Hi everybody, Glad Alice's story was of interest; unfortunately, that trial info was all I have found - that's one of the mysteries: why she did it (did she *suddenly* go berzerk, or had she been 'odd' all along? She can't have been *that* odd, since she got two husbands . . ). She originally married George Clarke (unk when) and had two dau by him: Martha (the one she killed) and Abigail. I haven't been able to find a trace of what happened to Abigail. Alice then married Richard BISHOP on 5 Dec 1644 and had at least one child, Damaris BISHOP (who married William SUTTON, my line). I would have thought that Abigail might show up in her household, but perhaps by the time Damaris married, Abigail also had grown up and married, since Damaris was long after Abigail in birth. Abigail has 'disappeared', so I guess she's also another Unsolved Mystery. As for why Alice murdered the child, who knows? I haven't been able to find anything further about it; perhaps it was hushed up and never spoken about in the family, because of shame or community disapproval??? As for their status in the community, I have no idea if they were "high" or "low". There were obviously some 'lower' types there, because by reading the court records, I kept coming across one "Allis Berry, wife of Richard Berry" who kept being brought to trial for stealing stuff from all her neighbors, sneaking into their houses while they weren't home and taking clothing, food, utensils, tools, even milking someone else's cow. Her husband was also brought up a couple of times, once for gambling and (as I recall, I may be wrong) cheating at cards, and once for maligning someone. Alice MARTIN Clarke Bishop's parentage is the other Mystery - the original supposition that she was the dau of Christopher MARTIN (1575-1621) and Marie PROWER (~1577-1621)(odd that they both died same year? epidemic? Indians?), who have Mayflower connections, has been disproved by several Mayflower researchers, so that takes care of that - her parents are another Mystery. It would be interesting to find out if there was some mental instability in one or the other parent . . I can't imagine a mother murdering her own baby and then not remembering it, unless there was some mental problem. William SUTTON and Damaris BISHOP (Alice's dau by 2nd marr) had 11 children, their first child Richard SUTTON (my line) m. Sarah Rognion/Runyan who was the dau of a well known Huguenot immigrant, Vincent Rognion. From several branches of Vincent's kids, there were Royal line connections (all collateral, to me). Somewhere along the line, Richard & Damaris moved to NJ. Info I have on William SUTTON: "William was said to be a pillar of the Quaker congregation that met in Woodbridge. He is buried in the Woodbridge Friends Churchyard in Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., NJ. He apparently lived also at Eatham on Cape Cod, Barnstable Co., MA and did not settle in Middlesex Co until 1683." After Damaris died, William SUTTON married one Jane BARNES and had one more child, a son Joseph, b. 1684, Piscataway, NJ, d. 17 Mar 1772. I can find no evidence of Alice's 2nd dau Abigail being in anyone's household. Perhaps the poor girl inherited her mother's instability and either died young, or was hidden away? (my wild imagination strikes again!) Or maybe she just married Mr. Unknown and drifted away to another colony. I would have thought, though, that she might have, say, gone to NJ with Damaris and her family. Too bad no censuses back then that listed who was in the household!! By the way, that Plymouth Colony website was fascinating: while reading the rest of the court cases out of curiosity, I found a reference to the mother-in-law of another of my ancestors, Daniel WING; the WINGs are from my mother's side, and the SUTTONS are from my father's side - and yet, both sides were living in the very same colony!!! Amazing! The Plymouth site has things like wills of various people, probates of various people, biographies of various inhabitants, the court cases, etc - it's a treasure trove! You might find any of your relatives in all those, but you have to read them all! Here again is the URL - for the main Plymouth Colony research site: http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~jfd3a/ Good hunting! Francesca Sutton