In a message dated 3/2/2000 1:04:28 PM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << I think convicts or people who were sent from England as punishment for Crimes in those early days, were documented though. >> Yes, indeed! My early McPherson ancestor was a "criminal"--part of the Jacobite uprising of 1715--captured at Preston--options were hanging or banishment to the colonies. He arrived in Maryland in 1716 and was on the ship's list. He is also on the list of prisoners in the Tower Mary McPherson b. 1834 married Jahew Hooper. Their daughter, Martha Hooper married Joshua Carlton. Joshua's grandmother was Mary Looney, daughter of John and Margaret (Hilliard) Looney! cj