Reposted to list -- read on: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Livingston" <emlivingston@worldnet.att.net> To: <Cathyclerk@cfl.rr.com> Sent: Wednesday, 05 February, 2003 6:04 PM Subject: Virginia Jones re Scouten > I am not sure how to handle this but will send this back re Cathy: > Thank you, Virginia, for your reply. I had read somewhere that Theodorus > (great name with Morris!) was later in Saratoga > Springs , but thought him a widower . Did not know that Gyellettye was still > with him. Martha Usher was their daughter, a widow at that time living with > her parents. She later married Samuel Mills, I believe in Rome where they > lived until they moved back to Lowville where Samuel had grown up, and had > married first Emily Foote. Samuel and Martha (Maria Morris) were my great > grandpaerents. Their daughter, Althina Gillette Mills, my grandmother, > stated she did not want any children named after her! She married John > Franklin Murch; My father was Edwin Randall Murch. I know nothing else about > the Scoutens (except that there were several in the Half Moon district: > Hugh, Andrew, David and others who could be G's father. But I have not been > able to find out anything more. The town of Half Moon is no more and I find > NY resoures not easy. The Mills came from Windsor, CT in the 1600's, and > tracing their line fun. Especially as I lived right nearby till this year.I > noted in some research that there were Van - or von Scoutens down the river > (name changed in one church) Only early note was listing a servant arriving > in NYC for a Scouten. I haven't looked at this stuff for years and have > trouble finding things now that I have moved. Do tell me what you know about > the Scoutens. I read that Scouten means "green peas" ??? > >