This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MASTERS, LEACH, SMITH, DEFOREST, SHELTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fly.2ACEB/570.1 Message Board Post: Hello Cousin Kevin! Have had a long time association with your Bets Tuller Swift, of Syracuse, NY, who died in the last few years. I have quite a bit of her genealogy on MASTERS, your Perrin Masters of Troy, N.Y. whom I believe was the the meat market business. I'm originally from Norwich, NY. The "R" got put in our Masters name to differentiate us from the numerous NY State Masters during the Civil War. Let me hear from you and how far you've come in your genealogy. Dr. Jim Marsters, Pasadena, CA drdrjim@earthlink.net