I found a reference to my possible 5 grt grand pa and his wife in the 1966 edition on page 626. " James Smith, b. 7-7-146 d 9-30-1779 m Sarah Hewlett MM Pvt NY. " Could somewone please check the "An Index to the Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers 1784-1811." for some sort of confirming or continuing information. My family records only show a James smith whose wife is Sarah Hewlett and is listed as a sarjt. They have at least one daughter, Sarah who married thomas Soper. My family lore says that james smith crossed long island sound but I do not know which way or why. so he could have been from CT or NY. any ideas are much appreciated. valerie in hot so. fl. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: semerad Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRB.2ACE/898 Message Board Post: can anyone check the 1910 nassau census and see if the name semerad is listed anywhere. I appreciate this very much. val

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dellameonte, Della Monte, Curtin, Curtain, Walsh Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lRB.2ACE/897 Message Board Post: Looking for info on L.D. DellaMonte of Bellerose, Long Island. I have info on his wife's parents, Dennis Curtain and Mary Walsh.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/894.1 Message Board Post: On 6/27/05 (8:54:00 PM MDT), in a posting to the Nassau County Ancestry Board that was 'gatewayed' to NYNASSAU-L@rootsweb.com, Stan Hultgren (hultgren@worldnet.att.net) asked, "I am searching for obituaries for Oscar Sigfrid SANDAHL who died in Merrick or North Merrick (are they the same?) 18 Aug 1992; his first wife, Marguerite SANDAHL, who died in Merrick probably in Oct/Nov 1963; and his second wife, Ruth SANDAHL, who died in Merrick 02 Aug 2000. Would also like to find burial place for all three." Even though they share a postal zone (Merrick, NY 11566 ) with part of the Hamlet of North Bellmore, North Merrick and Merrick are separate hamlets in the Town of Hempstead and they are in separate library districts: For questions such as yours, you may want to contact both the North Merrick Public Library and the Merrick Library: North Merrick Public Library 1691 Meadowbrook Road North Merrick (Merrick P.O.), NY 11566 Tel: 516/378-7474 Fax: 516/378-0876 eMail: ????? http://www.nassaulibrary.org/nmerrick/ The Merrick Library 2279 Merrick Ave. Merrick, NY 11566 Tel: 516/379-3476 Fax: 516/868-6230 eMail: ????? http://www.nassaulibrary.org/merrick/ North Merrick is one of those many communities on Long Island where none of the places in North Merrick have a "North Merrick, NY" mailing address. The pertinent geography for North Merrick: North Merrick is a hamlet (unincorporated area) in the center-west section of the Town of Hempstead in the central-south part of Nassau County. There are 22 villages (municipal corporations) and 36 hamlets all or partly within the Town of Hempstead. There are 2 cities and 3 towns in Nassau County. (I'm including after my name a NYS Geographic Glossary with the NYS definitions of county, city, town, village, hamlet and postal zone.) Beginning on its northern border and proceeding clockwise, the Hamlet of North Merrick in the Town of Hempstead is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of East Meadow; on the east by the Hamlet of North Bellmore; on the south by the Hamlet of Merrick; and, on the west by the Hamlet of Roosevelt and the Hamlet of Uniondale. And, as occurs in all but one of Nassau County's 136 communities (2 cities, 64 villages and 70 hamlets), the Hamlet of North Merrick has a different border than does the "North Merrick, NY" postal zone: in this case, there is no "North Merrick, NY" postal zone. ..............................................acres ....Hamlet of North Merrick........1,114 ....North Merrick, NY ?????.......none Most places in the Hamlet of North Merrick have a "Merrick, NY 11566" mailing address, with some having a "Bellmore, NY 11710" mailing address. The pertinent geography for Merrick: Merrick is a hamlet (unincorporated area) in the center-south section of the Town of Hempstead, in the central-south part of Nassau County. There are 22 villages (municipal corporations) and 36 hamlets all or partly within the Town of Hempstead. There are 2 cities and 3 towns in Nassau County. (I'm including after my name a NYS Geographic Glossary with the NYS definitions of county, city, town, village, hamlet and postal zone.) Beginning on its northern border and proceeding clockwise, the Hamlet of Merrick in the Town of Hempstead is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of North Merrick and the Hamlet of North Bellmore; on the east by the Hamlet of Bellmore; on the south by the offshore islands scattered in the Great South Bay; and, on the west by the Village of Freeport. And, as occurs in all but one of Nassau County's 136 communities (2 cities, 64 villages and 70 hamlets), the Hamlet of Merrick has a different border than does the "Merrick, NY 11566" postal zone (i.e., a place can have a Merrick mailing address and not be in Merrick and a place can be in Merrick and have other than a Merrick mailing address). ......................................acres ....Hamlet of Merrick........2,647 ....Merrick, NY 11566......3,860 As you can observe, 1 out of 3 places with a Merrick mailing address is not in Merrick. These places are in parts of the Hamlets of North Merrick and North Bellmore; and, at the same time, there are places that are in Merrick that have a "Freeport, NY 11520" mailing address. For those who have their copy of the 2004 or earlier edition of the LI Population Survey or have already downloaded the report from the Long Island Power Authority web site (eMail me directly if you need instructions on how to access and download the report), you'll find the Hamlet of North Merrick and the Hamlet of Merrick in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County on pages 5 & 8 (map) and 9 (population estimate). I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan Cities, Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Postal Zones in New York State New York State is divided into counties. County A county is a municipal corporation, a subdivision of the state, created to perform state functions; a "regional" government. All counties are divided into cities, towns and Indian reservations. City A city is a unique governmental entity with its own special charter. Cities are not sub-divided, except into neighborhoods, which are informal geographic areas. Town A town is a municipal corporation and encompasses all territory within the state except that within cities or Indian reservations. Towns can be sub-divided into villages and hamlets. Village A village is a general purpose municipal corporation formed voluntarily by the residents of an area in one or more towns to provide themselves with municipal services. The pattern of village organization is similar to those of a city. A village is divided into neighborhoods, which are informal geographic areas. Hamlet A hamlet is an unincorporated area in one or more towns that is governed at-large by the town(s) it is in. A hamlet is divided into neighborhoods, which are informal geographic areas. Postal Zone "City" and "Town" A postal zone "City" and "Town" is an administrative district established by the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the mail. Postal zone "City" and "Town" may not (but are encouraged to) conform to municipal or community borders. Thus, postal zone location does not always determine city, village or hamlet location. Please be aware: In many areas of New York State, the problem of non-conforming postal zones leads to a situation where the majority of places have a different community name in their mailing address than the community where that place is actually located.

