((Not sure if this is complete or not)) Town of Guilford Revolutionary Soldiers pg 12, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution Jehiel Meigs, Ensign Isaac Knight, Doctor Ebenezer Graves, Jun Sergeant Timothy Hull, Sergeant Ambrose Everts, Sergeant Daniel Meigs, Sergeant Timothy Field, Sergeant Nathaniel Lee, Sergeant Amaziah Everts, Corporal David Hoyt, Pvt James Munger Pvt Salmon Cruttenden Pvt Timothy Wilcox, Jun Pvt David Grave Pvt Eli Grave Pvt Sam Holt Pvt Timothy Doud Pvt Reuben Hill Pvt Josiah Munger Pvt James Hart Pvt Elisha Bassett Pvt Jonathan Judd Pvt Seth Stone Pvt Benjamin Cusjoy Pvt Noah Fowler, Captain John Hubbard, Ensign Stephan Hale, Ensign David Dudle Sergeant Augustus Collins Pvt Beriah Norton Pvt James Bishop Pvt David Landon Pvt Ebenezer Bragg Pvt Daniel Norton, Jun Pvt Benjamin Crampton, Jun Pvt Eber Hall Pvt Luther Dudley Pvt Samuel Stevens Pvt Thomas Fowler Pvt Simeon Crittenden Pvt Timothy Rosseter Pvt Simeon Lette Pvt Thomas Wheeler Pvt Philemon French Pvt Seth Cruttenden Pvt John Johnson, Jun Pvt John Donnell Pvt Elnathan Norton Pvt Henry Norton Pvt Pitman Collins Pvt Solomon Stone Pvt Medad Stone Pvt Levi Lee Pvt Ebenzer Fowler Pvt Nathaniel Dudley Pvt Zebulon Benton Pvt John Harris Pvt Stephen Wheaden Pvt Samuel Ackly Pvt Daniel Adkins Pvt Eber Dudley Pvt Nathanial Parmele Pvt David Morse Pvt Thalmeno Bishop Pvt Luther Bishop Pvt Caleb Munger Pvt David Dudley Pvt Timothy Benton Pvt Simeon Parmerlee Pvt

Hi List, In respones to the recent challenge regarding solving roadblocks: My father's mother, Caroline Avis STONE was born in Orange, CT in the house built by her paternal grandfather, Dennis Beach STONE. It is now the headquarters for the Orange Historical Society and they call it the Stone-Otis House. It was quite easy to trace Dennis back to John STONE of Guilford, CT who helped build the famous "Old Stone House" there. However Dennis's spouse (also my ancestor) Sarah SHELTON wasn't so easy. There were six (6) Sarah SHELTONs who could be the one. All of them had more than one thing wrong in their vital records. (1) I posted a query in the "Nutmegger." (2) It seemed obvious that she would be descended from Daniel SHELTON of Stratford, CT. (3) Donald Lines Jacobus gave me the tip (in one of his books) to trace the entire family if you can't prove a specific individual. I spent considerable years tracing all the descendants of Daniel Shelton. In the meantime I was collecting quite a cache of material about STONEs & SHELTONs in CT. Every vital record date pertaining to Sarah SHELTON is disputable but her identity was positively made through the tragic deaths of her two nieces visiting during the 1859 diphtheria epidemic in Orange. The Orange town records indicate that 14 young people aged 2 to 36 died, including two children of Dennis and Sarah STONE; and two of D. B. STONE¹s 15 year old nieces (actually Sarah¹s nieces) from Monroe. They were: Miss Nancy SHELTON, died 18 March 1859 and Miss Elizabeth BEARDSLEY, died 8 April 1859. I had found all this information but hadn't figured it out yet. A helpful reader of "Nutmegger" queries pointed me in the right direction. Further research showed that Isaiah and Sally Betsey (LEWIS) SHELTON had a son, Lewis; a daughter, Nancy who married Abner BEARDSLEY; and a daughter, Sarah Ann (who therefore is the one who married Dennis Beach STONE). Q.E.D. While trying to identify every HULL in CT the process of elimination quite often determines identity because there's only one left. I know hereditary societies won't accept this as proof‹but logic (and rocket science) does. Regards, Bob Hull -- Robert Hull <saratogabob@earthlink.net> Try my website: http://hometown.aol.com/saratogab/myhomepage/heritage.html

