This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: dunphy , webster Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BmT.2ACEB/206 Message Board Post: May be of help to someone, info found on Ancestry.com, Massachusetts name changes 1780-1892; "that Nathaniel R. Dunphy, of Gloucester, may take the name of Nathaniel R. Webster; that Nancy Dunphy, wife of said Nathaniel, may take the name of Nancy Webster; that Elizabeth C. Dunphy, a minor daughter of said Nathaniel and Nancy, may take the name of Elizabeth C. Webster; that their son, William Henry Dunphy, may take the name of William Henry Webster;" at end of page of names; "and that the several persons herein named shall hereafter be known and called by the names they are hereby respectively allowed to assume, as their only legal and proper names. [March 12, 1830. List of Persons Whose Names Have Been Changed in This Commonwealth page 6061 "