I don't have George being the offspring of Thomas and Grace. Don't know if I mistyped or what. Sorry, and glad you questioned me. Blind acceptance is how these gross errors find their way into the genealogical record. I was very, very delinquent when I first started doing genealogy and didn't document my sources with anything approaching scholarship. However, in the case of early George(s) information, I believe it came from Lewis Mills Norton's 1859 manuscript (which I had in microfilm and just gave away a year or so ago) and, later, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records (ditto). On a "related" topic, I have been trying unsuccesfully to force feed the following two gents into the George of Salem genealogy: Timothy Norton, b. 1715, prob. in Brookhaven. Lived in Middle Island, Married Sybil (John) Bryan, Mar. 18, 1739, blah, blah, blah Nathaniel Norton, b. in Brookhaven. Originally thought these brothers were sons of Johnathan, Nathaniel, George of Salem. Am not so sure now. Any thoughts? Bob Norton