Hello, For several years I've been trying to "connect the dots" between the descendants of Bray WILKINS of 1600's Middleton, MA, with some WILKINS men who moved from MA to "Maine" around 1775 ! Researchers have found that the David and "Molly" WILKINS from Middleton, MA, did got to Maine with their children and settled in Lewiston, ME. But, there was a William WILKINS in "Maine" around the same time, and David had a brother, William ! The following is the information on this William: "William WILKINS, son of David and Annah (THOMAS) WILKINS, was born May 21, 1746, in Middleton, Mass. He married Sarah BANCROFT, who was the daughter of an Indian, whose mother was a PICKETT. Sarah was received into the church May 10, 1772. Two of her children died of 'canker.'' Children: Sarah, (no other info) Eunice, b. 1771, married James NICHOLS, no children Jethro, b1774 (no other info) Last year I placed queries about this family on several Lists, including the MAEssex List, and received good information. One point learned was that James and Eunice NICHOLS lived in Middleton, MA, and Eunice lived a long life (no children). My "guess" is that William and Sarah (BANCROFT) WILKINS left MA ~1775 and moved to "Maine" - settling near Pittston, ME, or somewhere around Augusta, ME. Another "guess" is that they had one more child while living there, and he would have been my ancestor, Samuel WILKINS, b~1775 in the same area of "Maine." (There are no records for who Samuel's parents' were.) Somewhere around 1800, somewhere around Unity, ME, Samuel married Electra "Leeta" ______, and they had at least 5 children. I am descended from 2 of them, as my great-great-grandfather, Joseph KIDDER, of Princeton, ME, returned from fighting in the Civil War to marry his first-cousin, Clarissa WILKINS. Since the BANCROFT name has been brought up, I thought I would offer this information as an FYI ! Betty (near Lowell, MA) ... While looking in the archives of the MAEssex List for my postings to remind myself of the above details, I found a response from "Cynthia" in Jan. 2005 - reminding Listers about her "Can-Deerfield-Attack" List ! (Cynthia / BunnyDust passed away suddenly last fall !)