Here's some excerpts from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633": James Downing sketch. .......In January 1641 his stepmother reported disapprovingly that he wished to marry Rebecca Cooper of Salem [WP 4:303]. Letters from Emanuel Downing (20 January 1640/1) and John Endicott (28 January 1640/1) also refer to the matter [WP 4:305-06, 312]. On 12 July 1642 "James Dowing" sued William Flint for slander, but the defendant did not appear [EQC 1:42]. COMMENTS: James Downing's father clearly despaired of him. In a letter of 21 November 1632 to John Winthrop Jr. he complained that James wrote "such a scribbling nonsense letter, that I am ashamed to answer it," and also "there is no hope of his attaining to any learning therefore if he hath a mind to husbandry, or may be fit to truck and play the merchant, and his liking stand thereunto, I would gladly............. Richard More sketch: ......January 1667[/8] Richard More of Salem, mariner, sold to Edward Grove of Salem, sailmaker, half an acre "which More has by an execution against John Prescott" [ELR 3:27]. On 10 January 1670[/1] Richard More of Salem, mariner, and Christian his wife, sold to Thomas Pitman of Marblehead, husbandman, ten acres in Marblehead [ELR 3:107]. On 21 September 1658 Richard Moore of Salem, mariner, sold to William Flint of Salem, husbandman, ten acres in the south field [ELR 3:127]. On 27 September 1671 Richard Moore Sr. of Salem, mariner, sold to William Browne Jr. of Salem, half an acre in Salem [ELR 3:127 and re-recorded 3:174].......