Yesterday, I discussed a series of books called, The Great Migration Begins : Immigrants to New England. Today, I decided to post the surnames of my direct lines found in those books.
The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. I, A-F
JEREMY ADAMS
SARAH ADAMS
ELIZABETH ALDEN
JOHN ALDEN
BENJAMIN BALCH
JOHN BALCH
WILLIAM BALLARD
ABIGAIL BARTLETT
DEBORAH BARTLETT
ROBERT BARTLETT
MERCY BEAMSLEY
WILLIAM BEAMSLEY
MERCY BRADSTREET
SIMON BRADSTREET
ANNE CAKEBREAD
THOMAS CAKEBREAD
BARNARD CAPEN
SUSANNA CAPEN
ROGER CLAP
SAMUEL CLAP
GEORGE DENISON
WILLIAM DENISON
RICHARD DODGE
JOHN DOGGETT
THOMAS DOGGETT
JOHN DRAKE
ROGER DUDLEY
ABIGAIL FORD
JOANNA FORD
THOMAS FORD
The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. II G-O
JANE GALLION
SARAH GARDNER
THOMAS GARDNER
WALTER GAYLORD
WILLIAM GAYLORD
JOSIAH GILLET
JONATHAN GILLETT
JOHN HALL
WILLIAM HALL
STEPHEN HART
THOMAS HART
RALPH HEMINGWAY
SAMUEL HEMINGWAY
JOHN HUBBARD
WILLIAM HUBBARD
GEORGE HULL
JOSIAH (Josias) HULL
JOHN KELSEY
WILLIAM KELSEY
JOHN MASON
PRISCILLA MASON
JEFFREY MASSEY
JOHN MASSEY
HANNAH MAYHEW
THOMAS MAYHEW
THAMZEN MICHELL
HANNAH MOORE
JOHN MOORE
ROBERT MOULTON
PRISCILLA MULLINS
WILLIAM MULLINS
RICHARD NORMAN
The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. III, P-W
NATHANIEL PHELPS
WILLIAM PHELPS
CALEB POMEROY
ELTWEED POMEROY
MEDAD POMEROY
JOHN POOLE
JONATHAN POOLE
DANIEL RAY
JOSHUA RAY
MARY SPENCER
SARAH SPENCER
THOMAS SPENCER
WILLIAM SPENCER
JONATHAN WADE
NATHANIEL WADE
JOHN WARHAM
SARAH WARHAM
DANIEL WARREN
JOHN WARREN
JOHN WOODBURY
PETER WOODBURY
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 1, A-B
SUSANNA BLODGETT
THOMAS BLODGETT
MARY BLOTT
ROBERT BLOTT
THOMAS BOYLSTON
SARAH BRYAN
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 2, C-F
JOSIAH CHURCHILL
ROBERT COE
JAMES CUTLER
JAMES CUTLER
BARNABAS DAVIS
SAMUEL DAVIS
ELIZABETH DEMING
EPHRAIM FELLOWS
WILLIAM FELLOWS
ELIZABETH FOOTE
MARY FOOTE
NATHANIEL FOOT
ROBERT FOOTE
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 3, G-H
HENRY GLOVER
ABIGAIL GOAD
JASPER GUNN
JOBAMAH GUNN
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 4, I-L
JOHN JUDD
THOMAS JUDD
JOHN KILBORN
MARY KILBORN
THOMAS KILBORN
EDMUND LEWIS
JOHN LEWIS
ANN LORD
THOMAS LORD
WILLIAM LORD
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 5, M-P
THOMAS MARSHALL
MERCY MARSHFIELD
THOMAS MARSHFIELD
HANNAH MARVIN
MATTHEW MARVIN
REBECCA MARVIN
ABIGAIL MITCHELL
HANNAH MITCHELL
MATTHEW MITCHELL
EUNICE MOUSALL
JOHN MOUSALL
JUDITH NEWCOMB
ABRAHAM PIERSON
ABRAHAM POST
STEPHEN POST
MARY POTTER
SARAH POTTER
WILLIAM POTTER
ELIASAPH PRESTON
WILLIAM PRESTON
ABIGAIL PROCTOR
JOHN PROCTOR
JOHN PROCTOR
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 6, R-S
ROBERT RAND
WILLIAM REEVES
RICHARD RICE
JAMES ROGERS
THOMAS SCOTT
THOMAS SCOTT
ROWLAND STEBBINS
JOHN STANLEY
WILLIAM SUMNER
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 7, T-Y
WILLIAM WILCOXSON
BARNABAS WINES
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The Life From The Roots blog topics have changed several times since I began this blog in 2009. I initially wrote only about the family history I had been working on for 20 years. Years later, I was into visiting gardens, historical homes, churches, libraries that had genealogical collections, historical societies, war memorials, and travel/tourism places. I also enjoy posting autographs and photos of famous people I've met or have seen.
