In a message dated 02/2/5 8:05:42 PM, hudlowtrails@yahoo.com writes: << Could you tell what was written in for occupation? I can't make it out. It is same for both NH and MA. I think that he was at both places. Maybe visiting his parents in NH and then at home in MA. What do you think? >> It looked to me like peddler for both Abial & his father (sales). Looked like he had an uncle named Abial, too. Just (4?) years younger than his dad. (40 in 1850) I no longer have it up in front of me. Yes, it looks like he may have been traveling to do business or such, and perhaps that's where he found & or married his bride, Susan? Very cool to catch him in two places in that one year, one month apart!