I also wish to avoid confusing factual mis-impression perhaps left in my "Redux: Thomas Disbrow, WHO IS HE?". Rev. John Eliot, the famous 17th c. NE "apostle" to the Indians, was the person ("HE") who was that very close adherent to Thomas Hooker and his "reader" assistant in his congregation back in England. Sorry for any likely confusion that "reader" was a DISBROW, which I certainly did not mean to imply (obviously enough). I had the following also ready for posting, before all latest interesting back/forth: It is now known on public record when Nathaniel Disbrowe was married to "Anne Corbett." According to the "A Calendar of the Marriage License Allegations in the Registry of the Bishop of London, 1597 to 1700" (page 11, The British Record Society, Limited), this marriage took place in London on October 31, 1664 (our Halloween, OOPS, so sorry couldn't resist!). Nathaniel was 2nd son to General John Disbrowe, according to Johnson & Disbrowe (see below), who have now gotten it "wrong"(?) concerning Thomas as "brother" to General John (per Carl Dunn)....NOW then this marriage is also important because Johnson & Disbrowe in 1986 claim her as one of "10 daus. of John Corbet, bart. of Stoke, Shropshire." CORBETS, yes, this name too figures into those "Disbrow NETWORK" proofs I'm using as to just who my Thomas Disbrow may have been: This is a "relationally" important perhaps even unique enough surname for more proof yet, since another "Corbet" (of unknown relation to the above Anne!) was also listed along closely with that Thomas Desborough/Delborough in Colham's "Bonded Passengers..." first edition as being sentenced with him for transportation, 1675 (I saw the Sessions books in London concerning too). Concerning that listing, if you like I can discuss further what I discovered about the famous "L" Mike has raised as possibly misinterpreted by Coldham's "Bonded Passengers to America," Mike correctly dismissing this spelling in his own vol. I of "Thomas Disbrow Descendants," p. 20. RE: that "Thomas Delborough, pardoned for being transported"...as "Delborough" vs. "Desborough" (hint: it is most certainly an "s", as even Coldham corrected in later editions at London... This correct Desborough spelling is also as confirmed from the original document at the PRO which I certainly did photo-copy there while receiving opinions from staff concerning spelling). For Curiosity sake: just 3 days earlier a Joseph "Sherwood" m. Mary How in London, ....several days before Francis "Rowe" m. Elizabeth "Campfield. Both surnames important to early CT, w/ Owen "Rowe" very prominently involved in New Haven Colony & much else, but stayed behind...eventually to serve w/ General Disbrowe & Cromwell in Commonwealth & Protectoral government. Owen Rowe died ignominiously, as I believe, in hands of the royalists upon the Restoration.. Other interesting London marriages are close in date to Nathaniel's and hold very familiar "network" surnames to these Disbrowes: including "Jordan" & "Marshall" (also within days). Also listed for curiosity sake: one Edmund "Rolfe" m. Grace Jeaquise December 3, 1664. Nathaniel Disbrowe was listed by both Eddis Johnson & Harold Disbrowe as the second son (third child) to Major General John Disbrowe, b. c. 1641, d. unknown (but probably, by my reckoning, abt 1671, as also based on modern scholarly information concerning his intriguing activities & when he is lost to the official record). There is actually much abt this Disbrowe in the CSP (Calendar of State Papers-Domestic) during Restoration era contemporary to when "My Thomas was forcibly "transported." Most of which material I believe I have collected at London (I should hope!). This includes a letter published from his wife: Anne Corbet (of prominent family), who was moving "heaven & earth" to get him released from the Tower of London where he had been imprisoned for over a year, a period almost contemporary as prisoner of his own father there, General Disbrowe who was released by 1667 (YES, this man was the father to Nathaniel!). Nathaniel is the subject of a fascinating 12 page article in the 1951 issue of journal "HISTORY" (#42), "Captain Nathaniel Desborough: A Post Restoration Sidelight" by Jones (at most university libraries), whereby what ever now can be known of his spying activities are pretty well discussed, even concerning possibility he was actually "double agent" for the crown (say it wasn't so, Joe). There is still much more to be known about OTHERS of the General's intimate family members involved in intrigues, including a very curious record concerning Valentine, another son, arrested at the time of the famous Rye House Plot (just picking up all the routine suspects perhaps!). In any case, a modern study has concluded from the above article that Nathaniel was a "double agent" against his own father's interests & intrigues from Holland (see "Intelligence & Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660 to 1685" by Alan Marshall (HEY, not Marshall can be related to the "network"!). I'm NOT so sure! Eddis Johnson and Harold B. Disbrowe collaborated on detailed study, esp. of the Eltisley Disbrowes: "Disbrowes of Canada and Their English Antecedents and Kinsfolk." With Harold B. Disbrowe listed as "publisher" 1986 (from London, Ontario). Eddis Johnson also produced a 1976 effort entitled: "Disbrow Families of England, 16th & 17th Centuries: An Interim Report" which I have also been much reliant upon. These show much enthusiastic effort and genuinely rigorous attention to what sources they could uncover, including the "biased" mid-18th century Noble and his "Memoirs of the Protectoral House Of Cromwell." STSquires