I think this maybe either the Enfield, Ct or Longmeadow, Mass area. Lee From: Kate Renner <k8ren@comcast.net> Date: 2008/03/06 Thu PM 04:13:13 CST To: VTWindso-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VTWINDSO] Meadow Lands area Hello! I am wondering if you have ever heard of an area known as the Meadow Lands either in the Connecticut River Valley area of either Vermont or Connecticut? I am researching my 3rd ggrandparents Simeon Williams and Tirzah (Knight?), hoping to find a marriage record and to determine Tirzah's maiden name. Simeon Williams was born in Stonington CT in 1763 to Samuel Williams and Lois Allyn. This family migrated to Hartland, Windsor County VT around 1780. Samuel's name is on the charter of Hartland and he and Lois are buried in the Center Cemetery in Hartland. Because Simeon's oldest child was born about 1786 in Vermont, I assume they married there but I have found no record of that or their children's births with the town clerk or at the Church of Christ in Hartland, which Tirzah joined in 1787. According to an 1896 family letter, "The Williams family ancestors were English, came early to America and located in Connecticut on the Connecticut River near Hartford, owned a large landed property in the Valley knows as Meadow Lands. They soon became numerous, wealthy and influential. Simeon (Dyer's father) was, I believe, the youngest son in his father's family. He married Tirzah Knight, the daughter of a wealthy neighbor, also an influential family, some of whose brothers held high judicial offices in Connecticut." I have not found any Knight families in that part of CT in that time frame. I have checked out several Knights in VT, some who held judicial office but cannot tie Tirzah to any of these families. I don't know if the letter writer who was 80 in 1896 confused Hartford CT with Hertford/Hartland VT or if there might have been a transcription error. I have investigated a few properties in CT with similar names like the Meadow Lands in Darien and Meadow Woods near Essex CT but these areas do not have the right families living there. Can you tell me if the description in the 1896 letter sounds like anyone or anyplace you know? Thanks so much Kate ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VTWINDSO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message