For all of you who have requested the site, here it is. Have tried to answer all of your requests but there are too many to keep up with them. Hope this helps all of you. Janet <A HREF="http://nctimes.net/~churchyj/fandt_home.html">Click here: Flagon and Trencher Official Home Page</A>

Sent this email to you all for help just minutes before I found the site. Janet ************** In a message dated 9/9/03 7:25:28 PM Central Daylight Time, Wstjs writes: << Hello, I am sending this to multiple mail lists so if you see it more than once I apologize. Seems to me some time ago (years) I saw the "Society of Descendants of Inn and Tavern Owners" listed somewhere. I may not have the correct name of the Society but I have been searching the internet trying to find it. Would be very appreciative if anyone knows of this society and can tell me how to find information about it. Thank you, Janet >>

Hello, I am sending this to multiple mail lists so if you see it more than once I apologize. Seems to me some time ago (years) I saw the "Society of Descendants of Inn and Tavern Owners" listed somewhere. I may not have the correct name of the Society but I have been searching the internet trying to find it. Would be very appreciative if anyone knows of this society and can tell me how to find information about it. Thank you, Janet

Hi Judy, Inez E. McCormick, ??? Woedtke Thanks, Bob Martin, CSG #17217 Tolland, Ct. USA Visit my site at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=martinrf -----Original Message----- From: JUDYSPHIL@aol.com [mailto:JUDYSPHIL@aol.com] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:45 PM To: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CTNEWHAV] commercial High school 1926 Found Commercial High School Class of 1926 {New Haven} year book. It has all the usual features and I would be glad to do a look up if anyone is interested. One nice thing is it has baby pictures of some of the students in the back. Judy ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== To post messages to the New Haven County, CT discussion list, send them to CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Found Commercial High School Class of 1926 {New Haven} year book. It has all the usual features and I would be glad to do a look up if anyone is interested. One nice thing is it has baby pictures of some of the students in the back. Judy

No problem Did you get the 1930 stuff on Moran? Bob Martin, CSG #17217 Tolland, Ct. USA Visit my site at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=martinrf -----Original Message----- From: Divina Johnston [mailto:ddjohnston@erols.com] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:09 AM To: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CTNEWHAV] Re: 1930 census First, thanks to Bob and Jerry for their quick responses to my email. (Bob - The census copy you sent looks great.) I apologize for not responding to both of you last night , but I was having PC trouble. Now to the embarrassing part, that was not my g- grandma. The initial information about Margaret Gaffney's 1930 census record came to me -- no doubt -- through an automated mailing from Ancestry. (Big brother always knows where we've been and what we've been doing in cyber space! They knew I had researched Margaret Gaffney -- g-grandma's maiden name.) Anyway, in my excitement to get this lead, I neglected to remember that by 1930 my grandma went by Margaret Moran. Pretty basic mistake, uh? Goes to prove we are all capable of developing tunnel vision! Thank you both for helping me out. Divina ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

First, thanks to Bob and Jerry for their quick responses to my email. (Bob - The census copy you sent looks great.) I apologize for not responding to both of you last night , but I was having PC trouble. Now to the embarrassing part, that was not my g- grandma. The initial information about Margaret Gaffney's 1930 census record came to me -- no doubt -- through an automated mailing from Ancestry. (Big brother always knows where we've been and what we've been doing in cyber space! They knew I had researched Margaret Gaffney -- g-grandma's maiden name.) Anyway, in my excitement to get this lead, I neglected to remember that by 1930 my grandma went by Margaret Moran. Pretty basic mistake, uh? Goes to prove we are all capable of developing tunnel vision! Thank you both for helping me out. Divina

