This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/1047.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I haven't specifically checked Hawley, I don't think. I have checked so many places, I can't remember. Reney Rice was actually Irena Rice per the Revolutionary War Pension Abstract, but she was not the mother of my ancestor. According to the abstract there were two children in the home whose ages predated their marriage, another reason I suspect a previous marriage, and it is the previous marriage I am interested in. I think the problem may be that not all of those early events were recorded. I have found several towns in Vermont which did not record events until 1850!