Hi Marg -- Was the Richard Canniff who married as his second wife, Eva/Aggie/Effie Mabie, the son of Jeremias Canniff & Annatie de Rievere? Do you know who Richard married as his first wife? A son Richard, was mentioned in the 1763 will of Jeremiah Caniff -- In his will dated 11 May 1763, probated 28 May 1764, Jeremiah Caniff, of the Manor of Phillipsburgh, in Westchester County, mentioned eldest son Abraham; son Richard; dau. Mary Free; children - Abraham, John, Jonas, James, Richard, Ann Stube, Mary Free and Elizabeth Hunt. Made friends John Stube and Jeremiah Stevens executors. Wit: Danniel Miller, Mary Miller, Samuel Haddon. (from: Pelletreau, William S., Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, pub. as Collections of the New York Historical Society (Vol. VI, 1760-1766, pub. 1897), p. 328) Pat >"Families of the Colonial Manor of Philipsburg", page 115, >"CANNIFF", by Grenville Mackenzie, records Richard KENNIFF / >CANNIFF, born Philipsburg about 1737, married as his second wife, >Eva, daughter of Jeremiah MABIE and widow of Peter SYFFER. Peter and >Eva / Effie were my 5xGGrandparents. > >Would anyone have any documentation please for: >* the marriage of Eva to her second husband Richard KENNIFF? >* the will or death details for Richard, who, according to >Mackenzie, resided in Ossining and died in 1801? >* death details for Eva / Aggie / Effie? > >According to "THE FAMILY OF JOHANNIS SYFFER OF PHILIPSE MANOR" by >Francis Jacques SYPHER Jr ( Reprinted from: The New York >Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol 103, January 1972) Affee >SYPHER appears in the 1790 census for Mount Pleasant, and in 1803 in >a Westchester County mortgage.(Liber H, p.79) > >* would anyone have access to the mortgage details please? Was she >recorded as SYPHER or KENNIFF?? > >According to the pension papers of her son Peter, she died in 1825. > >Any assistance will be greatly appreciated > >Many thanks >Marg Smith >Mardi, NSW >Australia -- Pat & Walter Wardell Englewood, FL the.wardells@gte.net