I'll have to read that book. We have a Southern BARTLETT line (not mine) that sprange from a rock c1776. Nine descendants with matching DNA which matches the DNA from 12 BARTLETT descendants of the Mayflower. We know of one connection from MA to NC, but still can't tie in the VA group, yet. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 6, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Kathleen Much <[email protected]> wrote: > I heartily recommend Nick Bunker's _Making Haste from Babylon_ for readers > who want to get up to speed on the Mayflower bunch with an entertaining and > well-documented account. > > Craig is right that there was quite a lot of coastal commerce between > Massachusetts and Virginia in the 17th century. I like to think that my New > England ancestors showed their perspicacity by moving south pretty quickly, > within a generation or two. Isaac Allerton is one who had the good sense to > settle in the NN when his father's mercantile enterprise annoyed Gov. > Bradford and some of the Puritans. Isaac Sr had come on the Mayflower; his > son was born in Plymouth Colony. > > Last week I was able to track down the graves of some of my peripatetic > ancestors in Westfield, NJ, where they paused on their way from England to > New England to Long Island to NJ to VA to NC to SC within about 150 years. > If anybody on the list is kin to the Woodruffs, I'll be happy to share > photos of the tombstones I found. > > Kathleen Much > The Book Doctor >