This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hinds, Wing, Stanford, Bennett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EKj.2ACIB/366 Message Board Post: My ancestor is Sophia/Sophie Hinds, b 1797 in Barre, Worcester, MA of Jesse Hinds, who was son of Corlis Hinds. Jesse Hinds and family moved about 1805 to Chesterfield, Cheshire, NH where Sophie Hinds later married Caleb Bennett and they eventually settled in PA. Sophie Hinds' mother has been identified as Sarah Stanford by Randall's Chesterfield and Hinds Family. But Jesse Hinds and Sarah Stanford did not marry until Dec 1800, with Jesse about age 36. A marriage between a Jesse Hinds and Martha Wing is recorded in Barre, MA on 19-Feb-1784 when my Jesse was 20. Jesse Hinds in shown in the 1800 Census in Worcester county with 1 adult male, 1 adult female, 2 females under 10. Both of the above sources admit to less than rigourous genealogical study - instead being primarily collections of family and town stories of the time. So, was Jesse Hinds son of Corlis Hinds of Barre MA previously married to Martha Wing with whom he had children, one being Sophie Hinds? Has Sophie's mother been misidentified as her stepmother? And where was Jesse and family in the 1790 Census? Any information about this family would be appreciated. I can reciprocate about the later generations. (Interestingly, to me, my father, my mother, and my husband all descend from various children of George Corliss and Joanna Davis.)