>From - Mike Disbrow, listowner Subject - Stephen Squires' question about Margaret (Haddon?), wife of Henry Disbrow Steve - Here is what you asked: >>Speaking of the surname of that "Lordly" addressee from the Thomas Desborow letter 1664 (Sir Christopher HATTON, VERY prominent guy then!), isn't that the very same name of HATTON (or at least variant "Haddon"?) ALSO believed to be the maiden-name of Henry Disbrow'ss own wife at Mamaroneck, NY??!. ON WHAT AUTHORITY DO WE KNOW THAT MAIDEN NAME FOR HIS WIFE ...can anyone please tell me?? (See just how much FUN we all can have w/ this stuff, eh?!)<< I've been looking through my references and the best I can come up with is that a certain JOHN HADDEN or HADDON of Westchester County, New York, in his will dated 18 Apr. 1683, mentions his wife Elizabeth, sons John and Edward, and speaks of "brother-in-law" Henry Disbrow. From this it has been inferred that Henry's wife Margaret was a Haddon. Another clue is the 23 Jan. 1771 will of Henry Disbrow of Westchester Co., who names as his executors his "cousins" Benjamin Griffin, JOHN HADDEN and Isaac Gedney. This latter Henry is apparently Henry Disbrow IV (1730-1771), great grandson and namesake of the first Henry. The source for these will references MIGHT BE a book called, "Early Wills of Westchester County, N. Y., 1664-1784" by William Smith Pelletreau, published by Francis P. Harper, New York, 1898. I learned this from a correspondent named J. Elwood Arnold, who wrote to me back in 1990 and he wasn't too sure of his original sources, but thought it might have been from! the above book. I may have more definitive info in my files, but this is the best I can come up with right now. Perhaps someone else can do better. Mike