Have finally made progress thru my brick wall. The 1810 census for Camillus shows John Pitts (age 16-25) and a female (also 16-25) living next door to Samuel Pitts. The female is presumably the wife of John Pitts (b. 1788 Massachusetts). There are no children. A death certificate for Adolphus H. Pitts (b. 1811 New York) states that his father was John Pitts b. Massachusetts and mother was ____ Holbrook birthplace unknown. A look at the 1800 census for Onondaga County shows only 2 Holbrook families with daughters the correct age to be the wife of John Pitts. Josiah Holbrook and Baruch/Barick Holbrook. Josiah's daughters Rachel b. 1788 and Electa b.c. 1795 are possibilities (Rachel and Electa had a brother named Adolphus; there are references to 2 other sisters - Amanda & Abigail - but dates of birth are not conclusive). Baruch/Barick has a daughter Mary born c. 1792 who is a possibility. I cannot find a marriage or death record for any of these three Holbrook girls (or even a reference to a marriage or possible death date). Whichever Holbrook girl married John Pitts, she died between 1823-1829. The youngest child of John Pitts and ___ Holbrook was Ellenora Pitts. She was born January 30, 1823 in Pompey. On February 3, 1829 she entered the Onondaga County Poorhouse. Ellenora told her granddaughter (my grandmother) that her mother died when she (Ellenora) was "very young". She lived with "someone else" for a while until the money her father left for her care was gone and they put her in the orphanage. Ellenora's father retrieved her from the orphanage/poorhouse in August of 1832. Ellenora's death certificate says that her father was John Pitts and her mother was Lydian Holbrook. I find no record of a Lydian/Lydia Holbrook in Onondaga County. Noble Pitts (brother of John Pitts) and family members are buried in Pease Cemetery, as is Quartus Pitts (another brother). So are Josiah Holbrook Sr and Jr, their wives and Adolphus and his wife. I can find no death record for a female Pitts of the correct age in the correct time period. Any help in identifying my Holbrook would be greatly appreciated. Karen Pritchett