> I am new to this list, I think. My 3- great grandfathers name was > Gideon Holliday. He lived in and around Schenectady most of his > life. He had to have been there by 1790 as his father was there on > the 1790 census, His parents were Samuel Holliday and Sarah Joslyn. > They moved there from Tyringham, Mass. I suspect Gideon would have > been born there around 1879 1880. He died in 1829 in Schenectady. > His death notice was in the Schenectady Cabinet News paper. Gideon > married Martha Coon from that area. I do not know when or where > they married only that they did. I have that information from a > biography about the family in a book on the history of Fountain > County Indiana. The information I have is that Gideon was the > Sheriff of Schenectady county as well as a Justice of the Peace, and Howell and Munsell's _History of the County of Schenectady, N.Y., from 1662 to 1886_, p. 65, confirms that Gideon Holliday became county sheriff in 1815 (the next change was 1818). > was a congressman, though it does not say if it was US congress or > state congress and I can find no record of him in congressional > records. Only someone who is likely his first cousin named Elias > Selah Holliday who was congressman from Brazil, Indiana. I have not Gideon Holliday is not listed in the _Biographical Directory of the United States Congress_ <http://bioguide.congress.gov/> although Elias is. > found any information on him other than his wife was Martha Coon and > Samuel and Sarah JOslyn Holliday were his parents and only that link > through the SAR. I would like to know when and where Gideon and > Martha were married. I would like to know who the parents of Martha > were and when her dob was. I wonder if there were any histories of > Schenectady that would have had biographical info on the Holliday > and Coon families of that area in the early 1800's. Haven't seen any. Bob Sullivan <rsullivan@sals.edu> Schenectady County Public Library (NY) <http://www.scpl.org/> Schenectady Digital History Archive <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>