This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UFB.2ACI/3725.2 Message Board Post: The published vital records of Otis are notoriously incomplete. The microfiche of the town records (Holbrook Institute) does confirm the marriage of Nathaniel Jr. and Freelove Brooks as posted. The records do not reveal a Nathaniel born in 1789. A Nathaniel Wood does appears in the 1790 Census of Loudon (now Otis) with 1 male over 16, 1 male under 16 and 1 female Edwin W. Strickland II