Daniel Knowlton born in Ulster co, Marlborough, NY, to Thomas Knowlton and Anna, ca 1750. He is not followed down in Stocking. He remained in area and married Jemima ca 1773 about the time his sister Jerusha Knowlton m John Duffield in Marl- borough Presb church Dec 1773. However, I have no marriage for him. Since Daniel was locked up temporarily during Rev and did not serve, as his brothers did, and later sold land to Quakers and manumitted his slave before required, I believe he must have had religious scruples. In 1800 he is living in Cheesecoches, Orange co, with wife, two sons and two daughters. His son Thomas is probably the 16-26 male. In 1810 Thomas has married Ann or Nancy Earl, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Bull Earl, and is living in Munroe or Monroe, Orange Co., with 4 sons and 2 daughters. His name looks like Knotson. In 1820 Thomas "Knolton" is living in Cornwall, Orange Co., with wife, 4 sons 16 or less, and 5 other females under 45. He and one son are listed as being manufacturers rather than farmers. In 1830 Thomas is still in Cornwall with his wife, two young men, a young woman, and the ancient Daniel, aged 80-90. A notice on the Orange county rootsweb message board indicates that the family went to Michigan after 1845, but I have not been able to find them in Orange co in 1840. Also, the exact list of Thomas and Nancy's children: Robert, Arena, Daniel, John, Jemima, Mary, Elizabeth, and Prosper, is reproduced on World connect in several places as being the children of Rachel Earl and Prosper Payne. Any feedback on this? Does anyone have access to the Peter Earl estate papers that list Nancy E. Knowlton before she dies? Or has she already died, and PE refers to her surviving children? At the time of his probate (1819?) or is it a will? is Nancy dead and Sarah Earl already married to Thomas Knowlton? It is stated on the Orange co message board that Daniel Knowlton is mentioned in the 1875 estate of Peter Earl. Is this a typo for 1825? Since Daniel Knowlton Sr and also his grandson Daniel are both alive in the 1820s, it is confusing. FINALLY, I have traced a Prosper Knowlton, b 1812 in NY, through NYC directories as running an oysterhouse in the 1830s and 1840s. I find apparently the same man in Hacken- sack, NJ, in 1850, married to Miriam/Mary B, possibly a Mott. I also find him in Ottawa Co., OH, in 1860; then his sons William M. and Martin (a CW soldier) all the way up to 1900, as oystermen in Norwalk, CT, but there is no sign that they left descendants. Prosper appears in Stocking as son of a Thomas who is son of ANOTHER Daniel, not #459. Stocking says Prosper's wife is Miriam Mott, and I did see an old man named Elisha Mott b NY living with Miriam in 1870. Any assistance or ideas welcome. Thanks, Elizabeth W. Knowlton