Along with my New England roots, other areas include New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.
Please check out the labels on the right side for topics (please note, they need work). Below the labels and pageviews is a listing of my top nine posts, according to Google. Four of them pertain to Lowell, MA. These posts change often because they are based on what people are reading.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
One Will Equal Two and The Great Migration -- Follow Friday
Thomas Scott, who migrated 1634 from England and settled in Massachusetts, gave me a lot of problems. I used several references and some of the data didn't mesh. One source had Thomas as having four children, another had him having seven. His birth was off by three years, and the death by 10 years. The Scott family went into my tree, and online on RootsWeb, and I knew it was wrong. I was Just waiting for somebody to correct me. Finally, the best of the best books was published by Robert C. Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 6, R-S in 2006. I just recently got around to looking at it, because the last of the series, Vol. 7, was released a few months ago, and I went through both books. (See below for more information about the books.)
Imagine, there two Thomas Scotts, both coming to America in 1634, both having children named: Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah and Thomas! And they both lived for a time in Cambridge, MA. A merge and corrections were made, and just as quickly I uploaded it into my RootsWeb, and nobody ever knew of my error!
Imagine, there two Thomas Scotts, both coming to America in 1634, both having children named: Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah and Thomas! And they both lived for a time in Cambridge, MA. A merge and corrections were made, and just as quickly I uploaded it into my RootsWeb, and nobody ever knew of my error!
One of the more popular sources for doing early New England research are a series of books called, The Great Migration : Immigrants to New England. The first series comes in three volumes with the title, The Great Migration Begins : Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, published in 1995 and contains more than nine hundred sketches. The second series, The Great Migration : Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, consists of seven volumes, the last volume published recently. Robert Charles Anderson, of the New England Historic Genealogical Society is the main author, and NEHGS is the publisher.
What can you do, if you can't purchase a volume? There are two options, the first is to go to www.worldcat.org (well-known library catalogue) and you should see that 320 libraries own a copy of the first series (1620-1633). Perhaps a library is near you.
The second option is to use Ancestry.com, if you are a subscriber. The first series is on their site, so in a way, it is free for you, since you already subscribe.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Lynnfield Public Library, Lynnfield, Massachusetts -- History and Genealogy Room
Lynnfield, Essex Co., Massachusetts
All the photos below are of the genealogy room.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Tombstone Tuesday -- Edward Thurston, Sr. of Rhode Island
HERE LYETH THE BODY
OF EDWARD THVRSTON
WHO LIVED 90 YEARS
AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE
_ 28 DAY OF FEBRVARY
1706
Coddington Cemetery
Newport, Rhode Island
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tombstone Tuesday -- Jones at Mount Auburn Cemetery
LEWIS JONES
A. D. 1640
EDWARD F. JONES
COLONEL 6TH REG MA. V. M.
FIRST IN THE FIELD
BALTIMORE APR. 19, 1861
COLONEL 26TH REG. MASS. VOLS.
BVT. BRIG. GENERAL U.S. VOLS.
LT. GOV. NEW YORK
1886 TO 1892
BORN JUNE 3, 1828
DIED AUG. 14. 1913
NETTIE
HIS WIFE
DIED OCT. 23, 1862
AGED 35
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Can't Read a Will? -- Tuesday's Tip
Have you ever tried to read a will, either an old one or a more recent one? Since I've been blogging, I've transcribed at least 10, and have had problems with reading the handwriting on all of them. The other day, while typing up my most recent for the post for yesterday, I discovered a way to figure out what some of the words were. I don't believe I've ever seen this method before. Being a huge user of Google, I decided to type in some key words, both before my unknown word/s and some key words after the unknown. Below, I give two examples of what I was up against, and Google helped!
I used these Key Words: lastly as to all the rest residue ___ whether real or personal (I knew I was missing about four words).
I used these Key Words: lastly as to all the rest residue ___ whether real or personal (I knew I was missing about four words).
Correct: All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, whether real, personal.
I used these Key Words: Decease her ____ apparel is to be given to my
Correct: Decease her wearing apparel is to be given to my
Monday, January 23, 2012
Amanuensis Monday -- Samuel Griffin
Will for Samuel Griffin, my 6th great-grandfather.
