At 05:07 PM 6/13/01 -1000, Joan Best wrote: >Good idea. I am with the Isaac Gardner of Ohio crowd, I think, I anyone >out there can prove that his Mary is my Mary. I saw a lot of discussion >on him before I knew there might be a connection. If someone knows the >futherest back ancestor of this line I can identify myself better. >Joan Best > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Marilynn Masten" <[email protected]> > > > Great idea! We need order out of this chaos of Gardners all named the >same first name. > > > > Marilynn Hi, all: I am firmly convinced that during one period all the GARDNERs of Ryegate and Newbury, Vermont, and the town clerks of both, were partially deaf. When the question was asked, "What is your son's name?" the reply was "Who?" which was recorded as "Hugh". Every last dadgummed one of them, I sometimes despair. With tongue firmly planted in cheek Darrell Darrell A. Martin a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois [email protected]