Hello, Randy -- Thanks for the information about Stephan and Susanna Weeks. There are two bits of info I can add: 1. Susanna was m. first to Thaddeus Dunning. This is in the records of the First Church of Norwalk (Congregational). Her maiden name was actually "Betts." She was the dau. of Joseph Betts and his wife, Sarah Platt. 2. Stephan and Susanna are bur. in Union Cemetery, Webster, Monroe Co., NY. There was a third son b. to Stephan and Susanna -- George Washington Weeks. Several fam. members have told me that he stayed with his other two brothers at Leslie (Ingham Co., MI), but that he eventually returned to Monroe Co., NY. I haven't found a bur. site for him in Leslie -- and I have found Stephen and William -- but I also haven't yet found him in Monroe Co. No, I haven't seen the second book, but I would like to. Where did you locate it? There is a copy of the first book with the NEHGS circulation library which I borrowed this last winter. In your opinion, does the second book give any clearer indication of Stephan's ancestry (other than that he's from the Long Island bunch)? There is a Stephen Weeks -- son of Jonathan, grandson of Philip -- who was b. at Stamford, served in the Rev. War, m. about the same time as my Stephan Weeks (Esther Dann was his wife), d. in NY. Thinking that the two men might be the same person, I sent for his records from the DAR. Of course, they are not the same men. The children's names are not the same -- and both sets of children were interspersed within the same 20 years, so they couldn't be the result of two different marriages. You also mentioned that the given name, Samuel, was almost exclusively used by Francis' line and rarely by descendants of Thomas. Is that also the case with the name, Stephan/Stephen? Thank you again for contacting me. I hope to hear from you again. Best Regards, Sally J. Bolster Holcombe holcombejr@mindspring.com