0N THIS DATE:
BIRTH:
28 Feb 1668 7x ggm Hazadiah Fairbanks was born at Lancaster, Ma.
28 Feb 1639 8x ggf John Moore was born at Sudbury, Ma.
28 Feb 1744 5x ggm Betty Whitcomb was born at Bolton, Ma.
MARRIAGES:
28 Feb 1683 9X ggp George Adams & Martha Fiske were married at Arlington, Ma.
28 Feb 1827 3x ggp Wesley Coburn & Lucy Stowe were married at Newry, Ma.
DEATHS:
28 Feb 1687 9X ggf John Hoyt died at Amesbury, Ma
28 Feb 1708 8x ggf Richard Feith died at Marble head, Ma
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 28TH
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Monday, February 20, 2023
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 20TH
On This Date:
BIRTH:
20 Feb 1696 6x great grandmother Susannah Hoyt was born at Amesbury, Ma.
20 Feb 1668 7x great grandfather David Whitcomb was born at Bolton, Ma.
MARRIAGE:
20 Feb 1634 George Giddings and Jane Lawrence were married at St.Albans, Herefordshire, England.
DEATHS:
20 Feb 1666 9x great grandfather Thomas Safford died at Ipswich, Ma.
20 Feb 1669 9x great grandfather William Bachelder died at Charlestown, Ma.
20 Feb 1712 8x great grandfather Nathaniel Gay died at Dedham, Ma.
20 Feb 1638 8x great grandfather Paul Sears died at Yarmouth, Ma.
20 Feb 1721 7x great grandfather Peter West died at Plymouth, Ma
Friday, February 17, 2023
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 17TH
On This Date:
BIRTH:
17 Feb 1642 9x great grandmother Elizabeth Kendall was born at Reading, Ma.
17 Feb 1743 5x great grandfather Abel Moore was born in Bolton, Ma.
17 Feb 1696 9x great grandfather Francis Dane died at Andover, Ma
17 Feb 1700 8x great grandfather Edward Colborne died at Chelmsford, Ma.
17 Feb 1732 9x great grandfather George Adams died at Lexington, Ma.
17 Feb 1745 8x great grandmother Hannah (Poor) Dane died at Andover, Ma.
17 Feb 1776 5x great grandfather Jonathan Crowell died at Liverpool, Nova Scotia
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 17TH
On This Day:
BIRTHS:
16 Feb 1746 6x great grandmother Elizabeth Green was born at Worcester, Ma.
16 Feb 1652 9x great grandmother Mary Lakin was born at Reading, Ma.
16 Feb 1667 7x great grandmother Hannah Marston was born at Andover, Ma.
16 Feb 1664 9x great grandparents Richard Reith & Elizabeth Gorge/George were married at Lynn, Ma.
DEATHS:
16 Feb 1750 6x great grandfather Samuel Totman died at Plymouth, Ma
16 Feb 1804 5x great grandfather Thomas West died at Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 15TH
On This Date:
BIRTHS:
15 Feb 1675 7x great grandfather Joseph Keith was born at Bridgewater, Ma
15 Feb 1780 4x great grandmother Martha Haskell was born at Harvard, Ma.
15 Feb 1693 7x great grandmother Abigail Gay was born at Dedham, Ma.
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
JONAS PRESCOTT & MARY LOKER
((This was first posted on 7Jul 2008. It's a nice story with probably a
little truth to it, but true or not it makes a good Valentine's Day story)).
I mentioned in my previous post about John Prescott that
there is a romantic (and probably romanticized) story about
his son Jonas Prescott's courtship of Mary Loker. I've found it
recounted in several different books on Google Books, and
while I'm not entirely sure it's true, it does make for another
interesting family tale.
The story is that Jonas and Mary fell in love but her parents
John Loker and Mary Draper had other plans for their
daughter. They wanted her to marry a lawyer, a man of
prospects, not the son of a blacksmith who was following his
father in the family trade and they forbade Mary from any
more contact with Jonas. One version told by Caleb Butler in
"The History of the Town of Groton" says the Lokers even
went so far as to install gratings on the windows of her room
and would lock her inside if Jonas was nearby. But even this
drastic measure didn't stand in the way of love:
"He (Jonas) took opportunities when the cold wind blew
and the pelting storm raged when no listener could overhear
the soft whispering of true lovers to place himself beneath
her grated window and there enjoy sweet communion
with his dearly beloved ."
But eventually Mary's parents found out about this trickery.
Perhaps Jonas' idea of a whisper in a storm was a bit too loud?
At any rate, Mary's parents next decided to send her away to
a secluded village so Jonas could not find her while they looked
for a more suitable prospect for Mary's hand in marriage.
They sent her off to the small frontier town of Chockset which
is now Sterling, Massachusetts.
Jonas searched for Mary until one day while traveling near
Chockset he met some men of his own age and asked if they
knew of any pretty girls in the area. They told him there was
a quilting and a dance that night in Chockset and invited him
to come along.
