Roger: hey cousin :) My citation for the descent of Stephen Orcutt from Daniel Orcutt was a genealogy of Florence Julia Brown (which cited Stafford VR's, though didn't give a book or page). Ellery Bicknell Crane gives Stephen's birth date as 19-May-1757, one week before the Stephen son of Caleb that you cited...could there be two? Having said that, however, if your first goal is a Mayflower descent, you can trace Molly Washburn back through her father Solomon, his father Solomon and beyond to Experience Mitchell who arrived on the Mayflower. This, of course, means you have goaded me into checking out Stephen's Pension Records at the Archives to see if the records mention his parents (if you have seen the records, please let me know if I am following a dead end). If I find anything, I wil let you know. Steve > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: Stephen ORCUTT > From: > [email protected] > Date: > Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:48:25 EDT > To: > [email protected] > > >In a message dated 7/9/2004 9:00:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: >Other lines include Washburns through Connecticut (Molly, wife of >Stephen Orcutt, who fought in the Rev. War -- she descended through >Solomon of Bridgewater and Tolland CO.), and Cushman's (Lydia who was >dau. of William Cushman and married Stephen Orcutt's father Daniel).. > >Always looking for cousins > >Steve Donahue >Steve, > >I have the same Stephen ORCUTT & Molly WASHBURN line in my genealogy that you >mentioned. I have done alot of studying on this along with another person >who is also studying this line because I have not been able to sufficiently >prove it for a Mayflower line through Lydia CUSHMAN to Isaac ALLERTON and Degory >PRIEST. So far there is nothing that we have found that is conclusive that >Stephen ORCUTT b. 175_ in Stafford, CT, who married Mary (Molly) WASHBURN is the >son of Daniel and Lydia (CUSHMAN) ORCUTT. There is alot of stuff out there >that lends support to Lydia CUSHMAN as Stephen's mother, but it is all secondary >-- nothing primary that we have found. I believed the information on Daniel >& Lydia as Stephen's parents for a long time, but I found Stephen ORCUTT's >birth record in the Stafford, CT vital records listed as follows: "Stephen >Orcutt Son of Calem and Mehitabel Orcutt was Born May 26th 175_." There was a typo >in the VRs and it should have been Caleb ORCUTT (rather than "Calem"). Caleb >ORCUTT was married to Mehitable HARVEY, and he was s/o William ORCUTT II & >Hannah SMITH. There are also probate records from the Town of Stafford on >microfilm at the CT State Library in Hartford, CT that show that following Caleb's >death in 1758, his sons Stephen, John, and Job were minors and guardians were >assigned to them. In Stephen's case, David Orcutt was assigned as guardian of >Stephen ORCUTT in 1860 when Stephen was "about five years of age." In 1769 >probate records, Seth JOHNSON became Stephen ORCUTT's guardian -- Stephen being >"aged about fourteen years." Perhaps David ORCUTT, the former guardian, >died. If there is any better primary documentation out there I would love to know >of it. Thanks > >Roger > >