Hello, all. :) This will be a short introduction that gets rather quickly into numerous cousin marriages. I am a descendant of Thomas HARDY. He came to America in 1630 with John Winthrop. In 1633, he was one of the 12 original founders of Ipswich, MA. There, he and his wife had 7 children. All 7 would survive to adulthood, marry and have children. Sometime shortly after the last one was born in Ipswich, Thomas moved his family a little ways to the north to Bradford. In 1727 a new church was started. The Groveland Congregational Church which was formerly the East Parish church of Bradford. Of the first 101 members, 33 were named Hardy. As far as I know, ALL of them were descendants of Thomas. I know that there are numerous cousin marriages. Some are not Hardy/Hardy simply because one of the spouses is the child of a couple where the mother's maiden name was Hardy. I'll get some of these posted soon. On another line, I have a case of 2 Ostrander sisters marrying 2 Hardy brothers. Martha E. OSTRANDER, b. 27 Mar 1853, probably in the Jasper, NY area, and Emma Jean OSTRANDER, b. 13 Mar 1854, probably Jasper, NY area, were the daughters of William OSTRANDER and Betsey HAYES. Andrew HARDY, b. 12 Jan 1851, Jasper, NY, and Ephraim E. HARDY, b. 18 Jun 1853, Jasper, NY, were the sons of Adrian HARDY and Lovisa CARROLL. Martha m. Andrew and Emma m. Ephraim on 24 Nov 1875. Both couples moved to Lewis, KS, date unknown. I have the descendants of both couples and the ancestry of the Hardys. However, I have not been able to get the ancestry of the Ostrander girls. John Slaughter/Spokane, WA Q. Why do genealogists die with a smile? A. Because they know they are about to get another date on their pedigree. http://www.geocities.com/~jslaughter/HistoryOfIpswich.html http://www.geocities.com/~jslaughter/WalkingTour.html http://www.geocities.com/~jslaughter/Groveland