Smith’s family paragraph names six daughters but omits Mary Moore and Sarah Merwin. Both are explicitly identified as daughters in William’s will. The published list therefore cannot be used as a complete child count.

The small legacies to Eunice, Rhoda, and Anna’s children acknowledge earlier provision. They do not show that those branches were rejected or disinherited. William’s estate plan also credited certain payments already made by his son.

Lois’s reported birth on 6 August 1765 and death on 27 July 1787 imply an age just short of 22. Smith describes her as 22. Preserve the dates and the age statement as separate evidence rather than changing one to fit the other.

Eunice and James Graham: the earlier study lists Livina or Lucy (John Warren Harpur), Almira (Hyman Parker), Clarissa (Daniel Hyde), William, and Melinda (William Harper; later Lawrence Fosdick). Smith’s Guthrie paragraph reports two sons and five daughters, so the five-name working list is incomplete or requires correction. William is reported unmarried.

Rhoda and Heth Kelsey: the working roster names Clara (Cornell Smith Jr.), Hath (Clarissa Hamblin), Caroline (Abraham Van Alstyne), and Rhoda Ann (Alpheus Wright). The spelling of the son’s name and the individual dates should be checked against the family records. The earlier study associates the couple with Coventry Cemetery.

Anna and Reuben Kirby: the three daughters are Laura or Lorra (Miles Hinman), Lois (Robert Wallis Foster), and Sarah or Sally (Sylvester Smith). Smith independently names these three married daughters. Reuben married Naomi Patterson in 1794; their sons must not be added to Anna’s family.

The family study and Smith’s account agree on eight children: William, Gershom, Sarah, Susan, Olive, Emeline, George, and Ophelia. Their associated marriages are William to Sarah Rynders; Gershom to Elizabeth Ketchum; Sarah to a Tarble; Susan to Philo Kirby; Olive to Allen Randall; Emeline to Samuel Stow; George to Emma; and Ophelia to Washington Lane.

Several details conflict. Smith gives William’s birth as 12 August 1800, Gershom’s as 15 January 1802, and Sarah’s as 25 November 1803; the earlier study gives 8 August, 14 January, and 5 November. Smith calls Sarah’s husband Hezekiah Tarble, rather than Zachariah, and gives Gershom’s death in 1855. Emeline’s death year is 1869 in Smith and 1868 in the earlier study. These are research questions, not settled corrections.

George W. Guthrie, born 15 February 1810, appears in Smith’s account with employment in Philadelphia, Washington, and San Francisco. The earlier study expands his name to George Whitney. The variants Emma Garson/Gossen and Washington C./L. Lane also require original marriage or family records. This later George is a distinct research subject; his name alone does not connect him to a Revolutionary-era George Guthrie.

Olive Guthrie and Allen Randall’s line is represented by autosomal kit B346161. The DNA section distinguishes that participation from the still-needed direct Guthrie paternal-line testing.

Mary and Roderick Moore: the working ten-child roster is Cynthia Ann (John Perley Ford), Erastus, Lucretia (Ethyl Bert Lyon), William, Jeremiah, Almon (Laura or Lura Pierson), Mary Ann, Philena (John Barker), Roderick Erastus (Mary Ann Phillips), and Charlotte (Jesse Thurston; later John Meakin). William and Jeremiah reportedly died young, and Mary Ann unmarried. Erastus’s proposed marriage to Ann Taylor remains uncertain.

Mary’s reported 2 June 1787 marriage and its New York location need verification. A later county name or the timing of her father’s household migration cannot by itself establish where she married. The family study gives her death as 25 September 1860 in Indiana.

Sarah and Daniel Merwin: the working roster names Talcott (Phebe Teed), Chauncy (Orra Norton), Susan (Samuel Adams Hubbard), Samuel Rosseter (Eliza Harpur), Rhoda (Moses Norton), Sally Marie (Loren Kellogg Hammond), and Rebecca Ann (Hiram Ellis). The reported 28 January 1796 marriage postdates Talcott’s reported 18 October 1794 birth. Both dates need source checks before drawing conclusions about the family.

Jemima and Dr. Gershom Clark Hyde: Smith names sons Ira and Charles. The earlier study names Ira, husband of Sarah or Sally Humphrey, and an unnamed son who died in infancy. Charles may be that second child, but this has not been established. Jemima’s reported 1803 tax entry also needs to be matched carefully to her identity.

