Dottie Lewis, who is interested in Sally (Tryon) Lewis and her brother Benjamin Tryon of Allegan Co., has been helping me with some Greene Co. NY research. She sent me a write-up out of the Greene CO. History today. I looked at it and it was really confusing. I will put my questions/comments in all caps, brother up by lots of white space. I will use birth year to try to identify the various Peters and Benjamin's. Book - History of Greene County, NY, pub. 1969, page 460, "Benjamin Tryon, of Coxsackie, was a native of England, and came to America with Captain Kidd as a soldier on board a man-o-war, and discarding the idea of joining Captain Kidd as a pirate, he was given his liberty and was left on Long Island, from which he came to Greene county before the Revolutionary War. Locating in what is now the town of Coxsackie, he had two sons, Peter and Benjamin. I AM THINKING THIS APPLIES TO THE BENJAMIN WHO WAS BORN CIRCA 1728 AND WHOSE WIFE IS ELIZABETH. (IS THIS THE BENJAMIN WHO WAS DEAD BY 1824?) Peter died at the age of 30. THE PETER WHO WAS BORN 1750? DIDN'T HE LIVE UNTIL AT LEAST 1802, TO FATHER FREDERICK? Benjamin was twice married. BENJAMIN B. 1745 MARRIED MACHTEL van SCHIACK AND SUSANNA (PARKS) PALMER - SUSANNA'S NAME GIVEN BOTH WAYS IN WEST COXSACKIE RECORDS He had three sons, Stephen, Benjamin, and Peter. Benjamin married Mary Allen, by whom he had five children, three of whom are not living; Benjamin, of Coxsackie, and Mary and Susan, of New York City. WOULD THIS BE BENJAMIN B. 1788> HAVEN'T FOUND THIS MARRAIGE YET. THIS CONFLICTS WITH DEAN GERNON'S INFO, BUT IT MIGHT BE THE TRUTH. The last mentioned Benjamion Tryon was born in Greenville, Greene county, NY, in 1813. He married Jane Smith, of Coxsackie, by whom he had one daughter and two sons (one of whom, Dr. Rufus Tryon, is now an acting surgeon in the U. S. Navy). Mr. Tryon has long been a member of the Dutch Reformed church, and Mrs. Tryon has been superintendent of the Sabbath-school of the same for 25 years." THIS WRITEUP SAYS NOTHING ABOUT JOCHEM AND PETER WHO WERE WITH HIM IN 1790 CENSUS OF THE AREA. BY ITS OWN ACCOUNT, THE PETER B. 1750 WAS DEAD BY 1780, SO EITHER THEY ARE WRONG ABOUT WHEN PETER 1750 DIED OR THE PETER ON THE 1790 CENSUS IS UP ONE GENERATION. aaaaaarrrrrrgggggg!