This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Downs/Downes, Brush Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZ.2ADE/4454 Message Board Post: Re. probate records: on Nov. 10, 1832, Seth Downs / Downes made choice of Benjamin Brush Jr. to be his guardian. Page 456; probate records. I need to know why and am trying to prove relationship of Seth to Benjamin who I believe to have been Seths grandfather. Does anyone know how to find the actual probate record which I hope would give more details. Over the past 13 yrs. I have exhausted every resource possible to prove my theory that Seth Brush Downs was the son of Silas Smith Downs of North Castle and Lucy Ann Brush ( daughter of Benjamin Jr, ). I have already been to Hartford library looking for this. When Silas Smith Downes died at a young age, his widow, Lucy Ann, took her children and moved back to CT. and ejoined her original church: Stanwich and had her children baptised. I found only mentioned, two of them but believe that Seth was her first and did not join that church. Any help would be unbelievably appeciated. Seth was my ggggrandfat! her. Marianne