"Joan C. Miller" wrote: > > I meant to ask you Coleen, how do you descend from John Howland? > Alice and I descend from Hannah who married Jonathan Bosworth, Jr. > > Joan OK Alice and Joan, now you've got me going on this thing already. This mention of the Bosworths caused me to check some things in my database and I came up with a line to some Bosworths as shown below. Does this mean anything? I'm always close to something but never any cigar! :-) Regs, Tom Direct Descendants of Joseph Bosworth 1 Joseph Bosworth .... +[unknown] ......... 2 Alice Bosworth 1606 - 1668 ............... +Richard Hutchinson 1601/02 - 1682 .................... 3 Mary Hutchinson 1630 - 1715 .......................... +Thomas Hale 1633 - 1688 ............................... 4 Joseph Hale 1670/71 - 1761 ...................................... +Mary Watson 1671 - 1707/08 ........................................... 5 Ambrose Hale 1699 - 1767 ........................................... *2nd Wife of Ambrose Hale: ................................................. +Hannah Symonds 1709 - ...................................................... 6 Edna/Adna Hale 1735 - 1809 ............................................................ +Amos Stone 1729 - 1804 ................................................................. 7 Amos Stone 1759 - 1842 ................................................................. *2nd Wife of Amos Stone: ....................................................................... +Elizabeth Holiday 1770 - 1836 ............................................................................ 8 Lavinia Stone 1793 - 1871 ................................................................................... +John Powers 1788 - 1863 ........................................................................................ 9 Cyrus Hale Stone Powers 1815 - 1898 .............................................................................................. +Nancy Richmond 1818 - 1889 ................................................................................................... 10 John Powers 1841 - 1919 ......................................................................................................... +Eliza Augusta Partridge 1848 - 1911 .............................................................................................................. 11 Olive Evalena Powers 1880 - 1971 .................................................................................................................... +Nelson P. Pratt 1874 - 1956 ......................................................................................................................... 12 Orville Powers Pratt 1905 - 1979 ................................................................................................................................ +Ellen Elizabeth Watson 1903 - ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Thomas Nelson Pratt 1937 - ........................................................................................................................................... +Marilyn Jeanne Sorensen 1939 - ................................................................................................................................................ 14 Thomas Jeffrey Pratt 1962 - ...................................................................................................................................................... +Jennifer Susan Le Sueur 1965 - ........................................................................................................................................................... 15 Taylor Thomas Pratt 1991 - ............................... *2nd Wife of Joseph Hale: .................... *2nd Husband of Mary Hutchinson: .......................... +William Watson 1654 - 1710 Also, I have a Joseph Howland in my "tree" and he goes like this: Descendants of Joseph Howland 1 Joseph Howland .. +Lydia Bill ......... 2 Susan Howland ............. +John Aspinwall .................... 3 Mary Rebecca Aspinwall ........................ +Isaac Roosevelt ............................... 4 James Roosevelt ................................... +Sara Delano ........................................... 5 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 - 1945 ............................................... +Anna Eleanor Roosevelt I am not related to any Howlands that I know of, but "Franklin" is a shirt-tail cousin. Plus, is Joan C. Miller a cousin of yours? Regs, Tom