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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

REMINDER ABOUT THE SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BLOG CHALLENGE DEADLINE

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Just a reminder that there is a little over two weeks left until the   September 15th deadline for submissions to the Second American Civ...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

ELISHA HOUGHTON'S PENSION FILE PT 4

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This image from Elisha's pension file is one of my favorite family documents for the reasons that it was the first time I'd ever ...

ELISHA HOUGHTON'S PENSION FILE PT 3

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The next image is of the other side of Elisha's affidavit. It appears the piece of paper was folded in half twice lengthways which crea...

ELISHA HOUGHTON'S PENSION FILE PT 2

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This next part of Elisha Houghton's pension file is an image of a sheet of paper with handwriting on both sides. This side is the more...

ELISHA HOUGHTON'S PENSION FILE PT 1

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This is the beginning of my transcription of the images of the Revolutionary War Pension file of my ancestor Elisha Houghton. The file cove...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

A TALE OF TWO HANNAHS

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Back when I really caught the genealogy bug I downloaded the Personal Ancestry File program and then filled in the pedigree chart using the...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

THE MILITARY CAREER OF ELISHA HOUGHTON

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I was able to find Elisha Houghton's service records and muster rolls on the Footnotes.com website (Now the Fold3 website). This is the...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

ELISHA HOUGHTON HAD A GUN....AND THEN HE DIDN'T.

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  ((I've planned several times in the past to post a transcription of  my 5x great grandfather Elisha Houghton's Revolutionary War ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

THE FLIGHT OF JOSIAH SAWYER

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((Another post from 2009. I've since determined that Josiah is my 7x great granduncle)) Before continuing on with some of the more ...

THE INDIAN ATTACK ON RUTLAND,MA., 14 AUGUST,1723

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((Today marks the 289th anniversary of an Indian attack on the town of Rutland, Ma. of which several of my cousins were victims. This was ...
Monday, August 13, 2012

JEREMIAH SWAIN

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((Today is the 302nd anniversary of the death of my 9x great grandfather, Jeremiah Swain, who was prominent in early Massachusetts Bay Colo...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

WILLIAM GERRISH VERSUS THOMAS WOODBRIDGE REVISITED

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((Today marks the 325 anniversary of the death of my 9x great grandfather William Gerrish. He seems to have had one of those abrasive perso...
Monday, August 06, 2012

AN AFFLICTED FAMILY

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Google "Groton+Indians" and you're more than likely to come up with entries for several books on the subject by Samuel Abbott...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

SIMON WILLARD'S RIDE

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(( Originally posted in Jan 2009 as "SIMON WILLARD PT2". I'm  reposting it under a new title because today is the 337th anniv...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF GEDCOMS

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There's been a lot of talk about that trendy computer topic, "The Cloud". Sometimes I feel like the developers of these conce...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

THE CAPTIVITY OF SAMUEL BUTTERFIELD

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As I've said before, I sometimes wonder I'm here at all given the number of ancestors and relatives involved in the Indian wars in ...

EXTENSION FOR THE SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BLOG CHALLENGE DEADLINE

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Back in May I announced the Second American Civil War Blog Challenge and set the deadline for August 1st to submit links to your posts. The...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

"DEAR PAPA AND MAMMA..."

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Here's another of the letters recently found in the Fred Blanchard house in Berlin NH. Helen Blanchard was the daughter of Fred Blancha...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

"A MARCH IN THE RANKS, HARD-PREST" BY WALT WHITMAN

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Last year I posted a series about my  2xgreat grandfather Asa Freeman Ellingwood who was a Union soldier at the First Battle of Bull Run. wh...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

THE "SYMON INDIAN" LETTER OF LT. PHILIP CHALLIS

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In my previous post I mentioned that the Indian Symon had figured in another bit of family history. The ancestor in question was Philip Cha...
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