To C. Dean and interested Dean researchers: Thank you for your prompt reply. I am in the midst of "documenting" my Woolsey family and am presently reading every record I can find for Ulster County, New York. The fact that the Deans married into the Woolsey family and both were from Ulster Co., NY and then appear as neighbors in Washington Co., VA on the South Fork of the Holsten river, is evident to me that there are close connections. But, as you say, proving it is another thing, which I am attempting to do. Jedediah Dean was in New Paltz, Ulster, New York, in an 1765 Tax list. Your help is greatly appreciated and yes, I do want to work with you on these families. Thank you. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker