Dora Smith wrote: (snip) > wife, SArah (Wildes) Bishop. It was Edward Jr with his wife who ran the > tavern. But he also argues that there was a fourth Edward Bishop "sawyer". (snip) > It would be useful, though, if someone would tell me waht a sawyer was. Greetings, list. A sawyer was "A workman whose business it is to saw timber, esp. in a saw-pit" (Oxford English Dict.). Various wood-boring long-horned beetles in the USA are called sawyers. Michael K. Oliver (Rebecca Towne Nurse was my 8th great grandmother, through her daughter Mary and the Tarbells) -- Michael K. Oliver [email protected] "The Cichlid Fishes of Lake Malawi, Africa" http://www.connix.com/~mko/ "This is the page of a man obsessed; One of Connecticut's Top 50 Web sites" - Connecticut Magazine, 4/98 (along with Yale University, Martha Stewart, ESPN, & Supermodel.com) ********************************************************************** Coleopterists Society: http://www.nhm.ukans.edu/ksem/beetles/ Connecticut Entomological Soc.: http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/ces/