Dear Marsha, My name is Jim Blass. I have a record, DAR Cemetery project 56/125-127 page 135, found in the Albany State Library. Titled "Sharon Springs Township, Schoharie County, NY. That a Blass/Bloss family group is buried "On the left side of the road going to Sharon, on the old Turnpike Road on the John Countryman Farm." near Sharon Center, Schoharie Co, NY. Do you have any connections with that family name. Some of the persons buried on that farm are, Henry Blass-d. 5/6/1833(79yrs23dys), Henry Blass-d. 7/9/1813(65yrs2mo), William H. Blass-d.5/19,1823(43yrs),William H. Blass-son of William & Eva Blass,d.12/10/1822(18yrs). There are others listed, Cowden,Eldrege,Handy,Hone,Moore,Platner. My interest is obvious but more particularily,Volney Bloss was my GGF. He first appears in Novi, Oakland Co,MI in 1849/50 as a 19 year old. He marries in 1851 moves to Spart,MI where my GF George is born. I cannot connect Volney with the Sharon Blass's with documents, though I have a lot of circumstantial evidence which leads me to a connection with the Henry and William noted above. This then would lead me back to Johannes Blass of the 1709/10 Palatines in Columbia Co, NY. Sure would like to make a connection. Any Help? Jim Blass in Maryland 301.884.4182 ---Original Message----- From: C M Strong <cmstrong@mindspring.com> To: NYMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com <NYMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, February 07, 2000 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [NYMONTGO] Gardenier/Gardineer >Hello Cliff, Jeanne, Phyllis, Pat, and other interested listers: > >I have Gardiniers marrying into my Quackenbush line -- >as Pat noted, I have seen the name also spelled with >an "o" -- in one of the Caughnawaga DRC records it >was quite clearly written as "Gordineer" -- I hadn't >thought to check indices for that speeling until I >saw that record. > >Anyway, here's who I have -- > >(1) Rachel Gardinier, born about 1720, d/o Nicholas >and Rachel, married Johannes QUACKENBOSCH, b. 1718, >s/o Peter and Neeltje Marinus Quackenbosch. > >(2) Rachel Gardinier, born about 1796, d/o ?? (sister >of Jacob, following-?) married David Quackenbush (s/o >Isaac and Dirckje (Van Alstyne) on 27 Jan 1816; DRC of >Caughnawaga, Montgomery Co. > >[obviously "Rachel" was a *very* popular name in this >family - yours was Rachel too wasn't it, Jeanne?] > >(3) Jacob Gordineer, born abt 1790, s/o ??, married >Rachel Quackenbush, d/o Abraham and Catrina (Huff) >on 17 Oct 1813; DRC of Caughnawaga, Montgomery Co. > >I think I also have some Gardiniers marrying into >either my Westfall or Countryman branches -- these >three were right fresh in my memory as I am doing >some work right now on this branch. Is this the >kind of info you are looking for, Cliff? Also, do >you want these marriages if they are *other than* >Montgomery County?? > >Marsha Strong >Gainesville, FL > > >==== NYMONTGO Mailing List ==== >Visit the Montgomery County GenWeb page at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/ > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. >