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Subject: Stanhope-Tubb wedding Greenfield 1780
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:55:34 EDT

According to Greenfield vital records a Mr. Stanhope married a Mrs. Tubb Sept
14 1780. I wonder if some people have concluded that they are Joseph Stanhope
and Ruth Tubbs, Ruth supposedly born in Glastonbury Ct in 1761. Joseph is
sometimes listed as born in 1757, son of Joseph Sr. of Sudbury and also as son of
Isaac; he was supposedly in Guilford VT for a time before moving on to
Richford VT. I question many of these details. The Joseph Stanhope in Guilford
census in 1790 was single, though the Guilford History doesn't give his age
bracket and I don't at the moment have the census itself. Also I can find no
appropriate Ruth Tubbs--perhaps she was a widow.
I am still looking for the mother of my Abigail Tubbs, b 1757 in Greenfield
where she married Joseph Gaines in 1779 and died in Guilford VT in 1841. (I
believe she is erroneously listed as Elizabeth in the vital records; her sister
Elizabeth married Joseph's brother David in Greenfield and also moved to
Guilford.) Their father was Ezekiel Tubbs, born 1727 in Lyme CT, but I have found no
marriage or death record for him. I think his wife may have been named
Elizabeth.
I have no proof, but I am wondering if the Mrs. Tubb who married Mr. Stanhope
in Greenfield in 1780 might possibly have been Ezekiel's widow and the mother
of Elizabeth and Abigail.
Anyone have any further evidence????
Helga Andrews

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