ON THIS DATE: FEB. 9th

ON THIS DATE:

MARRIAGE:

9 Feb 1778 5xggp Johannes Krehwisch & Christine Wenner were married at Evangelisch, Neckarwestheim, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg, Germany

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 8th

ON THIS DATE:

BIRTH:
8 Feb 1664 10th ggm Hannah Badcock was born in Sherborn, Ma.

MARRIAGE:
8 Feb 1855 2xggp Patrick Kelly & Anne Byrne were married in Stokestown, Ireland

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 6th

 

On This Date:

MARRIAGE:

6 Feb 1705 6x great grandparents John Spaulding & Mary Barrett were married at Chelmsford, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

6 Feb 1675 9x great grandmother Elizabeth (Sawtelle) Sterling died at Haverhill, Ma.

6 Feb 1698 10x great grandfather Thomas Flagg died at Watertown, Ma.

6 Feb 1735 7x great grandfather Joseph Dow died at Hampton, NH

6 Feb 1680 9x great grandmother Ann (Linton) Waters died at Charlestown, Ma.

6 Feb 1742 8x great grandfather Jonathan Moore died at Bolton, Ma

HOW I DID IN 2023

 I didn't do one of these posts last year. My energy had been low the last few years and my blogging was the lowest point since I has begun. But I had a renewal thanks to someone stealing my Facebook account. 

For years I had been posting the daily Births, Marriages and Deaths of my family, and when I lost the FB account I decided to post them here on West in New England. That decision resulted in 132 posts here in 2023; I'd only posted 146 times from 2020-2022. 

It also resulted in some of those "On This Date" posts making the yearly top ten viewed posts:

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 17th 162
MY ALLERTON & WARREN MAYFLOWER ANCESTRY 157
THE INDIAN ATTACK ON RUTLAND,MASSACHUSETTS, 14 AUGUST,1723 144
ON THIS DATE: NOV. 30th 135
ON THIS DATE: JAN. 5th 133
LOCAL HISTORY - THE NORTH ABINGTON RIOT 128
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES: I WAS THE GRINCH'S HENCHMAN  123
THE BATTLE OF LOVELL'S POND BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 120
ON THIS DATE: JAN 6th 114
ON THIS DATE: SEPT 16TH 114

The all time viewed list has changed markedly from two years ago. The ways of web crawl ers are beyond my ken.

MEMORIES OF MALDEN
3.25K
THE FIFTH ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE POSTS
2.47K
MY 2020 GENEAPLANS
1.73K
52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 52:WILLIAM LONGLEY. OF GROTON, MA.
1.58K
53 ANCESTORS #5:JOHN SAFFORD .OF HARVARD, MA.
1.09K
THE SHOT HEARD `ROUND THE WORLD
1.09K
FINDMYPAST LAUNCHES SIX COUNTIES IN SIX MONTHS
1.08K
53 ANCESTORS #9:GEORGE GIDDINGS. OF IPSWICH, MA.
1.06K
MY GREAT MIGRATION ANCESTORS
1.05K
53 ANCESTORS #8:MARK HASKELL JR. OF IPSWICH, MA.
1.03K

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 4th

 ON THIS DATE:
CHRISTENING:
4 Dec 1643 8x ggf Isaac Woodbury was christened in Beverly, Ma.
DEATH:
4 Feb 1717 8x ggf Joseph Herrick died in Salem, Ma.
4 Feb 1772 8x ggm Sarah (Swain) Laughton died in Harvard, Ma,

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 3rd

 On This Date:

BIRTHS:
3 Feb 1683 7x great grandmother Mary Clarke was born at Lynn, Ma.
3 Feb 1757 4x great grandfather Amos Hastings was born at Haverhill, Ma.
 

DEATHS:
3 Feb 1635 10x great grandfather John Maverick died at Dorchester, Ma.
3 Feb 1693 10x great grandfather Edward Bompasse/Bumpus died at Marshfield, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 2nd

 

On This Date:

BIRTHS:

2 Feb 1683 8x great grandmother Mary Flagg was born in Watertown, Ma.

2 Feb 1647 9x great grandfather George Adams was born in Watertown, Ma.

 

DEATH:

2 Feb 1776 7x great grandfather Henry Lovejoy died at Andover, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 1st

On This Date:

BIRTHS:

1 Feb 1717 9x great grandfather Nathaniel Dana was born at Cambridge, Ma.

1 Feb 1656 8x great grandfather Samuel Parker was born at Chelmsford, Ma.

1 Feb 1642 9x great grandmother Mary Bartoll was born at Salem, Ma.

1 Feb 1640 8x great grandmother Rebecca Waters was born at Dorchester (now Boston) Ma.

17TH BLOGIVERSARY: LOOKING BACK

 I first posted this blog 17 years ago on 23Jan 2007. I'm surprised it's still here, especially after the last few years when my enegy lagged a bit due to health issues. But I seem to have gotten my second wind back and I've repurposed the blog a bit, and so I had a resurgence in 2023.

