Hi Wayne, You really know how to pick tough questions. I tentatively have this Nathan as son of William DeLong, who was son of Charles DeLong & Alchie/Alchey (MORRELL) (her m2). I think they also had a son, Elnathan/Alnathan, b. in the early 1840s. Charles was s/o Loyalist, John & Sarah (Clarke) DeLong of Long Island, Hampstead. The LDS records says that a William H. m. 28.12.1871 at Sussex, Louisa C. SCHEFER. This almost agrees with the message posted by Suzanne Carter and her source is likely more accurate. The PANB website lists the m. of a Nathan DeLong to Mabel Adair & the birth of daughter, "Mable," a year later in Waterford. I see you ound her. While this seems to line up correctly, I'm still missing any actual proof and there's a fly in the ointment. There was a William DeLong in Maine at the same time who could have been the same man. I don't think so, but we all know where assumptions come back to bite us! Geographically, it would make sense that this line is descended from the Aaron DeLong line, but I think I'm right in discarding this as a possibility. I thought Charles and Alchie also had a son, Charles b.c. 1844 and he does show up on the 1881 census. I have no idea what happened to him and other than that census, I had no reference to a daughter, Bertha. Bill