Hi Folks, Hope the New Year has been a good one for all of you so far. I'm still on the track of William Wallace Wynkoop of Monmouth County, born around 1849, who moved to Pennsylvania by 1870, living first in Peru Mills, Juniata County and moving to Collier, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania by 1880 with a new wife. Sometime after that he moved to Texas and changed his name, (date unknown), to Brewer, although I've found evidence that one of his sons, Charles Wynkoop, was still using the Wynkoop name after the move to Texas, so I'm still not sure when the name change came about. Yesterday I stumbled on the following census record from the 1860 Federal Census: 1860 > NEW JERSEY > MONMOUTH > FREEHOLD TWP Series: M653 Roll: 701 Page: 197 The township of Freehold, County of Monmouth, State of New Jersey, 1 day of August, Post Office Freehold 626 631 (In County Jail) WILLIAM WINECOOP 30 M W Laborer Ireland Arson This seems like it might be my William Wallace Wynkoop, although the age is off by 10 years, since he should have been born in 1849, per other censuses. The county is right, but it hardly seems likely that he was born in Ireland. The charge of arson seems like a pretty good reason to leave New Jersey and set up shop somewhere else. What I'd like to know is whether or not jail records for Freehold still exist for the period around 1860 or so and who I need to contact to dig out whatever information there is about this William Winecoop, including any other scrapes he might have gotten into. It occurs to me that this case of arson might be in one of the local Monmouth county newspapers as well. Can anyone give me an idea of what local papers were published at that time, particularly around the 1st of August, 1860, and which might be available on microfilm? William Wynkoop is giving his secrets up grudgingly. I'm hoping you great folks can help me again. All my best, Chris -- Visit the Wynkoop Family Research Library's new home at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wynkoop/index.htm