This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLAWSON CLAUSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZ.2ADE/2143.2145.2147.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Alyce, Where did you find information that Elizabeth Periment's father was Pennoyer? Of all the Clauson researchers I've met, there is no information on her parents. In 2003, I paid a visit to the Stamford Historical Society library and met the man who wrote the Stamford Bibliography and "Thou Deservest to Dye", the account of Elizabeth's trial. He said there is no record of her parents or her grave. Ironically, there was another Clauson researcher in the library the same day I was there. She said there was speculation that Elizabeth was a former indentured servant from France (as her accuser Kate Branch was as well) - so I offered the suggestion that perhaps Elizabeth's last name was actually "Piermont". I have no proof, but do believe this could be her true surname. The other researcher also felt that theory was a good one. But much research is needed. Val