We have finally found the parents of our great-grandmother Martha B. Dawes, born 9 Mar 1823 in Amell, Hunterdon County, NJ, died 22 Nov 1901 in Magee's Corners, Seneca County, NY. Buried beside her husband Rev. Jacob R. Van Arsdale, along with several of her children, in the cemetery across from the Dutch Reformed Church of Tyre in Seneca County. Martha was the daughter of John Dawes and Catherine Porter. She was the granddaughter of John Dawes and Alice Janney and also of Capt. John Porter and Maria Traphagen. This came from our great-aunt Emma Smith Sheridan's DAR records. Papers of which were found in my parents basement. They were copies Aunt Emma had given to my grandmother personally. I recently was this by a cousin: The following article is from "History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey", compiled by James P. Snell, Philadelphia, 1881, p. 541. Jonathan Dawes " Jonathan Dawes, so of John and Catherine (Porter) Dawes, was born in Lebanon (now Clinton) township, in the same house where his ancestors for several generations lived and died. His great-grandfather, Adrian Dawes, came from White Marsh, near Valley Forge, where he lived when Washington's army lay there during that memorable winter of the Revolutionary struggle. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and was born in Wales, whence he immigrated to this country. John Dawes, son of the above, and grandfather of our subject, settled on the present homestead in 1775. He married Alice Janney, of Bucks Co., PA., a daughter of Thomas and Margery Janney of Cheshire, England, who settled in Bucks County in 1683. He (Thomas Janney) died Dec 12, 1696. John and Alice Dawes had six children, two sons and four daughters. The father of Jonathan Dawes was the youngest of the family, and was born Feb. 10, 1787; he married Catharine Porter, May 3, 1807; they had four children, of whom Jonathan Dawes was the only son, born Feb. 9. 1808, and brought up on the farm where he now resides. The house where he lives was built by his grandfather, in 1787. He was a member of the Legislature two years, - 1841 and 1842, - elected on the Democratic ticket, with which party he has always voted. He married Jane Kline, daughter of David M. Kline, Sr., Dec. 29, 1835. She was born Dec. 2, 1817, in Clinton township, Hunterdon Co. They have had four children, whose record we give as follows: Martha V., born March 6, 1837, married George T. Stryker, of Clinton township; Elizabeth, born July 9, 1840, died Aug. 9, 1841; Mary W., born May 30, 1844, married William Craig, residing near New Germantown; John, born Nov. 23, 1847, married Laura Sharp, of Clinton Township, Dec. 24, 1879." On page 534 in the same book was found the following: "John Dawes, a Quaker, had a mill on Prescott Brook, near where Jonathan Dawes now lives (NOTE: this seems to conflict with the above info, which states Jonathan lived on the same farm his grandfather built). Old John Dawes was famous in his day as a mediator between disputants and as an esteemed authority." Hope this is useful to anyone out there. Rose Della Valle Phila, PA