I appreciate your post and will be on the lookout for your names. I know I've seen these variations while looking at records for Barbados, and shipping records for the U.S. I would love to know what you mean by the "Barbados incident". What happened? And I'd also like to know where you found your earliest records. Thank you, Elizabeth DuBois Russo Whose John DUBOIS was rumored to have come to SC by way of Barbados by 1696 RRachelros@aol.com wrote: > > Joseph BOYCE, a Quaker, came from England to Salem in 1639 by way of > Barbados. Later about 1800 the name was changed to DU BOIS by some brothers > and DUBOYCE by others. .... Would love to know more > about the Barbados incident which may have come from dissention from the > church.