This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KNOWLTON PROUTY PACKARD ADAMS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5Mn.2ACEB/203.206 Message Board Post: Bobbi Jo, Sorry we have left this unanswered so long, but I imagine you have an answer from somewhere else by now. Jonathan is #843 in Stocking's HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE KNOWLTONS, which has many errors and must be used with the ERRATA AND ADDENDA by Geo H Knowlton. Jonathan married twice, first Dolly Prouty and then someone else, perhaps the Elizabeth you mention. However, this Jonathan was born May 28, 1770, and married first in 1790. He probably grew up in North Brookfield, MA, if you want to search records there. Jonathan moved to Canada and was a land speculator. He then moved to Livingston Co., NY. According to Stocking [use with reservations] "In 1811 he returned to Canada to settle up his affairs, and when the War of 1812 broke out he was impressed into the British service. He escaped with his two sons [Erastus #2129, b 1795, and Faxon #2130, b 1797] by night in a boat; and, breaking his way through the ice, reached the American shore and at once enlisted in the U.S. service." p. 157. There is no more about him except to list his children, three more by Dolly: Dorothy, Eunice, and Lina; then by the second wife: Charles, Barnabas #2135, Hannah, and Clarissa. Barnabas was supposed to have perished in the Peshtigo, WI [not MI, per Stocking] fire in 1871, but I checked those records and Knowltons did not appear. About ten years ago I had extensive correspondence with a Phyllis Vranich about her husband's Knowlton ancestors, which she had researched for 20 years at that point. We wrote places, collected records, and did census research, including the Cyrus pension records, etc., and never could PROVE that Barnabus was the son of Jonathan from Massachusetts. Where did you get Jonathan's birth date? Jonathan (843) was the eldest son of Charles Adams Knowlton (377) and Emma Packard. He had seven siblings. I would continue research on this Jonathan in Canada and in NY to see if there are more records and why he named his sons so many interesting names--clues there for sure. I will also share my research with you if you have not collected the same records. Phyllis' husband was descended from Cyrus also.