After posting the story of Joshua Vickery and posing my remaining research problems, I followed up on suggestions to track down the Rockingham Co. deeds at NEHGS. I found the following: There were several entries for both Elijah Vickery and Hannah (Gilman) Vickery--none for Joshua. From these entries, it is established that: 1) Elijah Vickery and Hannah Gilman were husband and wife and that she was the daughter of Joshua Gilman and Maria (Hersey). 2) Elijah Vickery makes his earliest purchase of land in 1733 from John Gordon. John Gordon is the second husband of Maria (Hersey) Gilman. She subsequently appears in the record as Maria Gordon. Elijah also purchases land from Joshua Gilman (probably his brother in law), 1742 and sells land to Ezekiel Gilman (probably cousin in law) 1748. He (or another Elijah) sells bits of property from 1742 to 1765, partially to pay debts. 3) Maria Gordon (Hersey/Gilman) sells to her Hannah and Mariah Vickery her pew in the meeting house (1756). This establishes new information: Mariah Vickery is an unrecorded child of Elijah and Hannah. She is called "spinster" in the 1756 sale implying that she is of marriageable age but unmarried (hence, not one of the four recorded daughters born between 1746-1754 mentioned in Bell). The two again purchase a small parcel of land with a dwelling house as late as 1776 from Bradstreet Gilman. Elijah is explicitly mentioned as husband and father. 4) The fact that Elijah Vickery (husband, not Rev War veteran) is not mentioned in either the 1756 or the 1776 sales to Hannah Vickery and daughter, Mariah, is curious. Possibly he is deceased by then. 5) Elijah Vickery's occupation is millwright or housewright. I find no probate records. Does anyone know if there would be court records for such things as debtor proceedings or law suits? George