I just wish to correct a statement I made in an email to Dorothy back a bit about the RI Bartons, and their travels to the New World. I stated that they sailed from Holland. However they were from England, or British Isles. They fled the British religious persicution. Their stay in Holland was only long enough to secure passage to New Amsterdam. I never meant to infer any Dutch Heritage. I am totally facinated and amazed to read the oral history of Alvin Barton. It so closely resembles the stories I remember. The Corner Cousins used to come visiting, and they and my Grandmother would reminice over those old stories. I was less than 10 at the time, and may not remember everything, especially about the shipwreck and one brother going back to England. These Corner Cousins were my ggf's daughters, unmarried schoolteachers, and lived together on the original farm which was a part of the Cowesett Purchase at the time of the founding of the Warwick, RI in 1641/2. The original land was at the corner of the Purchase on the corner of Division Street and South County Trail. The old family cemetary is now sandwiched between a highway and a multi-screen theatre. It is surrounded by a Stone Wall, and has an iron gate. A large stone was erected in the early 1900's listing those who were the original persons buried there including Rufus in 1648. Only field stones mark the graves of the early folks. Those sisters were so far the last to be buried there, the last in about 1958, and my two infant brothers who were buried there in the early 1930's. My Revolutionary Ancestor Benjamin Barton is directly in front of the gate. It would be wonderful to be able to read the journals or diaries of those original ancestors if any could be found. Enough, I only wanted to correct my earlier omission. Betsey Barton Perra.