This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5EE.2ACIB/298.2.1.1 Message Board Post: John Billington came to American with his two sons, John and Francis, and his wife Ellen. The whole family was trouble, and the captain of the Mayflower wrote some unkind words about the family, however it is rumoured that he was jealous of the family because they were the only family to not lose any members during the first winter in America. John Sr. was the first man hung in America and was sentenced either because of murder or slander (I can't recall which). John Jr. nearly blew up the Mayflower when he fired a gun near a barrel of gunpowder. All this information is easily found on the 'net. Justin L. Billington Tyler, Texas