If you google this - "nicholas tremper" Greene County NY (include the quotes around Nicholas Tremper) you get a few interesting hits - I have no donkey in this race and don't know the family but I know Tremper is an old name from Greene County - and I can see how the two words could be mixed given the way people could or couldn't spell back then. A sample of some of this things I got with this search - NON MOHAWK VALLEY PENSIONERS This collection contains papers of several Greene County residents, including ... Nicholas Tremper and others), Frederick Dederick, Benjamin DuBois, and Frederick ... [ www nysl nysed gov ] On Apr 6, 2011, at 10:31 AM, J. Williams wrote: > > > Roll call for Trumpbour > > Anyone out there researching Nicholas Trumpbour or other Trumpbours? - I'm > trying to find out more information about Nicholas Trumpbour - who was most > probably born in Dutchess County before 1760 and Jacob Trumpbour who was > born in Saugerties 1778-1779 and married Jane Kiersted. Nicholas may have > lived in Greene County (Catskill) at one time. Looking for children of Jacob > and marriage and children of Nicholas. Suspect that Nicholas supported the > British in the Revolutionary War. Jacob Trumpbour was a "map maker" and > surveyor and I understand that he surveyed land for the making of the Erie > Canal. Thanks! ~ J > > > > > > ______________________________ > > J.M. Williams, Consultant > > PO Box 222 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 > > Voice: 518.225.1310 > > email: jpwilliams@nycap.rr.com > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message