You can see where this is going, I bet!
Jonas found Mary Loker and they continued to meet in secret
for some time until her parents once more found them out.
Mary's stubborn insistence that she would never marry any
man but Jonas Prescott at last forced her parents to give in,
although they did so with the angry condition that they would
provide no dowry for the bride. Legend says that the young
couple set up their household with so few essentials that
Mary used a large hollowed out pumpkin shell for a washpot!
I'm a bit skeptical about that pumpkin part but I think the
opposition of the Lokers to Jonas Prescott pressing his suit for
their daughter might have some truth to it. After all, although
Jonas' father John was well off, he was not exactly in the good
graces of the Puritan government, and the Lokers might have
had their hearts set on young Mary marrying someone who
could eventually rise to a position of power. Ironically, the
Prescotts eventually became one of Massachusetts' most
distinguished families.
I am descended from Elizabeth Prescott b 23Jan 1676,
d. 18Mar 1744.
She married Eleazer Green about 1694 or 1695. Their daughter
Elizabeth married John Ames(Eames), and their descendant
Arvilla Ames married my ancestor John Cutter West
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 14TH
Big Valentines Day list:
What better day for one of my Lovejoy ancestors to get married? And the other ancestors married today had a Valentine's Day baby three years later!
It's a significant date in the Barrows family, too.
BIRTHS:
14 Feb 1635 9x great grandfather Zerubabbel Endicott was born at Salem, Ma.
14 Feb 1654 7x great grandmother Hannah Jefes(Jefts) was born at Chelmsford, Ma.
14 Feb 1678 7x great grandfather Stephen Abbott was born at Andover, Ma.
14 Feb 1697 5x great grandfather Moses Barrows was born at Carver, Ma.
MARRIAGES:
14 Feb 1694 6x great grandparents George Barrows & Patience Simmons were married at Carver, Ma.
14 Feb 1711 7x great grandparents Henry Lovejoy & Sarah Farnum were married at Andover, Ma.
14 Feb 1734 6x great grandparents Ephraim Abbott & Hannah Phelps were married at Andover, Ma.
DEATHS:
14 Feb 1671 10x great grandmother Sarah (Wyeth) Fiske died at Watertown, Ma.
14 Feb 1672 9x great grandmother Agnes (Napper)Woodbury died at Salem, Ma.
14 Feb 1692 8x great grandfather John Barrows died at Plymouth, Ma.
Sunday, February 12, 2023
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 12TH
My Grandmother, Agnes McFarland taken in 1954 or 1955.
This was taken at the house in Malden. I still remember the colors of that wallpaper:white and silver leaves on a maroon background.
On This Date:
DEATHS
11 Feb 1661 9x great grandfather Anthony Colby died at Salisbury, Ma.
11 Feb 1697 7x great grandfather Robert Swan died at Haverhill, Ma.
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 6TH
On This Date:
MARRIAGE:
6 Feb 1705 6x great grandparents John Spaulding & Mary Barrett were married at Chelmsford, Ma.
DEATHS:
6 Feb 1675 9x great grandmother Elizabeth (Sawtelle) Sterling died at Haverhill, Ma.
6 Feb 1735 7x great grandfather Joseph Dow died at Hampton, NH
6 Feb 1680 9x great grandmother Ann (Linton) Waters died at Charlestown, Ma.
6 Feb 1742 8x great grandfather Jonathan Moore died at Bolton, Ma
Sunday, February 05, 2023
ON THIS DATE FEBRUARY 5TH
One ancestor born & one ancestor died on this date in 1683.
On This Date:
BIRTH:
5 Feb 1683 7x great grandmother Hannah Brown was born at Salisbury, Ma.
5 Feb 1627 10x great grandparents Richard Sawtelle and Elizabeth Pope were married at Watertown, Ma.
DEATHS:
5 Feb 1660 9x great grandmother Anne (Crossman) Eaton died at Haverhill, Ma
5 Feb 1736 8x great grandmother Elizabeth (Sargent) Colby died at Amesbury, Ma.
5 Feb 1683 10x great grandmother Anne (Veare) Gates died at Stow, Ma.
Friday, February 03, 2023
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 3RD
On This Date:
BIRTHS:
3 Feb 1683 7x great grandmother Mary Clarke was born at Lynn, Ma.
3 Feb 1757 4x great grandfather Amos Hastings was born at Haverhill, Ma.
DEATHS:
3 Feb 1635 10x great grandfather John Maverick died at Dorchester, Ma.
3 Feb 1693 10x great grandfather Edward Bompasse/Bumpus died at Marshfield, Ma.
Thursday, February 02, 2023
ON THIS DATE: FEBRUARY 1ST
On This Date::
BIRTHS:
1 Feb 1717 9x great grandfather Nathaniel Dana was born at Cambridge, Ma.
1 Feb 1656 8x great grandfather Samuel Parker was born at Chelmsford, Ma.
1 Feb 1642 9x great grandmother Mary Bartoll was born at Salem, Ma.
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