Jim... I appreciate ALL your information and thoughts on the matter of Hannah. Hopefully more will be found on this family. Are you a Schoonmaker descendant? Thank you, Janice >> I don't have enough information to form an opinion on how Hannah Schoonmaker was related to Hezekiah Schoonmaker. At first glance, given the Hezekiah tree, it seems less likely that Hannah was his daughter. However, I don't have a birthdate for either Hezekiah or his wife Elizabeth, so they could have had children earlier than the first Kinderhook baptism I cite. If Marragrietta (Margaret) was the last child born to the couple, and if they had married early, and if they had a typical 20 year span of child-bearing, there could be records of earlier baptisms in other churches back to say 1775. Lots of ifs. Maybe someone else has more on Hezekiah?

>Jim... >I appreciate ALL your information and thoughts on the matter of Hannah. >Hopefully more will be found on this family. Are you a Schoonmaker >descendant? >Thank you, >Janice >> Nope, not a Schoonmaker, but I do follow many of the early Athens and Coxsackie families and wind up picking up little pieces of information on some of the other families in the area. I tend to do what I think of as "whole family" research. It's often impossible to place, say, which Jan Van Loon, belongs in a particular context without knowing about the other Jan Van Loons. So in sorting things out I often wind up with stuff I don't really need, but which might be useful later on if someone more knowledgeable about a particular family clues me in. In this case it was the Elizabeth Wells that caught my interest. Any Wells researchers out there? Jim

Hi Jim. Actually a William Wells married Caroline Brown a daughter of David Brown and Mary Miller, granddaughter of John Brown and Hannah Schoonmaker. Previously he was married to a Elnor ? and had the following children: Christopher, abt 1844, Sarah, b. abt 1848, Estella, b. abt 1851, Joseph, b. abt 1854 Also, have done quite a bit on Elijah Wells, who married first Mary Alaben and had 8 children, then Polly Cook (widow of James Backus) and had three more children. Have the Cook (Koek) line back to a Roechert Koek from Lansingsburg. Elijah Wells is from CT, s/o Hezekiah Wells and Phebe Talcott. Also have a Catharina Wells who married abt 1810 Jacob France and had 4 children. Still trying to figure out her parents. Sylvia ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brady" <brady.j@att.net> To: <NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 2:35 PM Subject: RE: [GREENE COUNTY] Hezekaih & Elizabeth Schoonmaker Bap. sponsor for David B... > >Jim... >>I appreciate ALL your information and thoughts on the matter of Hannah. >>Hopefully more will be found on this family. Are you a Schoonmaker >>descendant? >>Thank you, >>Janice >>> > Nope, not a Schoonmaker, but I do follow many of the early Athens and > Coxsackie families and wind up picking up little pieces of information on > some of the other families in the area. > > I tend to do what I think of as "whole family" research. It's often > impossible to place, say, which Jan Van Loon, belongs in a particular > context without knowing about the other Jan Van Loons. So in sorting > things > out I often wind up with stuff I don't really need, but which might be > useful later on if someone more knowledgeable about a particular family > clues me in. > > In this case it was the Elizabeth Wells that caught my interest. Any Wells > researchers out there? > > Jim > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > 1850 federal census for Prattsville and Windham fully transcribed! Come > check us out! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >