Yrs truly wrote: > The Stratford man married Dorothy Birdseye (there's that > name again!) at Stratford in Nov 1796, so is unlikely to have > fathered a child born in Vermont the same year. And Jeanne Jain replied to me privately: > I'm confused. I have that Dorothy Birdseye was David's > mother... Jean's correct, and I'm in error (yet again). Dorothy/5 Birdseye married John/4 Brooks, and among their children was David/5 Brooks, b. 1772 at Stratford, who married Abigail Hawley. Sorry for the confusion. Infallibility is a terrible burden. :-) Chris