Hello Will, William Johnson wrote concerning the list of signatures relating to the Sandtoft documents. > can you tell us what the purpose of the document > and its signing was? If you head off to the URL contained on that post all will be revealed. It and another document were a partition to the crown or Cromwell. Makes for some interestin reading. And I, for one, find it less than suprising that a name would be of interest to many. This area of England was a hot item among Huguenots and the locals during the period concerned and so became one of the places of choice for many immigrants from France. Kind Regards, Peter Leroy

Hi Peter and Others: The colony of Walloons at Sandtoft were employed by Cornelius Vermuyden, who had worked with them before in the Netherlands, to emigrate to Lincolnshire and take part (do the work, more like) in the draining of Hatfield Chase, one of the King's hunting grounds. These people were not religious refugees per se, although they had been about sixty years previously when they were sentenced to permanent exile from France (in large part) and made their way from Artois and nearby areas up to the Netherlands. Regards - Carol