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/3RB.2ACE/339.2.4.1.1 Message Board Post: No, I didn't know you have a history of Ulster Co. NY. Gah, I wish *I* had one! Actually, I've found that most of my lines came from Orange County, especially a big move of settlers 1818 that went first to Catharine then settled Veteran town(ship). McKINNEY WELLER MILLSPAUGH at Sullivanville sound familiar? I believe John SHOEMAKER came up from Delaware twp, (now Pike Co) PA 1798 already. Not real sure when John and brother Abial Frye HILL came to settle permanently, possibly as late as the 1814 group or the 1818. John Hill and his kids were at Spencer Tioga Co NY on 1820 census so I'm pretty sure that's where a bunch of his kids met, maybe married, their future spouses. Brother Abial settled nearer Barton, on Shepard's Creek, I think it is. Say, do you know what churches were at Spencer 1820s? Gotta search for whatever vital stats or mentions wherever I might find 'em. The Erin researcher, was that Pat Wainwright? I correspond with her, she's marvelous! She found the record about week-old baby Catharine SPERRY who was taken right to Phebe Shoemaker to probably save her little life when the birth mother died. The father Basil had other children and shortly remarried and made s'more. I even recently got a look at an abstract of John Shoemaker's probabted will made in the week before he died (1841?) which abstract only mentions the adopted child - censuses show he had at least one boy and two girls in the household other than Catharine. I'm going to want to see all the real docs about that and search for any prior wills. Yah, we did well! We went through piece by piece and copied any small scrap on the issue, even found out who John Hill's daughters married and where the ones who'd moved to IL were, on some of those scraps! We know every rag of clothing and bedding he owned, who owed him money at death. Just not what surname of 3rd wife for those few years they were married. I've got reasons to think it more likely Elizabeth Westbrook, widow of Joshua - partly because ours are all in the Westbrook cemetery. (We cleaned headstones)