Hello List: Is there anyone on the list that could help me with "my" Daniel. He is, so far, a brick wall for me. I recently received the death certificates of his two son's. They state he was born in Vermont which changes my whole focus. Some, oral, family history had led me to believe he was from Connecticut which is where I had been concentrating my research. Who were his parent's? Did he have any brother's and/or sister's? The biggest problem seems to be the small pool of male descendants. Of his two son's, one had no children (an adopted daughter), the other had one son. That son had one son (an only child). That only child had one son. Get the picture? That last son (my father), however, must have thought the family name was in danger of dying out. He had six son's. I have Daniel's year of birth as 1775. He then is "lost" until he appears, in 1819, in the village of Wayne, in what is now Schuyler Co. (then Steuben Co) He was the first minister of the Tyrone Baptist Church there. I understand he was a clergyman, so that seems to fit. I wonder where he was he for + / - 44 years. However, I do have some clue's from those missing years that, at this point, have turned up very little. 1. He married one Jane Chase about 1820. It was her second marriage and it appears that in addition to the three they had, he raised her three children by the previous marriage. I do not know if he adopted her three. She was born, in 1790, in Saratoga, Albany Co, NY. I think she married her first husband, Benjamin Smith, there and he died there. She could have married Daniel there as well.