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Hi, Richard:
There's a lot of fascinating information there. I'll try to break it down in segments and do some more research on the bigger questions later.
1. Hermanus Best. There are a lot of records on him, he is sometimes called "Harmanus" or "Harmonius." He is United Empire Loyalist, he seems to be in Ontario in Addington Co. until around 1800 when there a number of records for him in Missisquoi Co. These Canadian locations can drive you nuts, I think Philipsburg was the township that was part of the seignury or parish of St. Armand, which was the unit used for census purposes back then. The Best family is large in Canada, well-represented in Brome and Missisquoi in the 19th century. There were quite a few in Durham Co., Ontario as well, this must have been an area for UEL land grants, and of course is where Wilbur6 (could he be UEL too?) settled.
2. Ruiter. Another large family, several are UEL, again many records for this family in Missisquoi and Brome Counties. I would consider these areas, as well as Huntingdon, Beauharnois, Chateaugay, and St. Jean Counties in Quebec and Cornwall in Ontario as "in the vicinity of Montreal" in that they are all within say, 60 miles or so. I get the impression that, if you are looking for any "English" family in Quebec around 1800, the only likely places are to the south of Montreal and not in other directions.
3. Ephraim Dewell had a daughter, Sarah White Deuel, b. 1818 who married a Seneca Robinson, a lawyer, who shows up in the 1850 census for Chittenden Co., VT. They had a son named Henry, I note.
4. Odd pronunciations. I note that there was a William Duellyea who shows up in a history of Simcoe County ca. 1850, that's where a lot of Wilbur6's descendants lived, it just struck me as an oddity.
5. Ephraim4. (I use the more conventional enumeration of starting with the first generation in America as #1, in England the most recent generation is A, the next B, etc. going backward, so to translate me into DRD enumeration you have to add 2). He was born in 1724 or 1725, so he's too old, but it could be his descendants or those of a brother. The odd thing is if you look at Dartmouth VR the first six children are all listed in the birth records --- but none of the last six children of Jeremiah3 are, which indicates to me that they were not born in Dartmouth. DRD seems to indicate, if I remember correctly, that these children were born in "Bristol Co. RI," I'll have to look in Bristol VR to see if there's anything. Ephraim4 is still alive as of 1753, when he is named in Jeremiah3's will, so he reached adulthood.
6. The powder horn mystery. How did they know that Ephraim was from RI, aside from his accent and his liking coffee cabinets, stuffies and chourico pizza? There should be a record somewhere of people who served in the French & Indian War. If he can be traced to RI that is a helpful clue, although offhand I don't have any record that indicates where in RI an Ephraim Duel could have been from. There is an Ephraim Dowly in the 1790 census for Washington Co., RI, I suppose he's possible.
7. Ephraim6 (Wilbur5, Silas4, Jeremiah3, etc.) I think in my very first message I said to put Wilbur5 aside, but maybe it's time to bring him back, he had a son Ephraim who was born roughly around the right time (say 1770) who could be the guy. (Here, Wilbur5 would be naming his son after his uncle). There are not a lot of other Ephraims to look at.
Off the subject, I was looking at my notes and see a Jay Duel in the 1860 census for Hebron, Washington Co. (where there was a too-young Henry Duel in the same census). He is age 11, so born say 1849. It looks like his line would be Jay8 (Abner["Abiner" in census]7-6, Jonathan5, William4, Jonathan3-2, William1). (I have no proof that Abner7 was the son of Abner6, I am assuming this for the present). This is the wrong birth year, judging from your message on Jay in the 1910 census, but I see that in the remainder of your message you calculate the wife's birth and their marriage from 1900, not 1910, which if the age of 51 is applied to Jay Clarence would indicate a birth year of 1849, which would be consistent with this Jay Duel. Do you think this could be him? I think Moonshine Henry was originally from Cambridge or Hebron in Washington Co., again I don't have firm proof but it seems that some of the names I see in the 1860 Tompkins Co. census seem to compare well with the names of the 1820/30 census in Washington Co.
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