This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alden, Southworth, Paddock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FO.2ADI/159.1.1 Message Board Post: Ahoy, Harlow Chandler! To my sin of not being born a New Englander, please add the worse ones of not acknowledging your June 2 message or thanking you for explaining Plymouth Colony Assistants, confirming Constant Southworth's militia-ensign status, and linking to the URLs of the Paddock gravestone photos in Dennis. I spent the last hour reading those websites with fascination and hope to use two of the photos in our family history with permission from the copyright holders. One small question to which there probably is no answer: Do you think "Else" for Alice [Alden] Paddock reflects the Pilgrims' casual orthography or some lingering regional pronunciation from England? Or perhaps was Alice called "Else" by her family? It is certainly she, because the inscription reads "wife of Judah Paddock." Thank you, too, for the New Bedford Whaling Museum URL. My grandparents escaped Middle Atlantic summers in a house on Nantucket, in Pearl Street (now India Street) right in the town. On rainy days my mother would go to the library (I think, but maybe a museum if there was one then, which I doubt, this being in the first two decades of the 20th century) and curl up with old whaling skippers' logs. Lucky child. Again, ever so many thanks, and thanks always for your documentation. (A source! A source! My kingdom for a source!) Happy Fourth, Mignon Cameron MABCam@aol.com