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Saturday, August 31, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT 11

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Despite his many letters to neighboring churches looking for support, Edward Woodman's campaign to dismiss Rev. Thomas Parker from the ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT10

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When April 1671 came around, it brought yet another go-round in Court between the Parker and Woodman factions. In this case two of the Parke...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT9

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Not surprisingly, the matter of the Rev, Thomas Parker's removal by the Woodman faction eventually ended up in the colonial court.  It...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE: PT 8

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As I noted in the previous post, the verdict of the Court held at Ispwich was not unanimous; two of the judges, Samuel Symonds and William ...
Monday, August 26, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT7

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There other statements concerning Edward Woodman's outburst about Reverend Thomas Parker and also the exchange of words with my ancesto...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT6

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When the church in Newbury, Ma, was first established, Rev, Parker was assisted by another minister, the Rev, James Noyse, who shared Parke...
Friday, August 23, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT5

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It's taken me longer to get around to continuing to write about the church conflict in Newbury than I thought it would. It's a comp...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

ANNOUNCING THE FIFTH ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE!

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It's time to start thinking about the Fifth Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge! Wow, I can't believe it's been five years s...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

FROM DEFERENCE TO DEFIANCE BY ROGER THOMPSON

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I've been blessed with a lot of information on many of my New England ancestors. Now, this is a very good thing but the problem with tha...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT4

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The petition protesting the disenfranchisement  of Lieut. Robert Pike was partially successful, as James Currier details in his History of ...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT3

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Before I write about the outcome of the petitions in support of Robert Pike, I thought I'd try to track down the names of the men who s...
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT2

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The General Court (the legislature of Massachusetts) was not amused by the reaction of the citizens of the towns that had presented petitio...
Friday, August 09, 2013

TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT1

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If you have Pilgrim or Puritan ancestors, you need to know how religion affected their lives.   Religion was an integral part of life in ...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

THE ESTATE OF JOHN ELLINGWOOD SR.: SOME THOUGHTS ON PT3

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Some thoughts on the inventory of my 4x great grandfather  John Ellingwood Sr.'s estate: - It took me a few minutes to decipher the s...
Saturday, August 03, 2013

THE ESTATE OF JOHN ELLINGWOOD SR. PT3

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It took me longer than I wanted to transcribe the next part of my ancestor John Ellingwood Sr's Estate file. I find dealing with legal ...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

THE ESTATE OF JOHN ELLINGWOOD SR. PT2

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My 4x great grandfather  died 19Jun 1847. His son and executor  George V Ellingwood submitted his first accounting of expenses over a year...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

THE ESTATE OF JOHN ELLINGWOOD SR. PT1: SOME OBSERVATIONS

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One of the benefits of finding these documents is the information in them leads you into reexamining what you already know about a family, ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

THE ESTATE OF JOHN ELLINGWOOD SR. PT1

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After the photo of the file cover, the first image of the Probate Court file for John Ellingwood is of an undated will. Judging by the diff...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

JOHN ELLINGWOOD OF BETHEL, MAINE

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Before I begin my posts concerning Probate File of my ancestor John Ellingwood, I thought I'd give some history of him and his family. W...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

BLOG AS PRESERVATION

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I've seen these stories posted to my Facebook newsfeed just in the past few days: A horrendous explosion in a Canadian town takes 50 ...
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