I have thought for the last 3 or 4 years that Richard's line probably came from the northern counties of England, Northumberland, Durham, or possibly even somewhere in South Scotland. I was looking at some of the towns in England and the towns with the same names in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It appears that many of the colonist came from the southern part of England near the English Channel or from the South Wales area near the Bristol Channel , as there are many names of towns and villages that were named the same in New England. Some of the towns that were in these areas of England and also in Rhode Island, or Massachusetts are: Plymouth, Dartmouth, Falmouth, Newport, Bristol, Yarmouth, Swansea, Tauton, Barnstable, Tiverton, Weymouth and Exeter. I am sure that there are probably more that I missed, but this amounts to several towns in a small area of England. It might just mean that these towns were near the ports where they sailed from and thus were some of the last towns that they were in, but it is interesting. There are probably about the same amount of towns that were renamed in these areas from the rest of England, but these few are from about 100 miles or less from each other. It would appear to me that the majority of the new settlers probably came from this area of England. That does not help in our quest to find where Richard was from, it appears that it is going to take a DNA test that will hopefully narrow this down. Anyone have any thoughts about this.