Thank you, Margaret - your notes on dates make much more sense to me. Polly On Jun 9, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Margaret Olson wrote: > At 07:31 AM 6/9/2008, Richard wrote: >> A number of the persons who have listed Moses Chandler on the >> WorldConnect >> website list Moses as the son of William Moses Simmons and Lydia Ann >> Holland. I do not know if it is correct, but it works for me. > > It does not work for me. Your previous post said Moses Williams > Simmons and you now say William Moses Simmons, but my comment would > be the same for both. You should be extremely suspicions of trees > for people in the 1500s which show people with middle names. Middle > names just did not happen back then. Unless the WorldConnect files > give sources for the names of William Moses Simmons and Lydia Ann > Holland, I'd put question marks by them when you use them or pass > them on to someone else. > > For resources, Robert Charles Anderson's "The Great Migration Begins" > and "The following Great Migration books are a current resource > which, along with the Silver Books, would be the sources I'd trust the > most. > >> I have 9 children for John Simmons and Mercy Peabody and 5 children >> for >> Moses Simmons and Patience Barstow. Does this agree with your records? > > Those numbers do agree with what I have. > > I have looked at the History of Bridgewater which Lois > mentions. (Others of my family lived in that area, too). > >> History of Bridgewater by Nahum Mitchell, online book transcribed on >> website >> created by Cathy Joy Lasselle (CJ) McNew. >> Revised and maintained since 26-Aug-2002 by Dale H. Cook. >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~mabridge/mitchell/contents.html > > This link is not working right now. Has it moved off of RootsWeb > along with many USGenweb-related pages? > > And Polly asks: >> Does anyone notice (or care) that the Moses Simmons who married >> Patience Barstow - if we go with the dates given by Lois, seems to >> have >> married at the age of 5? "Born abt 1639, Married abt 1644). > > I have the marriage (source, again, TGMB) as "abt 1664". > > Margaret > > Frequently-asked questions may often be answered by visiting the FAQ > page for this list at: http://www.craigrich.net/mayfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAYFLOWER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message