Celia-- This is fascinating!!!! I'm very glad you shared this. Kevin. -----Original Message----- From: Celia Snyder [mailto:cgsnyder@uiuc.edu] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 10:47 AM To: RUDD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Increase Mosely/Modsley/Maudesley in National Geographic Hi, If you haven't yet read the August 2000 issue of National Geographic, you might be interested to know that Increase Rudd's gr-grandfather, Increase Mosely/Modsley/Maudesley is mentioned. The subject is the recovery of the remains of the ship, Elizabeth and Mary, which was sunk in the English battle against the French at Quebec in 1690. Increase was the key to identifying the wreckage: "Three initials-IMS-seen on the dolphin-decorated handle of a porringer, helped identify the wreck as one from the English fleet commanded by William Phips. "I" and "S" stand for the first names of a married couple. "M" is for their last name. Records reveal one such militiaman aboard the ship; Sgt. Increase Modsley. He and many fellow soldiers never returned from fighting Frontenac's troops." Later in the article: "...Each name represents a family that waited in vain for the owner to return with the fleet to Massachusetts. "Sarah Modsley, widow of the sergeant whose porringer we found, waited 13 years before remarrying," says Grenier." Here's the connection: Increase Mosely (Maudesley)/Sarah Trescott (second husband John Peabody) Increase Mosely, Jr./Mary (Marcy) Hazen Sarah Mosely/Joseph Rudd Increase Rudd/Bathsheba Johnson Celia in Illinois