Ron Yielding wrote: >She was born abt 1640 and married William Hallock. Their son John >Hallock married Abigail Swazey.. Peter Hallock, father of John, may have >also married a woman named Howell. > >Deek identity and ascending info on these Howell wives who married >Hallocks. Location is Long Island, NY and they may have been Quakers. I'm presuming that you meant your second sentence to read "Peter Hallock, father of William, ..." because this situation is complicated enough without giving John Hallock two fathers! And let me start by saying that, as far as I know, the question you ask is far from settled. You may want to pose the question at LI-Roots, where there are some real experts on the early settling of Long Island. Early written sources (including Howell's History of Southampton, Thompson's History of Long Island, and several ancestries), relying largely on oral tradition, say that Peter Hallock, a disciple of Rev. John Youngs (Puritan, not Quaker) arrived in Southold in 1640, bought property in Oyster Ponds (Orient), went back to England and collected his second wife and her son. She was the widow Margaret Howell, and her son Richard Howell, apparently were unrelated to any of the other Long Island Howells, who were from Buckinghamshire and settled in Southampton. William Hallock is supposedly the son of Peter and his first wife. In 1991, Richard Baldwin had a piece in the Suffolk Co. Hist. Soc. Register which questioned the existence of Peter Hallock, or at least his presence on Long Island. He indicated that the only thing documented is that William Hallock, born ca. 1615, probably in England, held land in Southold, and died in 1684. He may be the Hallock who was in Southold in 1640. Regarding John Hallock, the Wickham-Billard ancestry by Josephine Frost (1935) says that William's will (New York Pub. Wills, vol. 1 pp 128-9) mentioned all the living offspring (and called John "an obstinate apostate" depriving him of the bulk of the estate). One of the complications of studying this Howell line (he says, trying to bring the message back to the list's purpose), and other early Long Island lines, is that many of the reference works were compiled over a hundred years ago. The History of Southampton has major errors in it, but its still one of the basic resources for Howell and the other lines in Suffolk co. As Baldwin said in his article "How hard...to deny (or change) an historical event or date once in print!". Bill Wilson Mill Valley, California wdwilson@netwizards.net