At 07:17 PM 03/11/1999 -0500, you wrote: >Carole, >Quite the snooping. > >>...........6) John of Hallo' Hey (1596-1667) Will = Margaret(?) d/o >>William Percival of Weever > > >This is the one that you are referring to, right? The death date implies >that he died in England it would seem. I assume that this John was born in >1596 and did die in 1667 and did marry a Margaret(?) Percival. > >That doesn't make this fellow an emigrant to Massachusetts. > >I still think the John DUTTON in MA is of unknown origin and that the story >of his marriage to a Mary NEELD is a very recent (post-Internet) creation >from someone's confusion or imagination. > >Doug Hall Doug: I agree with everything you say except that the Mary Neeld error is not recent. I find the same false connection in my grandmother's papers--she died in 1978. I believe, although I don't have it where I can get my fingers on it, that it was published in a family genealogy at some time in the 19th Century. The 'net has merely made the dissemination of the error so much EASIER. <grin> Darrell