Regarding the Kent County Poor House: There is a website at www.rootsweb.com/~mikent/deaths/transient that lists deaths from 1874 to 1887 alphabetically. Maybe this will help. It actually is pretty detailed and does list where the transient was buried as well as cause of death, age at death, place of birth, gender, race, etc. Joanie Rosema >Message: 5 >Date: 25 Nov 2006 17:33:53 -0700 >From: [email protected] >Subject: [MIKENT] Van Dusen/Van Dozen Kent County Poorhouse. >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Van Dozen, Van Dusen >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/8129 > >Message Board Post: > >The 1850 census shows five paupers living in what must be the original Kent >County Poorhouse. One of them is 48 year old Jabez Van Dozen, born NY. By >default he is most likely the son of Matthew and Christina Spoor Van Dusen >who had a child named Jabey in 1802 or he could be the son of Matthew's >brother (my probable ancestor), James, for whom I have not found any >written records. Matthew and James lived with their families in Canada for >many years. They died there and their children moved on to Southeast Kent >County. >Where would I find records for the early years of the poorhouse? Where >would these people have been buried? I can not find a mention of Jabez >after the 1850 census and must assume he died there. Your article says >the poorhouse was built about 1850 so these must be the first people in it. > Any info out there would be appreciated,. _________________________________________________________________ Share your latest news with your friends with the Windows Live Spaces friends module. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mk