In the name of God Amen I Samuel Griffin Essex in the County of Chittenden in the state of Vermont being weak in body but of sound and of perfect mind and memory do make and publish with this my last will and Testament in manner and form following That is to say I give to my Beloved wife Mercy Griffin all my Household furniture during her life with other possessions hereafter mentioned -- I give to my son John my farm on which I now live together with my Cattle Sheep and Swine also my tyme peace and loom on the following conditions viz He is to support my wife during her life and provide and furnish her with all things necessary for her Comfort and Convenience he is to pay all my debts that I shall owe at my decease he is to pay sixty Dollars to my three Daughters viz Twenty to Lois Kelsey to Polly Dowd and Twenty to Azube Davis My son John is to pay the aforesaid sum to my Daughters in one year after my wife's Decease and he is to have my Farming utensils -- my Carpenters and Joiners are to be equally divided between my five sons, viz Joel, Asahel, Samuel John and Dan after my wifes Decease her wearing apparel is to be given to my daughter Mercy Pelton and the remainder of my Houses hold furniture is to be divided as follows. Samuel and Dan are to have Each of them a bed and bedding The remainder is to [be] equally divided between my five sons above Mentioned excepting my son John lastly as to all the rest residue and remainder of my estate whether real or personal of what name or nature I give to my beloved wife Mercy Griffin whom I do appoint sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament Thereby revoking all other Wills by me made In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 16th of May in the year of our Lord 1808.
Signed sealed published and }
declared by the above named
Samuel Griffin to be his last
will and Testament in presence
of us who here unto subscribed
our names as witnesses in the }
presence to the Testator
Ezra Slater?
Zuriel Tyler
Saml Griffin
An Inventory of the real and personal Estate of Samuel Griffin Late of Essex Deceased
Copies received from Joan Kaysen in July 2006 and Bradley Griffin in October 2009. Both are distant cousins, and it's taken me this long to discover I had two copies, and this long to transcribe it.
Amanuensis Monday was begun by John Newmark of the TransylvanianDutch blog. The term means, "a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another." Many bloggers enjoy doing this because it allows them to freely copy something that has been written.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Tombstone Tuesday -- No Bull, You Need to Look at all 4 Sides
After doing 98 Tombstone Tuesday entries for this blog and entering hundreds to Find-A-Grave.com, I am still learning new things. On a recent trip to Newport, Rhode Island, I took many photos, including several in the Coddington Cemetery, seen below. Why shouldn't I take a photo of the largest stone, the lighting was semi-perfect. Once home, I discovered I hadn't a clue what family this stone was for, no surname was listed! Apparently, I didn't walk around it, as I always tell people to do it...there are four sides. The biggest isn't always the best. Fortunately, I went to the Find-A-Grave site and able to see others listed for that cemetery, including who these two women were married to, it was Henry Bull. The site says he was an "American Colonial Governor. He emigrated to America in 1635 and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts." Henry is listed on one of the sides of this stone. I was lucky, once again.
ELIZABETH
HIS WIFE,
DIED OCT. _ 1665
ANNE CLAYTON
HIS SECOND WIFE,
AND WIDOW OF
NICHOLAS EASTON
DIED JAN. 30, 1707
Monday, January 16, 2012
Edward Cross and Arizona's First Newspaper
"Edward Cross, born in Lancaster, New Hampshire in 1832, began working as a printer for his local paper, the Coos Democrat, when he was 15 years old. He then moved on to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked as a printer for the Cincinnati Times. Demonstrating writing skills, he served for a time as the paper’s Washington Correspondent. He became involved with directors of the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company and moved west in 1857. He settled in Tubac, Arizona Territory, where he invested in the company’s mines and established the territory’s first newspaper, The Weekly Arizonian. The Washington printing press was brought to Tubac by Cross and his associate, William Wrightson, via the “Jackass Mail,” as the mule teams were called, and was used to print the first issue on March 3, 1859.
Cross, serving as editor of the paper, had strong convictions. He took exception to a number of articles written by Sylvester Mowry of Tucson that were published in Eastern newspapers. He criticized them for inflating the size of the local population and the magnitude of local mining operations. Mowry challenged Cross to a duel, which took place on July 8, 1859. Using Burnside rifles, four shots were fired before Mowry’s gun failed, entitling him to another shot. Cross stood waiting unarmed. Mowry refused to fire at an unarmed man, thus ending the duel. Both men exchanged apologies in person and in the Arizonian. The paper was sold a few weeks later, ironically to Mowry. He moved the press to Tucson where it was used to print the first issue of the Citizen and possibly theStar. Later it printed the Tombstone Nugget. In 1910, the press was donated to the Arizona Historical Society. The press ultimately returned to Tubac after an absence of 120 years in 1980, where it was installed in the period print shop at the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park Museum.
