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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.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Everybody Loves Ipswich, Massachusetts

Ipswich Museum and Historical Society (above).
Visitor Center (below).

The Whipple House to the left and below.
The small house on the right is the recently reconstructed 1657 Alexander Knight House. See HERE for my post.

To All Who Served Our Country.


Two Houses I love. The Baker-Sutton House,  ca. 1725.
Below is the historic Crane Estate at Castle Hill, and related photos.


This Doth Testify that I
Maskonomett Did Give To
Mr. John Winthrop All That
Ground That is Betweene the
Creek Commonly Called Labour
In Vaine Creeke and The Creek 
Called Chybacko Creek. For
Wch I Doe Acknowledge To Have
Received Full Satisfaction In
Wampampeace and Other Things
And I doe Hereby Also For The
Sume of Twenty Pounds
To be Paid Unto Me By The Said
John Winthrop I doe Fully
Restone Up All My Right OF The
Whole Towne of Ipswich
As Farre as the Sounds Thereof
Shall Goe All The Woods
Meadows Pastures and Broken
Up Grounds Unto The Said
John Winthrop In The Name
Of The Rest Of The English
There Planted And I doe Bind
My Selfe To Make It Cleere
From The Claims of Any
Other Indians Whatsoever.

            Maskonomett  {His Mark}
        1637