This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stowell, Root, Butterfield, Foster, Parker, Stedman, Parsons, Strong, Davis, Heald Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QAQBAEB/465.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: ditto, Margaret. I've had the same problem, and my petpeeve is the archives filled up with short blurbs that don't say anything My (partial) CT line is in the WHH Stowell Book: David 'Old Stowell' b.1660 MA d.1724 MA David Stowell b.1693 MA d.bet May and Sep 1763 CT (will) Isaac b.1739 CT (CT Barbours Collection) d.bef 1782 VT Nathan b.1769 CT d.1850 IL Joseph b.1798 VT d.1864 WI Nathan's birth is recorded in WHH Stowell's book as being in Wellington, CT, but I have not been able to find a birth record for him there. "Nathan resided at Windsor VT until 1797, then Waitsfield VT until 1802, then Granville VT until 1842, then Kishwaukee, McHenry Co, IL for the rest of his life. He was a farmer. Selectman for Waitsfield in 1826. Name recorded as Nathan Stowell in 11 deeds in Pittsford, VT". WHH Stowell I haven't been able to find a marriage record for he and Sarah Butterfield.