This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Purple Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xY.2ADI/769 Message Board Post: I am seeking the parents and birth of Isham Purple who was married 1805, Waterford, CT and is in the 1810 and 1820 East Haddam census. He moved to NYS abt 1825. I have an extensive line for him. Isham genealogy says he was a grand son of Thankful Isham and his father was Mr. Purple possibly married to a Chapman.