Hello Mark: I am the source of the info about the marriage of Martha NORTON to Ephraim PAGE, which I will discuss after this introduction. My line of Page descent is from George Page of Branford, Conn. (immigrated from Shorne, Kent, Eng. c. 1662) who I have researched for many years now having first corresponded with Edith Moyer Page (1977 author of "George Page of Branford, Conn. and Some of His Descendants") and Margery Page Vance. I have Margery's Page records which she shared with me several years ago before she died in 1989. [Edith Moyer Page also suspected that Ephraim Page m. Martha NORTON, but didn't write that in her book. She and I discussed the marriage after I provided her with info about the NORTONs and PAGEs in Greene Co., NY.] For about 25 years I have been actively pursuing the English ancestors of the immigrant George Page of Branford, which resulted in a book: "The Descendants of Robart Page of the King's House- The Probable English Origins, Ancestors, and Relatives of George Page of Branford Connecticut and Thomas Page of Saco in the Province of Maine" written and published by me in 1992. Further research resulted in an addendum to this book. Currently I have identified over 4500 Page descendants of George Page of Branford, and more are being identified each day. Descendants of George Page of Branford remain in the New Haven, CT area, but most migrated c. 1790 to Greene Co., NY, thence to Oneida, Madison, Otsego, Chenango, Broome, Livingston, and Yates counties in upstate NY. Further migrations over the years took the Page families to Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, and all points west. Ephraim Page together with his wife and her brother migrated to the area to the west of Greenville, Greene Co., NY. Probably the present-day town of Norton Hill is named after her family. Here are my notes about Martha (Norton) Page: She was the sister of Eli Norton whose name appears near Ephraim Page's name in the Tax List of the Old Town of Coxsackie on 12 June 1787. Coxsackie included what is now the towns of Durham, Greenville, New Baltimore, Athens, and Cairo, in Greene county, New York. Martha, wife of Ephraim Page, together with Sarah, the wife of Daniel Page and Lydia, the wife of Wm. Barker and a few others, signed the Covenant articles for the church in Greenville on Wednesday, May 19, 1790, in the presence of Rev. Berian Hotchkin [p. 7, Records of the Presbyterian Church in the town of Greenville, Greene County, N.Y., transcribed by The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and edited by Royden Woodward Vosburgh, New York City, 1920, found in the L. H. & G. Room under F129G715G7]. This proves that Martha was still alive in 1790 and still the wife of Ephraim Page. Therefore her husband was probably NOT the Ephraim Page who m. Sally Judd in Branford on 28 October 1784. The William Barker, Jr. was the ancestor of the Barkers of Marshall Twp. near Deansboro for which the Barker Rd. and Barker Road Cem. are named. The family was from North Branford, Conn. (as was the family of Ephraim Page). A William Barker was granted one square mile in the northwest corner of Totoket in March 1687 ["Hist. of North Branford", p. 8]. On May 5, 1811 Martha Page was dismissed from the church at Greenville "to the churches at large", meaning she was still alive and was moving west with her married children [Records, Op. cit. p. 53]. She is possibly buried in an unmarked grave in the little Barker Cem. in Marshall Twp. Oneida Co., or in Madison Co., NY, where her other children lived. Here are my notes about Elon NORTON [Daniel & Sarah (Stone) Norton, Daniel Norton & Sarah (Brasdley) Norton. Elon Norton m.(1) Chloe Page, the daughter of Ephraim and Martha (Norton) Page, probably in Greene or Madison Co., NY. He was named after his uncle., Elon, who was b. about 1739 and d. of dysentery on 30 Sept. 1756. Elon m.(2) Martha Page, sister of Chloe. Martha m.(1) Elon's brother, Isaac Norton, in 1784 probably in Greenville, Greene (Then Albany), NY. Elon was a signer of the petition, as was his brother Isaac. He did not appear in the 1810 census of Greenville. Elon was the builder of the second meeting-house (church) in Greenville in August 1800. I visited the area looking for the graves of PAGEs and NORTONs, but did not find them in the Greenville Cem. across the road from the church (built by Elon Norton, but rebuilt) or the old cemetery in Norton Hill. I do not know exactly where Ephraim Page or the Nortons lived, but it was near Norton Hill and the large estate nearby. Any information you can provide about the NORTONs of Norton Hill, Greene Co., NY, would be appreciated. I do have Martha's ancestry back into England, but NOTHING about her mother except that she was named Bethia. This is surprising after so many years! Thomas Norton probably met her while he was attending Yale in New Haven, from where he graduated with an A.B. degree 1723. Do you have a more current e-mail address for Bob Norton who was at the University of New Mexico? George W. Page Col., US Army (Ret.) 1100 Cataway Place Bryans Road, MD 20616 At 09:32 PM 3/20/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Mr. Page, > >The information in your posting was intriguing. In sources I've seen, the >wife of Ephraim Page is listed as "Martha Unknown." I'm curious what your >source is for this information, if it's other than Connecticut Families >that you cite. I'm not familiar with this book, so perhaps you could give >me an author, or date or place of publication. > >The Thomas Norton you cite as Martha's father was born Oct 1, 1704, and was >the son of Thomas Norton (b. Mar. 4, 1675) and Rachel Starr. This Thomas >was the son of John Norton and Hannah Stone, and Rachel was the daughter of >Comfort Starr and Marah Weld, and was the granddaughter of Dr. Thomas >Starr, and the ggranddaughter of Comfort Starr who was one of the founders >of Harvard University. > >I'd be happy to provide sources for this information if you wish. And I'd >be most appreciative if you could provide your source for the wife of >Ephraim Page being Martha Norton. > >Looking forward to hearing from you, > >Mark Norton > > > >My direct descent from a Norton was through the marriage about 1750 of > > Martha NORTON, b.c. 1732 in Guilford(?), to Ephraim PAGE. > >She was the > > daughter of Thomas NORTON, b. 1 Oct. 1704 in Guilford and > >his wife, Bethia > > UNK. He attended Yale A.B. degree 1723 and lived in > >Guilford, CT. [See > > Conn. Families Vol. II, p. 667.]