Today being the marriage date of my great great grandparents, Stephen Knowlton, Jr, and Harriet Downs, I thought I would share some research I have done on the descendants of Daniel Knowlton #459, not followed up in Stocking but active in Ulster Co., NY throughout the late 18th century. In various posts on the web, I have given dates and events for Daniel himself. His death is documented in Richard I. Woolsey's diary. I continue to think that Daniel's mother was a Woolsey but have been unable to confirm this. Daniel appears to have married a Jemima Raymer or Raynor. His sister Jerusha Knowlton married John Duffield in Marlborough, NY, and remained there, the only other sibling I have found in Ulster Co. so far as the rest of the Knowltons moved up the Hudson river. Daniel had several children, two being Thomas b ca 1775, who married first Ann (Nancy) Earle and then her sister Sarah; and Mary b 1779, who married James Quimby. The Quimbys are well documented. Thomas lived in Orange Co., in or near Cornwall, as an adult. His father lived in both Ulster and Orange cos., appearing to be in Thomas' household in 1830 as the 80-90 year old man (p 197). After that they vanish. I have traced down family after family who moved west from NY without finding them. The only hint lies in a history of the Bull family in Orange co, NY, which states that their descendants, Nancy and Sarah Earle, married Thomas Knowlton and that he and Nancy had eight children (then named). My problem with this is that the children have the exact same names as Nancy's sister Rachel Earle's children she had with Prosper Payne. I doubt whether both families had eight children with the identical names. The history also says that the family moved into New York City for a time and then went to Michigan (where I have been unable to find them). Be that as it may, two of the names are likely for the Knowlton family (Daniel and Jemima) while a third is Prosper Knowlton. There is a person named Prosper Knowlton in later censuses who says he was born in New York. He also appears in Stocking as son of a Thomas, but this Thomas is poorly documented and supposedly from a VT family. Using Prosper Knowlton as my search center, I have assembled a possible solution for their vanishing from Orange County. Will continue this in a new post tomorrow. Elizabeth W. Knowlton