This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iQB.2ACE/688.1 Message Board Post: According to Hollick, Martin E., "A Chronological Framework for the Yeaton Family of Newcastle, N.H.", [New Hampshire Genealogical Record, January, April and July 2004] v. 21, p. 68, a George BELL, Jr. married a Margaret YEATON in Newcastle, NH, in Nov. 1785. The author was not certain as to whether Margaret was the daughter of Richard and Margaret [CRUCEY] YEATON, Sr., or whether she was instead Richard's widow [at pp. 67 and 68]. The article states that George BELL, Jr., can be found in the 1790 census for Newcastle with 2 males under 16 and 4 females. To me, this suggests that if Margaret was the widow of Richard, then she could not have been the mother of any of George's children since she would have been about 65 when she married George BELL, Jr. Further, even if she was another younger Margaret YEATON, it seems unlikely, although not impossible, that she could have mothered 5 children in as many years. If she didn't, then either George was previously married; or he an! d Margaret first had a child or children and then married; or one or more of the others in their 1790 household were not children. I checked the 1790 census, and Geo., Jr., is found only 5 households away from another Geo. BELL, probably his father. Counting all persons enumerated, that second household held 5 persons.