Edited sentence: Additionally, during middle age, Chester Arthur began to claim he had been born in 1830, rather than in 1829, which may have further raised suspicions about the nature of his birth (despite the fact his parents took up residence in the United States in 1828).It should be noted that his mother, Malvina Stone Arthur, while a native of Berkshire, Vermont, moved with her family to Quebec, where she met and married the future President's father, William Arthur, in 1821.Their marriage and lengthy residence in Canada may well explain the confusion about Arthur's place of birth, as perhaps did the fact that he (like his mother) was born in Berkshire, and thus literally within less than a day's walk of the Vermont-Quebec border.They continued to reside in Canada until sometime in 1828, when William Arthur became a Baptist minister, and successively tended to eleven parishes in the Vermont and upstate New York region