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From: "Cliff & Lynn Watts" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Dealing with "Accepted sources"
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:06:06 -0500
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Bob Gillis wrote:

>> I have found what I think is a mistake and a very obvious one in
Anderson's Great Migrations, the Beginnings.

>>He said that a John Brown who arrived in Boston in 1635 on the Lion with
wife Dorothy was the John Brown who had two daughters in Watertown and die
a few years later.

>However a very accepted source, Hodding, (and I think Anderson used him)
gives the passenger list of the Lion that has John and Dorothy and sons John
and James destined to Plymouth. Other records including probate
have a John with wife Dorothy and sons John and James living Rehoboth,
Plymouth Colony. <<

Bob Anderson has made some goofs (as have the rest of us), and I've
corrected him on a few. Perhaps you've not noticed his further comments on
the John Browns on pp. 2098-9 of Vol. 3. He seems at least to be proposing
a tenable position.

Cliff Watts
Written at Westborough, MA


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