I accidently hit the send button and wasn't really thru with my message. So this is a continuation of my letter re: Thwaite STRICKLAND.. This is the John STRICKLAND I said I had as the brother [maybe] of Thwaite STRICKLAND but can't find my source where I read it...I told you about it in my first letter. The John STRICKLAND who was in Long Island was my 12th great grandfather.. I have this on him. John STRICKLAND b abt 1592 England d 1672 Hempstead, Queens, Long Island, New York md abt 1623 England TO .................................... I have one child, a daughter who was my 11th gr gm Elizabeth STRICKLAND b abt 1609 England d ................... Hempstead, Queens, Long Island, New York md 1643/1644 TO Capt John SEAMAN.. 11th gr gf md2) abt 1695 TO Martha MOORE 1639 - 1698+ Source on John 1) STRICKLAND I have one child, a dau of Elizabeth STRICKLAND and Capt John SEAMAN.. 10th gr gp Elizabeth SEAMAN b 1647 Hempstead, Queens, Long Island, New York d ......... " m abt 1667 " TO Capt John 2) JACKSON the s/o Henry & Marry 2) ABBOTT (d/o George 1) Notes on John 1) STRICKLAND.. John came with the Winthrup fleet, but no record shows of what town he was from. There is no church that can be found that he was a member of. He was a man of good consideration evidently as he served on a special jury of the curt of assistance in May 1631, which gave the exempl. damages in the action of battery of DEXTER against Capt. ENDICOTT. At the court in Sep 1632 he was finded 3 pounds for refusing to watch, but at the general court in Sep 1838 it was remitted to him, as were those of Sir Richard SALTONSTALL, Gov. DDUDLEY, Edward GIBBONS, and so many others, that it perhaps gave more satisfaction that any session has evr done since, and may be called the grand remission term. He was admitted as freeman 19 oct and was sworn in on 18 May 1631. With certanity no more is know of John STRICKLAND, but SABAGES supposes that he was one of the patentees of Hempstead, Long Island, NY in 1644 and of it the first settlers at Huntington, in 1650. He had, we can hardly doubt a family, but Savage has no record of who they were nor who was his wife. His daughter Elizabeth STRICKLAND and Captain John SEAMAN also found spelled SYMONDS were married 1643/1644 at Hempstead, LI, NY. Elizabeth died 5 Aug 1694 and her widower md abt 1695 Martha MOORE. Wilma Fleming Haynes gencon@harborside.com