I recently found a website, newenglandancestors.org that has Free searchable early New York Wills and Letters of Administration. Click on Research. They have other databases but I think you have to join to access them. There was a full Will for Able Downs, administration for Hugh Rose, and many other familiar names. Does anyone knows who Catherine Rouw of Colchester was? Alexander and Anne Cole received Letters of Administration for her estate in the 1820's. Alexander Cole was a large land owner there and owner of a number of slaves. I am wondering if the is a connection between Rouw and the early Roses of Colchester. Catherine Rouw was interred in either the Edget or Early Cemetery later removed when the reservoir was built. That date of death 1817 doesn't agree with the Letters of Administration. Note- there is a limited number of Sullivan County items there too including Able Sprague who married Tabitha Hazen. evelyn