Boston Massachusetts Genealogy – Page 15 of 18

Biography of Hon. H. W. Fairweather

HON. H.W. FAIRWEATHER. – Mr. Fairweather was born in St. Johns, New Brunswick, May 20, 1852. Here he received a common-school education. His father was from Essex county, New York, pure English. His mother’s parents were from Ireland, pure Irish. Our subject went to Boston in 1868, and found work as brakeman on the Old Colony Railroad. He spent 1869, ’70 and ’71 in Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Minnesota in the same line of work. He came to Washington Territory in 1871, and was employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company as locomotive engineer, and subsequently as chief clerk. In … Read more

Indian Children put in Service

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1796

Thomas Henry Kemble & Hannah Pease Jan. 5, 1796 David Stephens & Lucy Willington Jan. 6, 1796 James Cammel & Elizabeth Tate, blacks Jan. 15, 1796 Jacob Fryday & Rebecca Levering Jan. 21, 1796 Capt. John Irwin & Polly Hopkins Feb. 8, 1796 John Thomas & Prudence Spear Feb. 10, 1796 Lucitanus Beals & Susannah Bates of Cohasset Feb. 11, 1796 Richard Porter & Polly Brown Feb. 25, 1796 John Rowen & Lucy Harrington, blacks Feb. 25, 1796 James Johnson & Hulday Hutchins Feb. 29, 1796 Samuel Brown & Sally Brown Mar. 7, 1796 Thomas Capen & Jane Noble Mar. … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1758

Crispan Gapson & Mary McKeal Jan. 2, 1758 James Graham & Mary Mouet Jan. 3, 1758 Thomas Kimball & Hannah Thomas Jan. 4, 1758 Thomas Flett & Hannah Coverley Jan. 5, 1758 Job Bradford & Eliza. Parkman Jan. 5, 1758 Isaac White & Mary Hodsdon Jan. 5, 1758 Daniel Lace & Mary Swinney Jan. 7, 1758 John Torrey & Susa. Bowditch Jan. 12, 1758 Daniel Conely & Mary Clark Jan. 13, 1758 William Heffernon & Catharine Bouline Jan. 19, 1758 John Johonnot & Sarah Godfrey Jan. 19, 1758 Robert Pledger & Mary Beaufort Jan. 21, 1758 William Draper & Eliza. … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1789

Scipeo Peters & Margaret Powell, free Negros Jan. 22, 1789 James Read & Mary Peas Jan. 29, 1789 Edmund Conner & Rachael Lakin Feb. 12, 1789 Patrick Quinn & Elizabeth Perkins Feb. 12, 1789 Benjamin Hearsey & Naby Anchors Feb. 19,1789 Edward Byrne & Margaret Keiff Mar. 3, 1789 Edmund Wright & Mary Pratt Mar. 4, 1789 Thomas Williams & Elizabeth Watts Mar. 7, 1789 John Bell & Mary Wheaton Mar. 11, 1789 Charles King & Mercy Fuller Mar. 13, 1789 Moses Lewis & Martha Howard Mar. 13, 1789 Thomas Barnard & Lucy Pond Mar. 16, 1789 John Battis Sovey … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1804

Stephen Clark say Choak & Lucinda Boyd Jan. 4, 1804 Benjamin Wiggin & Charlotte Fowle Jan. 4, 1804 George Gidion, Junr & Nancy Benjamin Jan. 7, 1804 John Rynier & Susannah Withington Jan. 11, 1804 Jacob Hastings & Sarah H. Weld of Roxbury Jan. 11, -1804 Henry Nolen & Mary Haven of Shrewsbury Jan. 12, 1804 Thomas Davis & Prudence Foster Jan. 14, 1804 Charles Tuttle & Sally Austin of Salem Jan. 16, 1804 George Washington Brown & Ester Long Jan. 19, 1804 Fortune Nichols & Polly Freeman of Glocester Jan. 23, 1804 Patrick Phillips & Mary Given Oliver of … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Harry N. Hill

Hill, Harry N.; gem mgr. The Cleveland Tanning Co., born, Boston, Mass., 1866: son of Hosea E. and Mary Pillsbury Hill; educated, Cleveland Kentucky Grammar school, West High School, Gambier Milner Hall Academy, Kenyon College; married, Cleveland, Sept. 25, 1888, Mary E. Mathivet; four children, three sons and one daughter; since 1899, mgr. of The Cleveland Tanning Co.; pres. The Cleveland Auto Top & Trimming Co., The Tanners Sealher Co. of Newark, N. J.; director The Royal Tourist Car Co.; chairman executive committee of the National Association of Patent and Enameled Sealer Manufacturers; member Chamber of Commerce, Beta Theta Pi … Read more

Biography of George B. Calhoun, M.D.

GEORGE B. CALHOUN,M.D. – There are but few men better known or more highly respected in the medical profession on Puget Sound than Doctor Calhoun, an excellent portrait of whom appears in this history. He is a native of New Brunswick, and was born October 19, 1837, his parents being John and Mary (Brewster) Calhoun. When he was but a small boy, he moved with his parents to the sunny South, locating in Maryland. His father, being a shipowner and seafaring man, was stricken, while on a voyage to the Bermudas, with yellow fever, from which he died. Our subject, … 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.

