While I have seen references to several documents that support the supposition that William probably made his living (at least for a time) as a "mariner" in the coastal trade from the Hampton NH area, and that Aquila did "goe to sea and do service in the towne (of Newbury, MA) with a boate for four years", and is reputed by legend to have been the first pilot to bring a sailing ship across the bar at the mouth of the Merrimac River, I have not run across anything that suggested they ever did sail together. From the items listed in Aquila's will, it would appear that he was more of a farmer, at least in his later years. The reference to their origin in Cornwall, England, is, of course, part of one of the several Aquila legends that is unsupported by any verifiable documentation either in England or America. It was the ship Mary and John, (John and Mary ??) by the way, that apparently brought the Wheeler family (including their daughter, Ann, Aquila's future wife) to the Colony from England in 1634. In John's posting, the penultimate sentence is a bit puzzling, and I wonder if the word "not" was dropped and it should read "...and this ancestry does NOT connect to the early planters." (Assuming that "this ancestry" and "early planters" are referring to Aquila/Thomas and the Chesham Chase line, respectively--or vice versa. It is a little unclear. But in interpret the writer's intent from the last sentence to mean that the alleged connection is erroneous.) Dick Chase