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Saturday, January 31, 2015

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2015 WEEK 4: WILLIAM TAY

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Continuing on with the 2015 edition of Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge . at her No Story Too Small blog: My 7x...
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Friday, January 30, 2015

THE VALUE OF A COMPASS PT3

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I love this story for a number of reasons. One is the writing style. The author Mark Tapley, couldn't have known it but journalism...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

THE VALUE OF A COMPASS PT2

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John Cutter West Continuing the story, my ancestor John C West was lost on a frozen lake in Maine in a snowstorm with his friends ...

THE VALUE OF A COMPASS PT1

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I've posted about this incident before but never actually transcribed the article until now. It's about my3x great grandfath...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

A POEM BEFORE BED

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((I first posted this back in January 2011. With the "Blizzard of 2015" raging outside right now, I thought I'd repost it.)) ...
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

"...UPON COMPLAINT OF UNCLEANLINESS..."

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The Woodbury family aren't the only relatives of mine to have been accused of doing things Puritan society discouraged. In this case, my...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2015 WEEK 3: WILLIAM SIMONDS

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Continuing on with the 2015 edition of Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge . at her No Story Too Small blog: My 7x ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

BLOGIVERSARY: NOW WE ARE EIGHT

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Well, another year has come and gone, and here I am at the eighth anniversary of this blog. As is my yearly tradition, here is the story of...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

CLEARING UP THE PICTURE A LITTLE.

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This is a picture of my 2x great grandparents Jonathan P West and Louisa (Richardson) West with my grandfather Floyd West Sr and my grandun...

...ANY EVIL, LASCIVIOUS OR WANTON BEHAVIOR..." PT2

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My relative Thomas Woodbury had been found not guilty of charges of lewd and lascivious behavior with Hannah Gray, one of the household mai...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

...ANY EVIL, LASCIVIOUS OR WANTON BEHAVIOR..." PT1

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The Woodbury family seems to have had trouble finding good help. Elizabeth (Hunter) Woodbury had been brought up on charges of slapping a r...
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"...SUCH AN UNTOWARD PROVOKEING WENCH...." PT2

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As we saw in my last post, my ancestress Elizabeth (Hunter) Woodbury was brought before the Essex County Massachusetts court for striking E...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

"...SUCH AN UNTOWARD PROVOKEING WENCH...." PT1

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Today's excerpt from the Essex County,  Massachusetts Court files concerns Elizabeth (Hunter)Woodbury and a bothersome servant. Elizabe...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2015 WEEK 2: JOHN WALKER

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In continuing the 2015 edition f Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge , I'm still concentrating on my paternal g...
Monday, January 12, 2015

"...HAD SOLD STRONG LIQUORS TO THE INDIANS..." PT2

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A few things about my previous post about Thomas Johnson being charged and convicted of selling liquor to the Indians: One of the things ...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

"...HAD SOLD STRONG LIQUORS TO THE INDIANS..." PT1

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Yet another Essex County, Massachusetts court case involving my ancestors and  their relatives. This one concerns my 9x great grandfather Ni...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2015: SAMUEL WALKER

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With the start of the new year comes the start of another edition of Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge . I'm st...
Monday, January 05, 2015

MY GENEAPLANS FOR 2015

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OK, here's what I want to do in 2015. Most of it is familiar territory: 1.Transcribe:  The amount of probate files and other documents...
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Sunday, January 04, 2015

JOHN ANDREWS: STICKS AND STONES, SKULL & BONES PT2

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Stephen Cross, William Andrews, Robert Cross and Joseph Giddings were put in jail for their criminal behavior on March 26, 1667. They were ...
Friday, January 02, 2015

JOHN ANDREWS: STICKS AND STONES, SKULL & BONES

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I have a low opinion of those who vandalize cemeteries, so you can imagine how unhappy I was to discover I may be related to someone who des...