Joyce, I'm not sure how this is going to come across to you. Will send in a separate file privately if need be. You mentioned that your James persons may be from MA. I did some searches on the NEHGS site and found the following in a "vital records to 1850" search. I'm not sure if they have finished indexing all the towns or not yet. But, this might at least give you some towns to look for your James in. Year Family Name Record Original Record Record Type Town 1688 YOUNGLOVE Hannah, of Ipswich, and James Persons, Dec. 18, 1688. more Marriage Gloucester 1839 PERSON (see Parsons, Persons), James J. of Port Gibson, Miss., and Harriet Wells, Sept. 5, 1839. more Marriage Greenfield 1827 PERSONS Olive and James Bacon, Oct. 21, 1827. more Marriage Uxbridge 1796 PERSONS James and Thankfull Read of Uxbridge, int., Jan. 22, 1796. more Marriage Northbridge 1847 HAYES William H. of Fitchburg, s. of James and Olive, a. 23 y., and Abiah P. Persons of Lowell, d. of Edmund and Abiah, a. 23 y., Feb. 19, 1847. * more Marriage Reading 1796 READ Thankfull of Uxbridge, and James Persons, int., Jan. 22, 1796. more Marriage Northbridge 1821 PARSON (see also Pearsons, Persons), Joseph James, s. Joseph and Sally, Feb. 5, 1821. more Birth Andover 1827 BACON James and Olive Persons, Oct. 21, 1827. more Marriage Uxbridge 1689 PERSONS James, s. James and Hannah, Feb. 16, 1689-90. more Birth Gloucester 1688 YOUNGLOVE Hannah, of Ipswich, and James Persons, Dec. 18, 1688. more Marriage Gloucester 1688 PERSONS (see also Parsons), James, and Hannah Younglove of Ipswich, Dec. 18, 1688. more Marriage Gloucester 1796 READ Thankfull and James Persons, Apr. 13, 1796. more Marriage Uxbridge PERSONS (see Pearson, Pearsons, Peirson, Person, Pierson), Abiah P. of Lowell, d. of Edmund and Abiah, a. 23 y., and William H. Hayes of Fitchburg, s. of James and more Marriage Reading 1796 PERSONS James and Thankfull Read, Apr. 13, 1796. more Marriage Uxbridge If any of these interest you I can pull the original for you. Thanks for all you've done on this list all these years. You were my inspiration in 1997 to start the Gaddis mail list and web pages. Yikes! Has it been that long. Patty p.s. I've got Merwin/Mervin's in my line. But, from IL. Yours didn't happen to go there did they? At 10:34 AM 10/16/2006, you wrote: >Who are the parents to my two elusive Delaware County ancestors? > >James Persons (my gr gr gr grandfather) b. 1775 in MA or VT - was listed >in the 1810 through 1850 Town of Roxbury Census - must have died between >1851 and 1855. Wife was Sarah (believed to be a Merwin) > >James Mackey (my gr gr grandfather) b. 1820 in Delaware County - moved to >Schoharie County after his marriage to Louisa Maria Voorhees > >Have found hundreds of ancestors in other lines, but these two family >names up close are my road blocks. > > >Joyce Riedinger > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message