I don't know if this is considered such an idiotic question that noone wants to answer it, but I can see that Benjamin Cooley and Samuel Cooley were roughly contemporary in Springfield, MA. Each had a daughter marry a son of the emigrant Chapin. As far as I can learn Benjamin Cooley didn't even have a son named Samuel. So who was Samuel Cooley, and was he related to Benjamin Cooley? Yours, Dora Smith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com