This article is based on some findings in a larger project concerned with Deaf settlement in Maine. Maine is the site of one of the oldest and largest extended Deaf families in the United States: the Lovejoy-Jellison-Berry family (Jones 1996). However, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, many extended Deaf families lived in Maine. Examining the 1850 census, the first government census to identify all of the household members who were "Deaf and Dumb," will give some idea of the number. This article recounts intermarriage and family life in a nineteenth century extended Deaf family in Maine: the Rowes and the Curtises. It draws on letters between Nancy Rowe, George Curtis, and members of their families, letters that have fortunately been preserved. (Contains 5 figures, 2 tables and 2 notes.)