http://nametraq.org/ Regards, Fred

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dar patriot index lists the subjects on pag 626. james b 7-7-1746 d 9-30-1779 married sarah hewlett. MM, pvt, NY how do i find more info, these are most likely mine.val ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/895.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Janet, Once again, thanks so much for your leads! Actually my g aunt, Emma Louise TOTTEN and my g grandmother Josephine Davis TOTTEN were both born in NYC; their brother Washington Agustus TOTTEN was born in Central Park, L.I. about 1854, so the family moved back and forth between NYC and Oyster Bay. Roberta Schultze

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/895.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Janet, Thank you so much for the leads. There were many Richard TOTTENS. I haven't had a chance to check this particular Richard TOTTEN yet. My "Richard" was married to Mary WOODMAN BAMPTON TOTTEN. They had three children: Emma Louise, Josephine Davis, and Washington Agustus (unusual spelling...he was the one born in Central Park, L.I. now Bethpage). Washington Agustus' wife was Maude (last name unknown)...according to notes in one of my great aunt's papers "Aunt Maude was buried in the Quaker burial ground". So there is a Quaker connection, but I'm not sure how early. Maude and W.A. TOTTEN had a daughter, Elizabeth, but I cannot locate them after either the 1900 or 1910 census in Oyster Bay. Emma Louise TOTTEN married a HEWITT (George, I believe a native of Ireland b, c. 1813, not the "HEWLETT" family of L.I. as I thought earlier). I have found them also in Oyster Bay in a census report. We have pictures of my great grandmother Josephine TOTTEN SCHULTZE with her sister Emma Louise TOTTEN HEWITT and her family either in NYC or on Long Island in the early 1930's with my great aunt "Dollie" CLARK (nee Josephine SCHULTZE). Somewhere we have a picture of W.A. TOTTEN's house in Oyster Bay. The next time that I find it I'm going to send a JPEG of it to the Oyster Bay Historical Society. We also have a photo of my g grandmother's childhood home that my great aunt May labeled as family homestead "Hicksville". Yikes! I've rambled enough for now...I check out your links right away! Thank you so much for your kind assistance. Roberta Schultze

