No list of the members of the Winthrop and Sattenstall expedition exists, but there is every reason to suppose that Robert Field was of the party. For the next few years the records of the New England colonists are extremely meagre and hisa movements cannot be traced, but shortly after the settlement of Rhode Island, viz.: in 1638, his name appears among the inhabitants of Newport, and he is also mentioned there in the three following years. In the list of 1638 we find John Hicks, as well as Robert Field, at Newport; and they are again found together among the original patentees of Flushing, L. I., in 1645. There can be no moral doubt, under the circumstances, that the two residents of Newport, and the two patentees of Flushing, were the same individuals.

The right of the family to the arms they bear, -- sable, a chevron between 3 garbs argent, -- was finally acknowledged by the heralds in 1558. when a crest was granted to John Field of East Ardsley, near Wakefield, who has been styled " the protocopsmican of England." The three wheat-sheaves on a black shield, was borne by the Fields from about the time when coat-armour was introduced in England, viz.: the 13th century, as is shown by the account of the movements in Madley church, to be found in "Richard Symond's Diary," published by the Camden Society.

The Field family were also among the early settlers of Harrison Purchase. Anthony Field having removed from Flushing, Long Island, to this town, in 1725. The name of the ancient family is of frequent occurence in Doomsday book and is there often interchanged with Lea, a word bearing the same signification.