[email protected] Cousins: I have been encouraged to write down my mine rambling. I will try it today. Some times I get to thinking about my ancestors and feel as if I know them as well as those who lived around them. I have been accused of living in the past more than the present. If we do not leave a record of what we have learned of our ancestors our grandchildren will never know from where they descend. I have been told by so many "I don't care where my grand parents come from"! I hope the next century is as informative as the last one was. On an earlier date I wrote about the letter to a Capt. David Scranton in Novia Scotia by Thomas Strong, Jr. (s/o Thomas Strong and Phebe Seward) in July 1792. In that note I stated that the reference to the great sea could have been Lake Erie, but after more investigation I think it is refereeing to Lake Ontario. This route would have been along one used later for the Erie Canal. History has it that this route is along the present route of Interstate 90. It could have placed the Nathan (younger brother of Thomas, Jr.) of the letter at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. If he moved north he would have come to the area of Adams, Rodman, and Watertown. This is the area Nathan settled in with his family. We have found Thomas his Father in the 1800 census of Oneida Co., NY. Listed on page 181, 1 female 10 but less than 16 and 2 males 10 but less than 16 in his household. At present I do not know the names of these children. It could be Nathan and Eunuch's children. We do know when the letter above was writing Eunice and one of their children were with Thomas, Jr. We also know in March 1810 Nathan moved to Rodman, Jefferson Co., NY from Whitestown, Onieda Co., NY. See Martha Place on the Internet the URL is as follows; http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7905/ then click on four Generation. You will find this under #121 Thomas child K. Hon. Nathan Strong. I need to look at the 1820 census of NY. I have a question for Lindsey DiCosola [email protected] Can you make a connection as to which one of the female children of Thomas Strong and Phebe Seward (Thomas, Lt. Eliakim, Thomas, Jr., Thomas, John Strong, John Stronge, George Stronge) married the Scranton and move to Novia Scotia, Canada? See Dwight's note on Martha's four generations. Martha do you still think Lois Strong daughter of Thomas and Phebe married a Cole. I found Coles in 1810 census in Jefferson Co. But did not think them of importance at the time. I'll go back and get more detail notes on them. Some where in the Jefferson Co., NY records I read this summer their daughter Eunice Strong married Simeon Coe (COLE). He had the title of deacon. Jim [email protected] Jim Gilbert [email protected] STRONG ROOTS DATABASE http://fly.hiwaay.net/~jgilbert/main/srd-toc.htm Send STRONG GEDCOM FILES to Robert (Bob) T. Strong <[email protected]>