What really puzzles family members is that Sylvanus Norton shows up in Cavendish, and marries the daughter of Levi Jackman, former Cavendish Town Treasurer, and granddaughter of Abner Jackman, former Cavendish Town Clerk. Wife Polly dies in 1841, and Sylvanus marries Mary Parker, daughter of Deacon Joseph and (Amy/Emma Baldwin) Parker, and a descendant of early Cavendish families such as Parker, Baldwin, Spaulding and first settler John Coffeen. YET, no one apparently thought to record the marriage of Sylvanus Norton to Polly Jackman and Mary Parker, or the birth of Mary Parker to Joseph and Amy/Emma Parker. ALSO, besides marrying into two well known families of Cavendish, he bounces from Cavendish to Weathersfield, to Reading, to Weathersfield (living with dau. Ellen Barr) again, to Sharon (living with dau. Susan Lora Finney) where he died. THEN, Sylvanus is buried in Cavendish Center Road Cemetery with both wives and members of the Jackman family and near Davidson Barr and family. YET, NO ONE KNOWS FOR CERTAIN WHERE SYLVANUS NORTON CAME FROM OR WHO HE BELONGED TO, ETC., ETC., ETC. BOTTOM LINE is that there is no primary source that documents the date and place of marriage of Sylvanus Norton to (1) Polly Jackman or to (2) Mary Parker and no specific place and date of birth for Mary Parker or Sylvanus Norton. P.S. The death certificate for Sylvanus does state that he was born in Orange, that his father was ---- Norton and that his mother was Polly Belknap. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/