In Part One of "Biographical Sketches of the Leading Citizens, Otsego County, New York" there is a bio of Chauncey Kendall, son of Capt. Uriah Kendall.? It lists his mother as Mary?DOWNER who was born in Vermont, a daughter of Zacheus DOWNER, a Revolutionary War soldier.? He (Zacheus DOWNER)?was supposed to have been a native of Vermont, and died in Utica, NY.? How this fits in with your Downer family, I don't know but I thought I'd pass it along. Did you put a query on the Chautauqua County board?? I grew up in northern Chautauqua County and remember a Downer family?that lived there in the Forestville area.