On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 23:19:47 -0500 <bobdee@westelcom.com> writes: > Web site has Hannah born 28 Feb 1733/4 bapt 29 Sept 1734, but no > source for birth. I beg to differ. It cites Bridgewater VRs 1:329 for Hannah's birth (source 75). That source reads: WASHBURN, Hannah, ch. Timothy and Hannah, Feb. 28, 1723-4. As a side note, the Washburn entries (and those for Edson, Packard and Perkins) from the published VRs of all four Bridgewaters have been transcribed to HTML. Pages for those families from West Bridgewater and Brockton are already online here on RootsWeb. Those from Bridgewater and East Bridgewater are receiving a final proofreading and will be posted shortly. > Hannah "probably" married John Finney jr with no source. Again I beg to differ. It cites the Barbour Index to the Lebanon VRs, p. 171, for the marriage (source 78). This is the same source mentioned upstream that got this thread started. I don't have immediate access to that index or to the Lebanon VRs so I'm not sure what information is there. > Seems we have nothing but a web site with "probably" and no source > for > marriage to John Finney. Not the stuff of "proof' for MF lineage. Certainly no web site contains "proof" - primary sources are not found on web sites. Although the information from the web site doesn't furnish proof that Hannah, wife of John Finney of Lebanon CT, is identical with Hannah, daughter of Timothy Washburn Sr. of Bridgewater MA, I think that the Bolton baptisms and the citation of Nathaniel Washburn's Lebanon deed are suggestive enough to warrant further investigation of deeds, probate files, and town and church records in eastern CT. Dale H. Cook USGenWeb Plymouth County MA Towns http://www.rootsweb.com/~macbrock/sites.html