Paul, Thanks for your additional thoughts. I'm still working on the assumption that Greenfield LARRABEE's name is for real and that it can tell me something about his origins. My research has taken another tack, now that I notice that there was a family in LEREBYs as well as a family of GREENFIELDs in Saint Keverne, Cornwall in the early 17th century. So I am out of Devon and into a neighboring county. It looks like Saint Keverne is on the Lizard Peninsula, just about eight miles south of Falmouth. Preliminary research informs me that Falmouth was created in 1613 and it surpassed neighboring Penryn so that by 1650 the Custom and Excise had moved from Penryn to Falmouth. Wouldn't a bustling port have been a place of opportunity for a lad from nearby Saint Keverne? I did find an indication that Grenville was used as a Christian name in Devon: Grenville DARKE was baptized 30 January 1697 in Ashwater. (Ironically, that is a parish I am searching for my ROCKEY ancestors, a totally unrelated research project.) But on to the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut to find out what other visits the Phenix made to Connecticut in the middle of the 17th century. Regards, David Langenberg Newark, Delaware, USA On Jan 30, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Paul Hockie wrote: > David, > > Unfortunately the National Archives do not seem to have the captains log for > this HMS Phoenix as this would show the voyages. A major role of the navy > was to patrol and project the trade routes from the other colonial powers - > France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands etc. as well as pirates' They also > provided escorts for troop and treasure ships. The Maritime museum gives the > following: > "In the 17th and 18th centuries there were six Royal Navy dockyards in > England, at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth and Plymouth. > There were also a number of outports in England and overseas yards, > including Gibraltar, Halifax and Jamaica." > It would be worth downloading > http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/royal-navy-operat > ions-1660-1914.htm > > 1660 was when Samuel Pepys re-organised the navy. > > Paul

Hi David, I know you have changed tack but look out for the name being spelt as Gunfeeld as well just in case it got corrupted in their movements from parish to parish. Bev -------------------------------------------------- From: "David L. Langenberg" <gallienus@mac.com> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 6:55 AM To: <devon@rootsweb.com> Subject: [DEV] Phenix, LARRABEE/LEREBY, GREENFIELD/GRENVILLE, DARKE, ROCKEY > Paul, > > Thanks for your additional thoughts. I'm still working on the assumption > that Greenfield LARRABEE's name is for real and that it can tell me > something