My GGGG Asahel Smith's early 1800, two story house, still stands today (refurbished 2002) at the corner of Hwy 11 and Pickle Rd, Sanfordville, St. Lawrence Co., NY (formerly Stockholm. NY) I believe Asahel Smith may have been granted this land for serving as a Private in the Revolutionary War for NH. Anyone familiar with land grands in St. Lawrence Co. ? Or with suggestions how I might determine if Asahel Smith did receive this as a land grant for military service? Many thanks for any help, Diana Chapman Owen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLER, ADAMS, CANFIELD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8300.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Miriam.. I'm sending you some stuff by e-mail.. see if it seems like these WELLERS fit with yours any place.. I don't have a lot of hope, but would be nice.. Do you have anything in St Lawrence about the WELLER in the following? "There are eight Revolutionary War Patriots from Parishville. They are Elijah Allen, Hillcrest Cemetery; Zadoc Bloss, Chapel Hill Cemetery, (plaque); Benjamin Brand, Hillcrest Cemetery, (plaque); Benjamin Cross, Hillcrest Cemetery; Jabez Olmstead, Riverside Cemetery; Hiram Peck, Hillcrest Cemetery; Frederick Strobeck, Riverside Cemetery; Jonathan Weller, Riverside Cemetery. All have revolutionary War markers and flags." Do you know who this Jonathan WELLER is??

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/2RB.2ACE/8300.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Were these the Wellers in 1790 Winhall VT census? Did they come to St. Lawrence around 1806 with my Benjamin and John Rose who settled at Landgon Corners? I have wondered if Jane, wife of Benjamin Rose, might have been a Weller. Would they have been Irish? Jane was member of Congregational Church in VT and among the 1st in Potsdam/Crary Mills area in St. Lawrence.

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WE..ER, CANFIELD, LEONARD, ADAMS, WILKINS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8300.1.1 Message Board Post: Alan. is your WELLER family OF St. Lawrence connected to Charles G. Weller, Sherman L. Weller, Ambrose G. Weller, Ithamar Weller, and Jonathan Weller. This family was from Vermont and moved to NY in the early 1800's. I think Jonathan might have had some brothers that moved to NY also. I would love to hear from you and see if we could find a connection between these WELLEERS.

You need to send a note with the word 'subscribe' (without the quote marks) and no other words in the text part of the email. Also put subscribe in the subject line but it's the message part that the automated system reads. If you still have access to your old email address you can do the same with it but with the word 'unsubscribe'. I would suggest to everyone on the list that they use one of the major internet based email systems like hotmail or yahoo. Then as you change from one isp to another, your email address remains the same. Russ Sprague Kensington, Maryland From: "Jeanette Baymler" <rayner@arvig.net> To: <NYSTLAWR-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:12:49 -0600 I have changed my E-mail address with you but haven't gotten any posting since. My old E-mail was rayner@uslink.net New is rayner@arvig.net

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/2RB.2ACE/8300.1 Message Board Post: Alan - I sent a couple pages of info on the Smith-Weller families to you yesterday, including a transcript from the Mound Hill Cemetery, Nicholville, showing Charles Weller and wife Susan Gibson.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8300 Message Board Post: Can anyone tell me if there is a Charles B. WELLER in any of the Lawrence, Hopkinton cemeteries ? He was in 1870 census as C.B. WELLER. Probably died after 1870. He is not in Fort Jackson cemetery.

A binder containing much genealogy information was found in the Russell, NY Cemetery. To claim the book you may call the Russell Town Clerk at 315-347-2358, 9:00 - 400, closed for lunch hour. To claim the book you may be asked to answer a few questions about the contents.

I'll try to put more on my webpage in the not too distant future, but overall, I don't generally have access to actual cemetery lists or maps. I have used inventories that are at the St. Lawrence County Historical society (most date to the 1950's) and they can help with deciphering out some stones that might have deteriorated since the older inventories were done. In general though, I just find a cemetery, wander around it and make my own "map of it", then start going through it in order. I take pictures of each stone and also document each stone in a notebook using simple pen and paper. Later, when I crop and jpeg compress the pictures (which is needed to keep them small enough to efficiently display), I cross-reference the picture numbers in my written notes. I type the HTML file for the web based inventories at the same time. Taking the pictures and documenting the cemetery actually goes much faster than putting the data online. Over the years, my efficiency has improved to where I can do about 500 photographs in a day. More on newer cemeteries, less on cemeteries where I have to dig for stones or play games with light to read the inscriptions. I never use shaving cream, chalk, or any other foreign substance on the stones. I do find the hours of 11am to 1pm to be the times to save for the faintest stones as that is when the suns natural shadows work their magic to make the inscription readable. The majority of writing on stones faces either directly east or west (since people are generally buried with their feet pointing east), so based on whether the cemetery is headstone or footstone oriented can also play a role. . There is a ton more I could say, but I'll try to pull it together for my webpage.... Thanks, Anne Cady

