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Monday, April 30, 2018

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 17:THOMAS TOTMAN OF SCITUATE, MA.

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My immigrant ancestor and 8x great grandfather Thomas Totman is one of those ancestors who seems to have lived an unremarkable life. It is b...
Friday, April 27, 2018

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 27APRIL 2018

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There are over 540 thousand new records in the Findmypast Friday releases today:   BRAND NEW RECORDS: Scots-Irish in North America Hi...
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Thursday, April 26, 2018

THE TOTMAN LINE

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The next branch of my Barrows family involves the ancestors of Moses Barrows Jr.'s  wife Deborah Totman. Here's a relationship chart...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 16: WILLIAM HEDGE OF YARMOUTH MA.

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My 8x great grandmother Mary (Hedge) Barnes was the daughter of William Hedge and his first wife who may have been named Ann. William is bes...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 20APRIL 2018

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Over 1.1 million  new records were added in this week's Findmypast Friday releases: BRAND NEW RECORDS: British Army Officers'...
Friday, April 20, 2018

JONATHAN BARNES: "SUNDRY BARRELLS OF LIQUORS"

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 (First posted in May 2013) In one of my posts about John Barnes I wrote about how the Plymouth Colony government struggled to deal with ...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

THE SHOT HEARD `ROUND THE WORLD

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Today is the 243nd Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington & Concord which started the American Revolution on 19Apr 1775. They were cel...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 15: JONATHAN BARNES OF PLYMOUTH, MA

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John Barnes' son Jonathan was born 3Jun 1643 and as I'll show later was involved in his father's merchant business. But this po...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

JOHN BARNES OF PLYMOUTH PT7: "A TRUE INVENTORY"

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The estate of John Barnes was submitted to the Court five months after his death by the four men appointed to take the inventory. (One of t...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

JOHN BARNES OF PLYMOUTH PT6: "LEGACYS BE PAYD"

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My ancestor John Barnes must have had an intimation of his own mortality four years before his death, because his will was drawn up in 1667...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

JOHN BARNES OF PLYMOUTH PT5: DEATH BY BULL

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I think the Plymouth authorities had become resigned to my ancestor John Barnes' drinking bouts towards the end of his life.Either that...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 13APRIL 2018

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There are over 378 thousand new records in this week's Findmypast Friday release: BRAND NEW RECORDS: New South Wales, Deceased Estat...

JOHN BARNES OF PLYMOUTH PT4: THE RUNAGATE SERVANT

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Being a fairly successful merchant, John Barnes had several indentured servants in his household and apparently at least one slave. He seem...
Friday, April 13, 2018

JOHN BARNES OF PLYMOUTH PT3: BARNES VS. POPE.

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Besides being a successful merchant my ancestor John Barnes did a lot of wheeling and dealing in real estate. His name appears in the Plymo...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

JOHN BARNES OF PLYMOUTH PT2: "...ABOMINABLE DRUNKENES"

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My ancestor John Barnes must have really perplexed the leaders of Plymouth Colony. He apparently drank to excess often and in such a way th...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

JOHN BARNES OF PLYMOUTH PT1 : "DRANKE SOE MUCH..."

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(More about my ancestor John Barnes who I have to believe may have given  the authorities of Plymouth Plantation a headache with his behavi...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 14: JOHN BARNES OF PLYMOUTH, MA

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(I've posted about John Barnes in previous years. He's one of my favorite ancestors. This  is what I first posted about him back in...
Monday, April 09, 2018

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 6APRIL 2018

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There are nearly 8.7 million new records in the Findmypast Friday release for 6Apriil: BRAND NEW RECORDS: England & Wales, Elector...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 30MARCH 2018

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There's nearly 575 thousand new records in this week's Findmypast Friday releases: BRAND NEW RECORDS: Prerogative Court Of Can...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 13: JOHN CARVER JR. OF PLYMPTON, MA.

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7x great grandfather John CarverJr. is another of my "quiet" ancestors. He was born in Marshfield. Ma. in 1661, died at Plympton i...