Question: ....I am trying to locate the ship that the widow Elizabeth Packer used to "transport" 19 people including a Jacob DeWitt to the Virginia Colony in 1637, .... Would the ship have pulled into another port before stopping at the VA Colony? Linda ********** Ms. Linda. There is no reason to be sure that those people indeed were "servants", nor do Mrs. Nugent's efforts provide any measure of evidence that all 19 arrived at the same date on the same ship. Then too, such passenger lists as have survived are but a tiny fraction of those lists lost in the past centuries. Nevertheless, in answer to your precise question, it is likely that whenever your ancestor came, his ship came by the "Southern route" (via the "trade winds"); that is, south from Britain to the vicinity of the Canary Islands, thence west to the "Indies" where ships often stopped for supplies or cargo and to drop servants and ordinary passengers, after which many - if not most - sailed North to GA, SC, VA and then on NORTH to further destinations, which may have been any Atlantic port or New England. Have you looked at the original lists from which Nugent abstracted what you found published? It is critical that you do so before relying on her works as evidence. Good luck. Paul. That URL is http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/