Gypsy, Dale Burley wrote a book about the Bearse family. It is titled Bearse-Bears- Barss family: geneology of Augustine Bearss (1618-1697) and Princess Mary Hyanomo (1625-1702) of Barnstable, Mass. 1638/ compiled by Dale L. Burley. Publisher is Harbor Beach MI:D.L. Burley, 1979. The copy I looked at is non-circ., but is located at the Library of Michigan in Lansing. There is an introduction that lists background information about Augustine and Mary. According to this guy, Chief Massasoit is the gramdfather of Mary Hyanno and is buried at Gay Head on Martha's Vineyard. A statue of him now stands on the Pilgrim burial ground in Plymouth, Mass. This book also states that the marriage of Augustine and Mary Hyanno is recorded in the Barnstable vital statistics. The bok also gives many of the Bearse family lines (although mine is incomplete). I have promised my sister, Sharon, that I would send her the little I copied from this book- I will do it this week. The most important part may be the sources page that tells where the author found his information. I think there was a later copy of this book written that had 2 volumes to it, but it wasn't on the shelf when I was there. If there is anything of interest in what I send Sharon, I'm sure she'll scan it and share it with all. I tried to do a search on the author to see if he's still around, but I couldn't find him. Daisy Duck (Linda)