This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hgR.2ACIB/1782.1.2.2.2 Message Board Post: Bekki & Robin, According to “ The DECKER Genealogy: by Admiral Benton weaver DECKER (1980), Isaac M, son of Solomon (Zolomon) and Lena (QUICK) DECKER married Antje Hommell and had at least eight children between 1775 and 1791. Information that I have gathered on Solomon’s family indicates that they remained in the Orange and Chemung County, NY and eastern PA area for at least five generations. His grandchildren by his daughter Antje (HALENBECK) were baptized at Claverack in Dutchess Co., NY. You can see this family at URL < http://www.members.tripod.com/~schadt/gerrit.htm >. Although Jan Gerretsen DECKER’s will does not indicate a son named Isaac there are other indicators that he and Blandina KUYKENDALL did in fact have a son named Isaac. It appears that Isaac may have preceded him in death and thus does not appear in the will. Here is one source that mentions an Isaac. >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. The Isaac DECKER who married Dorcas CHAMBERLAIN in Hardyston Twp., Sussex Co., NJ in 1769 does not appear to be either of the Isaac’s mentioned above. Regards, John < jedeck@swbell.net >