Hello. This is part of the last Rootsweb and I thought it might be useful for the inexperienced and a reminder for the rest of us. 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. In Search of the Wild LNUs A long time ago in a kingdom far away there lived a fair maiden by the name of Fnu MNU. She married a handsome young knight named Sir Arthur LNU and thus she became Fnu (MNU) LNU. Wait! Stop! Does this sound a bit like a page out of YOUR family tree? Are you spending sleepless nights prowling the Web in search of your elusive MNU and LNU ancestors?  Or perhaps you've encountered them in someone's GEDCOM file on WorldConnect at RootsWeb, and after doing more searches have come to the conclusion that there are many researchers out there hunting those wild and crazy LNUs. Well, it's time to let you in on one of genealogy's best kept secrets: LNU, MNU, and FNU are not real names. They are acronyms. (Acronyms are combinations of the first letters/syllables in a group of words to form a new grouping of letters that can be pronounced as a word.) They are: First Name Unknown (FNU), Maiden Name Unknown (MNU), and Last Name Unknown (LNU). They are first cousins to the mysterious UNK ancestors that you might have spent time tracking down until you realized that UNK was short for "unknown." Researchers have used these acronyms and other symbols and abbreviations for years, with little or no uniformity from file to file, to indicate the unknown or missing names. The meaning of these acronyms is often unclear and can be mistaken for actual names by new  -- and not so new -- genealogists. After all, we all have a few oddly spelled names in our trees, so what's a MNU or two? On another note, be careful should you encounter any DITTO ancestors in your line. DITTO is an actual surname, but it is frequently mistaken as a surname by those reading an enumerator's "ditto" entry to denote that the name is the same as the one listed above it. (DITTO and DITTOE are Anglicized forms of a Huguenot name of unexplained etymology. The names are found in North America by 1700. Ditto also is a short form of the Italian personal name Benedetto.) All of this name confusion serves to reinforce the notion that while user-compiled genealogies are a valuable tool in research, you need to examine original records to verify or refute what the compiled records indicate. When possible examine the records for yourself. What can you do to make your files clear as to the abbreviation or acronyms you use to indicate any unknown given names, maiden names, or surnames? There are no perfect solutions or worldwide standards. Some compilers, especially those who use genealogy software, put a question mark to indicate that a name is not known, but this is not recommended as some creative family historians use one question mark, while others use two or three, and a ? for a name might mean one thing to you and something else to another researcher

I just sent some basic info about Margaret. I tried to send the census sheet but it would not copy. I can print it and send it by snail mail if you give me an address or I can send you a summary by E-mail. Jerry Hoffman, Gfhoff630@aol.com

Data sent separately Bob Martin Tolland, Ct. USA -----Original Message----- From: Divina Johnston [mailto:ddjohnston@erols.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:58 PM To: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CTNEWHAV] 1930 census Could some kind soul with access to an index to the 1930 census look up someone for me? Ancestry has a Margaret E. Gaffney, age 79, living somewhere in CT in 1930. I don't have an Ancestry subscription so I can not get the details of the record. However, base on the name, age and residence this woman can be my great grandmother. Thanks in advance. Divina ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Could some kind soul with access to an index to the 1930 census look up someone for me? Ancestry has a Margaret E. Gaffney, age 79, living somewhere in CT in 1930. I don't have an Ancestry subscription so I can not get the details of the record. However, base on the name, age and residence this woman can be my great grandmother. Thanks in advance. Divina

Hi everyone, With the end of summer vacations, we all begin coming back into our homes to begin the "hibernation" into next year. It's a good time to take advantage of this returning together. We have many newbies and novices among us now ~ those new (or rather new) to genealogy, I mean. This being September and the traditional return of children to school, let's follow that focus and teach our own. Your challenge is to post a road-block problem you are having or once had with your research with the ancestors in this county. Then, tell us how you solved or are currently resolving it. In this way, we'll teach our newbies and novices while at the same time, pass along research ideas to each other. What better a challenge for this month could there be? :) Colleen

Thank you all for your help in my search for a cause of death of my great great grandmother. Until about a month ago, I did not know her name or anything about her. We always heard that she died "young" in Canada. Quite by accident, I found that she had given birth to a child in Waterbury in 1879. The 1880 census shows her husband a "widow" and his daughter {my great grandmother} was not with him. She would have been either 6 or 3 depending on which document you look at. When I told my mom that Eutdice {that was her name} died in waterbury, she told me to find out where she was buried so she could go there. She was quite moved by that bit of info. We feel that she was a forgotten member of our family. My mom says that her grandmother NEVER mentioned that her own mom was buried in waterbury. Judy

