J. Rankin wrote: > > Hi! I hope someone can answer these questions. > > I recently received a letter from a friend whose ancestors were Peter > Cooke Waterbury and his wife Mary Slason. Both were born in Stamford CT > in 1759. The Godfather of Mary and her brother Rowland Slason was > Rowland Tryon. (Recent emails said Rowland b. 1783) > Mary was the d/o James Slason and his wife Anna _______. > > So, Was the father of Rowland Tryon b. 1783 also a Rowland Tryon? Or, > do we have a totally new Rowland Tryon here? > A new one: This is Rowland's grandfather b. 13 Feb 1711 in Wethersfield, CT. He married an Elizabeth, last name unknown. Four children are known: Mary b. 1740, Samuel b. 1748, Benjamin b. 1755, and Eliza birthdate unknown. Samuel was the father of your Rowland. We do not know his deathdate or place. His father was Ziba, and Ziba's father was William who came over from Bibury, England. To attempt to summarize: Rowland-5 Samuel-4 Rowland-3 Ziba-2 William-1 > Could Anna ______ have been a Tryon? Sister of the Rowland not born in > 1783? Anna would have been born circa 1730 give or take. Could be. Records are sparse. She could have been the new Rowland's daughter, hence aunt of your Rowland. > > Is Prudence the wife or the sister of this Rowland? No idea. Of course it is conceivable that Elizabeth died and Rowland remarried. > > Just thought I'd ask & when I write back to my friend maybe I can answer > these questions for him? > > My friend also > wrote "Later Rowland Tryon and Prudence Tryon moved to Chatham NY." This is news to me. It bears looking into. As I said, records are sparse and maybe this did happen. That Rowland simply disappeared from CT records, which doesn't mean much since as I think I just said, "records are sparse." Dan