[email protected] wrote: > > In a message dated 8/24/99 1:03:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << Alexander Gordon, the first of the name in New Hampshire was born in > Aberdeen > Scotland in 1635, of a Highland Scottish family which was loyal to the cause > of > the Stuarts. He died in Exeter, N.H. during the summer of 1697. Married in > 1663, > Mary, daughter of Nicholas and Alice Lysson of Exeter. >> > > Hi, gang, > > Gosh, I always smile when I read about Alexander and Mary. I was wondering > if anyone knows anything about Nicholas and Alice Lysson (lots of different > spellings). The only tidbit I remember (always referred to) is that Nicholas > lived to be 100. > > Thanks for sharing with us, > Claudia Claudia --- The best answer on that would be to see what Noyes, Libby and DAvis have to say about them in their "Genealogical Dictionary of ME & NH." A history of Exeter would probably shed more light, especially as Alexander was a leading light of the ME/NH area. He appears to have commuted between Exeter and the Portsmouth/Kittery (ME) area. -- Cheers, Jim Gordon, Laurel, MD USA