Thank you for the input. My next effort is to try land and probate records. This guy must have left some trace somewhere! Martha On Sep 26, 2006, at 8:01 PM, friedfish@tds.net wrote: > 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 > > Message Board Post: > > Martha, > > It sounds like you trying all the right things to find your person. > > Lee is correct in asserting that the records for Zoar are likely in > the Charlemont group, but I believe some might also be held at Rowe. > > Have you tried Hawley? If a Rice is involved, it might be worth a > look there, too, as many of the Rice's settled in Hawley, just > adjacent to Charlemont. > > I don't know if you can accomplish anything by backtracking through > the Rice's, but it is likely there is some very solid information at > Historic Deerfield, as the Rice's came out of the 1704 Old Deerfield > settlement and are highly documented. If Charles actually married > Reney, it might give you another nugget of information going forward. > NEHGS will likely have some good information on the Rice's. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >