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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Abigail Hussey Mother of John Ggreenleaf Whittier

Abigail Hussey (1780-1850) daughter of Samuel Hussey (1720-1814) and Mercy Evans (1735-1796) married John Whittier (1760-1830) son of Joseph Whittier (1716-1796) and Sarah Greenleaf (1720-1762). Mother of John Greenleaf Whittier

January 22 1858 Berkshire County News

Burial: Pentucket Cemetery Haverhill Massachusetts, USA

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Zachariah Damon ca 1654-1730 and His Wife Martha Woodworth of Scituate, Massachusetts - Zachariah Damon was born about 1654 at Scituate, Massachusetts, the son of John and Katherine (Merritt) Damon. His birth is not recorded, but the relatio...
Cause of Liberty

Why Should Americans Choose Capitalism Over Socialism and Communism? - The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday is that capitalism supports freedom, while socialism and communism destroy freedom. Yet, many young America...
Sandwalk

"Eclipsed Horizons: Unveiling the Dark Genome" challenges the model of junk DNA - *Eclipsed Horizons: Unveiling the Darfk Genome* is a book by Sudharkaran Prabakaran that promotes the idea of a dark genome and challenges the concept of...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

Treasure Chest Thursday - I bought this display plate at a thrift store many years ago. It's a beautiful "poem" or saying, but I'm not a knick-knack kind of person. I mean, I...
Daytonian in Manhattan

The 1926 Barclay Hotel - 111 East 48th Street - *photograph by Ajay Suresh* The renovation of Grand Central Depot to Grand Central Terminal sparked a burst of development in the neighborhood, known a...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

In My Footsteps Podcast Episode 257: Super Nintendo's Debut, Legacy of the Original Woodstock, 1990s Celebrity Crushes(8-19-2026) - The original music festival. The follow-up to the king of video game consoles. Some favorite 1990s celebrity crushes. Episode 257 has a batch of Gen-X...
Civil War Notebook

Charles Francis Adams Sr. to Senator Charles Sumner, August 1, 1852 - The result at which you arrived is not in the least surprising to me. You are in your nature more trusting than I, and therefore expected more. Where sla...
The Magpie Mason

‘Next month in Tappan’ - Tappan’s the place to be on the last Sunday of September when Grand Lodge will host two events that always are a lot of fun. From the publicity:Septemb...
Nutfield Genealogy

My Revolutionary War Ancestors - Thomas Homan of Marblehead, Massachusetts - In memory of THOMAS HOMAN who died Jan. 17, 1832, AEt, 75. His Wife TABITHA HOMAN, died March. 11, 1837. AEt, 73. Also two Daughters TABITHA died Aug. 2...
Bookman's Log

It’s That Time Again - [image: It’s That Time Again] Headed up to the shack in Cape Breton to try to finish a novel, catalog some wonderfully rare manuscript items, and get my an...
Life From The Roots

More Lowell, Massachusetts photos 80 (a few might have been posted before). - Recently torn down. Snow still around in April!
In Times Past

It Was Circus Season - In the 1890s. circus paarades such as this one in Montpelier, were regular summer events. WILD WEST EXTRAVAGANZA: Buffalo Bill Cody's Wi...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

Who pays for technology development? - TL;DR -- Who does pay? That will always be an important question. But, the 21st Century has already brought new factors to the table beyond what we thoug...
Quixotic Joust

Who Helped LBJ Become Rich in Radio? - A Whodunit If we want to know the truth about *who really done it*, we have to follow the money. LBJ's wealth was funneled to him through the newest tech...
Old Blue Genes

William Morril of Moultonborough - Graves/Morrill Gravestone Bean Cemetery Moultonborough, NH William & Betsey Morrill Gravemarker William Morrill was born in Berwick, Maine 1765, son to W...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

My Ancestors in the American Revolutionary War: A Summary--and one American Loyalist - So here's what I have learned: --There are 21 ancestors in my family tree who saw battle during the American Revolution, plus four who were active in ...
Ancestry Island

Brick Walls: Now and Forever? (Maybe not) - Every genealogist has them; those ancestors whose lives are not an open book, whose records (and sometimes even names) we haven't found anywhere we've look...
AT THE RIVERBEND

Jacob Newcomer - A Horrible Disease - Jacob Newcomer at age 67, Monroe, Michigan. Photo taken Oct. 16, 1899. I came across the death certificate for my great-great grand...
Yesterday’s Papers

RUDOLPH DIRKS, HANS, FRITZ, AND FATHER TIME - Happy New Year...andOld Years Too!ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS ~~ Art is long; life is short.2025 has been a momentous year -- a cliche that doubtless is true f...
AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

Flashback Friday: He Jingled When He Walked - *My dad, Bryan Henry Robbins, passed away on November 2, 2019. My mother, under his care for nearly 20 years at that time, came to live with me for a ...
My Other Blog

Francis O'Neil and the O'Neil Family - Part 2 - The O'Neil Family, the Next Generations If you missed Part 1 of the story, go here . . . Francis O'Neil and Elizabeth Nevin came to America from Scotland...
Quilt Crossing

Tiny Town Nativity - I finished a second Tiny Town by Heart in Hand Needleart. This one is called Tiny Town Nativity. As usual, I had to "go rogue" and make a few changes to ...
Letters to My Grandparents

Amos Dye Outcast? - Dear Grandfather Dye, Started this last year, and though I love the idea of writing about an ancestor each week, I've given up. Still, I thought this was an...
Erica's Adventures in Genealogy

Upcoming Talks by Erica - I'll be giving two genealogy talks for the MSOG, Massachusestts Society of Genealogy, Middlesex Chapter on the 8th of February and the 8th of March. Here i...
Naval Heritage Society Dockyard

