This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XcB.2ACE/286.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you, Betty. Here is what I have from the 1891 History of Windsor Co., VT.: >From the 1891 History of Windsor County, VT: "McWain, Harmon -- This family is of Scotch origin. It is supposed the first of the family who emigrated from Scotland was the great-grandfather of Harmon, and that he settled in the town of Hartland. His son, Andrew, married Polly Lampson, their children were Andrew, Jr., Abraham, Asa, Jacob, Lydia V., David J., and Archibald. Andrew, Jr. lived and died in Canada; Asa, in Batvia, N.Y.; Jacob in Shaftsbury, Bennington Co., VT; Lydia V. was the wife of Dr. Knight, of Grand Blanc, Genesee Co., Mich. She and her brother David J., lived and died in Grand Blanc; Archibald at Owasso, Mich. All these children left families in the localities where they lived. Abraham McWain married Abigail, daughter of John and Hannah (Carpenter) Whitehorn[e], in Wallingford, Rutland county. He died there in 1828; his wife at the residence of their son, Harmon, in Plymouth, April 29, 1869. The children of Abraham and Abigail McWain were Lucretia T., Harm! o! n, Mary Malona, John W., and Malvina M. Harmon McWain was born in Dorset, Bennington County, VT, September 5, 1817, and passed most of his minority there. In 1844 he married Sarah S.[Sophia] Bebee, who died in 1848, leaving a daughter, Sarah A. [Adelie], born August 8, 1847, the wife of James Ailward [Aylward]. Harmon McWain married October 6, 1858, Amanda M.[Malvina], daughter of Luther and Betsey [Emeline Jenne] Coolidge. Her grandfather, Captain John Coolidge, a Revolutionary officer from Lancaster, Mass. [John Coolidge was a private in the Revolutionary War and received the title of Capt. at a later date], who at the close of the war was paid for his services in Continental script, which afterwards became worthless, thinking to better his fortune in the new country as it were then, removed his family to the wilds of Vermont. Many were the hardships endured, but at last plenty smiled upon them, and at the time of his death, March 23, 1822, left each of his three sons ! and two daughters a farm. Luther Coolidge, his second son, father of Mrs. McWain, was born on this place May 6, 1781, where his father first located, and died there June 11, 1856. Her mother, Betsey Jenne, was born in Poultney, VT., April 27, 1790. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. McWain was the Rev. Prince Jenne, the first settled minister in the town of Plymouth, having been sent from Massachusetts as a missionary to establish churches in the new settlements of Vermont, and after a long and faithful ministry died in 1836, aged seventy-eight years [Rev. Prince Jenne is buried in the Plymouth Notch Cemetery]. Mrs. McWain was born August 16, 1830, where she now lives, and has lived since her marriage with the exception of the first six years, when they resided in East Dorset, Bennington County. Of their seven children six are now living [this is wrong, they mention 8 children, and one died early]. Jennie R. McWain, born October 4, 1852, married Merritt A. Sawyer, ! in 1875, and resides in Woodstock, VT. They have four children: Merle, born Aug 7, 1876; Mary Angela, born January, 1878; Clifton W., born August 1879; Wayne Harmon, born September, 1881, died April 10, 1884; Charlie Field [my great grandfather], born March 1886. Harmon A. McWain, M.D., born Dec. 10, 1855, graduated in medicine at the University of Vermont, at Burlington, in 1882. He is now located in Chicago. Martha B. McWain, born March 22, 1858, wife of Norris D. Wilder, resides at Plymouth Union. Frank Ellsworth McWain, born Nov. 8, 1861, died April 10, 1864. Flora A. McWain, born November 18, 1864, wife of Charles H. Scott, of Tyson, VT. Lettie E. McWain, born March 12, 1867, wife of F. C. Morgan, M.D., of Felchville, VT. Stella A. McWain, born August 25, 1870, and Lillian Amanda, born December 10, 1879." My great great grandmother was Jennie Rose McWain who married Merritt Angelo Sawyer. Can you clarify if it's Polly Lampson or Lampman? Blessings, Jill :]