Thanks for educating me. I grasp the problem. No one wants to waist money documenting the poor who were a drain on society. As you go back in time they were even more frugal with public funds. My Mesnard ancestors lived on Round Hill Greenwich. It is nearly certain they worshiped at the First Congregational Church of Greenwich. It burned down at the end of 1812 with the records inside. They moved the church to a larger location. They dug up the grave yard and moved it to the new location. 'They' claim they did their best to document who was moved. I know only 1 Mesnard was moved and documented out of the dozen buried there. She was the grandmother of the head of the Banks men's shop in NYC that probably became Joseph A Banks. He moved his ancestors to his new church and had new head stones made of a durable material. They remain readable even till today. All the rest of the Mesnards and the families they married into are not listed on the mass marker. All the Mesnards had moved or were dead by 1812 so they had no one to fund even putting their names on the common marker. I know that some of the stones were readable because 2 were alive at 1806 and they were well to do enough to have decent grave stones. The last of the Mesnards moved during the was of 1812 because the British war ships patrolled the port of Greenwich killing the trade.