After 18 years of research invloving the WRONG West line, and the latest almost perfect DNA match to our Samuel West. b abt 1760 who lived in Peru, Clinton Co Ny 1792-1831 we are now searching Dutchess Co for the parents of Samuel West b. 1760-1770 and William Barber West b. 1755-1765. William settled in Queensbury by 1795 and never lived on the land next to and with Samuel. Samuel m. a Quaker Margaret Jenkins abt 1789 , granddau. of Jedediah Jenkins who was in 1790 Beekman. That is what places our West in that area. Based on Valentine Jenkins Sr being disowned by the Oblong M.M. 12-14-1789 along with several daughters...Margaret was also disowned 12-14-1789, that is how we finally connected Margaret to Jedediah Jenkins in July 2007. The latest DNA 36 out of 37 marker match to Samuel is out of Onondaga Co NY. After much cross referancing census records ( every record in the 4 town area of Onondaga Co that we needed to research ..3 were burned before 1850 and 1 burned in 1890) we have come to the realization that our West line is somehow connected to the William West b. 1717 out of Windsor, Hartford Co CT whose lineage came out of Salem, Mass. He settled in Columbia Co NY., he had David 1752 in Amenia, based on David's Rev. War pension file, Asa 1761 who died Salina, Onondaga Co Ny in 1820 and a few others.. William 1717 had several brothers that I am trying to track...with no luck. They are: Benjamin b 1733, Asa b. 1721, Samuel 1814, Thomas 1719. Our Samuel and William Barber West co-owned land in Peru in 1792, that makes them "kin". Samuel was in 1790 St. Albins, VT along with Valentine Jenkins and they were both out of St. Albins records by 1791 with Sam into Peru by 1792 and Valentine back in Dutchess Co in 1800. Years of researching William Barber West and the notation in the Thurston Family genealogy that stated the West family was out of CT is all we have had to work with all these years. In 1790 census in Plattsburgh NY was a Benjamin West all by himself surrounded by men who bought land in Peru, Clinton Co NY. That is our ONLY clue and we all know there are not many records in the state of NY to search. So if there is anoyone out there out of those 4 brothers of William 1717, I sure would like to hear from you. Fran in Rockford, MI **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489