Henry Norris who was christened 14 Mar 1640/1 in North Mundham, West Sussex. In the 1660 will of his mother he was left personal effects (including a table at her house in North Mundham) and money owed her in the hands of his uncle Chatfield. At this time she only had two brothers living, Thomas Chatfield of East Hampton, Long Island, and George Chatfield of Guilford, Connecticut. This Henry Norris already had three uncles who had removed to New England, and was left an interest in money in the hands of one of them. This certainly supports the identification of this Henry Norris with the one in the New Jersey settlement. To further support this is the fact that the New Jersey Henry Norris' wife was an East Hampton women named Abigail Stretton. The Chatfield and Stretton families were early influential families in East Hampton rating a place of importance with the Gardiners, Jameses, Mulfords, and Conklings. To further support an interrelatedness of these families, the Sussex Henry Norris had a known first cousin-once removed named Judge Thomas Chatfield (1680-1754) who married on 26 May 1707 in East Hampton to Hannah Stretton, a known niece of Abigail (Stretton) Norris. This all taken stacked together is a strong case for identifying the Henry Norris (born 1640/1) from West Sussex with the Henry Norris (d. 1706) of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, as one and the same person. I am aware that others have presented the Elizabethtown Norris as a scion of the Norrises of Southampton, but I have seen no evidence outside of a common surname and a relative proximity (Southampton and East Hampton) to suggest any certainty to that claim. Please be the judge for yourself with what I have presented here. http://genforum.genealogy.com/norris/messages/5234.html