This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cole, Cohl, Kohl, Wittbeck, Whitbeck Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/948.951.951.1 Message Board Post: Hi Jim, I checked all my books for a marriage record from Harman Cole and Mary/Marie Whitbeck and could not find one. But I did find three of their children. From the book: "Baptism Record Reformed Church West Copake, N.Y. 1783-1899" by Arthur C.M. Kelly, Kinship, Rhinebeck, NY 1969 Page 42, No. 916 8.6.1797 Hermanus Cohl and Maritje Wittbeck bpt Maria b 6.21, sponsors: William Wittbeck and Hanna Cohl Page 50, No. 1095 8.25. 1799 Hermanus Kohl and Maritje Wittbeck bpt John b 12.11.1798, Sponsors: John Wittbeck and Critje Taylor Page 56, No. 1230 11.16.1800 Hermanus Cohl and Maritje Wittbeck bpt Elizabeth b 10.22, Sponsors: Wendel Cohl and Elizabeth Cohl It looks like they were married before the birth of Maria in 1797. There is a record of a Herman Kohl marrying Catharina Minckler on 11.24.1805 in the Germantown Reformed Church. Whether or not this is your Harman needs to be proved. Perhaps a second marriage? Hope this helps, Susan