In a message dated 9/13/00 11:12:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ecross@siteconnect.com writes: << Subj: RE: FIRE LANDS GRANTS Date: 9/13/00 11:12:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: ecross@siteconnect.com (Errol Cross) To: Kwsroots@aol.com Thanks for responding. The one name that is key in this list is "Hannah Howe". We re-read your post of yesterday and are not sure we understand when the filing time closed. Hannah (Prindle) How(e) was born in 1796. Her father was Samuel Prindle who was a Rev War Sol. from New Milford, CT. Samuel married Nancy Dun(n)ing in about 1795. Samuel Died in 1840. Hannah married Jacob How(e) in about1817. If the filing deadline or rights were extended beyond 1817, we would be interested in any information that you have on Hannah Howe. Thanks again, Errol and Valerie Cross >> Hello again, This is a puzzle, since Hannah was a PRINDLE and not a HOWE when the amount of the loss was determined in 1792, and when the land was actually divvied up in 1808. I couldn't find anything which would indicate if the "rights" of a sufferer could be grandfathered later into a marriage. This would also presuppose that the Classification Record appearing in the Fire Lands book was printed after ca 1817, the year of Hannah PRINDLE's marriage to Jacob HOWE.. Which might be doubtful. The only reference to the age of the original Classification Record, which gives the names of the Sufferers and the amount of each individual's loss, appears on page 15 of the Fire Lands book. It states: " The following list is taken from the 'Classification Record,' an old book in the office of the recorder of Huron County, and though far from well arranged, the names have been copied in the order there given." Casting further question on whether the Sufferer Hannah HOWE could be your Hannah (Prindle) HOWE is a table in the Fire Lands book on page 242 which shows that Hannah HOWE sold her land allotment of 13 pounds, 3 shillings and 6 pence to one Kneeland Townsend, who apparently used it, along with the purchases of other Sufferers allotments, for land speculation in Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio. (Similarly, Sarah HOWE sold her land allotment of 14/7/1 to Kneeland Townsend.) In spite of the above, I did find a few references to a Jacob and a Hannah HOWE in our Huron County, Ohio publications which might relate to your forebears. Details: 1. Huron County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Norwalk Township. Page 546. 332. Jacob HOWE, d. 19 Feb 1852, ae 55y 1m 21d. (This would put his birth year ca 1797, close to the birth year of 1796 you give for Hannah PRINDLE.) 2. 1845 Plat Book of Huron County, Ohio. Jacob HOWE, Ridgefield Twp, page 6, section 2, lot 7, 50 acres. 3. 1870 Census Index, Huron County, Ohio. The following HOWEs are listed for census page 449, Norwalk Village. Read first name and place of birth. Alice, OH Hannah, OH Hannah, CT Lorenzo E., NY Mary E., OH. Regards, Ken Shute, in MD (kwsroots@aol.com).