This message is being forwarded by the List Admin. You can reply to the list or to the original sender as shown in the body of the message. Please do not reply to me. Best Regards John A Hansen jahansen@qwest.net List Admin -----Original Message----- From: JWoodw6761@aol.com [mailto:JWoodw6761@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 9:36 PM To: jahansen@qwest.net Subject: Re:SNOW, Martha, Lancaster, MA 1741 and Pownal, VT, 1790-1800+ Martha Snow, daughter of John Snow and Hannah Sawyer Snow, was born in Lancaster, MA 1731. However, that Martha Snow died in 1740. The same couple had another daughter, named Martha, christened in Lancaster in 1742. She married Joseph Houghton in 1762 in Lancaster. They had three children in Bolton, MA in that decade. There was a Joseph Houghton in Pownal, VT in 1790; by 1800 the census lists only a younger Joseph Houghton and a Marth (Snow?) Houghton. Our family history says that our Benjamin Houghton (died in Pownal, VT 1855, at age 63), was the son of the above Joseph Houghton and Martha Snow Houghton. Need to know where and when Benjamin was born. Which Joseph Houghton was his father--there were several around Lancaster, Harvard, Bolton and Leominster, MA at the same time. Were the Joseph and Martha Houghton in Pownal, VT really the same ones who were married in Lancaster in 1762. Thanks. Jane Woodward