Hi Christy: it has been so long since I replied to message boards that I forgot how. Ancestry has sent your message a couple times and I got your e-mail to me all today. Am glad you contacted me. I'd like to know more about the Israel/Hatch/Stubbs families. I think my grandfather Richard lived with the Israels for awhile after his brother Charles brought him over from England. They came thru CastleGardens because Ellis Island wasn't open yet, Somewhere I have the record of that.

One thing that we cousins don't have is a photo of old Samuel Stubbs b.circa 1834, father to Sam, Edward, Charles, Richard, and Eliza Emily in England. Old Samuel also fathered 5 children in Ontario Canada with "3rd" wife and I correspond with a descendant from that last family too..