Thank you , Jane. I certainly will look into this. I am going to the ACPL in Ft. Wayne in early November, if I cannot sooner get to a library closer than that having a copy of VRs in Suffolk County MA, as well as the other Boston records. I haven't read the entire "NE Colonial Records". I have sent a query to Suffolk MA Message Board, as well as to Essex MA and MA Bay Colony Boards, but no replies yet. (And to think that my husband and I lived in Malden, MA, regularly walked the Cemetery there, and visited the Lynn, Revere, Nahant, Marblehead, Northport, Ipswich towns during the two years we were there!) Pat On Jul 29, 2007, at 9:38 PM, Jane Fiske wrote: > In GREAT MIGRATION, Vol. 1, p. 147, in a sketch of William Ballard, > Bob Anderson quotes a deposition recorded in Suffolk Probate Vol. 1. > "Nicholas Browne and Gearard Spencer [worn] affirmeth that being > with Mr. William Ballard of Linn [worn] before his death ..." > Bob says that the date is no longer legible, but is given > elsewhere as 1639, which he thinks is reasonable given his estimate > of the year of Ballard's death (between 13 March 1638/9 and 6 June > 1639). > > I don't know if this is the Portsmouth man or not. The association > with Gerard Spencer suggests that it might be, especially if he > doesn't show up in Boston records in any other context. I believe > that most of the men who signed the Portsmouth Compact had been in > Boston and went to RI with the Hutchinsons. > > I haven't searched other Boston records for Nicholas Browne but > there are other possibilities. From the messages posted, I assume > others have done that. The Boston Church records include some > comments on other people who were among those "disarmed" who went > to RI. The New England Colonial Records (Records of the Gov. and > Council of the Mass. Bay) might mention him. > Jane > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to RIGENWEB- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >