Hi Wizzzaerd, This is what I have on Elizabeth Chandler/Alvin Simons: 1. Thomas5 CHANDLER, Jr. (Thomas4, John3, John2, William1) was born 23 September 1740 in Woodstock, Windham Co., CT (Source: (1) Town Clerk, Chester, VT Town Records, Bk A/p 143., (2) VT Town Clerks, VT Vital Records Index., (3) Clarence Withrop Bowen, The History of Woodstock, CT Genealogies, (1926)., (4) Proceedings At Chester, Vt. June 29, 1909 On Old Home Day.), and died ca 1798 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT. He married Sarah LORD 21 July 1763 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: (1) VT Town Clerks, VT Vital Records Index., (2) Clarence Withrop Bowen, The History of Woodstock, CT Genealogies, (1926).), daughter of Joseph LORD and Sarah RAND. She was born 18 May 1742 in Athol, Worcester Co., MA, and died 22 May 1791. Notes for Thomas CHANDLER, Jr.: Source! "Men of Vermont Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of Vermont"/compiled by Jacob G. Ulley 1894: p. 66: "Thomas Chander, Jr., the second son, first secretary of state for a few months, then for nearly three years speaker of the General Assembly, was born Sept. 23, 1740, and died towards the close of the century in poverty and embarrassment, like that of his father. He was also for nine years, 1776-'75, an assistant judge of the inferior court of common pleas, a court which New York seems to have made a family snap for the Chandlers. But he was soon after active among the Vermont men, was a delegate in the Westminster convention of October, 1776, and January, 1777, was elected to the first General Assembly in March, 1778, and chosen its clerk, but abandoned the post to take the secretaryship of state, was re-elected in 1778 and 1781, was a member of the council in 1779 and 1780, a commissioner of sequestration on the estates of Tories, and was judge of the first Supreme Court, elected in October, 1778. He resigned the speakership of the Assembly in the middle of the session of 1780, because of charges brought by Azariah Wright of Westminster, alleging that he had acted as an attorney for a negro while speaker, and that he also invited the massacre at Westminster in 1775 by misleading the sons of liberty by writing to them that he knew his father's mind in their favor. Chandler brought a libel suit against Wright because of these charges, and finally recovered some $50 and costs, but they nevertheless brought him into "great discredit" and he sank into a rapid decline politically. He was once elected a judge of the Windsor county court in 1786, and in 1787 again represented Chester in the Assembly, but the prejudice against him was too great to permit his successful advancement. He was, however, an undoubted patriot during the war, and exerted himself much for the patriot cause in Chester town meetings. The records of the Governor and council in October, 1792, show that like his father he was a petitioner for an act of insolvency in his favor, having been reduced to poverty "by a long series of sickness in his family." Children of Thomas CHANDLER and Sarah LORD are: 2 i. Lucy6 CHANDLER, born 28 May 1764 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: (1) Town Clerk, Chester, VT Town Records, Bk A/p 145., (2) VT Town Clerks, VT Vital Records Index.). She married Ezikiel COLEMAN 23 May 1782 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: (1) Town Clerk, Chester, VT Town Records, Bk 1/p 141., (2) VT Town Clerks, VT Vital Records Index.) 3 ii. Sarah CHANDLER, born 30 September 1766 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: (1) Town Clerk, Chester, VT Town Records, Bk A/p. 145); died in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co., NY. She married Daniel FIELD; born 9 September 1764 (Source: Field Genealogy/F.C. Pierce;). 4 iii. Thomas Lord CHANDLER, born 24 August 1768 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: (1) VT Town Clerks, VT Vital Records Index., (2) Town Clerk, Chester, VT Town Records, Bk A/p 145.). He married Asanath ADAMS 14 September 1794 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: VT Town Clerks, VT Vital Records Index.). 5 iv. Elizabeth CHANDLER, born 10 May 1770 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: Town Clerk, Chester, VT Town Records, Bk A/p. 145.). She married Alvah SIMONDS 12 September 1790 in Andover, Windsor Co., VT (Source: Town Clerk, Andover, VT Town Records, Bk 1/p 270.). 6 v. Persis CHANDLER, born 18 February 1772 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: Town Clerk, Chester, VT Town Records, Bk A/p. 145.). 7 vi. Henrietta CHANDLER, born 28 November 1779 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: Town Clerk, Chester, VT Town Records, Bk A/p. 145.); died 27 March 1784 in Chester, Windsor Co., VT (Source: Town Clerk, Chester, VT Town Records, Bk 1/p 156.). My line of descend is Arrilucia7, Chauncey Cheney6, John5, Thomas4, John3, John2, William1. Hope this helps. Regards, Arleen Huesman [email protected] At 08:21 AM 5/17/99 EDT, [email protected] wrote: >ELIZABETH CHANDLER married ALVIN SIMONS in Andover, Vermont on 18 September >1790. I have been trying to sort through all the Elizabeth Chandler's..... >