This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: cowden, clark, Packer, Coe, Bloomfield Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SRB.2ACE/917.1125.1.3 Message Board Post: I've been digging a bit more regarding Heber Cowden b. 1761 Princeton, MA, son of John and Molly Cowden. He shows up in the Princeton Vital Statistics. It took some doing, but he later appears on the National Archives records for the Rev. War. Should anybody care to follow up, the card nos. are 37386060,161634, and 39158036 He is shown as a Private, 12th Regiment, Mass. Militia under Co. Samuel Brewer. He was discharged and paid a sum of 14 dol. 12 nine (whatever that is) Heber enlisted in P. Chadwick's Co. under Col Brewer 2 Mar 1778, served for 9 mo. According to other sources he also served in the Continental Line, but I do not have any proof of this. Census records show Heber (Haber) in Albany, NY in the 1790 Census. Since we're trying to tie Heber with his children, Loammi was b. in Rome, NY 1791 (I think - don't have the records here in front of me) . Does anybody know where Heber Jr was born? (1795) Has anybody tried to work this from the Jackson, MI end? I keep thinking that, since so many family members wound up there, we may be overlooking some records. Loammi Cowden m. Lydia Packer, and their daughter Mary Ann m. Timothy Clark, my great-great grandfather, their son Emory m. Anna E. Bloomfield, dau. of Hiram Bloomfield and Charity Hoag, and Anna and Emory Clark's dau. Lillian m. my grandfather Frank S. Coe of Poland, NY. Questions, questions! Oh and PS - I'm finding cousins I never knew existed! Marti Friddle Graham, NC