Hi Mike, Yesterday you wrote: "Thanks for your note but Bob and I have been in contact on this issue and he, Richard Freeman, and I are puzzled over this." Then Bob replied to my question. Bob wrote: "I have exchanged many messages with Mike Peterson and also with Richard Freeman, both of whom are descendants of this Silas Freeman. He was not the one who is in your line. He was the son of Hezekiah Freeman of Newark and Morristown, NJ, and therefore in the line of Stephen Freeman, who came from England and settled in Milford, CT, about 1645, and was later one of the founders of Newark, NJ. Silas was born in Newark, went with his family to an area of Onondaga County in 1795, which became Cayuga County, NY, in 1800, and in the 1820's to Clymer, Chautauqua, NY, where he died in 1836. Of your Silas Freeman I know very little. I have him in Watervliet, Albany, NY, in 1790. According to one family record he died in 1809 and, from another family record, in 1819. Neither gave a place of death. I have no record that he ever married or had children, an exception for this prolific family." You will excuse me if I conclude that Bob does not appear to be puzzled about origins of Silas Freeman, son of Hezekiah, and Silas Freeman, son of 1716-James Freeman. He may not know about John Bowman, but then Bob's cut off date for his research was 1800. So my question has been answered even if yours has not been. Sincerely, Leslie B. Potter, Esquire Glen Mills, PA