In a message dated 1/7/2003 2:51:00 PM US Mountain Standard Time, genjen@adelphia.net writes: > I am told that Lizzie Borden has links to Mayflower passengers. Can anyone > prove or disprove this? > A number of years ago, facinated by the case of Lizzie Borden, I undertook a little exercise in tracing her ancestry. This entailed trips to Boston, New Bedford, Taunton, and Somerset MA, and Little Compton and Warren RI. I was never able to prove any descent from a Mayflower passenger, but I also couldn't disprove it either, mainly because some of her lines are obscure. One possibility may be the parentage of her paternal grandmother, Phoebe (Davenport) Borden, whose death certificate stated that she was born in Little Compton, RI. Regards, Rick (an eighth cousin, six times removed of Lizzie, via descent from the Giffords family of Cape Cod)