Tryphena Rood

1850 U.S. Federal Census, Brant, Erie Co., New York; NARA M432 roll 499, page 334b, dwelling 787, family 829, line 4; enumerated 21 Aug 1850. Household as enumerated: George West 81, farmer, b. MASSACHUSETTS; Tryphena West 80; Stephen West 57; Elvira West 50; Edwin West 19; Paulina West 17; Mariett West 14; Marshal J West 11; Augusta West 9. George's birthplace column is the decisive datum: age 81 => b. c.1769, MASSACHUSETTS, matching the tree. CAVEAT RECORDED, NOT SMOOTHED: his father Francis lived at Hopkinton, RHODE ISLAND, and there is also a Hopkinton, MASSACHUSETTS — an 81-year-old or his informant collapsing the two is exactly the expected error, so this corroborates rather than proves. George (dw. 787) and Matthew (dw. 771) sit sixteen dwellings apart on one enumerator's route: the strongest proximity the 1850 census can give, and NOT proof of the father-son link, because 1850 records no relationships at all.