Darrell wrote: > >Thanks for your reply. I presume from your posting it to the list that this >is the usual practice on BOYNTON-L. If this is not the case, I will be >perfectly happy to adjust. > Well, that's my preference, since this way other people can benefit from replies, too, and it helps build up the archives. If you aren't familiar with Rootsweb's list archives, see http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl. Very useful! The BOYNTON list is reasonably new, so there isn't much there yet, but we have had some interesting discussions. Naturally, if one wants to get off-topic or send attachments, private email is preferred for that, but this is an "open" list in the sense that nobody's going to get thrown out for long, detailed postings. >My web searches have turned up a PILE of Nathaniel Boyntons, but the one >you suggest as a possibility looks as good as any. The timing is certainly >right for a young man in eastern Massachusetts to be setting his sights on >newly opened territory, like the upper river valleys of eastern and central >Vermont. Exactly right. Around 1750 there was a lot of new territory opening up. That's when my grandfather Ephraim Boynton left Rowley with his family for the "Western Frontier" north of Worchester, MA (present-day Sterling). His son Amos moved further north after 1766, which is probably when he married Sarah Snow (probably in Sterling or nearby in Shrewsbury -- the Sterling VRs were lost in a fire, so we don't have a record of that marriage), to FitzWilliam, New Hampshire, and a lot of Boyntons wound up in VT when it split off from NH. As in most cases of this kind, the hardest part of the problem >will be to prove by a preponderance of credible evidence "which" Nathaniel >Boynton settled in Cavendish, then Mt. Holly, Vermont. Using the new Early Essex Co. MA Vital Records CD-ROM might help you decide which Nathaniel is yours, too. It's available from the NEHGS (http://www.nehgs.org/SalesDept/cdrom.htm#vitals), among other places. > >Even if this doesn't pan out, I appreciate the effort on your part. You're quite welcome. Katherine Cochrane <mailto:katherine@cd-info.com> The CD-Info Company, Inc. In our 4th year on the Web, serving the Compact Disc publishing and manufacturing communities at http://www.cd-info.com & http://www.cd-webstore.com Now available! A new edition of Chris Andrews' "Education of a CD-ROM Publisher" ~~~~ See http://www.cd-webstore.com for more information ~~~~