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/TIF.2ACEB/111 Message Board Post: I found the following paragraph in The Sleeper Family of NJ and NY page 18-9, citing Joseph Besse's "Sufferings of the Quakers" and F. C. Mason's "The Borton and Mason Families.": "In 1st mo. 1660 John Borton was one of several Quakers of Aino, Northamptonshire, England, taken from their houses by soldiers, and committed to prison for refusing the oaths. In 1665, he, with others, had his goods taken by distress for a fine of four shillings each, imposed for four weeks' absence from their parish church. In 1674 a fine was again imposed on him for the same reason." I have not been able to obtain a copy of Sufferings or Borton and Mason, or any English records. Would love to do some trading, if anyone has copies. Let me know please Brian