Hi Pat, If you have some time while in Providence...take the I-95 north past Boston. When you get near Danvers you can stay on 95 or take the more scenic Rte 1 up to Newburyport. You'll need a full day. Newburyport is one of the towns that Aquila Chase and Annie Wheeler were early settlers in. Newburyport itself is worth going to see. It's lovely. If you go to the Historical Society there...they can give you a map...and there is an 18th centruy building that stands I think...at the corner of Federal St and the road that goes along the river. This was the site where Aquila and Annie first lived in Newburyport. The original house is of course gone. They also had a 5 acre planting lot further up in town. I don't have that street address handy. I have things packed away because I , myself, am moving back to New England this Fall. But...if you go up to High St ...and go left on High St... toward Newbury...which is I think Rte 1a....follow it along past the turn on the left for Plum Island...stay on 1a...past the Meeting House on the right...CAUTION: there is a graveyard across from the meeting house...that is NOT the one you want. Keep going...you will see a village green on the right hand side...keep going and looking off to the right....further up the road...you will find the "Old Settlers Burial Ground". There is a sign and a wall and it's all overgrown. It is here that Aquila and Annie are believed to be buried. There is no marker so no one knows for sure....but it's a cool place to go. Then back track to Newburyport...it's only a few miles.....and get on Rte 1...and go over the river and go 5 miles up the road to Hampton. There is a green in the town center...not at the beach...but in the town that was where all the original houses were. They're gone now...but there are markers there. There on the green are rocks with the names of the like 20 families that settled Hampton. There is a rock for the Chase families of Aquila and his brother Thomas. If you get lost ask where the Historical Society is...because it's right at the green. The Hampton Green is also cool because it is the site of a ghost story. There was a woman named Eunice Cole. She is known as the witch of Hampton. She was a kind of cantankerous old lady who fought a lot with her neighbors...and the town folk of Hampton weren't the friendliest lot to begin with...so of course they started accusing her of being a witch. Goody at one point lived out on Island Path near the beach...and made her living selling food to the fisherman as they headed out to sea. Well...some of the fisherman got sick...and Goody got accused of witchcraft because they got sick. There were numerous other accusations...but that was one I found interesting. Goody was in and out of jail for many years. She had no children to protect her and was finally let out. After her husband died, she was named a ward of the town...and the towns people were ordered by the court to to take care of her because she had no family. There was a little bit of justice in that..I think. Anyway, she lived in a shack there at the village green...and when she died ...they were afraid to go in and check on her....and when they finally did.. they dragged her body out...and drove a stake into her heart...to peg her spirit to the earth...and buried her in a shallow grave near the green. No one knows where. But they say her ghost walks the green. :0) And how does she tie into Aquila and Annie? Well...she sold food to the fisherman...one of whom was probably Aquila...because he lived on the bank of the Hampton river almost directly across from Island Path. There is NO evidence to say he or Thomas accused her of anything....and the people who accused Goody...also arrested Aquila for violating the Sabbath...by picking the peas. So it could be that they were both on the bottom end of the pecking order in the village. And...the other thing that ties Goody Cole and Annie....is this. I have a copy of the manifest of the Mary and John. The voyage of 1634/35 records among the passengers..John and Agnes Wheeler...and their 5 children...among whom are David and Annie...and the manifest also lists William and Eunice Cole. So Annie and Goody Cole made the 3 month voyage to America together. So Annie would have known the witch of Hampton. Pretty cool..huh? Kathy Caslin caslin@winco.net