Hello Listers:- <dougvbrown calling from MA OH - OH ........... (AU PAIR ) O-O #1 A Ditson Family Genealogist was kind enough to answer my query for more info on Thomas DITSON (1762-1782 ) and by return E-Mail,they wrote...in part "I don't have much on Thomas [DITSON ] who died 1782 age 20y. 20d." ( No reference given ) Checking on-line Billerica VR's to Abt 1849 -- < http://ma- vitalrecords.org/ > Deaths Thomas DITSON d. Feb 20, 1782 20Y 20d at sea hence BIRTHs Thomas DITSON s. of Thomas and Elisabeth b. Jan 31 1762 (this Thomas DITSON (1762-1782) became Jr (relation) and Junior (the youngest of 3 Thomas Ditson in town) holding that title until his death at age 20 1782 then his younger brother, BIRTHs Thomas DITSON s. of Thomas and Elizabeth[-Blanchard ] b. May 22, 1783 became Jr.(relation)and Junior (the youngest of 2 Thomas Ditson in town 1783) the other being his father Thomas2 DITSON (1741-)(Blanchard) Senior , his father ,Mr.Thomas1 DITSON (1699) died 1778 and buried in the Woburn 2nd Precinct cemetery ( Burlington current term ) with his wife........widow [-Flizabeth (Lawrence) d. 1790 ae 79Y? I need comments on the George M COHAN evidence O_O #2- Thomas Wright inherited land on both sides of Ridge St. from Johnson Rd to the Hutchinson/Forest St farm at 21 Ridge St.from his grandpa Joseph Thomas Wright house was built on the corner of Ridge and High St (Wright's Corner ) Much of the Hutchinson farm was in Charlestown(Winchester Golf Course and down Forest St West Cambridge (now Arlington ) & Cambridge Farms 1642 became Lexington 1715. When Thomas Wright's son, Philemon(1760-) m. Abigail WYMAN(1782) his father gave him the north 40acres to Johnson Rd which Phil kept in fine shape The Johnson Rd ran over and down the hill to Wildwood across the Cambridge Rd to the Wildwood Cemetery (now in Winchester) The house on the corner of Cambridge Rd/Wildwood was Philemon's mother in Law Abigail(Wright) and Jonathan WYMAN Thomas died 1799 and Philemon sold the whole shebang to Thomas LOCKE and with several in-law WYMAN families headed north to Ontario Canada became subjects to the Queen and founded the town/city of HULL on the Quebec River The Canadian Govt have statues of Philemon there and recently came with a large bronze plague placed at the LOCKE farm Ridge St Winchester I have all this info stored away incl a Copy of Will of Abigail(Wright)WYMAN which is available at the MA State Archives Boston for docket # see Ancestry.com Middlesex Probate Records Vol I under M scroll down apologies for the length and no references for now dvb files-100303 free at the Nat'l Archives Waltham MA open thurs nites til 9pm "