In a message dated 8/9/05 11:33:11 PM, TristanSalazar writes: > Yes that would make sense that Anthony sailed to Southampton. It would >have been a difficult journey across country, that's for sure. From what >source does Ms Gordon get her information. Ah, I should have known somebody would ask that. She cites Cressy, David. _Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. So there. >Are there contemporary letters >describing the journey from Boston to Southampton? Dunno how Cressy got it. I wonder how available that book might be. Winthrop did a lot of writing--letters and journals. Maybe . . . . Weather in Seattle just like England--lousy. 60 degrees, cloudy and dripping with humidity that wants to be mist. Sunny afternoons, though. Kate