Thanks, Anne. And thank you for all you've done. I was wondering the same thing. There is a cemetery in Lisbon, NY that I'm interested in and I'm only two and a half hours from it. I was wondering how you do the inventories just in case I can get up to that one this fall or next spring. Do you have to contact the cementery managment to ask for a map or schematic of where each grave is. Or do you just go by the photographs and if so what order is best to go in? I have a good digital camera and could photograph them all. But then I wonder if a person would go blind trying to read the weathered data from each digital photo. Or do you record each stone with pencil and pad or laptop computer, entering the information as you go from grave to grave. Just some things I wonder about as I scan your wonderful work. Please share your secrets. Thanks. Colleen Kiefer In a message dated 10/18/05 5:38:11 PM, Annecady@aol.com writes: > A good suggestion.  I'll see if I can add some guidance for doing cemetery > inventories to my webpage.  I can try to include how to do it, helpful > hints, > outlines for the inventory files, etc.  Maybe even some fun facts about what > certain things mean in the cemeteries, traditions, etc   Even if folks don't > end > up doing inventories of St. Lawrence cemeteries, maybe they will have the > info > they need to do other ones. > > Thanks, > Anne > Colleen Kiefer Kiefer Creative 314 Second Street, Suite 3 Liverpool, NY 13088 315-461-0105 315-461-0106 fax kiefercreativemac@mac.com ckiefer@kiefercreative.com colleen103@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Daniels, Martin, Robar (Robert), Papenaults Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8299 Message Board Post: Obit look up please, Jeremiah (Jerry) Martin, died in Colton area, St Lawrence County, NY. I have his date of death as: December 25, 1879. His wife was Eliza (Daniels) Martin d:1909 in Saranac Lake, Franklin County. This would be greatly appreciated if someone could find me an obit. Thanks, Antoine

A good suggestion. I'll see if I can add some guidance for doing cemetery inventories to my webpage. I can try to include how to do it, helpful hints, outlines for the inventory files, etc. Maybe even some fun facts about what certain things mean in the cemeteries, traditions, etc Even if folks don't end up doing inventories of St. Lawrence cemeteries, maybe they will have the info they need to do other ones. Thanks, Anne

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Seymour, Warren Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8298 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on the parents of Isaac Seymour. I have that he was born in New York 6-24-1814 and married Mary Ann Warren also of New York. She was born 11-12-1817. In an article it says that his parents were from England and Scotland but in a 1870 Census it says that neither of his parents were of foreign birth. Does anyone have more information on him?

Ann: Perhaps if you could give some instruction, maybe some of us could help. I go up there yearly and perhaps could do a cemetery, or at least get started on one.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Eisaman, Eiseman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/669.677 Message Board Post: My Great Grandparents were Eisaman originally fron Wurttemburg Germany. John was b abt 1828 married Christine? she was b. abt 1831. they lived in Erie Co Amherst Town NY. They had 5 children if any of this sounds familiar to you would be glad to share what I have Maggie

I'd like to get more cemeteries online, but at the rate I'm going it will take decades. Brasher Falls and Norfolk are not very convenient for me (I don't know of hotels there, etc), but someday I would expect to get to them. Who knows, maybe someday I can move to St. Lawrence County and make this a bit easier and cheaper on the wallet (I spent over $1000 on hotel bills in Ogdensburg this year to do the Ogdensburgh City Cemetery). My early plans for next year are Union Cemetery in Rensselaer Falls, the old cemetery on the main road Morristown (I forget its name at the moment), Brier Hill Cemetery, and (if I think I can finish it) Notre Dame cemetery in Ogdensburg. I'm always open to other suggestions and am also willing to host any inventories that other people may volunteer to do. Thaks.

Here is a link to St. Patrick's Cemetery in Brasher Falls. It is not complete. I have a transcription of Fairview Cemetery, located just outside the village. I would be happy to do a look-up for you. As far as I know, none of the Norfolk cemeteries are online. If your people lived in Brasher Township or Brasher Iron Works in the early years, they may have been buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery in Hogansburg. There are two- the old cemetery behind the church, and the new one on Route 37. Here is a link to that cemetery. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~frgen/franklin/franklin_index.htm Good luck with your search. Joan Tyo Lalonde Potsdam, NY ----- Original Message ----- From: "E M" <hischild5391@hotmail.com> To: <NYSTLAWR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [NYSTLAWR] Re: Gouverneur, NY - Atwood Families Ann, Will cemeteries from the Brasher, Brasher Falls, Norfolk area be online someday? I found only one of my family listed in a tiny cemetery (Shean's Corners) but none of the rest of them. Elaine

Ann, Will cemeteries from the Brasher, Brasher Falls, Norfolk area be online someday? I found only one of my family listed in a tiny cemetery (Shean's Corners) but none of the rest of them. Elaine ----- Original Message ----- From: annecady@aol.com<mailto:annecady@aol.com> To: NYSTLAWR-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:NYSTLAWR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 1:12 PM Subject: [NYSTLAWR] Re: Gouverneur, NY - Atwood Families 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/2RB.2ACE/8297.1.1<http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8297.1.1> Message Board Post: Joe is correct that I have all the Gouverneur Cemeteries online. Joel Atwood and his wife are buried in Riverside Cemetery, in the Walling family plot. My guess is that Mr. Walling's second wife might have been their daughter. Little Bow Cemetery in Gouverneur has one of Aaron Atwood's sons buried in it. (and yes, the cemetery on my main page is Wayside in Richville....just seems to make a pretty picture). Anne

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bice, Plause Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/72.413.1.1 Message Board Post: I do not have much information that is my problem its like a brick wall. My inquirey is if they fit the information I have: Charles Bice born possibly 1852 in Sherbourne New York probably mother Harriot Plause possibly father Gilbert Bice. Gilbert Bice was married before Harriott possibly to an Elizabeth who had children also and Ellis was one with two brothers James and Smith Bice.Harriott was an indian, that is all the information I have no definite anything and I am searching to find for my aunt she has looked all her life and can find nothing on this side of her family my email is dorawilliam2000@yahoo.com please if you have any information on any one of these please inform me thank you