Eclectic Echoes

I was doing my daily purge of the office and “stumbled” across an old notebook in which I had put a lot of the genealogical research I did some years ago. In it I had gathered all the sources for my maternal grandfather’s family. As I was checking it through I noticed that the second oldest ancestor with U.S. records — the first one born in the States — was one Ezekiel Main(e) of Stonington, Connecticut (If I walk across the bridge I enter Stonington Township, the “old” town itself is about 4 miles down the road.)

I guess it’s time to do a little digging. Considering that my records indicate he arrived in the 1660s — Stonington itself was originally established in 1649 — and was one of the first settlers of what is now known as North Stonington, I doubt it will take too much digging to confirm.