This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nAC.2ACI/1518.1 Message Board Post: Try the Sheldon Museum, Park Street, Middlebury VT 05753, phone 802-388-2117. They have some early newspaper files. You can check H. P. Smith, ed., History of Addison County Vermont (Syracuse NY 1886) on line at <www.middlebury.edu/~lib/AddisonCoHistory/DirectoryHAC.html> There must have been several men named Jonathan Preston in the county’s early history: p. 256 (Middlebury) dates his arrival on Munger Street to 1786 from New Canaan, NY. His death is given as 1809 at age 63. Son Asa is mention and Asa’s sons, Benham and Buell. Probably this same Jonathan is mentioned on p. 266 in a list of surveyors of highways in 1788. p. 495 with a date of 1813 Jonathan Preston signs a notice to Lincoln proprietors and land owners relative to taxes.