All, At 11:36 AM 2/19/01 -0500, CVendla@aol.com wrote: >In an autograph book belonging to my GGGrandfather, E. H. Nixon, I found this >entry about Sarah BROOKS, b. 1782. >"Sarah married PHELPS. Her children's names were Sarah who married B. >WHITNEY. They left an adopted child EMMA..." This Phelps family was in the >Lexington, Mass. area. Any idea who B. Whitney may be? > Carol Paul Sarah PHELPS "of Lunenburg," dau. of Samuel PHELPS, m. (intentions 12 Nov 1844, both Lunenburg and Westminster, MA) as his second wife, Benjamin Hurd-7 WHITNEY. He was b. 15 Oct 1813, Lunenburg, son of Abijah-6 [Stephen-5, John-4, Benjamin-3, John-2, John-1] and Betsey-7 (WHITNEY) WHITNEY [Jonas-6, Jonas-5, David-4, Benjamin-3, John-2, John-1]. See <http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/pierce/p281-285.htm#P2042> References: Henry Bond, _Genealogies and History of Watertown_, vol. 1, p. 652. Frederick Clifton Pierce, _Descendants of John Whitney_, p. 284. Regards, Robert Robert L. Ward WHITNEY Research Group <http://www.whitneygen.org/home2.html>