My apologies, I have been leveled by a respiratory illness and have had a fever 8 days and running at this point and did an absolutely miserable job of proof reading. Serves me right for trying to be useful when I can barely breath. The date of death of Nicholas Jr. BULLY was 1664 not 1644 Tamsen BULLY who was buried 20 Jul 1661 was b. on or after 1640 NOTE: The spelling I had included BOADEN & BOWDEN. No hint of BOWLES in what I had, but am not challenging the link to BOWLES, just passing on what I had hoping it helps. james "cough, hack" wall P.S. here is a good source for many of these families: Title: Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire Author: Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis Publication: Portland, ME 1928-1939; Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc