Hi Richard and David I wondered the same thing! As someone living in the UK, I use the USGS National Mapping Information website to learn more about locations in the USA. By visiting http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form and entering "Isle of Wight" as the search term, I found that Isle of Wight is indeed in Virginia (and that there's also an area in Worcester Co MD by that name) Isle of Wight in Virginia is a populated place and also the name of the county in which it is situated. Clicking on the name in the Results page that you visit by searching will give you more info and, if you then click on the link to "Show Feature Location using maps produced from the U.S. Census Bureau's Tiger Map Server", you can see where it is on the page http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/MapServer?f_name=Isle+of+Wight&f_state=VA&f_latlong=365427N0764229W&f_type=ppl&server=TIGER David: when you refer to "A Richard Riggs by Arthur Smith", do you know whether this means that Arthur Smith paid for Richard's passage, or was the person to whom Richard was indentured, or what? @¿@ Geoff Riggs - Chepstow, South Wales, UK ~ RIGGS Surname Study www.riggs.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (@¿@) Searching for {~} the Missing Link ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Riggs" <rriggs3@optonline.net> To: <RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [RIGGS-L] Richard Riggs 1637, Isaac Riggs & Abraham Riggs 1687 > Is this the Isle of Wight in the English Channel? My gggrandfather came from > there about 1853. Is there an Isle of Wight in Virginia? Richard Riggs > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <DHRiggsLondon@aol.com> > To: <RIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 1:12 PM > Subject: [RIGGS-L] Richard Riggs 1637, Isaac Riggs & Abraham Riggs 1687 > > > | In a book called, Early Virginia Immigrants 1623 - 1666, by: George Cabell > | Greer, A Richard Riggs by Arthur Smith landed in Isle of Wight in 1637. > | > | Fifty years later in 1687 Abraham Riggs age 13 and brother Isaac Riggs age > 15 > | landed in Accomack County, Virginia under the Head Rights Law. > | > | If anyone has information as to where Richard Riggs came from, it might be > a > | clue as to where to search in the U.K. for my Riggs boys. > | > | Regards, > | David Harrison Riggs > | DHRiggsLondon@aol.com > | > | > | ==== RIGGS Mailing List ==== > | Check out the RIGGS Resource Page located at the following URL: > | http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/r/i/RIGGS/ > | > | >