To the person who is interested in researching John Sicklemore, who used the name Rat(c)liff - there are numerous sources of information about him. Any book having to do with the Jamestown Colony is likely to have information about him. It should not be that difficult to find him under either name, but here are a few, among many possible, sources: 1. CENSUS OF INHABITANTS: JAMESTOWN AND THE JAMES RIVER (975.5, T971) 2. title not recorded for this: 975.5, B631I, which gives a description of his death at the hands of Indians, according to my notes 3. the very wonderful CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS, for which I cannot find the call number at this moment. 4. The Virginia Historical Index (SWEM) has several entries for him. I have seen no argument, in any source, that this man's original surname was anything but Sicklemore. No one knows, for sure, why he used Rat(c)liff (or similar spelling). Now that I think about it, it may have been Captain John Smith who first "exposed" him as an "imposter". Anyway, it's fun to read about these characters. They had quite a time of it, with lots of internal struggling for power, in the Jamestown colony. Pip