Hello NYSCHENE-L, 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 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 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. Any Holliday or Coon cousins on this board that can help me out? -- Best regards, Barbara mailto:firebird@taela.net