I looked for the Stuart Bloom review on amazon.com, but I couldn't find it. Does he have credentials as a reviewer from a newspaper or journal? Since the Jamestowne Society accepts Stephen Hopkins for membership, why does Stuart Bloom dispute that? Karen -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Masse Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 6:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MFLR] Hopkins -- Jamestown AND Mayflower? In his review of Nathaniel Philbrick's _Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War_, (found on amazon.com)Stuart Bloom, Earlville, IL United States, says: "In his discussion of Stephen Hopkins, the Mayflower passenger, he says, bluntly, that the man of that name who was a passenger on the Mayflower is the same Stephen Hopkins who sailed to Jamestown, with an unplanned stop in Bermuda, in 1609. Now there is circumstantial evidence to support that, but it is far from the established historical fact that Philbrick implies." " . . .One would think that one could refer to the notes to find Philbrick's source for this claim. But the notes are a mess. They are in narrative form, more of a summary of sources, with no indication of what source supports what statement in the text." Is this a real controversy? I haven't heard of this before. I am relatively new to genealogy compared to many members of the list, but since Hopkins is my "famous ancestor" I do try to keep up on what new scholarship comes up. Susan Wallace Masse Hopkins, Snow, Paine, Cross, Erwin, Newton ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message