Hello, While I was browsing the postings to the Middlesex County Message Board at www.genforum.com I came across a query from a few years ago. A researcher was looking for the names of the parents of brothers, Joel and John DIX. I just added the paragraph from the genealogy section of the "History of Billerica" and am posting it here - as an FYI. Perhaps Janice can post the DIX paragraph from the "History of Chelmsford." Does it say who their parents were? "DIX, Joel, 1, and John, 2, brothers, came from Chelmsford, 1820. They had sisters: Lucy, who m. 1823, Oct. 26; Jonathan Wilson, and Nancy, who m. John Mixer. 1. Joel, m. Priscilla Parker. He d. 1861, Dec. 29, and she d. 12 days before, Age 71. Ch. Clarissa, b. 1811, Nov. 7; m. 1836, March 10, Warren Richardson, of Westford. Sibbel, b. 1813, Nov. 3; m. 1835, Oct. 22, George W. Rand. Mary, b. 1815, June 11. Joel, b1817, March 26. Almira, b. 1819, Jan. 25. Eliza Jane, b. 1821, Dec. 11; m. 1839, Nov. 29, Warren M. Batcheller. Fanny, b. 1823, Oct. 2; d. 1848, July 31. Sarah, b. 1825, Aug. 19. Albert H., b. 1829, June 12. Lucy Ann, b. 1831, April 15. 2. John had ch. John Adams, who lives in Chelmsford, near Lowell, Joel H., 3. Andrew Newton, who lives in Waverly, Iowa. Jonathan. Mary Ann, who m. ____ Babbitt, and Delia, who m. ____ Martin. 3. Joel H. m. Emma Jane McLaren, of Gardiner, Me., who d. 1879, Aug. 18, aged 47. He is in business with his son, in Chicago; bought in 1875, the house built by Judge Locke, on the north corner of the West and Long streets, where his family reside. Ch. William Shakespeare, b. 1849, Jan. 17. Georgianna T., b. in Burlington, Vt., 1850, March 11; m. James A. Yantis, and 1879, Samuel Pillsbury. Jennie B., b. 1853, July 13; m. L. A. Edwards, of Chicago. 4. Lucy m. 1818, Sept., Theodore Strong, of Clinton, New York. Hope this helps someone ! For MA researchers, you would be a lucky person - if you owned your own copy of both books ! Betty (near Lowell, MA) P.S. On my genealogy wish-list would be the histories of Woburn and Charlestown -- as Woburn people moved to Billerica and Chelmsford, and Woburn was once part of Charlestown -- and Winchester .. came from them !