I am looking for information on the Hadley families in Hampstead, NH and Newbury, Orange Co, VT. Does anyone know how the following Smith, Kincaid, Bean, Eaton, and Hadley families are connected? Or do you happen to have anything to add to this collection of notes? Wells' history of Newbury, VT states, that just before the Revolutionary war broke out, Samuel Hadley and Samuel Eaton settled on a farm where Col. John Smith and his descendants owned for more than a century. The Alice M. Hadley manuscript shows that the farm where Samuel Hadley & Samuel Eaton lived passed to Kincaid, then Smith and finally Tylers, all connections. Samuel Hadley came to Newbury with Samuel Eaton and lived in same house, Eaton moved to Johnson, VT. Wells history of Newbury, CT shows Col. John Smith was born 13 Feb 1758 Hampstead, NH. Served "under the name of John Vance" in Reed's Co. of Stark's Regt., was in Battle of Bunker Hill. He moved Newbury, Orange Co, VT before Jan 1779. Married at Haverhill (MA?) 6 Apr 1780, Sarah Kincaid. They had 12 children. Perhaps this is the John Smith who lived in the Samuel Hadley/Samuel Eaton farm. >From book on Rev. soldiers in New England at LDS FHC, Southglenn Shopping Center, Littleton, CO. John Smith, NH, Vt, b. 1758 in Hampshire, NH res at enl. Londerry, NH, res Newberry, Orange Co, VT in 1832, d. 10/28/1851, Sarah. This sold. served under name of John Vance. John Vance, NC [sic], VT W3726. See claim of Sarah, wid of John Smith. It is very probably that Samuel Hadley (b. 1746) was the Samuel Hadley mentioned in the census of 1790 for Newbury VT. Samuel Hadley's family consisting at that time of one male under 16 years of age; 3 over 16; and two females. Thus his family consisted probably of four children in 1790. The Alice M. Hadley manuscript says that possibly, two of the sons of Samuel Hadley were Jonathan and Joshua. A note in Alice M. Hadley's manuscript attached to this Samuel Hadley reads, "A Samuel Hadley married Feb. 7 1765 Sarah Woodward." Other marriages hand-written in the manuscript on the page of or attached to the page of Samuel Hadley (b. 1746) are: "Polly Hadley m. Jan 24: 1798, Robert Kincaid - Newbury, VT." "Joel Osborne m. Ruth Hadley, June 10, 1789, Newbury" "Betsy Hadley m. Charles Kincaid, Feb. 2, 1792, Newbury." "Martha Hadley m. Francis Bean (Benjamin, Capt. Benjamin, Benjamin, James, John) she d. Dec. 17, 1851, age 62." A possible son of Samuel Hadley (b. 1746), Smith Hadley appears in 1790 in Willsboro, Clinton Co., NY (now Essex Co.), as having no wife or children. Samuel Hadley and Jonathan Hadley were minuteman in Cumberland Co., NY militia, Hatcher Co. John Hoisington, Major (ref. NY in the Revolution, pg. 134). Orange Co. VT in 1790 was part of what was Cumberland Co. NY in 1773 (see Documentary History of NY Vol.IV.) 1790 Census Vermont: Samuel Hadley Barnet Town, Orange Co. listed 1 -0-0 and another Samuel Hadley of Newbury, Orange, Co. listed 1-4-2. Jonathan Hadley of Corinth, Orange Co. listed 2-2-5. 1800 Census Vermont-Jonathan still in Corinth, Orange Co. listed males:2-1-0-0-1; females 2-1-2-0-1; while both Samuels had left the state. Daniel and Humphrey Hadley in Orange Co. Willsboro, Essex Co., NY Town Book shows both Samuel Hadley and Samuel, Jr. in Dist. # 5 in May 1796. Jonathan Hadley appears in Willsboro in 1803 or 1804. My Hadley page is www.greggkinney.com/hadley.htm. Regards, Gregg Kinney in Highlands Ranch, CO (just south of Denver) Searching for Kinney, Dove, Blackford, Kellogg, Fuller, Martin, Hadley, Stewart, Barker, O'Bryant, Smith, Reynolds, Reed, White, Tedman, Rice, Compton, Marshall, and a host of others. Visit my searchable homepage: <http://www.greggkinney.com>