Priscilla and Gordon, I don't really know for sure whether it was AHijah or ABijah. The records seem to use the names interchangably. In the written language the h and b were quite similar and could easily be mistook for each other. Both are Biblical names so that doesn't help either. In most cases, the public record, land records, etc. seem to have ABijah. On the other hand, William, s/o Abijah, named one of his sons AHijah and it is recorded in the 1850 census of Owen Co. as Hijah. The Hubbell Family History available from the Hubbell Family Historical Society also has AHijah. I have used AHijah in all my family files because of that. You can get ahold of the HFHS on the web at: http://www.hubbell.org/ If you happen to come on to any primary documents which would resolve the issue, please let me know....Thanks, Ken