Boston Massachusetts Genealogy

Descendants of Philip Trafford from Dartmouth and Fall River, MA

Now for well on to a century the Trafford name in Dartmouth and Fall River has been closely identified with the industrial life of that section, successive generations of the family having been manufacturers of cotton goods – the late William Bradford Trafford, long actively engaged in manufacturing in Fall River, and the founder of what became the Westport Manufacturing Company, and his sons, the present William C, Andrew E., Charles A., Allison W., Henry Lester, Perry Davis, and Bernard Walton Trafford, and it goes without saying, all have been substantial men and influential citizens of their community. From the settler Thomas Trafford and his wife Mary, the lineage of the present Trafford brothers – William C. and Andrew R. – of the Westport Manufacturing Company is through Philip, Joseph, William Bradford and William Bradford (2). These generations in such detail and family history as is obtainable and in the order given follow.

Seabury Family of New Bedford, Massachusetts

SEABURY – variously spelled Sebury, Saberry, Saberrey and Sabury. The American ancestor of the Seaburys of New Bedford was (I) John Seabury, of Boston, who died before 1662. He married Grace, and had two sons – John (who went to Barbados) and Samuel (born Dec. 10, 1640) – and several daughters. (II) Samuel Seabury, son of John, born Dec. 10, 1640, died Aug. 5, 1681. He married at Weymouth Nov. 9, 1660, Patience Kemp, who died Oct. 29, 1676. He married (second) April 4, 1677, Martha Pabodie, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie and granddaughter of John and Priscilla … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1755

Nathl. Glover of Dorchester & Mehetible Hill Jan. 2, 1755 Thomas Standley & Mary Tudor Jan. 2, 1755 Joseph Badger Jr. & Rhoda Cox Jan. 2, 1755 Solomon Kellon & Mary Gray Jan. 2, 1755 Richard Boynton & Ann Andrews Jan. 2, 1755 Magns Erven & Eliza. Gray Jan. 2, 1755 Richard Butler & Alice Dorton Jan. 3, 1755 James Hill & Mary Fitzgerald Jan. 6, 1755 Michael Carrol & Katharine Nickols Jan. 7, 1755 John Winship & Ann Harrison Jan. 9, 1755 Isaac Wendell & Mary Banks Jan. 16, 1755 William Mclentock of Medford & Jane Hodge Jan. 16, … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Charles Wheeler Pratt

Pratt, Charles Wheeler; engineering, civil and landscape; born, Nashua, N. H., in 1865; son of Charles W. and Sarah Ann White Pratt; early education in public schools of Boston, Mass.; attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology; married, Cleveland, 1902, Miss Frederika Bailey; in 1881, worked for E. W. Bowdich, of Boston; engaged in waterworks and sewer construction and landscape gardening; came to Cleveland in 1893, and in 1894, entered the employ of the old park board, as chief engineer; during the time all the present public parks were built: in 1900, took up private practice of his profession; designed. Ambler Heights, … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1775

Jeffery Manning & Mary Coit Jan. 2, 1775 William White of Haverhill & Mrs. Polly Chandler Jan. 5, 1775 John Patten & Elizabeth Clough Jan. 5, 1775 Edward Wilkinson & Elizabeth Welch Jan. 6, 1775 William Sharp & Hannah Burk Jan. 6, 1775 Henry Prouse & Nelly Shaw Jan. 7, 1775 James Bennet & Susannah Storrer Jan. 9, 1775 James Grilton & Mary Connish Jan. 14, 1775 Michael Flinn & Elizabeth Saunders Jan. 15, 1775 Robert Middleton & Abigail Bowing Jan. 16, 1775 Thomas Whitrker [Whitacker?] & Elizabeth Morien Jan. 16, 1775 Charles Collins & Mary Burns Jan. 18, 1775 … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1788

Benjamin Horton & Mary McLane Jan. 17, 1788 Richard Fox & Rachel Payson Jan. 31, 1788 David Sanger & Grace Sanger Feb. 13, 1788 James Kelley & Elizabeth Diskel Feb. 13, 1788 Abraham Frost & Phebe Jennison Feb. 13, 1788 Silas Ramsdell & Betsy Tupper Feb. 14, 1788 William Pitt & Sarah Rust Feb. 28, 1788 Ezra Whitney & Betsy Marshall Mar. 5, 1788 James Bird & Hannah Clevenel Mar. 9, 1788 John Williams & Nancy Williams (forbid) Mar. 29, 1788 James Bemiss & Betsy Renue Mar. 31, 1788 John Frahgoull & Hannah Waples Apr. 1, 1788 Moses Lewis & … Read more

Biography of William P. Wood

William P. Wood, a farmer of Plainfield, was born here, December 29, 1859, son of Alban Palmer and Rhoda (Eaton) Wood, of this town. His grandfather, John Wood was the first male child born in Lebanon, N.H. John was one of the foremost and wealthiest farmers in the district and a very religious man. He married Persis Hyde, of Lebanon, who bore him eleven children; namely, Persis, John, Jr., Lucinda, Jemima, Sally, Thomas, Annie, Harriet, Martha, Palmer, and one child who died in infancy. Persis, who was born in 1797, and did not marry, died at the age of fifty. … Read more

Ancestors of Warren A. Reed of Brockton Massachusetts

The Reed family of Brockton, Mass., a leading member of which was Judge Warren A. Reed, lawyer and jurist, who for over a third of a century had been one of the foremost citizens of Brockton, and during the greater part of that long period connected with the judicial, civic and financial interests of the city, district and State, is one of long and honorable standing in this Commonwealth, and one the forerunner of which came to these shores over two hundred and fifty years ago. Many members of this historic family have given good account of themselves, and many are there who have been prominent in the history of this country. An account of the branch of the family to which Judge Reed belongs is here given in chronological order, beginning with the earliest American ancestor.

Biography of James E. Mack

James E. Mack, Public Administrator of San Bernardino County, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in November 1848, and resided there until twelve years of age. At the breaking out of the war in 1861 he enlisted in the Fourteenth Massachusetts Infantry, serving ninety days as drummer boy. On the expiration of his term he re-enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Infantry for three years, but his mother prevented him being mustered in. In the fervor of his youthful patriotism he determined to try again, and enlisted in the United States Naval Marine Corps, but was again prevented from entering the service … Read more

Biography of Clarence W. Brooks

A little thoughtful consideration of the career of Clarence W. Brooks, proprietor of the Brooks House, Idaho Falls, brings one to the conclusion that he has in most of his business operations been impelled by the spirit of the pioneer. He has sought out new plans and new conditions likely to favor his projects, and after he has made them available and profitable, he has sought out still others, and after those others. The wisdom of his selection has been proven by the success which has crowned his efforts. Not only is he one of the boldest, most venturesome and … Read more

Biography of George Edmund Otis

George Edmund Otis, a leading member of the Southern California bar, is a descendant of one of the oldest New England families, his ancestors having emigrated from Somersetshire, England, about 1630. That he springs from a cultured family is evidenced in the fact that his paternal great-grandfather was one of the early graduates of Harvard University, as far back as 1752, and his father was a graduate of the same institution ninety years later. His mother was a direct descendant of Judge Sewall, who is associated in history with the hanging of the witches in the seventeenth century. Mr. Otis … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1807

Levi Willard & Eliza Jaine Norman (forbid) Jan. 1, 1807 Peter Bergen & Ann McCabe Jan. 5, 1807 Peter Bruno & Mary Egaud Jan. 6, 1807 Peter Brown & Sylvia Gamma Jan. 3, 1807 Jonathan Howe & Sally Hopkins Jan. 6, 1807 John Dennis & Rachel Brown, (blacks) Jan. 9, 1807 Dennis Martin & Rachel Stuart Jan. 13, 1807 Nehemiah I. Ingraham & Lydia Hastings of Lincoln Jan. 14, 1807 Samuel Powers & Nancy Bryant of Situate Jan. 14, 1807 Ephraim Davis & Sally Flagg of Holden Jan. 20, 1807 Charles Procter & Mary Keltey of Roxbury Jan. 20, 1807 … Read more

Richard Dexter Genealogy, 1642-1904

Being a history of the descendants of Richard Dexter of Malden, Massachusetts, from the notes of John Haven Dexter and original researches. Richard Dexter, who was admitted an inhabitant of Boston (New England), Feb. 28, 1642, came from within ten miles of the town of Slane, Co. Meath, Ireland, and belonged to a branch of that family of Dexter who were descendants of Richard de Excester, the Lord Justice of Ireland. He, with his wife Bridget, and three or more children, fled to England from the great Irish Massacre of the Protestants which commenced Oct. 27, 1641. When Richard Dexter and family left England and by what vessel, we are unable to state, but he could not have remained there long, as we know he was living at Boston prior to Feb. 28, 1642.

