This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/294.1.2 Message Board Post: Interesting post, since my Peter Dewitt family had Alex Duncan living with them in the 1870 census. Peter had a son named Isaac G. Dewitt, who may have been the guardian in the pension. I wonder if there was a connection with the families of Shattuck and Dewitt.