Hi Patricia, I am also a descendant of this Nicholas Brown (there was another one in Mass and the two have been confused a lot). I have never found a ship's passenger list with his name, nor have I found a solidly documented record for his birth. We do know he was in Portsmouth at the time the Compact was signed (cannot remember if it was 1638 or 1638) since he signed it. The early info on this family is lacking compared to what we have for his contemporaries here in RI. I have never spent a lot of time on Nicholas, although this line runs down to one of my second great grandmothers, Mary Sherman Brown, who married Jeremiah Carpenter Potter. I have still got some brick walls a little closer to me that I\'ve been trying to crack:) Donna Potter in RI ---- Patricia Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Listers. Nicholas BROWN(E) is my husband's Immigrant > Ancestor. I have accumulated quite a bit of information - some on my > own, but also with the recent help of two RI researchers, who moved > heaven and earth to find answers to my questions. > > I believe there is at least ONE (!) question I should have asked, but > didn't, and hope the assembled wealth of knowledge of this maillist > can suggest where I can look. > > Is there information (documents, VRs, lists, etc.) that gives the > probable voyage Nicholas took from England - - to Rhode Island? If > he did not come directly, there could be a marriage record, and > perhaps the birth of a child or children. > > I have seen suggestions (but they had no documentation) from two > other, earlier researchers that believe Nicholas came from England to > "somewhere"? in Massachusetts Bay Colony, and probably in 1636 or > 1637 arrived in Aquidneck. I believe both researchers had spent some > hours in the RIHS Library, - and I haven't. > > Has anyone of you seen such information? Is it documented and > credible? I know the RIHS Librarian has very limited time. It would > take a person familiar with the material in the Library to know > whether such a reference was there. The one researcher from PA did > her work in the 1990s, and the other from NH did his in 2004 - too > long ago to recall now. > > Chapin's "Documentary History of RI", Vol 2, shows Nicholas becoming > an Inhabitant of Aquidneck in 1638, 27th day, 4th month (Old Style). > > Thank you in advance for any suggestions you have to address this > question. Gratefully, Patricia Brown > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message