Hi, I'm new to this list...I did correspond with Dorothy several years ago when I first began working on this line. Jane Tarpenning (15 Sep 1821-9 May 1909) was my late husband's gg grandmother. She was married to John Chadwick II. Her father was John Teerpenning (14 oct 1796-13 Dec 1881). Her mother was Mary or Polly Wagner but I don't have any information on her except for an uncited birth year of 1796 as well (from a family tree of Dick Weisiger in San Francisco). Do any of you have any ideas about where I might find information about Mary or Polly Wagner? John was baptized in Poughkeepsie, died in Middlefield and buried in Hartwick NY. He also lived in Cooperstown and Five Mile Point at Otsego Lake during his lifetime. My goal is to get all my husband's direct lines back to their countries of origin. So I want to know whether Mary or Polly Wagner was born here or somewhere else....and if somewhere else, what country? I'd also like to know when John Teerpenning and Mary or Polly were married, and where. Their first child, John, was born in Aug. of 1820 (but I don't know where) so it was probably before that. Jane was born in Cooperstown the next year. I found Jane in "Concerning the Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten Family in America" by William Henry Van Benschoten but it doesn't tell me any more about her mother than what I already knew. That book did help me discover the Van Bunschoten connections, however! I live near Seattle WA and am not familiar with the east coast. All 4 of my grandparents were born in Europe so I've never had to do any research in America until I began trying to pin down my late husband's family! We have a National Archives in Seattle but I'm not sure they would have very much information there on early New York history! -- Roberta K. Morrow Two Morrows Cabin at Tahoe www.twomorrowstahoecabin.com