This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2AIBAIB/203.1 Message Board Post: You are almost certainly right about the parentage of Rhoda Simpkins and the identity of her sister, Mary who married Samuel Perin. Mary named one of her daughters, Rhoda Perin. Before Ephraim got to Ohio, he appears in the 1800 federal census in Milton, Cayuga, New York, the same place where Samuel Perin was living. They came to Ohio together. In New York Ephraim had in his household, one male age 10-15, two females under 10, and two females 10-15, but no adult female. Ephraim married in 1784 to Hannah Stathem in Greenwich, Cumberland, New Jersey which was where he was born, and is still in Cumberland as late as 1793 per militia and tax records. He married a second time to Mary Chandler in about 1805 and she was the wife who accompanied him to Ohio.