Lois, Have you tried newspapers of the time? They often have references to entire families and mention where a "newcomer" was from. If a person advertised, as a butcher shop would, they might mention "father and son" or something like that. Also, have you checked for a county/city historian in Jefferson County? Happy hunting all, Laura in a balmy NC > From: LoisBrownCombs@aol.com > Subject: [WHITE] WHITE, Thomas White, NY--my Brick Wall > To: white@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <bf3.657dbb1.32b46861@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > My Thomas White is married to Asenath Brown (AKA Cena) and they had > four > children. I believe Thomas to be the eldest son of Salmon/Solomon > White of New > Hampshire, Vermont, Watertown and Antwerp in Jefferson County, NY. > > Thomas White b Sep 1799, Vermont, d 20 Jan 1862 and bur Redwood > Cemetery, > Alexandria, Jefferson County, New York. He was a butcher and had a > shop in > Watertown, NY. > > Children are: > Thomas Gardner b abt 1821 > William Brown b abt 1824 > Sarah b abt 1828 > Charlotte b abt 1833 > > I am looking for confirmation of his parents, siblings or any of > family. > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the WHITE list administrator, send an email to > WHITE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the WHITE mailing list, send an email to > WHITE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WHITE- > request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of WHITE Digest, Vol 1, Issue 90 > ************************************