Arlene, Just some random thoughts on this: So there are two daughters: Eliza Anna and Susannah? If Susannah married a Brown, why isn't she referred to as Brown in the will? Or....is Oliver a child of Levi's indiscretion? Perhaps he didn't marry Oliver's mother, but Joseph is doing the right thing in recognizing him as a descendant. If Oliver were Anna's, the will that specifically names Anna's children would have included Oliver in the list. "I give and bequeath Sarah Owens, Luman Munson and Lacy Munson the share that my beloved daughter Anna would have had, had she lived, to be equally divided among them." A side note here that it was perhaps Anna's untimely death, either in childbirth or shortly thereafter, that made Joseph contemplate his own mortality and make a will. He did live for another 14 years. She was his "beloved daughter." Have you found Lacy and Luman in the 1810 census? Is there a third child in that census that could be Oliver? Oliver had to be born before the will written in 1810. There are a couple Olivers in the 1850 census who were born before 1811. Certainly he could still be alive then. Also found a Susan Oliver born about the right time living with her son Nathaniel. AmericanAncestors.org search results for Thaddeus Munson: has a Granville, MA, birth record for a Thaddeus Munson twin son of Ephraim and Comfort b 22 Nov 1748. Twin sister was named Comfort. [p 60 Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850] FYI: THE TOWN OF GRANVILLE, Hampden County, was established as a district January 25, 1754, from the plantation of Bedford. August 23, 1775, the district was made a town by general act. June 14, 1810, a part was established as Tolland. and a Thaddeus Munson query from *The American Genealogist* asks for info re a Thaddeus Munson b 11-22-1748 in Granville, who m Miriam/ Mariam Dibble. They lived in Lanesboro, MA, and in Manchester and Hinesburg, VT. Ch b at Manchester. Served in Revolutionary War. signed G.W.W.R.