I want to thank everybody who wrote and tried to help me come up with a birthdate for Thomas Wilmarth. The Wilmarth book by Elizabeth Wilmarth and Bessie Wilmarth Gahn sounds like a real treasure trove, as well as the information available at the NEHGS library, unfortunately I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere on the high plains with no access to any large libraries or Family History Center.... My one link to the outside world is this computer. Maybe someday in the future I will be able to visit one of the research centers and can do some more digging. Thank you all. Freddie Randolph [email protected]