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/895.1.4 Message Board Post: Me again! Started looking at your past posts on the Totten family and by is it confusing. Seems that maybe the Richard Totten in the cemetery I found may not be yours, unless he remarried after Mary died. Funny though, I can't find any other Richard Tottens on the 1880 census in the Queens area. Have you seen his family on the 1850 census? He his living in NYC as a 'cartman' with wife Mary and two children, Emma and Josephine (so it seems that Josephine was born in 1849 as opposed to what you have in your notes - 1951), also Mary and Caroline Bloom (13 and 11), looks like Richard's step-daughters? You've got me intrigued now!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/895.1.3 Message Board Post: Me again! Started looking at your past posts on the Totten family and by is it confusing. Seems that maybe the Richard Totten in the cemetery I found may not be yours, unless he remarried after Mary died. Funny though, I can't find any other Richard Tottens on the 1880 census in the Queens area. Have you seen his family on the 1850 census? He his living in NYC as a 'cartman' with wife Mary and two children, Emma and Josephine (so it seems that Josephine was born in 1849 as opposed to what you have in your notes - 1951), also Mary and Caroline Bloom (13 and 11), looks like Richard's step-daughters? You've got me intrigued now!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/895.1.2 Message Board Post: Oh, I forgot to mention that Oyster Bay Town and Hempstead Town (both early Queens Co.) would not be considered New York City and thus none of the areas you are trying to research in connection with the Richard Totten family would be found in the NYC records (unless someone in the family married someone from NYC and that's where the marriage certificate was filed). I have seen Oyster Bay and Hempstead Town Records books (microfilmed) at the Family History Center and I have see Land Deed and Will Record books from early Queens County on microfilm (again thru the FHC). All were VERY helpful with much of my research. What I am frustrated over is the lack of vital statistic records for early Queens county. -Janet

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/895.1.1 Message Board Post: Roberta, I too am dealing with a 'wall' for that time period. The Wood family abouds in Hempstead from the beginning in the 1600's, but I am stuck trying to make the connection back from John Wood (1774 - 1853). I've got a decent lead, but not all the puzzle peices fit! Anyway......Your Richard Totten, his wife Sarah A. and possibly Richard's sister-in-law or mother, Elizabeth (it mentions that Elizabeth was the wife of Jacob Totten and the age seems to fit that maybe they were Richard's parents????)are buried in The Jerusalem Society of Friends Cemetery in Wantagh (pronounced Wan-taw). Check out the two links below. Seems like the cemetery is still there! So...they were Quakers. That is a very good lead and you may find more info. about their family in the Quaker meeting minutes (probably the Jericho meetings). I have seen these books in the Queens County Library, but don't know if they are on the internet or on Microfilm thru the LDS. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mfox7/jerusalemfriends.html http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mfox7/Jerusalem2.html Good luck in your research. -Janet Wood

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TOTTEN, BAMPTON, SCHULTZE, SCHLESINGER, TOERBER/TORBER, SECKLER/SEKLER, SPRECKELSEN, RHOTERT, DILLEY, ERWIN, REED, KEYTON, JAMISON, WADE, SUSSMAN, and related Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/895.1 Message Board Post: Janet, thank you for asking this question. I've wondered if this information could be included with New York City information, myself.. Even with Walter's most welcome explanation of New York political subdivisions, I'm still very hazy on how things were/are organized. The "English" system leaves me in a major haze, I'm used to the Spanish system used here in the West. I am a descendent of the TOTTEN family of Long Island. My ancestors were Loyalists. I still cannot find a link from my gg grandfather, Richard TOTTEN (1800-1887), to earlier Tottens. It's very frustrating. I know that they were in Oyster Bay Town and in Central Park/Bethpage, L.I. I've contacted the O.B. Historical Society, Tottenville Historical Society on Staten Island etc, but no luck! On a map listed on the Brooklyn Roots site, my gg grandfather's house is listed below RR tracks and near a school and a hotel...I can't find him listed on cemetery sites. Oh, well, another brick wall to conquer! Does anyone know which cemeteries would have been active in 1887 in and around what is now Bethpage? Any leads would be quite welcome. Thank you, Roberta Schultze San Jose, California

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/895 Message Board Post: Just curious....does anyone know why there are few to no vital statistic microfilms of early Queens County, later Nassau County. Was the LDS chuch prohibitted from filming in Nassau and Suffolk County. -Janet

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SANDAHL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/894 Message Board Post: I am searching for obituaries for Oscar Sigfrid SANDAHL who died in Merrick or North Merrick (are they the same?) 18 Aug 1992; his first wife, Marguerite SANDAHL, who died in Merrick probably in Oct/Nov 1963; and his second wife, Ruth SANDAHL, who died in Merrick 02 Aug 2000. Would also like to find burial place for all three.

