Albert, > Cutter makes the connection > that the JOSIAH who was of Concord-Lincoln-Sturbridge moved to Barre, Vermont, > but doesn't > offer proof. As a matter of fact, Cutter is also alone in stating that the Josiah of Concord/Lincoln was the same one who showed up in Sturbridge. There may well be documention for that link in the church records or deeds at either end, but there may not. Worse, there's a different wife at each place and a son John born at each, but no record of the death of the first wife or the first John. Also, note that Hartman adds to the confusion by calling the first John "Josiah" (and, of course, he doesn't list anything in Sturbridge at all). I think the Sturbridge-to-VT link is in better shape, since the Asa who died in Barre, VT in 1850 was reported in the census mortality schedule there as having been born in Mass. 80 years beforehand, and his wife Lydia matches up with the recorded marriage of Asa to Lydia Nichols in Ward, MA (now Auburn). John Index: Josiah 1733 b Concord, MA 1997 12 17 Index: Josiah 1769 Sturbridge, MA 1997 12 17 Index: Asa 1769 b Sturbridge, MA 1997 12 17