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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 31: WILLIAM LEWIS OF LANCASTER, MA.

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Thomas Lewis Jr.'s father in law was my 9x great grandfather William Lewis, another of the founding fathers of Lancaster, Ma. William Ri...
Monday, July 29, 2019

THOMAS DEXTER: "HAVING PURCHASED NAHANT OF THE INDIAN SAGAMORE...." PT3

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Now it was my ancestor Thomas Dexter's turn to press his claim as owner of Nahant and refute the town of Salem's arguments: Again,...
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Saturday, July 27, 2019

THOMAS DEXTER: "HAVING PURCHASED NAHANT OF THE INDIAN SAGAMORE...." PT2

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My ancestor Thomas Dexter Sr, was not happy when the town of Lynn decided to assign land to settlers in the area known as Nahant. This was b...

THOMAS DEXTER: "HAVING PURCHASED NAHANT OF THE INDIAN SAGAMORE...." PT1

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A few weeks ago I posted here about my 9x great grandfather Thomas Dexter Sr. of Lynn, Ma. I mentioned that he seemed to be a rambunctious c...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 30: JOHN PRESCOTT. OF LANCASTER, MA.

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((Edited from a post I wrote in 2008)) Mary (Prescott)Sawyer's father was my 9x great grandfather and immigrant ancestor John Prescott...
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Sunday, July 21, 2019

"WHERE ARE YOUR BANNERS...?"

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American poet Walt Whitman also wrote many prose pieces. He was present in Washington, D.C. at the start of the Civil War, and watched the d...

ASA ELLINGWOOD AT FIRST BULL RUN

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Today is the 158th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run, My2x great grandfather Asa Freeman Ellingwood was there and was injured in t...
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Saturday, July 20, 2019

TANGLED LINES

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This is a screenshot from RootsMagic of the pedigree chart of my 4x great grandfather Moses Houghton. I had been struck by how entangled the...
Friday, July 19, 2019

CYPRIAN STEVENS' LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL REVISITED

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(( UPDATE: It's been ten years since I posted this and since then I've discovered that I have Moore, Whitcomb, Wilder, and Fairban...
Monday, July 15, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 29: THOMAS SAWYER JR. OF LANCASTER, MA.

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My 7x great grandfather Thomas Sawyer Jr. lived in "interesting times" when life in Lancaster Massachusetts resembled that in the ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 28 THOMAS SAWYER SR. OF LANCASTER, MA.

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My 8x great grandfather Thomas Sawyer, Sr. is another of my immigrant ancestors and one of the original settlers of Lancaster, Ma. Some of h...
Monday, July 08, 2019

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 s...
Sunday, July 07, 2019

THE DISAPPEARING STONE OF READING, MASSACHUSETTS

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((Before I start a series of posts about my Sawyer direct ancestors, I thought I'd first repost a pair of stories involving some Sawyer ...
Saturday, July 06, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 27:MOSES HOUGHTON OF NORWAY, ME.

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My 4x great grandfather Moses Houghton and his twin brother Aaron were born in 1781. He married Martha Haskell in Harvard, Ma. on  18 Oct 18...
Monday, July 01, 2019

THOMAS DEXTER SR. VS JOHN ENDECOTT : WHEN ANCESTORS COLLIDE

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 I've been exploring the  new ancestors I foiund when the John Cutter West brickwall. The families are mostly from Barnstable and Plymou...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

ELISHA HOUGHTON'S PENSION FILE PT 6

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((First posted in September 2012)) In the last entry in this series about Elisha Houghton's Revolutionary War Pension file, I posted...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

ELISHA HOUGHTON'S PENSION FILE PT 5

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(( First posted in September 2012)) Sometime between 1820 and 1823 my ancestor Elisha Houghton moved to Vermont from Western Massachusett...
Friday, June 28, 2019

ELISHA HOUGHTON'S PENSION FILE PT4

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((First posted in September 2012)) This image from Elisha's pension file is one of my favorite family documents for the reasons that it...

ELISHA HOUGHTON'S PENSION FILE PT3

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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...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

ELISHA HOUGHTON'S PENSION FILE PT 2

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((First posted in September 2012)) This next part of Elisha Houghton's pension file is an image of a sheet of paper with handwriting on...