Hello, I don't have time for a long posting right now. * So, I'd just like to ask if anyone is researching the HOMER families in 1700's MA. I have reason to believe that a Jacob HOMER and an Eleazer HOMER born ~1760 were brothers. They both married in 1786 in either Boston or Cambridge. But, I've searched on-line for an hour, and I'm not finding these men discussed in the Lists or Boards or sites more than one or 2 times. I just checked the 1790 census for MA, and found 7 HOMER households in Boston that year: Benjamin, Eben(ezer?), Eleazer, Jacob, John, John, and William. And there was a John in Newton, a Robert in Woburn, and a Michael in Hopkinton. And then then a Robert and a Stephen in Yarmouth. In 1800, neither Jacob nor Eleazer are mentioned. I'm curious if there was a patriarch HOMER man in the 1600's, or whether a HOMER first arrived after 1700. And, I'm curious whether there is a "HOMER book" or document / report. Betty (near Lowell, MA) (I don't have the best of memories, but I thought Jacob HOMER had been discussed on the Lists or Boards several years ago, but I checked the archives of many Lists and Boards this morning, and I'm not finding any postings about him - except for mine.) * I checked the archives of the HOMER List and Boards, and he's not discussed there, either. I just joined the HOMER List and posted a query. FYI: My ancestors were: (Capt.) Jacob HOMER and Elizabeth LORING who married in Cambridge? in 1786. And I believe he died at sea around the time of the birth of their child, Betsey HOMER, who was born in 1786. Elizabeth remarried to John WINNECK, and divorced, and then remarried to Jedutha WELLINGTON. She had a total of 9 children. I have been receiving information on the LORING families, and will try to summarize that today. (There is a "LORING book.")