In a message dated 11/11/2005 11:17:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ertjr1@earthlink.net writes: I have not written you in some weeks, so it was not me who sought info about the Red Sea men. But sometime ago I think it was you with whom I corresponded about them. You may recall that I suspect "my" George Chicken was one of them. Is there any new info about them? I am always interested in such info. Hi Ed-- Yes, you are the one I was looking for-- since we had not talked recently, I could not find your screen name in address book on new computer. But I hadn't forgotten that you were looking for information on the Red Sea Men. While doing some lookups tonight for others, I came across these references: from "Plantations of the Carolina Low Country," by Samuel Gaillard Stoney. 1938, The Carolina Art Association p. 18- 19 "Meantime, in 1692, one famous company of questionable seafarers anchored the ship "Loyal Jamaica" in Rebellion Roads, off Mount Pleasant, where it lay, giving Charles-Town some uneasiness. When peremptorily ordered away it put out to sea.[sic] but added to the unrest by tacking back and forth across the harbor mouth before it finally disappeared. Shortly thereafter the authorities had word that the ship was run ashore in Sewee Bay, had been stripped of her furniture, and that her people were scattered into the town and country. Upon examination of some of them it proved that hey had committed nothing like piracy, except in the Red Sea where the subjects of the Grand Mogul were then considered fair prey to Christians; that they had acted as privateers in the Caribbean, but that a debate begun upon their sailing north into the latitude of Charles-Town as to whether or not they should put in there and turn planter had been prolonged until they settled it in the affirmative by beaching their ship at Sewee. Several of these Red Sea Men were well connected in England, young, and rich with the plunder of their paynims. Following their resolution they had taken, they became not only planters of Carolina but the ancestors, in some cases, of most eminent Low Country families." p. 57- 58 in the section on Fenwick Hall, 1730 "Fenwick Hall marks the cresting of a wave of prosperity that came over the Low Country in the decade after the end of the Proprietorial Government with its last complications of Indian wars and piratical incursions in the Low Country proper. The house also signifies the arrival of considerable wealth of an interesting family. Robert Fenwick, one of the 'Red Sea Men' who upon their arrival in Carolina on the privateer 'Loyal Jamaica' were bonded to behave themselves during their sojourn, came of a good, sometimes prominent, county fmaily in England. from "Plantations of the Low Country: South Carolina 1697- 1865," by William P. Baldwin, Jr., Legacy Publications, 1985. p. 33 from the section on Fenwick Hall "Descended from one of the 'Red Sea Privateers,' John Fenwick prospered and left the home to his son..." Since this was the first time I'd read "Red Sea Privateers," I Googled those words & came up with many hits. You may want to check that out. It sure is an interesting topic. I will let you know if I find anything else. URQ