Henry Donnell arrived in Maine in 1631 for the first time. He was a Master fisherman, and purchased a boat thru the English crown, to make trips to the new world to catch, dry, and bring herring back to England, where he split his profit 50/50 under the terms of the day to make payment on his boat. Commonly this took four to five years. As a result, Henry by 1635 was a Freeman, a treasured status symbol of the time. Henry could not write, but on documents on records of the villiage of york he signed his name HD, with the d framed off the side of the H, after the statement, written by another "his mark." He may have died in an Indian raid on Wells, Maine. He lived out side of the village. In 1687 he was last recorded, and 1692 a disposition of his property was given in court. The Donnells of York are not of Scottish or Irish decent, the name until about WWI pronounced Dunnell, and researching the records, thru the Vicarage (church of england local parrish in Barnstable England, the place of origin of Henry Donnell). Records were kept at the church where many fisherman who traded in the new colonies signed in whenever they returned. Henry is listed several times between 1631-1635, because he was still working to pay off his dept to the crown for the boat, which after 1635 he owned outright. The old records show many Dunwells, which is a common name in souther England at the time, it means one who lives near a dark stream dunn=dark well or weil =deep stream, according to old english name dictionary. No Scotsman or Irishman could become a master fisherman under the apprentice programs of the time, you had to be English born and of English parents.