There is a FESSENDEN Rd. in Chesterfield, NH, off Rt 9. It is a rather unusual name for this part of the country. Maybe he came from Chesterfield. That's all I can offer. Ruth At 8:44 PM -0600 6/12/01, Lynn McLaughlin wrote: >Posted on: USGenWeb Windham County, Vt Query Forum >Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Vt/Windham/11511 > >Surname: Rawson, Fessenden, Rice >------------------------- > >I'm looking for the parents of Aurilla Rawson, b. about 1810, supposedly >in Dover, Windham Co.; m. 1830 to Ruel Fessenden (his parentage a mystery >as well); their son, Erwin Alexander Fessenden, married Justina Rice. There >is a Rawson book that lists an Aurilla, but she was born too late (1823)to >be the same. Aurilla and Ruel's other children were Lucretia L., Henry >P., Albert Dorr (m. 1 Miriam Tryphosa Johnson; 2 Maria E. Holton; 3 Elizabeth >Fanette Kemp), Amandus Elliot (or Elwin), Frederick F., Philena V., Philura >V. (m. Clark Rice), Jasper Dana (m. Helen Phillips Lazelle), Mary (m. Henry >Reed), and Harriet (m. Marshall Ash) -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Westminster, VT Remember in November