Brian: Thanks for all the information! I'm still trying to sort through it. I live about 20 miles from Niagara Falls in Canada. Because I've just begun trying to trace the family tree, I recently visited Niagara Falls to try to find the gravestone and marker my great-grandmother Fanny Louise Green had told my father about. I found it, and it is a huge boulder with a plaque attached which reads as follows: Charles Green 1740 - 1827 United Empire Loyalist "If the Captain wants me he may come himself and if he does I will shoot him." With these words, Charles Green refused induction into the N. Jersey Rebel militia. Imprisoned, he escaped and joined the "King's Rangers," a Loyalist unit. He "suffered very considerably, both in person and property." At war's end he walked from N. Jersey leading his wife and two children on horseback. His wife Rebekah, buried next to him, gave birth eight days later to a daughter, the first white child born on the frontier. He donated these lands, part of a grant from George III, to the Methodist Church. In the Niagara Falls Museum I found the original gravestone of this child(a new one replaces it at the grave) with the following inscription: In Memory of Rebecca Green Biggar Died Oct. 8, 1880 In her 94th Year The first white child born on the Niagara Frontier. Her parents came from New Jersey walking all the way to Benders' farm where she was born Sept. 26, 1786, 8 days after. Her parents were buried out at Lundy's Lane schoolhouse yard. They were U.E.L. By the way, this week we were really snowed under. The piles of snow on either side of our driveway are over six feet high. Wendy Standish