At 02:52 AM 12/21/2008, Janice Lodge wrote: >Hoping for assistance with finding information on my ancestor Josiah >Read or Reed who I believe was living in the town of Montague MA >from about 1801 to 1803 He does not appear in the published Montague vital records through the end of 1849. Those include the Town Clerk's birth, marriage and death records, church and gravestone records, the direct tax of 1798, the 1790 Federal Census, a number of private records such as Bibles, and, apparently, some information from the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper. I do not find any Reed/Read heads of household in Montague in the 1800 and 1810 Federal censuses. In short, in the records most likely to contain him, he is not to be found in the town of Montague. What information might place him in Montague in that time frame? Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net ____________________________________________________________ Save $15 on Flowers and Gifts from FTD! Shop now at http://offers.juno.com/TGL1141/?u=http://www.ftd.com/17007