This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oR3.2ACEB/224.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Clyde, Thanks for replying. Actually there were 2 children born before 1790, a male and a female. The 1790 census shows 1 FWM 16+, 1 FWM <16, and 2 FWF...Tibbets, a boy, Betsy and a girl. The 1800 census shows Tibbetts with a boy 0-10, a boy 10-16, a male 26-45, a girl 0-10, a girl 10-16, and a female 26-45. I figure these translate to Gardner, a boy born before 1790, Tibbetts, a girl born between 1790 and 1800, Fanny and Betsy. In 1800 Joseph, John H. and Clark Northup all show children but no girls in the age group for Fanny. Tibbetts is the only Northup with a girl 10-16. So I think Tibbetts and Betsy are the parents. Plus it seems odd that they would not have any children before 1797 so the first ones must not be documented well or someone missed them. Judy