Gaylord of Windsor, Connecticut -- Surname Saturday

This early New England family settled in Windsor, Connecticut. I've decided not to bold my direct lines, but you can see them because they are in All Caps. As in the past, I'll share my sources, if you want them.

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Generation No. 1

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1.	WALTER GAYLORD (WILLIAM GAYLORD1) was born 1626 in Somersetshire, England, and died 9 AUG 1689 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. He married Sarah ROCKWELL 22 MAR 1659 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, daughter of WILLIAM ROCKWELL and SUSANNA CAPEN. She was born 1639, and died 17 AUG 1683 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. He married MARY STEBBINS 22 APR 1648 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, daughter of EDWARD STEBBINS and FRANCES TOUGH. She died 29 JUN 1657 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
	Children of WALTER GAYLORD and MARY STEBBINS were: + 2   i. JOSEPH GAYLORD was born 13 MAY 1649 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 2 FEB 1712 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.   3   ii. Mary GAYLORD was born 19 MAR 1650 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. She married John DAY.   4   iii. Joanna GAYLORD was born 5 FEB 1652 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 1716. She married John PORTER 16 DEC 1669 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, son of John PORTER and Mary STANLEY. He was born 3 JUN 1651 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 1699.   5   iv. Benjamin GAYLORD was born 12 APR 1655 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died bef 5 FEB 1691. He married Ruth WILLIAMS in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut.   6   v. Isaac GAYLORD was born 21 JUN 1657 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died abt 1674.

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Generation No. 2

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2.	JOSEPH GAYLORD (WALTER GAYLORD2, WILLIAM GAYLORD1) was born 13 MAY 1649 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 2 FEB 1712 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. He married SARAH STANLEY 14 JUL 1670 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, daughter of JOHN STANLEY and SARAH SCOTT. She was born 18 FEB 1652 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 12 FEB 1712 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.
	Children of JOSEPH GAYLORD and SARAH STANLEY were:   7   i. Mary GAYLORD.   8   ii. Joanna GAYLORD. She married John JOHNSON 19 NOV 1741. She married Robert ROYCE. She married Joseph HOLD 19 DEC 1745.   9   iii. Sarah GAYLORD was born 11 JUL 1671 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut.   10   iv. Joseph GAYLORD was born 22 AUG 1673 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 20 JUN 1706 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. He married Mary HICKOCK 8 FEB 1699 in Waterbury, Litchfield Co., CT. She was born 25 MAY 1678, and died JAN 1706 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. + 11   v. JOHN GAYLORD was born 21 AUG 1677 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 30 OCT 1753 in Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut.   12   vi. William GAYLORD was born 1680.   13   vii. Elizabeth GAYLORD was born BEF 21 NOV 1680 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut.   14   viii. Ruth GAYLORD was born ABT 1686.   15   ix. Abigail GAYLORD was born BEF 7 NOV 1686 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut. She married James WILLIAMS.   16   x. Benjamin GAYLORD was born ABT 1692 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut.

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Generation No. 3

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11.	JOHN GAYLORD (JOSEPH GAYLORD3, WALTER GAYLORD2, WILLIAM GAYLORD1) was born 21 AUG 1677 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 30 OCT 1753 in Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut. He was buried in Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut. He married ELIZABETH HICKOCK 20 NOV 1701 in Woodbury, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, daughter of JOSEPH HICKOCK and MARY CARPENTER. She was born 12 NOV 1678 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 19 DEC 1751 in Cheshire, New Haven Co., Connecticut. She was buried in Cheshire, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
	Children of JOHN GAYLORD and ELIZABETH HICKOCK were:   17   i. Experience GAYLORD. She married William COLE? 22 DEC 1721 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.   18   ii. Patience GAYLORD.   19   iii. Abigail GAYLORD.   20   iv. Edward GAYLORD. He married Mehitable BROOKS 16 AUG 1733 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.   21   v. Elizabeth GAYLORD was born 1 JAN 1705, and died 2 DEC 1789. She married Jeremiah HOWE 11 MAR 1730 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.   22   vi. Sarah GAYLORD died APR 1735 in Cheshire, New Haven Co., Connecticut.   23   vii. Joseph GAYLORD was born 1712, and died ABT 1796 in Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut.   24   viii. John GAYLORD was born abt 21 NOV 1714 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and died 24 OCT 1778.   25   ix. David GAYLORD was born abt 10 JAN 1717 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and died APR 1776 in Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut. He married Abigail MORRIS 1736. She was born 11 JAN 1720.   26   x. Mary GAYLORD was born abt MAR 1719 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. + 27   xi. MARY GAYLORD was born abt 25 SEP 1720 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and died AFT 1759.   28   xii. Benjamin GAYLORD was born abt 1722 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and died 18 MAY 1801 in Hamden, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He married Hannah FRISBEE. She was born 24 JAN 1719 in Branford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, and died 25 FEB 1803 in Connecticut.   29   xiii. Nathan GAYLORD was born ABT 1724, and died 2 JUL 1802 in Cheshire, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He married Thankful BROOKS 30 MAY 1745 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. She was born 19 DEC 1725 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, and died 17 APR 1796 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut.

