Vicki Titus wrote: > > Let me float something out there to see how quickly everybody shoots it > down. > > Benjamin b. 1755 in Rowland's line with a mother Elizabeth. If we didn't > know that the father of Benjamin, Jochem and William was also Benjamin, I'd > suspect him to be the missing link. Any idea on what happened to Rowland's > Benjamin? > According to the 1850 St Joseph census, that Benjamin must have been born ca 1787. The Stamford Benjamins were born 1755, 1772 and 1775. The disparity is quite large. They hovered around Stamford. Records are sparse but enough indirect evidence puts them in Stamford area throughout their lifes. Dan