Hello, I have posted more queries and received more responses, and it appears I need to go back to the MASTERS spelling (vs. the MARSTERS spelling). A NS researcher has found the death-record for William MASTERS in 1855, and he died in Boston at Age 55 and 2 mos. This puts his birthdate around March 1800. And, his parents are listed as William and Lydia MASTERS. I went back to the LDS site and found a record of a marriage for a William MASTERS and Lydia ROBINSON in 1796 in Boston. (The gravestone has the name spelled, MASTERS.) I then went to check the 1790 Census, and there seems to have been a large William MASTERS family in Boston. (And, the above William might have been William, Jr.) So, I'm wondering if the William MASTERS, b1800, had several uncles and aunts in Boston, and thus cousins ! And, a marriage record showed that William MASTERS married Mary C. DOW in Boston in Feb. 1828 (by Rev. SHARP). So, I'm wondering now if Mary was from a Boston or Cambridge family. Reminder that I am researching their daughter, Mary Ann MASTERS, b~1829, who married Thomas O. HUTCHINSON in Boston in 1851. Thank you for your time. Betty (near Lowell, MA) P.S. In case I haven't already mentioned it, there is a book on the MARSTERS family from Manchester, MA, which mentions "the Planters" who headed to Nova Scotia in the 1760's ! And, they are mentioned in a book about the DIMOCK family of Nova Scotia. And, I have found out that there is a Roger MARSTERS who is writing books about the Nova Scotia coastline (shipwrecks).