Shirley, You might want to take a photo of the table and send it to the Hennepin County Historical Society. Possibly, they could identify it's origin if it was locally made. How lucky you are to have something like that! I assumed you were related to the Godfrey's. If you think the article will be of help I'll send it, but think you'll get more help from the Historical Society. http://www.hhmuseum.org/mu/mu_profile.htm Claudia Schuman - Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnhennep/ http://hennbios.tripod.com/index.htm http://fdlbios.tripod.com/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnscott/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [MNHENNEP] Ard Godfrey > In a message dated 12/20/2003 9:09:28 PM Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > Ard and Catherine > > Godfrey who migrated from England to the town of Orono, Maine around the > > beginning of the 19th Century. Ard Jr. was born there on January 18, 1813. > > > > If you'd like, I'd be happy to copy this article and send it to you, which > > is quite long and is about the restoration of the Godfrey home with > > pictures. One very nice one of Ard and Harriet and their 5 daughters. > > > > I had thought they came here from a different town in Maine, but I don't know > where I read that. > > You needn't send the whole article (unless you want to), but I have a > diningroom table that came down to me from the family who settled in St. Anthony in > 1856. I believe it is similar to or identical with the table in the Ard > Godfrey house. I thought I'd have better luck tracing Godfrey's table than mine. A > cousin got down under the table recently, found no clues to its origin. I > suspect both were made by a person here in St. Anthony. > > Shirley >