In seeking information on a man by the name of Joseph Crosier Gallup, born in 1814 in Halifax, Windham Co., VT, I discovered the above website. An act to change the name Joseph Crosier Gallub[sic], of Adams, to Joseph Crosier Marsdale, along with his wife Laura Jane, and their four minor children, Edwin Ruthven, Althine Idalia, Francelia Blandina and Gerald Embert, were all given the surname of Marsdale. Is there any place that I could check to discover what the reason might have been for changing the last name from Gallup to Marsdale? Thanks, Joann Nichols