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Karl,

I'm not working in this area right now, but a quick search produced:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99476649/daniel-sumner

Birth: https://books.google.com/books?id=t4xQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=...

And: https://archive.org/stream/recordofdescenda00appl/recordofdescenda0... which also gives marriage and children

Info from Lydia's side: https://books.google.com/books?id=rbJ3WLoOEo0C&pg=PA93&lpg=...

Family tree: https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fiachadhr&amp...

You should also search Familysearch for documents: https://www.familysearch.org/search/hr/search

Hope that helps,

Jessie German

A terrific resource for Massachusetts before 1850 is here

http://ma-vitalrecords.org

Sarah Talmadge was born c. 1622 and was married c. 1621 to Henry Cleverly.

This does not make any sense.

There is nothing I see supporting the Cleverly marriage to Sarah Nash. Disconnected

https://archive.org/stream/nashfamilyorrec00nashgoog#page/n30/mode/1up

Erica Howton - Thanks

Erica Howton Two of these profiles are yours, if you could please take a look.

I did a search for George Coffinberry b.1760 and I got 4 results. The problem is that two of them are the son of George and Elizabeth Klein and two of them are the son of George Ludwig and Katrina Kimmle, but they all have the same birth and death dates. One of your trees has quite a few Consistency Check issues. I didn't want to merge them and create more problems and I'm not sure what the issues is with the parents.

https://www.geni.com/search?search_advanced=open&search_extende...

Erica Howton I found this full text of the Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family.

https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofcoffi00scot/genealogyofcoffi0...

Fixed.

Thanks! Good job on adding all the documentation in his "about me". It looks great!

Thank you. I fluffed up the tree a bit more and hooked in some existing trees, and more can be done.

George Lewis Coffinberry, Jr.

Erica Howton, I happened to see you did a merge on her, but it doesn't seem to be completed and there are a whole bunch of CC issues; lots of children born after their mother's death. Please take a look.

Hannah Clough

Private User I believe this is cleared up now.

Happy New Year !

Elizabeth Butler has two full sets of parents with similar names and two husbands with similar names.

It looks like someone has duplicated this tree. Grr!!!

Erica Howton, Happy New Year! Unfortunately, the CC issues aren't reslved n Hannah Clough.

Hannah Clough (Gile) born after the death of her mother Martha Gile (Bradley).Mehitable Johnson (Gulle) born after the death of her mother Martha Gile (Bradley).Sarah Cooper (Guile) born after the death of her mother Martha Gile (Bradley).Daniel Gile born after the death of his mother Martha Gile (Bradley).Judith Guile born after the death of her mother Martha Gile (Bradley).Samuel Gile born after the death of his mother Martha Gile (Bradley).Ephraim Gile, Jr. born after the death of his mother Martha Gile (Bradley).Ebenezer Gile born after the death of his mother Martha Gile (Bradley).Abigail Gile born after the death of her mother Martha Gile (Bradley).

Add source material to the profiles, I put references in the parents.

https://www.geni.com/merge/resolve/6000000002930821455 Had unresolved data conflicts I just resolved based on guess work as I don’t have a reference for her death date. I would “guess” the 1689 date in one screen was a marriage date in the wrong field.

Sorry that link should have been Martha Gile

I had added the FamilySearch match & went to open it to see if they had a VR record but the link vanished ... maybe one of the Wikitrees.

After 1711 (date of birth of last child) is best we know for Martha at this point. Fields locked.

Thanks, Erica. I have another one. I believe these two profiles should be merged., but the first one has a lot of Consistency Check issues that should be resolved beforehand.

Jacob Rittenhouse

William Rittenhouse

Emily Kent Marget This was done by a curator angel.

Private User The Rittenhouses may take a while. I know there should be good source material out there, but I don’t see it in the profiles. So will start with that.

Dan Cornett There are issues with this profile

Peter Rittenhouse

you curate, if you can help look into it.

Is he a child of Reverend Nicholas Rittenhouse, Mennonite ? Their son William seems to be Wilhelm"William" Dewees Rittenhouse

This profile is not his daughter

Maria Christina Stephens So I’m re- homing her.

Never mind the last - The Name “William” showing was an error. He’s Peter, and father of Mary Christina (Rittenhouse) Stephens. However I don’t think Peter is son of Nicholas:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51585337/nicholas-rittenhouse

1. Nicholas (Claus) Rittenhouse (b 15 June, 1666, d 1734) became a minister in the Mennonite Church and took over his father's paper mill and business. He married Wilhelmina Dewees.

Their children were:

William, Henry, Matthias, Psyche, Mary, Catherine and Susannah.

I’ve sorted William B. Rittenhouse & Peter Rittenhouse

The parents of William H. Rittenhouse are not at obvious. The best detailed site I see has him as son of unknown Rittenhouse and Elizabeth Brooks (a married name).

Private User I’m done with the Rittenhouses.

Erica Howton, Thank you for all of the work you put into straightening this out!

Peter Rittenhouse “losing” his name threw me for a loop! Luckily the old minister Claes is so well described.

Mary Tuttle is missing a daughter according to the "About" section - Sarah.
Apparently there are TWO Sarah Tuttles - one (Sarah Dorman) is the daughter of Samuel Tuttle and Sarah Tuttle; the other (NOT in Geni) is the daughter of Mary Tuttle and Caleb Tuttle. Both were born in 1699 - one in June, the other in November.
"June" Sarah married Benjamin Dorman, II.
"November" Sarah married Noah Wolcott. Noah then married Mary Wolcott.

Can we disconnect Noah from "June" Sarah? We need to add "November" Sarah and attach her to Noah.
Thanks for the help in fixing this mess.

Here you go

Sarah Wolcott