Jay whitman wrote: >______________ DECKER of NY m.____________ SIMONSON of Staten Island NY. >Decker with his bride and her parents emigrated to Little Harbor, Nova >Scotia as a Loyalist (presumably circa 1780), where he had a land grant at >Little Harbor, Shelburne;.......<snip> I can find a Decker who married a Simonson and would be at about the right time and place but I have no idea if they went to Nova Scotia. >From Genealogies of New Jersey Families, vol. 1, "The Decker Family" by George C. Evans, page 198: "Jacob de Decker, bap. 7 May 1741, d. 30 Oct. 1824; m. (license) 21 Jan. 1762 to Sarah Simonson, b. 5 Feb. 1737, d. March 1827, children: i. Jacob b. 1762 d. 1842 ii. Abraham b. 1765 d. 1852 m. Mary Alston iii. Isaac b. 1765 d. 1853 m. ? iv. Sarah b. 1767 v. Ann b. 1770 d. 1840 m. ? Jones vi. Abner b. 1772 d. 1854 m. Elizabeth Mersereau vii. James S. b. 1775 d. 1839 m. Hannah _____. viii. Susanna b. 1777 d. 1854 Some of the children for whom there is information seem to have married and lived on Staten Island and so if Jacob and Sarah are the ones that you are interested in then either they or some of their children would have had to return to the Island from Nova Scotia. Abraham is the one that I am interested in since I think that I might descend from him. He married Mary Alston who was the daughter of Capt. David Alston who was a British officer in the Revolution. All I know is that I descend from a Daniel C. Decker born about 1813 prob. Staten Island, died 19 Jun 1857 married Catherine Ann Alston on 24 Nov 1839 but I can't get back any further. - Ed Edward Coates Sinker - email: [email protected] Church Lea Bosbury Herefordshire HR8 1PX U. K.