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Generation No. 4

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27.	MARY GAYLORD (JOHN GAYLORD4, JOSEPH GAYLORD3, WALTER GAYLORD2, WILLIAM GAYLORD1) was born abt 25 SEP 1720 in Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and died AFT 1759. She married STEPHEN BARNES, son of EBENEZER BARNES and DEBORAH ORVIS. He was born MAY 1714 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 21 MAR 1757 in Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut. He was buried in Old South Cemetery, Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
	Children of MARY GAYLORD and STEPHEN BARNES were:   30   i. Mary BARNES was born 13 FEB 1741 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut. + 31   ii. THOMAS BARNES was born 1 APR 1744 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 8 DEC 1825 in Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut.   32   iii. Stephen BARNES was born 1746, and died BEF 7 MAY 1757.   33   iv. Azuba \ Azulah BARNES was born 13 FEB 1749 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut. She married Jonathan CARRINGTON.   34   v. Anna BARNES was born 11 OCT 1755 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut.

Frederick Law Olmsted's House -- A Dream of A Visit in Brookline, Massachusetts

I am posting this for two reasons, first, it is a National Historic site, and second, I always wanted to see it. Unfortunately, it was in the process of closing and we only saw one room in 2013. It was still closed in 2016. The park and house are now open, see HERE.

Walkway to the house. The tree by the rock was planted by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Wikipedia

Frederick Law Olmsted's FindAGrave site.

"About the Olmsted Legacy

Beginning in 1857 with the design for Central Park in New York City, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), his sons and successor firm created designs for more than 6,000 landscapes across North America, including many of the world's most important parks.  Olmsted’s remarkable design legacy includes Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Boston’s Emerald Necklace, Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Mount Royal in Montreal, the grounds of the United States Capitol and the White House, and Washington Park, Jackson Park and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.  Olmsted’s sons were founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects and played an influential role in the creation of the National Park Service." The article is taken from the Olmsted website.

Great enclosed porch photos.

I was delighted to see Wisteria still growing, our visit was on June 30th.

Below is a page from the "The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm 1857–1979," and the visitors center allowed me to copy the section for Lowell.
The last entry above is for Tyler Park, Lowell, MA, a 5-minute walk from my house. See photos below.

Brook Farm in Roxbury, Massachusetts and How it Relates to Me

When I discovered back in January that my 2nd great-grandfather surveyed a property in West Roxbury, Massachusetts for the city, I immediately became interested in learning more. Thanks to the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) in Boston for giving me additional information and confirmation that he indeed did a map of Brook Farm in Roxbury, June 1849, and it is in their collection. 

Fast forward to nine months, I just went to Brook Farm, now a Historic site, you'll see the photos below. The Farm consists of 179 acres of "rolling fields, woodlands and wetlands" and one lonely building. I love knowing that my ancestor, Charles H. Poole surveyed this land in the late 1840s as well as the town of Roxbury and Long Island, in Boston Harbor.

I'll quote what is written about the Farm in the brochure prepared by the Dept. of Conservation and Recreation for Massachusetts. "Founded in (October 11) 1841 at the height of the Transcendental movement, an experimental society of men, women and children had dreams of leading a more wholesome and simple life. The Farm's members and visitors included renowned authors and philosophers Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dana, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller."

"Utilized in later years for a poorhouse, Civil War training camp and orphanage, the site reflects a theme of social consciousness and reform." Visitors are free to roam around the Farm, and even picnic there. Since I had been waiting nine months to visit, I was terribly excited to be there, even though, it's less than an hour from home."

The Community disbanded six years after its inception. A loss of their residential building due to fire, and other reasons were partly to blame. In 1861 the Second Massachusetts Infantry Regiment used the land for military training. In 1872 Martin Luther Orphan's Home was opened, and remained there until 1943. Later, in 1948, the Brook Farm Home, a treatment center and school opened, closed in 1974.

