Linda, I don't show a Jonathan on my list and I wonder if Jonathan is also born in 13 April 1703 and had a son named Hiel. (Sorry folks, I got bit by a second spider, a furry one) and I hibernated most of the year.) The name elNATHAN is so curious and unusual, but joNATHAN is rather common. On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Linda Trent <lindatrent@zoomnet.net> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm in the process of writing a family history that includes part of my > Stevens line, and I just ran across something that I haven't seen addressed > anywhere else. My line comes forward from the original US patriarch John, > to his son William (who married Mary Meigs), to Josiah who married Sarah > Hubbell, and their son Elnathan (born 1703). According to almost all family > histories online I see that Elnathan married Mary Hull (d/o Ensign John and > Mary Osborn). However... > > This evening I was looking at a great Connecticut site > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/0_ct-index.htm and scrolled > down to Middlesex County, and then Killingworth to the Barbour Records. I > went to the h's to look for Mary Hull's family and found: Mary, m Jonathan > STEEVENS, Feb 15, 1727/28. Um, that's the same date that she supposedly > married Elnathan! > > The Barbour collection is supposedly the official records of the town, so > did Elnathan marry Mary or did his brother Jonathan? and if not Elnathan, > than who did he marry? I thought that it might have been a misprint so I > went to see what it said under Stevens, Jonathan, and it gives him marrying > Mary Hull. I looked up Elnathan and it doesn't list a wife! > > I looked up my next grandfather coming down toward me and that would be > Hiel. It lists his parents as Elnathan and Mary. Did he marry a different > Mary? Has anyone researched out this line? Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Linda Trent > 5th great granddaughter of Elnathan and Mary? > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to STEVENS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >