Adding to the confusion is that the large BANCROFT family > > in/near Middleton, MA, where the large WILKINS family was from -- had strong > > ties to the "Tribe" near Stoughton, MA. Hi Betty That is quite a distance to travel, it seems, in the 1700s from the Northshore area to the Southshore.. seemed a long trek when I was a kid riding that distance in a car....... which made me think - how far do we think people may have traveled casually in say pre-revolutionary days. I am not meaning those who relocated but just in every day life - would folks have traveled much outside of their own settlements? Faye