Hi Darrell, The more I learn of the ancestors the more confused I become. I just know there has to be a connection between the BOYCE and HEFFLON in Franklin, VT but can't find it. Then of course there is the fact that Silas HEFFLON supposedly came to Franklin before 1812 from Rhode Island and can't find him there either but know he was born in Ireland so he had to have come by ship sometime around 1775. The other man who I serve in the legislature with is Albert Everett WEARE who goes by the name Everett. He is somehow connected to the WARE who was a Ship's captain in Maine and my grandfather's brother married his granddaughter Julia WARE. So George MERCIER's daughter has done the research and has it with the DAR for her mother but getting the MERCIER lineage is difficult because my great grandmother died and her husband gave the children to friends and relatives to raise. My great Uncle Joseph MERCIER lived with a family in the Walpole Keene, NH area and he married a Josie BELIVEAU of Jaffrey, NH. Of course I keep getting stories from the two remaining elderly cousins, ones 90 and the other is 93. Minds very sharp though. Oh well I will continue this mess. Harriet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell Martin" <darrellm@sprynet.com> To: <VERMONT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [VERMONT] FELCH in Seabrook, NH > At 06:52 AM 8/28/04, Harriet E. Cady wrote: > >HI Darrell, > >There is a FELCH that used to be involved in Republican Polictics in > >Seabrook, NH. > >I believe he must have died as I haven't seen him around for a number of > >years. > >Harriet in NH > > Hi, Harriet: > > My earliest FELCH ancestor in Vermont was Joseph, born in Seabrook, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, on 28 April 1765. He married Sarah AYERS in Seabrook in June, 1787, then removed to Waterford (then Littleton), Vermont before the birth of his first child Samuel there 4 December 1789. Joseph remained a resident of Waterford for the rest of his life; his seven sons and five daughters, by two wives, were all born there. He died in Waterford 27 June 1846. > > Joseph's father, Joseph Senior, was baptized in Salem Village, Massachusetts, in 1728. Joseph Senior's father Doctor Daniel FELCH removed with at least some of his family to Seabrook, N.H. later in life, and died there 5 October 1752. Joseph Senior was the "Parish Collector" in Seabrook, where he signed the Association Test in 1776. > > There have been many FELCHs in the Seabrook area over the years. The one of whom you speak is quite likely a distant cousin of mine (but isn't everyone [grin]). > > Darrell > > > Darrell A. Martin darrellm@sprynet.com > a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois > http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy > > > > ==== VERMONT Mailing List ==== > Please DO NOT post warnings about viruses directly to the list. Many are Hoaxes and create problems for list members. > Karima, List Administrator mailto:VERMONT-admin@rootsweb.com > >