The history doesn't stop here. The land has a much older past. In February, I read in the Boston Globe an article about the Farm and the "display of artifacts found during excavations in the 1990s at the historic Brook Farm site." On display at the lab are over 100 artifacts from Brook Farm highlighting the diverse uses of the property, including a 5,000 year old Native American spear point, colonial artifacts, painstakingly reconstructed ceramic serving dishes used by the Brook Farmers, the only physical remains of the massive Phalanstery building, as well as architectural elements and personal items from the Utopian community. The later use of the property is represented by Civil War-era items from Camp Andrew, and toys from an orphanage run out of the Hive building - the heart of Utopian-period community." I spoke with the City Archaeologist, and asked him some questions. Unfortunately some of the exhibit is being removed this weekend, so I won't get to see it.

"Brook Farm was one of the first sites in Massachusetts to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Site." There is quite about this Farm from Wikipedia.

The Print Shop was built in the 1870s for the Orphanage. Other buildings have burned.

Images from West Roxbury Historical Society and Google may be seen HERE.

 1861 -1865
Second Massachusetts Infantry
Recruited Mustered and Drilled
on These Grounds
Known as Camp Andrew
Left Here for the War for the Union
July 8, 1861

Some of the wetlands.

While looking at an exhibit at the Fruitlands Museum, in Harvard, Massachusetts, with a blogger friend, I noticed the mention of 1841 when Brook Farm was founded (above and below).

Also see:

MassMoments article titled: "Utopians Purchase Brook Farm"

Massachusetts Historical Society

From correspondence I had with the Society in January 2013.

"I found the following item which is directly attributed to Charles H. Poole:

Call number(s):      Mss. Large 1849 June

Contained in:     In Mss. Large Manuscripts.

Creator:     Poole, Charles H.

Title:     Manuscript map of Brook Farm, June 1849

Description:     Scale 1:3600.

    1 manuscript map : pen and ink and watercolor; 37 1/2 x 55 cm.

Scope:     A manuscript map of the property of Brook Farm.

Local notes:     From the Perry-Clarke papers."

From a facebook page I received, is the following interesting article.

City of Boston Archaeology Program

September 20 at 9:43am · 

One of the collections management features we added this year is a new system to convert our digital catalog data automatically into formatted archival tags. These tags not only will live with the artifacts themselves in their archival bags, but also serve as labels and scales in the photos we are now taking of every artifact we process. This year we have already taken over 20,000 artifact photos, and are actively uploading them into a searchable artifact database, which we will launch soon. #collectionsmanagement #archaeology #digbos

Old Mammy Redd, an Accused Witch, Recently Pardoned

The poem below, was found in my ancestor's manuscript located in the archives at the New England Historic Genealogical Society's Library. My photographed image came out well, and since it meant something to my ancestor, I've decided to use it for Bill West's Fifth Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge! as described on his blog, West in New England.

At first, I thought the author, Julian S. Cutler might have been related to the writer or even to me, since I have a long lineage of Cutlers. However, I find no connection.

Old Mammy Redd is based on a true but very sad story about Wilmot Redd. She was convicted of Witchcraft in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and was hung. I found some links explaining more about this event. They are listed below.

OLD MAMMY REDD.

[For the Transcript.]

In Salem's court-house the old crone stands,

With her wrinkled cheeks and her bony hands,

And pleads for her life on a summer's day,

The life which the maidens had sworn away.

No kind neighbor or friend is there

To urge the granting of her wild prayer,

And crushed she listens the sentence fall--

"Death on the gallows for witches all!"

Never again will her old eyes see

The fisher boats, when the winds are free,

Sail out of the harbor of Marblehead,

Or home when the evening skies are red.

No more will she watch the while gulls fly
With snowy wings; 'gainst the inky sky,
When in from sea, through the twilight gray,
The storm comes sweeping across the bay.

No more will she hear when the shadows fall

The sunset gun from Fort Sewall's wall;

Nor list at midnight the rythmic roar

Of flood-tides creeping along the shore.

Short are the days of Mammy Redd,

Old witch woman of Marblehead;

Vain her prayers; 'neath the autumn sky,

Up Gallows Hill she is led to die.

"Witch," her accusers called her there;

Scoffed at her tears and her broken prayer;

Naught was heard but the cruel cry--

"Hang her--so let the old witch die!"

So she perished on Gallows Hill,

And the days and the years went by, until,

They said, in the streets of Marblehead,

"No witch, but a martyr was Mammy Redd."

And I've been told, when the midnight tide

Creeps in to the short where the old crone died,

If you listen, borne on the midnight air,

Her voice comes wafted in wailing prayer.

JULIAN S. CUTLER.