Biography of G. G. Greeley

G. G. Greeley horticulturist, near Anaheim, was born in Belfast, Maine, in 1817. His parents, John and Mary (Black) Greeley, natives respectively of New Hampshire and Maine, and of English descent, had seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second. At the age of twenty-one he started out in life for himself, learning the trade of carpenter at Searsport, Maine, being employed in that business four years. He subsequently took up land at Aroostook, and followed timbering for about a year. Next he worked at his trade for a time, building a hotel at No. 11; … Read more

The Turner Family Magazine

In 1916 and 1917, William Montgomery Clemens edited a series of pamphlets called the Turner Family Magazine. It was meant to be a genealogical, historical and biographical magazine about the Turner family across the United States. That series of magazines was later published in 1920 as a complete bound volume. This is what this book is.

Biography of John W. Perkins, M. D.

Dr. John W. Perkins, division surgeon for the Kansas division of the union Pacific Railroad since 1887 and a physician ‘and surgeon of pronounced ability, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 1, 1860, a son of David and Hannah (Dunn) Perkins, who were natives of New Hampshire and of Maine, respectively. The father was contractor and builder who devoted his life to the business following his marriage, previous to which time he had been a sea captain, sailing out of Boston to the West Indies and in the coastwise trade. He came of a family of seagoing people, but after … Read more

Biography of Clifton Alvah Crocker

For three generations the name of Crocker has stood for excellence of quality and business integrity in the paper manufacturing industry of New England. Holyoke, long the chief place of the S. S. Crocker interests from the manufacturers’ point of view, and famous the world over as one of the most important points where the papermaking trade is centralized, has received additional prestige in that respect by reason of its being the scene of the Crocker operations. Of that name, long an honorable one in Massachusetts annals, is Clifton Alvah Crocker, president and one of the founders of the Crocker-McElwain … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1799

Thomas Webb & Abigail Mason Jan. 4, 1799 Joseph Wade & Mary Stockbridge of Scituate Jan. 10, 1799 George Gosnold & Priscilla Nodle Jan. 12, 1799 Thomas Tobiss & Elizabeth Briget Jan. 12, 1799 Ebenzer Elms & Mary Coffin Jan. 18, 1799 Thomas Field & Jane Hadley Jan. 20, 1799 Anthony Chapovil & Suky Neal Jan. 28, 1799 Samuel Webber & Charity Jebbo Jan. 30, 1799 Nicholas Morgan & Betsy Johnson Jan. 31, 1799 John Copeland & Betsy Peters Feb. 4, 1799 William Sheppard & Abiel Syms Feb. 6, 1799 Thomas Woodford & Sarah Wilkinson Feb. 8, 1799 Richard Floyd … Read more

Genealogy of the Reed and Loud Families of Abington, Massachusetts

These families, Reed and Loud, allied by marriage, are still represented in the ancient town of Abington, where for three generations the Reeds have been engaged in the lumber business with other lines connected with it. Reference is made to the late Amos S. Reed, to his son, the late Maj. Edward Payson Reed, and to the present Arthur B. Reed, son of Major Reed, all active business men, prominent and influential citizens of what is now North Abington. Both the Reed and Loud were early Weymouth families, and we take up the records in order. There follows from William Reed, the immigrant ancestor of the North Abington Reed family alluded to, chronologically arranged, the genealogy of the family.

Emily Marshall, Mrs. William Foster Otis

Boston claims as her own the greatest American man of the nineteenth century, and even with more justice, the most beautiful woman born in America within the same period. “Emily Marshall as completely filled the ideal of the lovely and feminine, as did Webster the ideal of the intellectual and the masculine,” Quincy, a native of the same State, has written of her, adding that though superlatives were intended only for the use of the very young, not even the cooling influences of half a century enabled him to avoid them in speaking of her. He never forgot the first … Read more