Searching LDS films of Greene County deeds, I've identified the residence and property in Windham bought and sold by George and Sarah C. Robertson, 1854-1862. I'm wondering if anyone familiar with Windham can offer any info/suggestions for further local records of this family, now that I at least know where they lived. (Note: This is a different George Robertson than the more famous and prominent man of the same name who is mentioned in the local histories and had a wife named Maria. My George was a cabinetmaker, born in Nova Scotia ca. 1815; he and Sarah lived in Brooklyn before Windham.) On Dec. 29, 1854 George Robertson purchased property from a Consider Ca___s (illegible). It was located in Windham Centre on the "south side of the turnpike road." On April 2, 1862, Sarah C. Robertson (identified as George's wife, not widow, so I'm guessing he was still alive) sold 15 acres of this property to a David Davis. It's described as being on the southerly side of the turnpike, abutting that of Eli Parsons, with the boundary line running "west of a little barn opposite and nearly south of the house now occupied by the Robertsons," south to a barn, east to "where the red (???) shop formerly stood," then directly north to the highway, then east along the turnpike more or less to "a wall running north a few feet west of the tavern house now occupied by Peter Jacobs." North along a wall to the property line of Thomas Kearns, then west to the Goshen road, southeast to property of Daniel Jones (deceased?), then east to the beginning point. A second 5-acre parcel, abutting Kearns, was sold to Thomas B. Holcomb. Does this offer enough info to identify where this property would be, in today's map/street descriptions of Windham? (I've never been to Windham.) With this location as a home base, assuming these people were Presbyterians, where would they likely have attended church and been buried, if any family members died in Windham? I'm also intrigued by why Sarah was the person selling these parcels of land, instead of George who is documented as agreeing to the sale. In the 1870 census when Sarah and children are living in Brick Township, Ocean County, NJ, she is described as a widow (so I don't think they were getting divorced in 1862). Being the Civil War era, would it have been common for women to be handling land transactions if, say, the husband was off fighting? I took a stab at looking up Civil War records, but there are something like 24 George Robertsons lived for NY state ... a little overwhelming at the time. I welcome any info, ideas, theories!!! Thanks, Barbara Proko New Britain CT __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com