Marblehead, Feb. 19, 1889.

Below are photos of Wilmot "Mammy" Redd's memorial in the Witchcraft Memorial, Charter Street Burying Ground, also known as The Burying Point, Salem, Massachusetts

Wilmot Redd

Hanged

Sept. 22, 1692

Note: Other good websites for additional information about Mammy Redd.

Find A Grave  "On October 31, 2001 Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift signed a bill pardoning Wilmot Redd along with four other victims of the witch trials."

Vast Public Indifference article

Thomas Mayhew -- Watertown, Massachusetts

Thomas Mayhew was my 10th great-grandfather.

HERE BY THE ANCIENT FORD

THE LANDING AND THE WEIR

WAS THE HOMESTALL OF

THOMAS MAYHEW,

A LEADER IN WATERTOWN AFFAIRS

FROM 1635 TO 1645.

AFTERWARDS WITH HIS SON,

THE REV. THOMAS MAYHEW

HE LABORED AMONG THE INDIANS

AT MARTHA'S VINEYARD.

I wrote three other posts pertaining to Thomas, see below:

http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2013/09/founders-monument-watertown.html

http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2011/08/saturday-surname-mayhew-of.html

http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2011/08/those-places-thursday-where-ancestor.html

Prince Spaghetti of Lowell, Massachusetts Fame -- Wordless Wednesday

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Home of Prince Spaghetti, Lowell, Massachusetts

In 1912, in the North End of Boston, three immigrants from Sicily began making spaghetti and sold it to customers. The business was so fantastic that they needed more space, so in 1941 they moved to Prince Street in Lowell. In 1987 the company was sold to Borden, Inc., whose headquarters are in Ohio.

The stipulation between Borden and Prince was that nothing would change for ten years; no major changes and no layoffs. It was one huge family, mostly of hard-working Portuguese employees, many who worked there 30-40 or more years on one of the three shifts. When I began working there, into the 8th year of being owned by Borden.

It came to no huge surprise, that when the 10 years was up, Borden had no need for Lowell's plant, but they wanted the name. They had other plants, incl. one in St. Louis. Word of our closing spread like wildfire, I received phone calls from the press, and everybody wanted to know all the details.

Fortunately, I had more information and warning than most people, since I worked for the Plant Manager. Over 400 employees lost their jobs. We received nice severance packages and other benefits, but the pride of working for one of the most well-known companies in Massachusetts was no more.

The building in red brick is the original plant (where all offices, shipping, quality control, mini grocery store, and the Prince museum) and the large white/grey building was where the pasta was manufactured.

Prince Pasta / Spaghetti is now owned by New World Pasta in Pennsylvania. I can still buy the same blue Prince box in any local store. It didn't go away, just changed several hands and locations.

I shared some advertising products from the company in a recent post, see HERE. 

Nice article about the history from Mass Moments.

Courtyard facing the old and new buildings. Below are two railroad cars. There was also a fleet of large trucks with the same logo.

Update: On June 25, 2014, there was an article in The Lowell Sun newspaper about the old Prince plant and property being up for sale again.  See article at HERE.

Update #2 on October 15, 2014. Lowell Five buys former Prince building. http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_26732377

Photo of building from the back, Lawrence Street side (November 2014).

Mary, George, Gerald, Ted and Sonny...Where are the Others?

None of the individuals below were related to me, but we had a very strong bond. They were employees and bosses of where I worked for over ten years. When I began working at Father John's Medicine Co., Inc., in Lowell, Massachusetts, these people became my second family, and even after I left, I was in contact with several for many years. There are another eight I would like to locate. Once an employee began working at the company, they never left. Why? They weren't fired, the benefits and hours were great and it was a wonderful company. Several older employees died while I was there, and during my 10+ years there, I was always the youngest person. I decided to honor my former co-workers because I really liked these people and there is nobody else to do it.

Other names I am looking for are Thomas Fox, Eddie O'Hare, Lila Shannon, Frank Shannon, Joe Carty, Agnes Mellen, Annette Tatre, Anna M. Maloney.

Mary Helen McNamara

1917 - 2011

 George H. Donehue (father to sons Gerald and George)

1880 - 1967

Gerald F. Donehue

1910 - 1993
The above was buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts

George H. Donehue

1912 - 1987
The above was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Tewksbury, Massachusetts. His wife Marion was buried with him.

Lucian T. Villandry  1930  --  2005
His father is below.

Theodore Villandry died in May 1965
(He worked at Father John's Medicine while I was there, and lived at 29 Hanover Street).
(Locating this stone took four trips to the cemetery.)
The above two were buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.