Anyway, I thought for this year's blogiversary I'd reprint that very first post:

BEGINNING

Well, this is a bit more serious minded a blog then I've done before.It will deal with my thoughts on researching my family lines, the Wests and Whites, and the times in which they lived. I hope also to comment on books that might be of use.

A bit of information at the start. I'm a late middle aged guy with a computer and time on my hands at night,and I've a limited income. I suppose I'm closer now to upper lowerclass than lower middleclass these days. I work in a book store and my salary is less than some teens working close shifts at McDonald's make per hour. On the other hand I like working the bookbiz, having worked in it now for close to 17 years. And working in a bookstore gives me access to a lot of books that provide at least background information on history and culture.

I have a B.A. in History and my interest in the field has never lagged,although until recently most of my reading has been mostly on ancient and medieval times.But over the past few years I've become more and more interested in early American history for reasons you'll see shortly.Some years back one of my father's sisters sent us pedigree charts that she'd made based on her own research into the family line. This was before the age of computers, mind you. We'd also bought a copy of Frances O'Connor'sbook on the Dunham and Ellingwood lines who we are related to through the marriage of Clara Ford Ellingwood to my great-grandfather. These were pored over when we first got them but eventually given over to me as the historian of our family and packed away in a desk drawer. Time, as they say,passed. My parents passed away, my younger brother and sister married and now have families of their own.


A few years back prompted by a conversation with an online friend who was talking about her own climb up her family tree, I dug out those pedigree charts and set about climbing up my own.Given my income I downloaded the Personal Ancestry File program from the Family Search site run by the Church of Latter Day Saints and filled in as much information as I could from what I already had and then went hunting on their site and elswhere for more. I found a lot, but so far I have not been able to verify anything beyond what my aunt had already sent us.


So to those looking at these pages, do NOT accept the information here as the last word on your search. Verify! I hope to be able to do it myself when time, money, and a car in need of repair allow.


And I think that's enough to begin with for now.

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 31st

 

Nathaniel Barker was born on Jan.31, married on Jan 31, and his son also married on Jan31. Coincidence? I think not.

On This Date:

BIRTHS:

31 Jan 1685 7x great grandfather John Walton was born at Reading, Ma.

31 Jan 1794 3x great grandfather Nathaniel Barker was born in Newry, Me.

 

MARRIAGES:

31 Jan 1681 8x great grandparents Joshua Lazell & Mary Trott were married at Hingham, Ma.

31 Jan 1819 3x great grandparents Nathaniel Barker & Huldah Hastings were married at Bethel, Me.

31 Jan 1858 2x great grandparents Nathaniel S. Barker and Lucy Coburn were married at Albany, Me.

31 Jan 1865 2x great grandparents Jonathan P West and Louisa Richardson were married at Upton, Me.

ON THIS DATE: JAN.30th

 

.One is the ancestor of all the Ellinwoods, Ellingwoods, and Ellenwoods in the USA, the Maritime Provinces and Quebec. The other was one of the founding fathers of Andover, Ma.

On This Date:

 

DEATHS:

30 Jan 1673 8x great grandfather Ralph Ellinwood died at Beverly, Ma.

30 Jan 1685 9x great grandfather Nicholas Holt died at Andover,Ma.

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 29th

 

Caleb Benson was a twin; his brother was Joshua Benson. There were a number of twins in several of Dad's ancestral families but not many since the 19th century.

 

On This Date:

 

BIRTH:

29 Jan 1704 5x great grandfather Caleb Benson was born at Rochester, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

29 Jan 1662 10x great grandfather Thomas Dickinson died at Rowley, Ma.

29 Jan 1679 10x great grandmother Mary (Johnson) Mowrey died at Rehoboth, Ma.

29 Jan 1782 7x great grandfather Daniel Boyden died at Auburn, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 28th

 

On This Date:

BAPTISM;

28 Jan 1620 8x great grandfather James Davis was baptized at Thornbury, Gloucester, England

 

BIRTH:

28 Jan 1765 4x great grandfather Paul West was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

MARRIAGE:

28 Jan 1689 7x great grandparents Eleazer Rogers & Ruhama Willis were married at Plymouth, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

