In a message dated 3/3/2005 4:02:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I'm confused. Amos Carpenter claimed that William2 "was in the colony only three years when he was elected to the general Court of Plymouth (Memorial p. 38)." Does this mean that William2 was a representative of Weymouth or does it mean he was a general member of the Plymouth Court? This was I presume before any deliberations for the move to Rehoboth. This whole matter should be gone over carefully in the Plymouth records. Bruce Carpenter Amos B. Carpenter errs in saying that William2, then of Weymouth, was elected to the General Court of Plymouth. Weymouth was part of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and it was that colony's general court, convened at Boston, to which he was a deputy from Weymouth in 1641 and 1643. He was a deputy from Rehoboth to the General Court of Plymouth Colony in 1645. (ABC's account of William2's role in securing permission to purchase Seekonk [renamed Rehoboth, 1645] is highly speculative and confused. It was the Plymouth court that in 1641 granted John Brown and Edward Winslow permission to settle Seekonk; as above, William2 was at this time residing in Massachusetts Bay Colony. There is no reason to believe that he had any influence whatsoever on decisions made by the court at Plymouth.) Gene Z.