Wow, thanks, Ruth!! That is a BIG help!!! Francesca >Have you seen the following? (at >http://www.gendex.com/users/jast/D0007/G0000038.html) > >"Thanks to the website "Don Dickenson's Ancestors" from which this >information was copied. > >"Richard Bishop of Piscataway was originally a First Settler of Duxbury, >Massachusetts, where he had a son, James Bishop. He lived with Love >Brewster in 1638. Richard Bishop was of Plymouth, and there he hired >Nathaniel Souther on January 5, 1640-1. Among those "Able to bear arms >in the Colony of New Plymouth. 1643, were Nathl Souther, George Clarke, >and Richard Bushop." >. Richard married Alice Clark on December 5, 1644 [possibly as his >second wife]. She was the widow of George Clark, and tragically ended >her life by murdering her own child, and was subsequently hung therefor, >in 1648. There is a mournful account of the murder by Alice Bishop of >her daughter, Martha Clarke, 4 years old, July 22, 1648 (Savage, Vol. I, >page 393). She also had another daughter, Abigail Clark. There is also >reference to "Damaris, (wife of the first William Sutton), daughter of >Alice and Richard Bishop". When William Sutton removed to New Jersey, >Bishop sold his property at Duxbury, and went to live with him. Richard >Bishop was called "of Piscattaway in Artercull or New Jersey," when he >sold to Capt. Benjamin Church his property in the Colony (Winsor's >Duxbury, page 228.)." > >So there is the relocation of the family to NJ (including Richard Bishop, >Alice's husband). Perhaps Abigail Clark went with them ... but then again >she may have been married by then, or perhaps she died in childhood ...