In addition to his writing and mining interests, Cross joined the U.S. Army scouts in their efforts against the Apaches. In 1860, he crossed the border into Mexico to command a Sonoran army garrison supporting the insurgency of Benito Juarez. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Cross returned to New Hampshire where he accepted a commission as colonel of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment.
Cross was reportedly an impulsive and colorful officer, occasionally striking non-commissioned officers with the flat of his sword when angry. He was known to wear a red bandana on his head instead of the traditional officer’s hat. This was his way of making himself easier to spot on the battlefield by his men. However, on July 2, 1863 Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock noticed that his bandana was black rather than red. Cross indicated that he had foreseen his own death and that black was more appropriate. Cross fought in the Battle of Gettysburg that day and was mortally wounded while helping to stabilize the left flank as it entered the Wheatfield. He fell near Rose Woods and died the next day at a field hospital. His body was shipped home to Lancaster and laid to rest in the town’s cemetery."
My cousin, Larry McGrail forwarded this link to me in September 2011. Edward Cross is my first cousin, five times removed.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Graves of Connecticut -- Surname Saturday
The Graves line is another old Connecticut line of mine, I'm showing my direct lines below in green. The other day I posted a blog titled, When a Reader Corrects my Lineage, and I am glad to be providing correct information for this Graves family.
Generation No. 2
Generation No. 3
Generation No. 4
| 1. | JOHN GRAVES (GEORGE GRAVES1) was born ABT 1633 in Prob. England, and died 31 DEC 1695 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He married ELIZABETH CRUTTENDEN 26 NOV 1657 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, daughter of ABRAHAM CRUTTENDEN. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children of JOHN GRAVES and ELIZABETH CRUTTENDEN were:
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| 2. | JOHN GRAVES (JOHN GRAVES2, GEORGE GRAVES1) was born 27 FEB 1658/9 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, and died 1 DEC 1726 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He married ELIZABETH FOOTE 12 JAN 1685 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, daughter of ROBERT FOOTE and SARAH POTTER. She was born 18 MAR 1663 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut, and died 14 MAY 1730 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children of JOHN GRAVES and ELIZABETH FOOTE were:
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| 12. | John GRAVES (JOHN GRAVES3, JOHN GRAVES2, GEORGE GRAVES1) was born 1 FEB 1690 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, and died 17 JUL 1763 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He married Abigail STARR 1728. He married Elizabeth STEEVENS 10 MAY 1714 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. She was born ABT 1695 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and died 20 FEB 1725 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He married Naomi 1753. | ||||||||||||||||
Children of John GRAVES and Elizabeth STEEVENS were:
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| 14. | NOAHDIAH GRAVES (JOHN GRAVES3, JOHN GRAVES2, GEORGE GRAVES1) was born 4 DEC 1694 in E. Guiliford (now Madison), New Haven, Connecticut, and died 24 JUL 1751 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. He was buried in OId Burying Ground, Durham, Connecticut. He married SARAH ABT 1718. She was born ABT 1692, and died 10 MAY 1777 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. She was buried in OId Burying Ground, Durham, Connecticut. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children of NOAHDIAH GRAVES and SARAH were:
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| 20. | Mehitable GRAVES (JOHN GRAVES3, JOHN GRAVES2, GEORGE GRAVES1) was born 1 FEB 1688 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, and died 16 JUL 1747 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. She married Cornelius HULL 1 FEB 1715 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. He was born ABT 1686, and died 24 MAR 1756 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. | ||||||||
Children of Mehitable GRAVES and Cornelius HULL were:
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| 25. | ELIZABETH GRAVES (NOAHDIAH GRAVES4, JOHN GRAVES3, JOHN GRAVES2, GEORGE GRAVES1) was born ABT 1700 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. She married JAMES WRIGHT. | ||||||||||||
Children of ELIZABETH GRAVES and JAMES WRIGHT were:
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| 31. | Cornelius HULL (Mehitable GRAVES4, JOHN GRAVES3, JOHN GRAVES2, GEORGE GRAVES1) was born 31 OCT 1723 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. He married Abigail CHIPMAN 1 JAN 1746 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, daughter of Joseph CHIPMAN. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children of Cornelius HULL and Abigail CHIPMAN were:
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