This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Knowlton, Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5Mn.2ACEB/26.73.74.75.83.84.85.86.89.92.93.94.104.105.108.109.110.111.166 Message Board Post: I have been reading the queries/posts about Capt. William Knowlton who supposedly is buried in Nova Scotia; I, too, would like to know (referring to info posted by Linda Blevins): What note on William Knowlton are you referring to when you give information about him that I, for one, have never seen before: He left England in the Spring of 1632; they left with no crew [which indicates they were on their own private sailing vessel (?) ]; William died on board ship and his wife Ann Elizabeth Smith was then piloting the ship? Where did all this come from - please do share. I did not find any further responses from you and I am sure we would all love to clear up this mystery. Where oh where did Capt. William go? So then: he was buried on Cape Sable island, not in Shelburne, Shelburne County. Has anyone seen the tombstone of this deceased William; does anyone have a photo? Of course, by now we do know that the hype we first read about as to the parents/ancestry of William has been proven to be incorrect, so we do not know what his ancestry is or who his parents are and his wife was not Ann Elizabeth Smith, just Ann Smith. His son William married an Elizabeth (NOT Balch); considering the botched up Knowlton info we all had to work with in the first place, I imagine the father and son were confused as being one person. No matter how many years pass, we seem to always be hunting for the truth about the Knowltons - and Capt. William continues to baffle us. I pick at it now and then, hoping to find some bit of truth somewhere, but after so many years I am beginning to doubt we will ever know the real story.