One comment, HEARNDEN, HARRINGTON, HERINGTON and about half a dozen other variations have been used for the same family in Rhode Island. It's a little more complicated than general confusion <grin>. This is not to say everyone with that surname is closely related, but you must investigate each spelling. I've seen fathers and sons use different versions, and actually I guess it's just whatever the town clerk felt like writing down that day. Wayne > GENERAL THEOPHILUS??? To Mary Kinch--There is no record of his > being called a General. Jackie says that the Harrington name has been > confused with Hearndon, and she is the one who married Samuel, > s/o Theophilus.