Thank you for this response while I have been struggling with my new computer--still not resolved as I can't get my internet provider on it and I cannot find a cable for the printer [I am typing on the old computer in the living room with a very long phone cord stretched across the entire room--NOT appreciated by my partner]. I hope you posted it to the message board too--it looks as if you did and have said everything and more than I would. I am beginning to wonder why we are so obsessed with old William and the fairy story when even parish records, if found, for him in England would only take us back a couple of generations. If we are SOOOO interested, why has not every man with Knowlton surname and every woman who knows one gotten him to join the DNA project that Carlisle has set up for us????? He is very polite but has told me privately that he has had almost no response. Hmmmmm? There is gobs of American Knowlton genealogy still undone, particularly outside of New England and the west coast. We could all help some of our posters. And, do you know there has not been a Knowlton family reunion in over a 100 years? Are we all so cantankerous and solitary that we cannot ever have another? Elizabeth Knowlton your cantankerous list administrator Message text written by INTERNET:knowlton@rootsweb.com >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. < Elizabeth W. Knowlton