In Rose's book, John Talby is first mentioned as being in the Bay Colony in 1635. This is only 5 years after the founding of the colony, 15 after the landing at Plymouth. It is 4 years after the arrival of Roger Williams and a year before he founds Rhode Island. Since John, Dorothy, and family remain in the Bay Colony after this, they most likely were not part of this group. John, according to Rose's account, had a lot of land in Salem. He must have been among the earliest arrivals. Salem is north of Boston and Plymouth quite a bit to the South. Naumkeag became Salem in 1629. I do not know what Naumkeag was before, but a look at the history of towns shows that between the landing at Plymouth in 1620 and the founding of the Bay Colony in 1630, several towns were formed up and down the coast. My guess is that most of these were established wherever ships landed. Navigation errors were not unknown in those days. It seems to me that we want to look around the years 1628 to 1633 for ships leaving England, probably with puritans who were escaping the problems they were having with the Church of England. This is the time that the English Civil Wars are getting underway that will lead to the execution of Charles I. While we have a little of John's line via Stephan showing up in Rhode Island, just how they got to Maryland is uncertain. Maryland was established as a Catholic Colony, but also one that allowed freedom of religion, by grant from Charles I who lost his head in 1649. After this puritans from invaded Maryland and put a stop to religious freedom in Maryland. Since the earliest record we have (unless someone has found something else) is that we know Edward is in Maryland in 1699. This is 50 years after the death of Charles I and if Edward came as part of an invasion or normal migration is only a guess. I have a suspicion, nothing to really base it on, that Edward may not be part of the Bay Colony line at all, but a later migration from England. All that is needed is the paternal line descending from John and Dorothy to die out due to lace of male offspring during a generation. This is what will happen to my line as I have no male siblings, and my father's only male sibling had only girls. There is a possible male child from a half brother of my father's but I have no way of knowing. We may still have a descendent or two who descend from the Rhode Island Talbee, but 99% of us come from William Hitchcock Taulbee. So, we need to find either a missing generation between Edward and the Rhode Island Talbee or a name on a passenger list to Maryland in the later half of the 17 th century, It seems so unlikely to me that only 1 Talby would have migrated. The other option which will leave us dead in the water, is that our Edward came as an indentured servant and changed his name. I am not enough of a detective to deal with that. It is what makes this hobby fascinating though. One generation, the difference between one line and two. Talk to you later. It's 108 here, that's why I am willing to type so much. Air conditioning.