YOU WROTE: Does anyone have information on the first and second shiploads of immigrants >to Guilford. I'm searching for the passage of Alexander Chalker about 1638 >from England. Keith Michal > THIS MIGHT HELP: The Guilford covenant reads: "We whose names are here under-written, intending by God's gracious permission to establish ourselves in New England, if it may be in the south part about Quinapossack (New Haven), we faithfully promise, each to each, for ourselves and families and all that belongs to us, that we will, the Lord assisting us, sit down and join ourselves together in one entire plantation and be helpful each to the other in any common work, according to everyman's ability and as need shall require; and we promise not to depart or leave each other on the plantation but with the consent of the rest, or the greater part of those who have entered into this engagement. "As for our gathering ourselves together in a church way, and the choice of officers and members to be gathered in that way, we do refer ourselves to such time as it please God to settle us in our plantation. "In witness whereof we subscribe our hands this first day of June, 1639." Signed by Robert Richell, John Bishop, Francis Bushnell, William Crittenden, William Leete, Thomas Jones, John Jurden, William Stone, John Hoadley, John Stone, William Plane, Richard Sutridge, John Housinger, William Dudley, John Parmelee, John Mepham, Thomas Norton, Abraham Crittenden, Francis Catfield, William Noble, Thomas Neish, Henry Kingston, Henry Doude, Thomas Cooke, Henry Whitfield. Adios, Jerry England trails@ni.net http://www.cowboyup.com (Home) http://www.cowboyup.com/Back_Trail.html (Genealogy) AVERY (UK), BACKUS, BAILEY, BECKWITH, BOYD, BRAINERD, BROWN, BUNCE, CLARK, DUDLEY, ELLIS, GARDINER, GERARD, GROOMS, HALLOWELL, HAYWARD, HEAD (UK), MC NEIL (CAN), NANNEY, PIERCE, PLIMPTON, POTTS, ROGERS, ROOD, SCOVILLE, SHAILER, SMITH, SPENCER, TILL, TYSON, WAGGONER, WILKIE (CAN)