Hi, Listers I am a research volunteer for the California Genealogical Society, doing some work for a member whose Ross line goes back through Harvey Lee, Ossian M, and Joseph, to Capt Zebulon (1725?-1802)of Dutchess County, NY. I am trying to work back from there, following the theory that Capt. Zebulon was that man whose birth in Windham township, CT in 1725 is listed in the Barbour Collection for that town. That gives him parents Joseph Ross and Sarah Utley, whose marriage in 1716 is recorded along with those births. I have received information to the effect that Joseph was a twin son of John Ross of Ipswich, MA, born in 1682, but I question it, because the Ipswich VRs show that the twin sons of John were Joshua and Benjamin, not Joseph and Jonathan, as I had been told. The first Ross to have been named in the History of Windham County, CT, was a Daniel Ross, who got land in Scotland Parish in 1703. John of Ipswich had a son Daniel, born in 1678. He would have been about the right age to be settin g up on his own somewhere in 1703, but he would seem to be a bit too young to have been the father of Joseph (who married Sarah Utley.) Can you help me to straighten this out? Does anyone know what happened to Joseph and Sarah? Did Joseph leave a will? Any help will be greatly appreciated by Rick Sherman, Kensington, CA