DEAR GRACEI found your name on a list that Dr.James Yonge made of the Planters in St.John's Harbour in 1669. Grace were you born in this new land or did you cross the Atlantic to fish off Newfoundland? Were you widowed after you arrived at this place? Perhaps you brought your crew around from Hibbs Hole There were Porters living there in 1641 Grace, Capt. Xpr. Martin of The Marigold was the Admiral that summer Did he treat you kindly or was he a tyrant? Grace I know you had a hard life, but did you have a good life? Did you live to a goodly age? Grace did you have sons and daughters and am I Jean Porter Hardy, who is living in the 20th century one of your many times great grand daughter? |