so so so close

[walkitout]

Turns out one of the Connecticut guys (at this point in the tree, everyone is so _thoroughly_ documented that it is really just a matter of following links) was brought to Connecticut from Concord, Massachusetts where he was born in 1638. That was a while ago and he was just a baby, so I was thinking the previous generation had come over on a boat and who know just which boat that might be. . .

But no. It was the Planter. Still. Kinda cool. And I've got lots of other lines in this batch yet to rattle through. :-)

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[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's earlier than Bob's earliest ancestor here, Thomas Hatch (who came over in 1638 on the Castle). My earliest, as far as I know (though I've only dabbled in some books and have not checked the accuracy) was Francis West, a house carpenter, sometime before 1839, as he was married in Duxbury, Mass., in that year. (He seems to have gotten muddled with a more famous Captain Francis West who was all over the place by 1622, but I think ours came later and was probably no relation.)