My 5G Grandfather was Elijah SPRAGUE who lived and died in Adams, Berkshire, MA from about 1777 up to 1800 when he died. Elijah was married to Anna ???? after losing his wife Avis Mitchell/Mitshall during childbirth of Avis Sprague in 1777 in Providence, RI. His daughter (Zerviah) (mothered by Anna ???) married David Ross, (Whose parents I cannot find) a land owner in Florida, Berkshire, MA. David was a cooper and a school teacher according to history and he and Zerviah were married in 1801 in Stamford, Bennington, VT shortly before their first kid was born. The plot thickens: The witness to Elijah Sprague's estate was Silas SHIPPEE who married Philadelphia ROSS, the daughter of Isaac Ross (I understand) Silas Shippee's father was "Henry" Shippee and he married "Zerviah" BROWN Interestingly enough, Elijah Sprague's three children were "Henry," Zerviah" and George (There seems to be a great afinity between Sprague and Shippee families here and marriages to Ross too) These families seem to have wandered from MA to RI/Providence to the Berkshires about the same time. There was a Samuel Ross, Jr. 1756-about 1840 who married (get this) "Freelove" Shippee, the daughter of Henry Shippee and Zerviah Brown (she was also the sister of Silas Shippee. They had a son whom they named Elijah Ross who was born about 1785--- one year before Zerviah Sprague was born! The interconnections of coincidence here is too much to bear. I have no documentation of a David Ross being born in this crown. My David Ross was supposed to have been born in 1776 and Zerviah, his bride, Sprague, born in 1786. The Spragues had been in Sackville Nova Scotia until about 1776 when the Canadians kicked the colonial sympathizers out and they went briefly back to Smithfield/Providence, RI before moving to Adams, Berkshire. If you aren't bored--- maybe you have knowledge that can knit this Ross Sprague Shippee yarn into a sweater of completion. Thank you very much indeed. Peter http://members.aol.com/ancestour/MASTHEAD.html