This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iRB.2ACE/2386.1.1 Message Board Post: Shepperd/Sheppard/Shepherd and Marian AMES Hoyt were married before 1828 when they signed papers. I couldn't find their marriage on the Ontario genweb site; archives or the Finger Lakes marriage abstracts. Where did you find it? "Possibly" his father was Abner Hoyt because he had sons on the 1810 Livonia census, where the family of Robert B. Ames also lived. Pure speculation. Thanks, Sandi