Sandra, I emailed you earlier about the possibility of a John Rich and a Truro and Mount Desert Island connection. What I didn't remember while writing from work is exactly what my Dad and Grandfather had concluded. "My" John Rich ended up on Isle au Haut, ME around 1803 (Lathrop Lewis' map, Survey of 1803, shows him owning lot #2). Julia Rich Hogan, in her "The American Beginnings of the Rich Family," Vol. IV, could not positively conclude that my Isle au Haut John and the two Johns at Mt. Desert were either one and the same or related. However, her strong suspicion was that my John was one or the other of the Mt. Desert Johns. My grandfather and father did further research on our line of Riches. Dad's conclusion, from his "The Rich Family of Isle au Haut, Maine" (and yes, Warren Rich, the Rich Family Association genealogist, has a copy of Dad's "book."): "As I indicated earlier, Town records are basically non-existent. The only way we can proceed further back in history from JOHN RICH is to rely on census information and known ages and death dates. By this process we conclude that JOHN RICH was born in 1786. John, we are sure, was born in 1786 from the 1850 Census records taken of Dee Island, Maine listing his age as 64 years. Isle au Haut at the time was a part of Deer Island. Records show only _one_ JOHN RICH in Maine who was born in 1786. This eliminated the Mount Desert RICHES as JOHN was too young to be JOHN RICH Sr. and too old to be JOHN RICH JR. of that town. "The 1786 date is also important in that there was a JOHN RICH born that year of NEHMIAH and MARGARET LATHLY LEWIS RICH. This same NEHEMIAH and MARGARET RICH were prominent citizens of Winterport, Maine. The conclusion is that our JOHN has to be ths sone of NEHEMIAH and MARGARET RICH. My research of information available does not show any possible connection with any other line of RICHES. "We don't know exactly when NEHEMIAH and MARGARET RICH came to Winterport, Maine from Cape Cod. Land records do show that NEHEMIAH RICH of Wellfleet, Mass. bought 74 acres of land in Frankfort, Hancock County, Maine 29 August 1795, the first of many land transactions involving NEHEMIAH in Maine. "Based on the above, again the conclusion is that JOHN RICH, son of NEHEMIAH Rich was born in Massachusetts, most likely at Wellfleet, Eastham or Truro in 1786; and is one and the same as the JOHN RICH who is in Isle au Haut, Maine before 1810." That doesn't exactly answer your question, but it does establish the link between Riches in Isle au Haut, Maine to the Cape Cod Riches. NEHEMIAH being son of ROBERT RICH of Eastham, who is son of JOHN RICH of Eastham, who was son of RICHARD RICH of Dover, NH and Eastham, MA. Being in such close proximity, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Isle au Haut Riches and the Mount Desert Riches have some kind of link. And in case anyone is curious, the rest of my line goes from John Rich of Isle au Haut... Stillman Rich of Isle au Haut... Edwin Rich of Isle au Haut... Floyd Rich of Isle au Haut and Jackson, Michigan... Norman Rich of Jackson, Michigan who now resides in Knoxville, Tennessee... to me. Best wishes, John John C. Rich Knoxville, TN gorf@usit.net