Many thanks for putting me straight. I usually distrust the LDS submitted entries in the UK but, in this case, there's no real alternative Paul > >Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:44:43 +0000 >From: "Paul Underwood" <paul_u@hotmail.com> > >Samuel WHITTELSEY married Sara VAN DEURSEN on 10 Dec 1788 at the DRC New >York. > >I have Samuel's parents as Chauncey WHITTELSEY (1717-1787) and Martha >NEWTON >(1730-1812), ans Sara's parents as Willem VAN DEURSEN (1716-1789) and >Catharine GILBERT. > >No problem so far, except I have the birth of Samuel on 13 Jul 1749 and, >mor >importantly, death of Samuel WHITTELSEY on 9 Aug 1751 in New Haven, >Connecticut. These dates come from a One World Tree, but I've lost the >reference to it. > >Am I completely wrong? > > >Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:32:32 -0500 >From: "Pamela J. Sears" <pjsears@stratos.net> > >Not completely wrong but the dates for Samuel Whittlesey do need some >tweaking :-). According to an IGI "patron submission" on the LDS site, >Samuel Whittlesey (son of Chauncey Whiitlesey & Martha Newton) was born >10 Sep 1763 in New Haven, CT, and died 7 Mar 1838 (no location given). >According to an Ancestral File on the LDS site (Connecticut), he was >baptized 13 Sep 1763 at the First Congregational Church in New Haven, >and his parents married 13 Aug 1753 in New Haven. It appears that some >family members were buried in the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven. > >So, I would look for the records of the First Congregational Church in >New Haven to verify this information. The marriage date for Samuel >Whittlesey and Sara Van Deursen is indeed recorded in the New York >Reformed Dutch Church on 10 Dec 1788 [p. 263 of the published records]. >I see no baptismal records listed for this couple in the New York RDC. > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com