Friends, For those that might be connected to or researching these two families, there are these shipping news reports of the year 1828: The March 20th edition of the Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser report the astonishingly bad luck of the Barque PHILLIPPA, spoke at the Port of Baltimore that 10 days out from New York (Mar.2), experienced severe cold, sails & rigging caked with ice...In the act of taking in the foretopmast-galiant sail, John LEWIS, a Dutchman, had a very bad fall from the rigging and died on the 13th. On the same vessel, David SCOTIA,"a native of Portsmouth, NH," also died of extreme cold on March 9th, and on their "departure from Cape Henry (exact day not specified) "John MARSHALL, belonging to Portsmouth, N.H., fell from the foretop across the rail and overboard, and was seen no more." Bob Jackson Hampton, NH ---