Good morning all...... I rec'd this, this am from a fellow researcher........perhaps, just perhaps...... one of them is your kin.........Kathy, perhaps this Hinman is yours :) jeannie <>< While going through the book "Vital Records from the Eastport Sentinal of Eastport, Maine 1818-1900" I ran across the following marriage and death notices, hope you enjoy them - Ken >From the Eastport Sentinel (Eastport, Washington, Maine) Vol. 1 #42, 12 Jun 1819. Marriages; In Perry, NY, no date, Lyman Hinman age 20 to Jennet Stevens, age 60, after a long and serious courtship of two days. Deaths; In London, no date, Patrick Rofer (Ropey, no doubt), he had long indulged in habits of excessive drunkenness, so that his fame became saturated with alcohol. Just prior to going to bed to his wife, and while in the act of blowing out his taper, his breath took fire, which communicated to his lungs, and his limbs were scattered about the room: his head was driven thro' the wall and broke the leg of a man in the room above. Vol. 2 #2, 04 Sep 1819 Marriages; In Bozrah, CT, no date, John Bate of Williamstown, MA to Mary Ann Bass of Bozrah, after a courtship of one hour. "Is this not angling well I ask, Such tender fish to take-He caught in one short hour a Bass, The Bass caught the Bate. Vol. 2 #46, 08 Jul 1820 Marriages; In Boothbay, no date, Robert Reed 4th, cousin to Robert Reed 5th, no relation to Robert Reed 6th, s/o Robert Reed 1st, but no relationship to Robert Reed 2nd, to Alice Reed, d/o Robert Reed 3rd. Vol. 2 #50, 05 Aug 1820 Deaths; In Mt. Pleasent, NS, no date, at Mt. Pleasent, Mr.Sypher. He got into a whiskey distillery in the night and drank till he killed himself and thus become less than a cypher.