>From: Robby <yankeeindixie@bellsouth.net> > >Searching for the parents of Lemuel Capen, dob ca 1800 in MA.? >Married a Prudence, possibly Brown, born in CT.? In 1870 was living >in Harmony, WI working as a blacksmith.? Any information would be >appreciated. I can't find this Lemuel in the Mass. vital records at NEHGS, but he might be related to this family (info from vital records and "The Capen family: descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass." 1929): Lemuel Capen (son of Ebenezer Capen & Elizabeth Leeds) b. 1747 Stoughton, d. 1805 Sharon. In 1766 in Sharon he married Mary Hixon (dau. of John Hixon Jr. & Mary Morse), b. 1748 Sharon, d. 1821 Sharon. Lemuel and Mary had nine children born from 1767 to about 1790. One was Lemuel Capen, b. 1773 Sharon, d. 1820 Sharon. I don't have anything definite on his marriage or children, but he might have been "Lemuel Capen of Boston" who married Nabby Smith in 1802 in Sharon. (I have this because of the Hixon connection.) Carol B.