Wow! That fills in some gaps for me. My wife did some research on the area and found out that Ghent was at one time the "fashionable suburb" of Norfolk in the late 1600's. Now it's the local version of Greenwich Village, home to libs and worse, but also some nice restaurants.
My mom's family are direct descendents of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. One of those "fun" things you find in the family history. My paternal grandmother's family arrived on the Mayflower. I hit a dead end with my paternal grandfather's family in Wales at 1777.