Hi Sonja, we're spoken before but I'm not sure if we ever made a connection. My Melvin Brown is the one buried in the Ledyard Cemetery - behind the church. ( born 1772 ) married to Polly Salisbury. There is another Melvin Brown in my family - one of Melvin's brother's sons - who moved to Hinckley, Medena County, Ohio. I bought the Images Book of The Erie Canal and noticed a photo of the boat the Melvin Brown - I've been aware of the Cayuga Boat Melvin Brown but never was sure if there could have been a connection. I searched on line and found the info I shared in my original post about wife Majory Keeler Brown - Interesting she was a music teacher - that's what I do also. I believe that my Melvin Brown & Polly had the following children: Horace Brown born abt 1810 - moved to Lodi, Seneca County - married Elizabeth Neal Mary Brown married Johnson - who MAY have died in the Civil War and later we think McDowell Parvis Austin Brown unmarried Grace C Brown married Zadock J. Brown .... **** Synthia Brown married Rice Elizabeth Brown married Sawyer (they are parents of Bezalial Sawyer & Pulaski Sawyer - Pulaski moved to Nebraska) I believe that this is the Melvin Brown who opened the store in Sherwaod ca. 1808 **** Zadock Brown - Grace C Brown's husband - was a grandson of Melvin's brother. A Brown Family Bible - now in the Middleburgh, NY Library - is the source of much of my early Brown information. My Melvin is the son of Josiah & Lois Chapman Brown. He was born in No. Salem area of NY Westchester County. The Grace C. Brown Will & the Parvis Austin Brown pettition for probate are the source for much of what I've got on Melvin's children. Of late - I've been made aware of a book Lucinda or the Mourner of the Mountain. Which chronicals a story of Lucinda Manvill - Saratoga and a Melvin Brown - who had Scipio connections at that very early 1800 period of time and perhaps lived in Marcellus, Onondago. An interesting and strange story - I haven't listed all of the information that comes from the Grace Brown will - I think I may have shared it with you in the past. My thought - Melvin seems to be a commonly used name in this family - Is there any chance the Melvin Brown - of this boat ca. 1902 - had ancestors related to mine ? Mark