Hi Charles, Don't know where you 'are' with this: starting out or ready to write the definitive work on it. Most of us here are waiting for the person who had done all the work to join the list and to post their life work free to us. I'm hopeful, myself! So far though all my rellies think I know more than them. Hah!! I can't even talk to the fairies let along find our ancestors. If you are starting out, check Bolton. DOn't know him? You ARE starting out <grin> . That's "Scotch-Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America". In the back he'll have a bibliography of sources. Check there. He's in paperback and on CD. Check your local library. Also check Maine resources. This is Maine history. There's more likely to be more people up to date on Robert Temple on a Maine list than here. We're from all over, not from Maine, largely. Since Bolton wsa written over 100 years ago, to catch up, you would check: www.familysearch.org -- their catalog may identify any historical work on Temple. Also check the NEHGS website and their catalog. Maine was 'owned' by Mass, so ultimately, many early Maine records are in MASS and part of Mass history. It's a pain! If you check PERSI you can find articles written on Temple and the town. PERSI can be got at your local LDS family history center and on line at a couple places like ancestry. As you know, the idea of writing down the names of everyone who got off some ship is an idea first invented by the US COngress in 1820. In that year it passed a law requiring that all ships entering the USA document who was on the ship. Before that date, we got no such lists. We got some things, like lists made of non British immigrants due to a law requiring that non British subjects take an oath on arrival. However most of our ancestors here are British. THey are not documented. THere are also diaries and lists made for various reasons. These may document one or two % of who came. We don't know who came or how many so we can't even be sure how many names we don't have. We are arguing over how many came and from where. Also why they came. The scholars are not in agreement. Hwoever anything that does survive that documents colonial immigration has been published and indexed in Filby. You can check the internet and/or our archives for info on Filby. Filby is now in www.ancestry.com. So you can try to find your man there in under a minute. If you strike out, you can then move on to something else. You can also use Cyndi's list (www.cyndislist.com ) to spend lots of evenings inspecting lists of immigrants posted by busy beavers to the Internet. Or become one. All this is 1 or 2 or 5% of all the records, but it's more useful than watching TV. Usually you will find that at your dates, little is known. They kept very bad records in the early 1700s. Bolton is your first stop. After him, it's the standard genealogical methodologies. For info on them see www.genealogy.com/university.html . Three courses on immigration! They are good. Also a deep study of Topsham history paying particular attention to where early documents were deposited is in order. Possibly there is some info buried in early state papers of Massachusetts, undiscovered. You can find it and publish an article. We'll find you in PERSI unless you tell us about it. You might also join NEGHS and ask their experts who may have worked over this material. They are the ones most likely to know off the top of their heads. One thing to pay attention to is farms that are tax exempt. A number of Siege of Derry vets came to New England in the early days. Their farms were tax exempt for life, or, until the American Revolution (which came first !). So it's a clue to where they were. If you understand the history of the Williamite Wars, you'll know there are just a couple places the vet was fighting: Derry and Enniskillen being top of the list. If you do find a list....post them here and we'll love you forever. Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: charles <jitsu93@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:48:06 -0800 (PST) >Capt. Robert Temple brought at least 5 shiploads of Scotch-Irish to the area around Topsham, Maine ca 1719-20. > > Were there any lists of Temple's settlers who emigrated with Temple in that time frame? > > > thanks > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net