Hello, all. I am trying to track down a Plymouth birth record for an Elizabeth (or Betsy) Clark (or Clark, etc.), whose age at death implies that she was born on 4 Jan 1774; that birth date is also consistent with her age of 76 in the 1850 census. It is only through an 1893 death record of one of Elizabeth's sons that I have her birthplace as Plymouth, and of course there is no way of knowing if the town is perfectly accurate. The 1850 census, however, also gives her state of birth as Massachusetts. I have no idea what Elizabeth's parents' names might be, though I do have her children's names, and maybe I'll be lucky and find a match of names and the birthdate. Elizabeth apparently moved up to New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine when she was young, marrying a John Hamilton and seemingly spending the rest of her life in nearby North Yarmouth, Maine, where she had many children. It seems likely that Elizabeth moved to New Gloucester with her parents, but New Gloucester shows no Clark families in the 1790 census. (I need to check the other Cumberland County towns as well.) Further, the probate records for Cumberland County have been lost to fire for years prior to 1908, so I cannot pursue that avenue of obtaining her parents' names. While I have no way of knowing if Elizabeth was a Mayflower descendant, I have checked a couple of sources commonly used by Mayflower researchers, specifically Davis's Ancient Landmarks book (online) and a CD version of The Mayflower Descendant. But I have had no luck with either of those. I am hoping someone has the published VRs of Plymouth to 1850 -- I do not have it, nor is it at my local libraries -- and can check that source for me. Given that this is not strictly a Mayflower post, please reply to me off-list. I had considered posting to the Plymouth list instead, but that list is barely active, so I thought I'd have better luck here. My apologies if I have violated protocol in sending a slightly off-topic post, though of course I hope that records will eventually show that this post is in fact on-topic :-) Thanks. Ruy Cardoso __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com