Joan, Are we talking about the same Walter Harris and Mary Fry? Cindy Joan Norstedt <past-lane@adelphia.net> wrote: Thanks Cindy - How lucky you are to have gotten all these papers! Joan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CTNEWLON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Cindy

Cindy, I failed to keep the previous e-mails on this. I do have the following taken from The Great Migration: It does indicate that the Walter Harris of New London is not the same Walter of Dorchester. Neither source tells me the name of the wives. I think I should not comment further until I can figure out which is which. Joan WALTER HARRIS Walter Harris appears as one of sixteen names on a passenger list of 7 March 1631/2, taken at the port of London; also on this list were John Smalley and "Edmond Wynsloe," the latter returning from one of his business trips to England, having apparently recruited Harris and Smalley [ Hotten 149]. 8 April 1633: "Whereas Walter Harris had bound himself by indenture to serve Mr. John Atwood of London, under the command of Mr. John Done of New Plymouth, for the space of five years, the said John Done hath sold all right, title & claim to the said service to Henry Howland, by consent of the said Walter, for & in consideration of fourteen pounds sterling, to be paid at three several payments, vizt: the first in hand, the second in November next ensuing, & the third in November, anno 1634, in merchantable commodities, as corn or swine, as they shall be worth at the several times of payment" [ PCR 1:12-13]. COMMENT: No further record of Walter Harris is seen. Some sources identify this Walter Harris with the man of that name who appears later in Dorchester, and then New London, but this cannot be the case. The Dorchester man already had a family, including sons born in the 1620s; this is supported by the passenger list recently discovered by Coldham, for the ship Speedwell, sailing from Weymouth 22 April 1637, which includes an entry for "Walter Harris, his wife, six children & three servants" [ Coldham 185]. Such a man would not have come to Plymouth in 1632 as a servant. Source: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III On Sep 24, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Cindy Besser wrote: Joan, Are we talking about the same Walter Harris and Mary Fry? Cindy