In the work of Mable McCloskey – Some Descendants of John Endecott, Governor of the Mass Bay Colony, she noted on p. 30, the existence of this important Endicott family Bible. Mabel goes on to show some of the notations in the Bible and mentions that its last known location in 1930 was in the possession of John A. Endicott, Flat Rock, Ind. John A. was a son of Thomas M. Endicott.Below is the address “Endicotts on the Move” that JEFA president, William T. Endicott, gave at the October 12, 2018 JEFA Cumberland Gap reunion. It’s about why and how branches of the Endicott family left New England and went down the eastern seaboard before reaching the Cumberland Gap, through which some of them went with Daniel Boone into Kentucky. The Big Picture as some of you know, I’m interested not JUST in the descent from John Endecott here in America, but in the big picture regarding the Endicott clan generally. I mean by that the dispersal of the Endicotts out of Devon, England, all over the English-speaking world. Not just here to America, but to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa– not to mention the Endicotts who stayed in Britain. Basically, from the 1600s until just the last few years, more people were leaving Britain each year than were coming to it. And the Endicotts were part of that. It was fundamentally a search for better economic opportunity. That was usually a quest for more and better farmland, because all the good land had been taken in England. Sometimes, people have to face the fact that it’s better to move than to stay put. Yes, it’shard to leave family and friends and maybe even land you’ve had for generations, but sometimes you just have to do it. A lot of Americans are facing that dilemma today. Do you stay in an economically depressed area where there are no jobs? Or do you move to where the jobs are. So, that impulse to move caused Endicotts to go to Australia, for example. Sometimes they moved voluntarily, such as James Endicott going to Australia because of the gold rush there in 1851.