Date forwarded: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:17:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Starbri227@aol.com Date sent: Thu, 27 May 1999 18:15:19 EDT Subject: [WOODS-L] Re: WOODS-D Digest V99 #130 To: WOODS-L@rootsweb.com Forwarded by: WOODS-L@rootsweb.com > Hi Steve, > I will look up for you tonight in the Gorton Book I have of 1907 if that is > appropriate. > I have been monitoring this list for as long as a year and am starting to get > into my WOOD , Silas and Dorcas who married Peleg Gorton who d. 1801 in > Lebanon Springs. > I have never been straight as to where Dorcas and Silas met. I have 2 > different Gorton stories . Then in one of my County histories there is a > Silas Wood (NY). > My book does not say where they married. I for some reason thought they > married in Swansea, Mass. Now I have read something else that says Samuel > Gorton of Swansea the Doctor "removed to NY" . That would mean then that > Peleg was not first out but Samuel was. > needless to say I need to refer to my book anyway don't I? > So will give you yours and all I have if you like. > Vanda Greenwood > Vanda444@aol.com Vanda, I hope I'm not intruding on a private matter, but I would be very interested in your Peleg Gorton and Dorcas Wood. One of my Wood lines lived in Swansea, MA and later in up state New York, Clinton County. We had a Peleg Wood born about 1669 and another in 1820. I have run across two other Peleg Woods, one from Swansea and his son, who appear to be from our line, but I cannot confirm this. I'm still puzzled about how they came up with the name Peleg. Jim