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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/lRB.2ACE/892.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Marie Thank you for you helpful posts. This will straighten out much of the confusing traces we have found. It also puts us back to square one in fining Christopher's parents. We thought for a time that linking these other Fosters might provide clues to identification in England. Pete

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/892.3.1 Message Board Post: To correct one mistake in my earlier post: the John Foster who was one of the original freeholders of Elizabethtown NJ in 1664 was not John, son of Henry Foster. Most sources claim it was John, son of Thomas Foster, but it could not have been since that John was born after his father's death in 1663/4. The only one old enough to have gone to Elizabethtown was John Sr., brother of Thomas. Some of the Jamaica men who went to NJ quickly sold their interests and returned to Long Island. See how easy it is to get these darned Fosters mixed up! :)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lRB.2ACE/892.3 Message Board Post: Hello Peter, The oft repeated claim that Thomas and Christopher Foster were brothers may have originated in Bernice Schultz Marshall's 1937 book 'Colonial Hempstead'. At least that's the earliest citation I've found. I've looked into the early Fosters of Queens County (I have a maternal line of L.I. Fosters), and while I can't claim that my research is comprehensive, I've come across no evidence whatsoever that the two men were related. Nor have I found any common thread between them, other than the fact they were both original patentees of Hempstead. Thomas Foster (d. 1663 in Jamaica) may have came to Hempstead as early as 1644, supposedly via Fairfield CT, but his route remains unconfirmed. I do not know his ultimate origin, other than he was English. Neither Forrester nor Pierce had anything to say about him in their Foster family histories. Thomas remained in Hempstead long after Christopher removed to Southampton and I know of no direct interactions between them before or after Christopher's departure. Thomas was a resident of Jamaica by 1661, and he was active in establishing the Presbterian Church in that town. His wife was Anne Dunbar, who later married Joseph Thurston. According to Josephine Frost, their children were Thomas (m. Elizabeth Denton), John (m. Altia Cornelise), Mary (m. Richard Denton), Jane (m. Richard Oldfield) and Hannah (m. David Wright). Some sources claim he had a daughter who married Henry Whitson, but I do not know who she was. In the early 20th century, there were still Fosters in south Jama! ica who claimed (in so many words) to be Thomas's descendents, and also claimed that the land they lived on was part of his original patent. The John Foster Sr. who died 1686/7 in Jamaica was Thomas's brother. He first appears in the Jamaica town records in 1663/4. His wife was Emden (maiden name unknown) and he had several children. The only one whose name we know was Henry Foster, the "cousin" Thomas named in his will (actually his nephew). The other children were living in England when John died, but remain unidentified. Henry died in 1683, leaving behind a wife Jane, one son and four or five daughters. The Long Island descendents of Henry's son, John Foster (m. Phebe Denton), who was one of the original freeholders of Elizabethtown NJ, are fairly well known into the mid-19th century. A possible relative of these men was Simon/Symon Foster, who first appeared in Hempstead in 1673. He was a witness when John Foster II of Jamaica, son of Thomas, came into his full estate in 1685. I know nothing more about him. I've seen no evidence that Thomas and John were related to William Foster of Jamaica (d. 1687/8), who was among the "friends" Thomas Foster mentioned in his will, though their shared surname and close proximity is admittedly a striking coincidence. William first appears in the Hempstead town records in 1658 and in the Jamaica town records in 1659. He resided in Gravesend for a brief period after his second marriage in 1679 to a two-time widow, Ann Stillwell Wilkins of Gravesend. William disposed of their Gravesend property in 1681/2 and returned to Jamaica with Ann. William married (1) Deborah Valentine in 1674; (2) Ann (Van Dyke) Stillwell Wilkins in 1679; and (3) Hannah, by 1687. His only known children and heirs were daughters Deborah and Mary, by his first wife. There was only one William Foster in the 1683 "List of the town estate of Jamaica", and only one man by that name in the "Return of marriages, christenings and burials in...Jamaica for 7 years preceding 1688". I! know of no other William Fosters in the town in the 1680s. The Fosters of Alley Pond, whose progenitor was also named Thomas Foster, are another matter altogether. Unfortunately, early Flushing town records that might have shed more light on them were destroyed in a fire. It is said that members of the family still inhabited the old stone house in the Alley during the Revolution, but there were no Fosters listed in the 1698 census of Flushing. Fosters of this line helped establish the Zion Episcopal Church in Douglaston in 1830. In 1899/1900, some of the descendents were engaged in a law suit over the estate of Hannah Foster of Douglaston. So far I've found nothing that links any of those individuals to the Hempstead/Jamaica or Southampton Fosters, but there's so little available information I can't draw any firm conclusions. I suspect the early Long Island Fosters are like the early L.I. Smiths -- of diverse lineage and the source of many genealogical headaches. I know this doesn't answer your question about their origins, but I hope it proves helpful. I you find anything else that you think pertains to the Hempstead/Jamaica or Flushing lines, please let me know. Marie