughter of Laban and Jane (McDowell) Blanchard, by whom he had seven children, viz.: Jane, widow of Washington Smith; George N., Nicholas, Charles McD., and Elijah B., deceased; Jonathan Platt, and Phebe, also deceased. He married second, Cathararine Floyd, of Chemung, N.Y., by whom he had two children, Hannah Shoemaker, A.M., who is preceptress of Hamlin university, Minn., and Capt. Thomas Floyd Shoemaker, of California. Nicholas married Hannah Blanchard, by whom he had five children: James and Anna, deceased; William R., and Edgar, of Nichols: and Caroline, wife of Col. Fred M. Shoemaker, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., now deceased. Daniel McD. amrried Maria Thurston, who was born in New Marlboro, N.H., may 19, 1797, and by whom he had five children, viz: Hiram W., Elizabeth N., Horace A., who died in infancy; Horace A., 2d, and Lyman T. Edgar, son of Nicholas Shoemaker, born February 23, 1837, married Laura A., daughter of Zina Goodsell, of this town, by whom he has had seven children, viz: Caroline, Edgar, Stella, Zina, Mary A., who died at the age of two years; May, and Fannie Maud. Horace A., son of Daniel McD. Shoemaker, received his early education at Kingston, Pa., and at Little Falls, N.Y. He studied for the frofession of Civil Engineer, which profession he followed for nine years, during which time he was engaged on the N.Y.L.E. & W. R.R.; on the blue Ridge & p.283 Pendleton R.R., and on the West Branch canal. He married Hester L., daughter of James Comfort, of Lanesboro, Pa., by whom he has three children, viz. Rev. Hiram R., now located at Naverino, N.Y., George Winthrop, a physician and druggist at Billlings, Mont., and Marth E., preceptress of the Middleburgh academy, Shoharie county, N.Y. -- "Historical Gazetteer, 1785-1888 and Directory, 1887-1888 of Tioga County, New York" compiled and Edited by W.B. Gay. Originall published by William B. Gay & Co., Syracuse, N.Y. His copy was a Facsimile Reprint Published 1991 By Heritage Books, Inc. Bowie, Maryland 20716. It cost (he thinks) about $25 . The Tioga Historical Society sells the hard coverd copy for about the same price, (his copy is a paper back). -- Michael A. Shoemaker bigshoe@pacwest.net http://www.pacwest.net/bishoe/ :-)