In a message dated 3/12/99 6:10:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, saver@hal-pc.org writes: << y first identifyable ancester was ABNER C. HALL who had moved into what later became Yates Co., N.Y., in time for the 1800 Federal Census, with his wife PHEBE LANE, b. 1 Jan 1772 in N.Y. I have no information on Abners parents, place of birth, or date of birth except that the census puts him between 26 and 44 (which would put his birth between 1756 and 1774). >> Sorry, Howard, no luck here. But I am doing a lot of research in NY. I will keep an eye out for Abner. Pat Busbice