28 Jan 1686 10x great grandfather Moses Maverick died at Marblehead, Ma.

28 Jan 1689 8x great grandfather John Crowe/Crowell died at Yarmouth, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 26th

 

On This Day:

BIRTHS:

26 Jan 1708 7x great grandfather John Laughton Jr. was born at Reading , Ma.

26 Jan 1654 9x great grandmother Hannah Kendall was born at Woburn, Ma.

MARRIAGE:

26 Jan 1728 6x great grandparents Jonathan Barker & Mary Abbott were married in Andover, Ma.

26 Jan 1710 7x great grandparents Jeremiah Dean & Mary Fisher were married at Dedham, Ma.

DEATH:

26 Jan 1746 8x great grandfather Samuel Phelps died at Andover, Ma.

26 Jan 1709 8x great grandfather Joshua Fisher died at Dedham, Ma,

26 Jan 1680 10x great grandfather Nicholas Rockwood died at Medfield, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 25th

 

Interesting date today: two ancestors born on the exact same day & year, and another who was killed by Indians in an attack near York, Maine.

On This Date:

BIRTHS:

25 Jan 1682 7x great grandmother Sarah Beaman was born at Lancaster, Ma.

25 Jan 1643 8x great grandmother Mary Barnes was born at Salisbury, Ma.

25 Jan 1682 7x great grandfather John Bancroft Jr was born at Lynn, Ma.

25 Jan 1810 3x great grandmother Arvilla Ames was born at Livermore, Me

 

MARRIAGE:

25 Jan 1662 8x great grandparents Stephen Tilden and Hannah Little were married at Marshfield, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

25 Jan 1692 11x great grandfather Peter Weare was killed by Indians at York, Me.

25 Jan 1787 7x great grandfather Mephisobeth Adams died at Pepperell, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 23rd

 

0n This Day:

BIRTHS:

23 Jan 1717 5z great grandfather John Hastings was born at Haverhill, Ma.

23 Jan 1676 8x great grandmother Elizabeth Prescott was born at Lancaster, Ma.

23 Jan 1680 7x great grandfather Martin Herrick was born at Salem, Ma.

 

DEATH:

23 Jan 1780 6x great grandmother Hannah (Ayer) Mitchell died at Haverhill, Ma.

ON THIS DATE : JAN. 21st

 

On This Day:

MARRIAGE:

21 Jan 1709 7x great grandparents Mark Haskell & Martha Tuthill were married at Gloucester. Ma.

DEATHS:

21 Jan 1730 7x great grandmother Hannah (Jefes) Spaulding died at Chelmsford, Ma.

27 May 1833 5x great grandfather Samuel Stow died at Oxford, NY

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 17th

On This Date:

BIRTH:

17 Jan 1730 5x great grandfather Amassa Dow was born at Kingston, NH

MARRIAGE:

17 Jan 1725 6x great grandparents Thomas Stow & Ann Weatherbee were married at Stow, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 16th

 

BIRTHS:

16 Jan 1640 8x great grandfather Henry Herrick was born at Salem, Ma.

16 Jan 1834 2x great grandfather Jonathan Phelps West was born at Letter B Plantation, Me.

 

 

 

 

Front L-R Leslie Fuller, P.J. West, Phonce West, Louisa + Jonathan

West, Winfield West

 

2nd row Mary Chase, Lettie Douglas, Mrs, Hall, Aunt Villa West, Lillian

Ripley, Ripley girl, Margery Abbott, Eva West, Lewellin Hall, Charles

Chase.

 

3rd row Alice Marquis, Phila Marquis, Mabel Warren, Ethel Warren, Georgia

Pratt, Kate Coolidge, Carrie Lane, Ina Enman, Ida Warren, Mabel

Goodwin, Asa West.

ON THIS DATE: JAN. 14th

 

 Two ancestors named Sarah: one born and one died in the same year on this date:
On This Date:
BIRTHS:
14 Jan 1755 4x great grandmother Elizabeth Wiley was born in Andover, Ma.
14 Jan 1661 8x great grandmother Sarah Farnum was born at Andover, Ma.

MARRIAGE:
14 Jan 1702 7x great grandparents Samuel Upton & Abigail Frost were married in Salem, Ma.

 
DEATHS:
14 Jan 1719 8x great grandmother Deborah (Barnes) Davis died at Haverhill, Ma.
14 Jan 1733 7x great grandmother Hannah (Marston) Barker died at Andover, Ma.
14 Jan 1661 10x great grandmother Sarah (Parker) Converse died at Woburn, Ma.