I am starting to get a focus on the Benjamin Atwell angle and we may be able link our lines. The Lake Family and their connections to the Cotton and Mather and Atwell lines
seems to point to your line being connected to the Kennebec River and the trading posts of New England. The SAME families founded the Hudsons Bay Company in 1670.
Cotton Mather became one of the Most influencial Americans of his time. The signs seem to Point to Royalists roots and we may find the Origins of the Atwell's if we find the Origins of the fur trading companies investors. There was a seat of many Atwells at CROM HALL near Glochestershire.
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