This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McLeod, Crowell, Day Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DQC.2ACI/63.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Mary for the contact. I shall check it out. The only Matthias I have at present is the son of Harrington McLeod (1785-1850), sixth son of John (1747-1825). The info comes from page 23, column 2, of the booklet "History of Brooklyn" by Lucius D Dexter in 1936. It is available from the Queens County Historical Society who printed it in 1996. It has quite a bit on the early families. The number for it is ISBN 1 -896972 - 01 - 2. Harrington had married Mary CROWELL and had three children; John, Matthais, and Sarah (m. Thomas DAY). I had found a reference that Matthais' wife's name was Catherine, but no dates, birth, marriage, or death. I was not sure if it was this Matthais as there may have been one in the next generation which I do not have. -- Rannie in Mt. Uniacke, N.S.