Judy and Lorinda -- do either of you know of any Carley, Kerley, Hyatt or Eager connections in your lines? We had a Zerubbabel Eager, b. 1672 in MA who married a Hannah Carley in 1698, and her half brother William had a son John who was later in Fairfield - John m. Sarah Sherwood in Westport in 1731 - and their ggranddaughter Rowena m. a Gilead Hyatt in New Fairfield in 1815. I know it's a stretch but Hoyt and Hyatt sound like they come from the same stem -- Judy Schreiber Valdosta, GA