In a message dated 99-02-10 15:41:52 EST, you write: << I have no information about the Hale family, but Richard Hale and Elizabeth Strong and their children are included in "Dwight's History of the Strong Family" p. 331ff. This volume (or mine is a two volume set) should be easy to find. It might be listed as "The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass." It was republished by Gateway Press, Inc. of Baltimore in 1984. Dot >> Dot, thanks so much. Gateway is just up the road from us (I am in Annapolis) and I have visited them; a nice small publisher of family histories. I will check with them, and likely it is in the Pratt Library or etc. If you have above pg. 331 I would love to get a copy . . . Peter Burrows, P. O. Box 1909, Annapolis, MD 21404-1909