Hi Carl, I was hoping I found an opening in your Elizabeth OLMSTEAD stonewall, but, alas, it was not to be. (Not THIS time anyway) You might be interested in this OLMSTEAD connection. Perhaps it belongs on your family tree somewhere. This is from a gravestone in Washington County, Maine: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/me/washington/perry/cem.txt OLMSTEAD Elizabeth, wife of Eliphalet OLMSTEAD, died Nov. 30, 1836, ae 42 yrs., 8 mos. "My partner kind and children dear, If warm affection could of kept you here Sure you would not have fled, Nor would you now be numbered With the dead" ----- Original Message ----- From: Marge & Carl Hommel <hommel@sundial.net> To: <MAWORCES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: [MAWORCES] BROOKFIELD > I live in Maine in the summers and in Florida in the winters. I am > researching the OLMSTED (OMSTED/OLMSTEAD, etc.) who were first found in > Brookfield cira 1712. One of my stonewalls is Elizabeth LITTEN, who married > Jeremiah OMSTED in 1734. I have not found her surname in New England that > early, and can only conclude that it SOUNDED like Litten. I have seen the > original church record in the Brookfield Town Clerk's office, and it is > definately spelled LITTEN. Any ideas? > > Carl Hommel