This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DECKER/CHAMBERLAIN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hgR.2ACIB/1782.1.2 Message Board Post: In the past, I drew the same conclusion that Isaac son of John and Balndina (KUYKENDALL) DECKER was the one who married Dorcas CHAMBERLAIN in NJ and settled in Westmoreland County, PA between 1790 and 1800. Then I came across the following information and other data that served to change that thinking. >From an article in the April 4, 1968 in the "Valley Advance" reprinted in the June 1985 issue of the "Trail Tracer" "The oldest of these five Isaac's was Isaac DECKER, son of John DECKER and wife Dina KUYKENDALL (both born in 1719). Isaac was born in VA about 1746 and came to Indiana in 1784 with his parents and several of his brothers and their families. He was old enough to escape the confusion with the younger Isaac's. He acquired land in Knox Co., IN, part of it in 1790 as payment for service in the Indiana State Militia. I can find no record of his marriage nor of any children, nor of his death and estate settlement. He may have moved into Illinois and his records would be there." Since it is believe that Isaac and Dorcas, who settled in Westmoreland County, is the Isaac DECKER family listed in the 1790 census in Cumberland County, PA, then, Isaac, the son of John and Blandina, cannot be the Westmoreland County Isaac as the latter was in Knox County Indiana at the that time.Further, as noted in the article above, Isaac, son of John and Blandina, was born in VA. while Isaac, husband to Dorcas CHAMBERLAIN was in NJ much later as indicated in the issuance of their marriage license April 12, 1769. In addition, Ebenezer (as shown in the 1850 census of Westmoreland County)and John (as shown on his death record in Westmoreland County), sons of Isaac and Dorcas and Eunice their daughter (married to John BRADY and listed as John's wife in the 1850 Westmoreland County census) were all born in NJ in the 1770's. Then, there is an Isaac DECKER shown on the tax records in Hardyston Twp, Sussex Co., NJ in 1774 and 1780. In 1769 Isaac's and Dorcas's marriage license ! was issued in Hardyston Twp., Sussex County, NJ. So, although there could be some doubt that, for example, the Isaac in the tax records in NJ is the Isaac of Westmoreland County. The weight of the evidence is that Isaac son of John and Blandina is NOT the Isaac who settled in Fairfield Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA.