John Alden's wife was born at the same time as this Elizabeth Gwinn, daughter of thomas and Elizabeth (Gillam) Gwinn. John Alden and his wife Elizabeth were members of the same church as Benjamin and Hannah ___________________ Gillam and Thomas and Sarah (Dixey) Gwinn. The Alden and Gillam families certainly knew each other since John's mother, Elizabeth (Phillips) Alden, and Elizabeth Gwinn's aunt, Phebe (Phillips) Gillam, were sisters. Benjamin Gillam was a wealthy shipwright while both John and his father were shipmasters, so they may have had business ties. Besides naming children Gillam and Ann, three of John and Elizabeth's other children's names are significant and do not appear in the families of John's father or grandfather: Hannah, who would have been named for Elizabeth's aunt, Hannah (Gillam) Sharp, who raised her; Katherine, who would have been named for Elizabeth's cousin, Katherine Sharp, daughter of Richard and Hannah (Gillam) Sharp; and Thomas, who would have been named for Elizabeth's father and brother, Thomas Gwinn. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com