In a message dated 4/30/2004 1:27:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, jerrykelly@att.net writes: So I don't get it when your genealogy teachers say that the story of the brothers being in trouble with the British is too common a story to be believed. Jerry: I'm afraid I may have been misleading, somehow. The story they decried was the "three brothers (or 4 or 5)" coming over together. But I think, in this case, there is some evidence that it is true. Mary