This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STAPLES BRADFORD SCRIBNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UEB.2ACE/427 Message Board Post: Hi all, I am trying to find proof of the birth of the following couple's fifth child (Rutha Eunice Staples) and I'm rather stumped as to where to continue to look. It's my last remaining proof for a Mayflower lineage leading to Governor William Bradford. I've written various Town Clerks and Counties. The Weld and Eustis vital records don't start until 1892. The Sumner records show the marriage, but not the birth/marriage of the couple's child. Turner comes up empty. Flagstaff records are purportedly in Eustis, and I'm told nothing is there for my folks' names. County inquiries have turned up nothing so far. I'm hoping someone can direct me to a local church where 1817 births might have been recorded, or where the records of the local Justices of the Peace might be, or to any other resources that might be helpful in proving the birth of Rutha Eunice Staples. I'm also looking for someone who would search the Maine Archives in Augusta for probate records for either Noah or Rutha (Bradford) Staples... paid, of course. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me! -Perry- Noah Staples b. 15 Oct 1778, New Gloucester, ME d. unknown m. 9 Jan 1803, Sumner, ME by Ichabod Bonney, JP of Turner, ME Rutha Bradford, daughter of Sylvanus and Jane (Briggs) Bradford b. 5 March 1781, Plymouth, MA d. 23 Sept 1873, Flagstaff, ME bur. Stratton Upper Cemetery, Eustis, ME with her daughter Rutha Eunice (Staples) Scribner and husband Iddo Scribner children: Mary Jane Staples b. 24 or 25 June 1805/6, Flagstaff Isabelle Staples b. 1810, Flagstaff Asenath Staples b. 9 Aug 1813, Flagstaff Sylvanus Staples b. 1816, Flagstaff *Rutha Eunice Staples b. 4 or 14 Apr 1817, Flagstaff or Weld m. 1838, Iddo Scribner in Eustis or Sumner (b. 9 Oct 1817 NH, d. 23 Sep 1879, Eustis) Lois Staples b. 27 Apr 1819, Flagstaff Noah Brooks Staples b. 19 June 1821/2, Augusta