TIMBER!!! - Building boats takes a lot of lumber. And very specific types - the wrong selection will lead to problems later on. The problem for any boat builder is...
Genealogical Musings

Using AI to Transcribe and Translate Documents - Being able to upload an image of a document to AI and have it instantly and accurately transcribe the difficult to read handwriting or translate a foreig...
The Warrior Muse

Please go to my new blog! - Hi! I did my post over on my new blog today. You can find it *HERE*.
West in New England

ELISHA HOUGHTON HAD A GUN,,, AND THEN HE DIDN'T - *((Today is the 249th Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Several of my ancestors took* *part in the battles, including my 5x great grandfather ...
Heirlooms Reunited

1835 Letter from E. Richardson, Cashier at Bangor Commercial Bank, Bangor, Maine; to C. Dole, Cashier at Citizens Bank in Augusta, Maine; Richardson is Resigning to become Cashier at Bank of Portland, Maine - August 17, 1835 letter from Edward Richardson (1809-1876), Cashier at *Bangor Commercial Bank* in *Bangor, Maine*, to *Carleton Dole (1798-1870)*, Cashier ...
Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Obituary William Hanna 1920 - In Dunn Township Ontario William Hanna age 83 interment Riverside CemeterySearch for more information in genealogy records on Ancestry.com, Ancestry.ca ...
The Accidental Genealogist

Preserving a Female Ancestor's Photographs with Vivid-Pix Memory Station - Are precious details about the lives of your female ancestors hidden in old family photographs? Most of us have bins or boxes of treasured memories just...
Black Raven Genealogy

1921 Census of England & Wales - Wynne household - There was huge excitement among many genealogists this week with the publication of the 1921 census for England & Wales. I didn't expect to find any direc...
Boston 1775

“My Daughter, which she really is, tho’ but an adopted one” - This story came up (in my head at least) during yesterday’s online presentation from King’s Chapel about how the Revolution affected members of that Angli...
Northeastern North Carolina Stories

- *PINHOOK* *P*inhook was a small community in Durham County that, by 1906, was a suburb of the city of Durham. Why the place was called Pinhook...
James Pylant

The Mysterious Woman Upstairs - In November 1915 Mary Connor purchased a large two-story home in the small town of Newmarket, New Hampshire. Mary and her sister, Annie, moved there from...
William & Mary Dyer

Anne Marbury Hutchinson: American Founding Mother chapter excerpt - *© 2018 Christy K Robinson * *This article is copyrighted. Copying, even to your genealogy pages, is prohibited by US and international law. You may "shar...
Lowell Doughboys and more...

Greater Lowell Vietnam Honor Roll - Forty nine men from Greater Lowell served during the Vietnam War and lost their lives serving for the United States of America. We remember them today and ...
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Jesus and Nemo visit Hiroshima - Hello friends, I know I was going to do a part II for Mostly Spring in Japan, but it has been so long I've decided to let that go. Even the best of us get ...
JDP News

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Recollecting Nemasket

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ANE JENSDATTER (HANSEN) 1813-1862 - Letter written by son-in-law, Frederik Sorensen Christensen staes that she and her other daughter, Karen's sister, died on the plains outside of Omaha, N...
INKSPOT Crime Fiction Blog | A Place for Mystery, Mayhem, Writing and Life

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My Maine Ancestry

Tombstone Tuesday - Samuel & Hannah (Sawyer) Hilton - My 5th great-grandparents Samuel and Hannah (Sawyer) Hilton are buried in the Upper Gloucester Cemetery in New Gloucester, Maine. Samuel was born about 1...
And This Is Good Old Boston

Shocking Murder of Bandleader! - May 10, 1919 In the early years of the 20th century, James Reese Europe was probably the leading African American figure in popular music. Reese came to ...
Your Brisbane: Past and Present

Brisbane flood problems - There's been some rather full-on marine construction work happening on the Brisbane River at Bulimba River Park. A few weeks ago a barge toting workmen's h...
Miller-Anderson Histories

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DNA Research - I’ve been fortunate that my family has a well-documented history, and I’ve been able to research most lines of my family tree back many generations. Becaus...
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The Great Falls (MT) Public Library and Alma Smith Jacobs - Researching a recent acquisition to my postal librariana collection I discovered the story of African American librarian Alma Smith Jacobs (1916-1997) ...
Digging Down East

My 64 ~ Researching My Fourth Great Grandparents : Hans Hamilton and Jane Cottam - My fourth great grandfather, Hans (also spelled Hants) Hamilton, was born on January 1, 1780, in Truro, in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, the sixth so...
American History Now

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Civil War Days & Those Surnames

Eldred Huff. - Push. *Captain Eldred Huff*, Fremont Co. Enl. Oct. 2, 1861; app. 3d Serg. on muster-in; prom. 1st Serg. Sep. 1, 1862; Capt. Feb. 3, 1863. Remained with t...
American Folk Art @ Cooperstown

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The Kith and Kin Chronicles

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Pauline's Pirates & Privateers

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BIG OLD HOUSES

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The Northeast House Historian

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Collectible Old Stocks and Bonds

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Christopher T. George's War of 1812 Blog

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Pine Grove Cemetery of Brunswick, Maine

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Fantastic Family Findings

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Jacobus Books

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History—Now and Then

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A Grand Adventure - Looking for Relatives

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Into the Wilderness

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A Couple Of Bubbles Off Center

It's 1635 and a glorious May day in Dorset.... - Imagine you're 24, and there's no future in the Somersetshire village where you grew up and where your family has lived for at least a hundred years. You, ...
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Abigail Hussey Mother of John Ggreenleaf Whittier

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