Ruth and David Cooper: the working roster is Eliza (John Daggett), Huldah, Harriett, Samuel Post, Sally, Susan, William E. (Sarah Harrison), and Charles D. Harriett’s placement is uncertain, and the earlier study expressly requests source evidence for the roster. Samuel Post reportedly died in infancy. Ruth’s marriage and the children’s relationships should be tested against probate, guardianship, church, and family records.

Barbour Collection, Stratford, printed page 144: the supplied transcription lists William, son of Jno. and Abigail, born 5 December 1730, citing Land Records, volume 5, page 12. This is a transcription, not an image of the original town entry. Compare it with the 30 December date in Dunn & Dunn’s Records of the Guthrie Family (1898), printed page 5.

Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630–1920; volume 120, Washington, abstract pages 30–31: the supplied images record William and his wife’s admission in 1764, citing underlying page 39. They also record Mary’s baptism 27 March 1771 (page 53), Sarah’s 28 August 1774 and Jemima’s 7 July 1776 (page 55), and Ruth’s 13 August 1780 (page 58).

The same abstracts give Eunice’s marriage to James Graham and Rhoda’s to Heath Kelsey on 30 April 1778 (underlying page 103), and Anne’s marriage to Reuben Curby on 29 October 1782 (page 105). New Preston is named in the marriage entries. The admission entry itself does not name William’s wife, so it does not independently prove her maiden name.

The earlier account’s Woodbury membership in 1752 and 1767 petition involving William and Ephraim remain useful leads for the original church and petition records. Its “West Preston” wording should be checked rather than repeated as a resolved locality.

New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659–1999; Chenango; Wills, volumes A–B, 1792–1829; register pages 71–74. The supplied register images identify William Guthrie of Jerico. The index renders the surname “Guthres”; the document should control the reading.

• Wife Suse: half the household furniture, two cows, five sheep, a horse valued at fifty dollars, and lifetime use of one-third of the dwelling house and barn, with additional land, garden, and wood provisions.
• Only son William: the remaining real and personal estate, subject to the widow’s provision and the legacies; appointed executor.
• Eunice Graham and Rhoda Kelly: two dollars each, acknowledging prior gifts as part of their full shares. Rhoda’s surname must be correlated with the church record’s Kelsey.
• Anna Kirby’s surviving children: two dollars, with provision already made during Anna’s lifetime acknowledged. This is a bequest to her children, not evidence that Anna was alive in 1798.
• Mary Moore: seventy-five dollars payable in cattle, in addition to earlier provision. The March 1803 memorandum states that her full share had been paid on behalf of her brother William.
• Sarah Merwin and Jemime Hyde: two hundred fifty dollars each, accounting for specified prior payments.
• Ruth Guthrie: two hundred fifty dollars, payable two years after her father’s death in household furniture, cattle, or a combination.

The witnesses were Lemuel Badger, Jotham Parker, and Benjamin Jones. The probate proceedings include witness testimony in February 1807 and the executor’s authorization dated 24 February 1807. The index’s inferred death year of 1807 must not replace Smith’s reported August 1806 death.

James H. Smith, History of Chenango and Madison Counties, New York (1880), volume 1, chapter XVII, printed pages 160–161: the supplied pages describe the Guthrie–Kirby migration, the disputed first purchase, replacement lands, tavern, and descendant families. An accessible chapter transcription is available through Genealogy Trails. Use the printed images to check names and dates in the transcription.

1799 tax assessment, Jerico: the supplied image includes William Guthrie and a house and barn. Both father and son were alive, so the unqualified name alone does not identify which man was assessed. Compare the full roll, neighboring entries, valuations, and deeds before assigning it to one household.

Bainbridge Village history: useful local context adapted from Lucy A. Bryer’s 1982 historic district nomination. It is not a source for the Guthrie parent-child relationships. Its meetinghouse fire date differs from Smith’s account; neither version is needed to determine the family’s migration or death dates.

The locality passed through changing jurisdictions. Jericho was organized in 1791 and renamed Bainbridge in 1814. For the earlier settlement, search the predecessor county and land records as well as later Chenango indexes.