"Schroeder" <jfstms@bellsouth.net> wrote: >The Thoroughgood's were in Virginia very early on.  Adam Thoroughgood was b. >ca. 1603 in Grimston, Norfolk, England and died ca 1640 in either Jamestown >or Lower Norfolk Co., VA. (all the paperwork was in Lower Norfolk).  Adam >had four known children:  three daughters and a son (Adam, II).  Adam, II >married Frances Yeardley/Yardley and had six known children, one daughter, >Rose, and five sons.  One of these sons was Francis b. 1670.  Is this >possible the Francis you are referring to? He seems to have been of the right age (and economic circumstance), all right. In this case, it looks like a good bet, but I know nothing on these folk. MD records, as best I see, don't illuminate much directly. John