I am also after information about David H. Manrose Jr. of Freetown. He was one of the Cortland County's early tombstone carvers. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyccazen/Tombstones/CortlandCoCarvers.html here is all I know (from my web pages): "It appears that the Cortland County Carvers didn't come to the area until nearly two decades after settlement. The earliest (documented) one is David H. Manrose Jr. who lived at Freetown on the eastern edge of Cortland County. He was there in the late 1820s and died while traveling through Ohio in 1828. The style of his carving is not known and it is assumed that since he was relatively young he had not practiced the trade long. At the same time that Manrose died John Crandall, who had also been a resident of the Freetown area moved to Norwich, Chenango County where he began the carving of tombstones." Any more information on young Mr. Manrose would be greatly appreciated! Before he left for Ohio he had a nice advertisement in a Cortland area newspaper and if anyone has access to this and could scan it for me I would very much appreciate that also! Dan W. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyccazen/