>Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:04:51 -0400 >From: [email protected] (Lynda McGinnis) >Subject: Passenger Lists >... >Hi, > Do any of you have records of any Robblee (or similar spelling or >sound) from passenger lists? I was wondering thru the NEHGS library this >weekend and found a book with 2 possibles. > >"Passengers To America", edited by Michael Tepper, Gen. Publ. Co., >Baltimore, 1977. > >1) pg 65: >"2 Maij 1635 >Theis (sic) under written names are to be transported to ye Barbadoes >imbarqued >in the Alexander Capt. Burche and Gilbert Grimes Mr P'Certificate from >the >Minister where they late dwelt the men tooke the oaths of Alleg and >Supremacie >die et a pred." > >This list includes: >"Geo: Rudglie" age 17 y >"Jo:Bush" age 22 y >{This name is a stretch for Robblee-like but, it would be easy to mis->read a "B" >with a tail, as "dg". Especially if the person reading it wasn't >familiar with >the name of Robley/Roblie. Also, in sound, this name is as close to >Robblee as >is Rapelje/Raplee.} > >2) pg 256: >"Port of London, 28 Feb. to 7 Mar. 1774." >List includes: >Joseph Robley, age 25y, Planter from Togabo, on the ship "Tobago >Planter", going >to Tobago to his plantations. >Charles Thomas, age 23, Clerk from Westminster, on the ship "Tobago >Planter", >goin to Tobago on business. > >{During the 1600's, there were quite a few people who moved between New >England >and Long Island to and from the Carribean Islands like Tobago and >Barbados.} > Has anyone searched passenger lists? Any idea where the info came >from which states that George & William came to Long Island in 1623? >This sounds pretty specific and must have originated somewhere. Any >thoughts? > If anyone has done a routine search of passenger lists, could you >send us a listing of the sources you've already check so that we're not >having to duplicate work already done? >Lynda >