How about *11* SMITH lines?? .. Gee, I'm lucky...<g> Hey - I am lucky too - I also have 11 SMITH direct lines ! Wilma Fleming Haynes [email protected] > CONE: > Mary CONE > b. 06 January 1698/99 Lyme, New London, CT [1 Jacobus, Donald Lines, > Families of Ancient New Haven, (Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. > (Baltimore: 1974). Reproduced on Broderbund Software's Family Archive CD#179 > (Family History: Connecticut Genealogies #1, Vol. III, p. 586] > m. Benjamin DUTTON 1719, Wallingford, New Haven, CT > d. 27 October 1785, ae 86, Cheshire, New Haven, CT [1 Jacobus. Ibid; 2 > Cheshire Congregational Society, Cheshire, CT] I have a Mary CONE, born 6 Jan 1701 [Barbour Records for East Haddam], but she married Matthias FULLER [named in her father's will as Mary FULLER, also East Haddam Land Records, NEHGR, Vol 11]. The Families of Ancient New Haven reference doesn't give a surname for the Mary who wed Benjamin DUTTON - was her last name given in the Cheshire records? My Mary was the daughter of Deacon Daniel CONE & Mary GATES and my 8x Great grandmother.. [Thanks for reminding me that I had this resource, I'd forgotten about the CD] > SPENCER: > I descend from two sons of Gerrad SPENCER (1576->1646): Gerrard and Thomas > [various sources for this family, too numerous to list] > Gerrard and Hannah (HILLS?) SPENCER (1614-1685) through two dau: Hannah and > Ruth > Hannah also m. Daniel BRAINERD 1663 > Ruth m. Joseph CLARK 1674 E. Haddam, Middlesex, CT, son of William and > Katherine (BUNCE) CLARK We're double cousins here - the BRAINERD line of Daniel & Hannah continues on down to my parental grandmother; the CLARK line of Joseph & Ruth continues to my parental grandfather - Grandma & Grandpa were 9th cousins once removed dating back to the SPENCER family. [Haddam, CT, where the family tree becomes a wreath..<g>] > Would like to exchange information. My family lines along with sources are on my website - let's compare notes. Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI [email protected] Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== Karima, List Administrator mailto:[email protected] Browse the CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L Threaded Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/CT-RIVER-VALLEY

> How about *11* SMITH lines?? .. Gee, I'm lucky...<g> > > Hey - I am lucky too - I also have 11 SMITH direct lines ! Do we have any that match up, Wilma? My CRV SMITHs are Thomas SMITH of Suffield and Mary YOUNGLOVE, daughter of John YOUNGLOVE of Suffield > Thomas SMITH & Abigail AUSTIN also of Suffield > Thomas SMITH & Esther BALL of West Springfield - all in the late 1600s & early 1700s.