Hi, folks, Be advised: The following is a rather graphic description of how to tell the cause of death after child-birth. As a rule of thumb, one can make an educated guess at the cause of death after childbirth by the time elapsed between the birth of the child and the death of the mother. The thing which causes almost immediate death is severe hemorrhage, and this can be caused by a number of things: tears in the vaginal or uterine wall, ruptured uterus, placenta acreta (the placenta sticks to the wall of the uterus and just bleeds), prolapsed uterus (the uterus is expelled from the woman's body during birth), and others. After three days, infection becomes a factor, and a woman who lost a lot of blood can succumb quickly to an infection. The longer a woman survives after childbirth, with death occurring within six weeks, the more likely it is that she had an infection, so called "child-bed fever," rather than great blood loss. The last great cause of death within six weeks of a birth is blood clots in the leg veins: deep vein thrombosis, also called "milk-leg." The woman who lost a lot of blood may be too weak to get out of bed for a while, and this gives the chance for clots to form. Later, when the clots break up, they may cause blockage to the arteries of the heart, lungs, brain, or any other major organ, and may result in sudden death from heart attack, stroke, or pulmonary infarction, etc. One of my ancestors apparently had consumption (tuberculosis), and the child-bearing contributed to her death a month after the birth of her daughter, my gr-gr grandmother. It is worth noting that a six-hour labor and delivery require about the same amount of exertion as that expended by a professional football player, playing an entire game of football. Sarah, in soggy Texas > [Original Message] > From: Bobbi Chapman <bochap@worldnet.att.net> > To: <CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 8/30/03 8:55:56 PM > Subject: [CTNEWHAV] utero gestation > > I checked some medical internet sites; all agreed that "utero gestation" or "in-utero gestation" refers to a fetus growing in its mother's uterus. The term may have been used on a death certificate to indicate delicately that the death was related to pregnancy. It does not give the exact cause of death - bleeding, infection, other. > Bobbi > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hi Listers, Physicians usually use a Latin term when a simple Anglo-Saxon term would be more understandable to laypersons. It's considered more scientific. Utero gestation means nothing more (nor less) than pregnancy (as experienced by mammals). Which is to say the patient died due to pregnancy. It is more usual among laymen to say "died in childbirth," "during childbirth" or "due to childbirth." Sometimes I've seen "died in childbed." Since none of my ancestors had attending physicians I've never seen died of "utero gestation." -- Robert Hull <saratogabob@earthlink.net> > From: "Bobbi Chapman" <bochap@worldnet.att.net> > Reply-To: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:52:48 -0500 > To: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CTNEWHAV] utero gestation > Resent-From: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:55:56 -0600 > > I checked some medical internet sites; all agreed that "utero gestation" or > "in-utero gestation" refers to a fetus growing in its mother's uterus. The > term may have been used on a death certificate to indicate delicately that the > death was related to pregnancy. It does not give the exact cause of death - > bleeding, infection, other. > Bobbi > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I checked some medical internet sites; all agreed that "utero gestation" or "in-utero gestation" refers to a fetus growing in its mother's uterus. The term may have been used on a death certificate to indicate delicately that the death was related to pregnancy. It does not give the exact cause of death - bleeding, infection, other. Bobbi

Thank you all for the input. There was a child born June 18, 1879. I can't find a death certificate for the child but my great great grandmother died two days later June 20, 1879. The newspapers have nothing but i did notice they charged you ten cents to put in an obit. Judy.

Go to google and type in utero gestation Bob Martin, CSG #17217 Tolland, Ct. USA Visit my site at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=martinrf -----Original Message----- From: Melinda Weaver [mailto:mem@lightbound.com] Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 10:12 AM To: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CTNEWHAV] old medical diagnosis Judy, I hope that whoever replys with a real answer will post it to the list. I would like to know that answer, too, in case I ever come across it. My guess would be that they gave that name to the condition when a woman bled out after birth. Melinda -------Original Message------- From: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, August 30, 2003 6:37:40 AM To: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CTNEWHAV] old medical diagnosis I don't want to get too graphic {you can send me the answer privately at judysphil@aol.com}. What is utro gestation? I found my great great grandmother died of this complication at age 30. I went on google which lead me to a cemetery in New York which had quite a few women who had died as a result of this. But no explanation. It is not on the sites for archaic medical terms. She had baby one week before she died. Thanks. Hope I did not spoil anyone's breakfast. Judy ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those settings through their servers and will only return them to you. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 . ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237