This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Founds, Barton, Baker, Farrell, Heiney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DFC.2ACI/1006.1475.3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Mark- I tend to agree with your Virginia theory, but for completely non-concrete reasons. Being that, most of my family is from Virginia, West Virginia, and western PA, and the Barton's are an extremely significant line in my heritage. I suppose that a RI branch could have been grafted in, but I have a "hunch" that this is not the case. More likely this is someone's wishful thinking because of the Mayflower connection (I was temporarily lured in by this myself!).