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1779

William Andrews & Christian Hays Jan. 3, 1779 Samuel Richards & Mary White Jan. 7, 1779 William Summer & Abigail Warden Jan. 7, 1779 Samuel Harris & Abel Leley Jan. 13, 1779 Joseph Edmunds & Sarah Freeman Jan. 14, 1779 James Ivers & Elizabeth Hews Jan. 14, 1779 Samuel Smalledge & Elizabeth Tucker Jan. 14, 1779 Thomas Crosby & Isabella Low Jan. 18, 1779 Edward Blake & Dorcas Small piece Jan. 21, 1779 Mr. William Sherburne & Mrs. Mehettable Aspinwall of Brookline Jan. 21, 1779 James Brewer & Jenny Gallop, (forbid) Jan. 27, 1779 Nathaniel Barber Esq. & Mrs. Elizabeth … 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

Biographical Sketch of William M. Mangin

The subject of this article is one of the oldest pioneers of Jordan Valley, a man of ability and worth. one who has wrought here with assiduity and sagacity since the early days, is now recognized as one of the prominent men of the County, has ever maintained an unsullied reputation and manifested a stanch character of uprightness and integrity, and in business circles has won a success that is a credit to any man, therefore he is deserving of a prominent posit don in the history of his County and it is with pleasure that we accord him such … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1778

Francis Armstrong & Mary Atwin (forbid) Jan. 3, 1778 Edward Rolland of Salem & Sarah Purbeck Jan. 12, 1778 Nathaniel Wheeler & Ann Clark Jan. 14, 1778 Samuel Webber & Polly Saunders Jan. 15, 1778 Robert McCullo & Sarah Child Jan. 15, 1778 Sampson Signey & Elizabeth Robies, free Negroes Feb. 5, 1778 Thomas Skevens & Abigail Cave Feb. 6,1778 Benjamin Roberts & Elizabeth Hanberry Feb. 9, 1778 Joseph Brown & Allice Hooper Feb. 12, 1778 William Taxtor & Susannah Bromfield Feb. 16, 1778 Harry, Neg. svt. to Jno. Scolley Esq. & Sylva, free Negroe Feb. 18, 1778 James Brewer … Read more

Biography of Gordon Rollin Joslyn

No name is more prominently and actively associated with the automobile mercantile industry in Western Massachusetts than that of Mr. Joslyn, who is the executive head of the Franklin County Dealers’ Exchange, and who within a very few years has expanded the garage and agency interests of which he has charge throughout a territory that is not bounded by the county. Mr. Joslyn performs the business in which he has made himself a leader thoroughly and well, and centralizing his forces as president of the Joslyn Motor Company at Greenfield, he has found therein the rewards of a lifelong career … Read more

Descendants of Thomas Boyden of Bridgewater, MA

BOYDEN (Walpole-Bridgewater family). For a half century – for fifty and more years: – the name Boyden has stood in the town of Bridgewater, Mass., as a synonym for the highest type of useful, ennobling and elevating citizenship, as exemplified in the life of the now venerable principal emeritus of the Bridgewater State Normal School, Prof. Albert Gardner Boyden, who for the long period of fifty and more years has been identified as student, teacher and principal with the noted institution of learning alluded to, and has reared a son who has taken up the work so recently laid down … 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

Suffolk County Massachusetts Cemeteries

Below is a complete listing of all available online Suffolk County Massachusetts cemeteries, with links to multiple cemetery transcriptions, gravestone photos, tombstone photos, official records, etc. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. The following Cemeteries and photos are hosted at Massachusetts USGenWeb Archives Copp’s Hill Cemetery Roxbury Burial Ground Hosted at Suffolk County Massachusetts Genealogy Trails Granary Burying Ground Hosted at Suffolk County Massachusetts interment.net Bennington Street Cemetery Bunker Hill Burying Ground Central Burying Ground Copps Hill Burying Ground Dorchester North Burying Ground … Read more

Biography of Josiah C. Trask

Josiah C. Trask was one of the 180 victims of the terrible Quantrill raid and massacre at Lawrence, on August 21, 1863. He was a young and brilliant editor at the time of his death and few men of Kansas were more beloved. His father was a minister, who preached in Massachnsetts for many years, and he himself was born at Warren, that state, May 9, 1837. He pursued an academic course at Fitchburg, and when sixteen years of age went to Boston, where he was employed as a printer in various newspaper offices. Through his father-in-law, Joel B. Hibbard, … Read more

Descendants of Charles Little Hauthaway of North Bridgewater MA

For nearly a century there have lived in North Bridgewater and Brockton representatives of an earlier family of the name in and about Boston. Reference is made to some of the descendants of Charles Little Hauthaway, who, coming from Roxbury in youth, in 1828, cast his lot with the people of North Bridgewater, where have figured most successfully three generations of the family. From members of this family it seems that the English spelling of the name is Haughtweight or Hautweight, which may be the same as the old County Suffolk English spelling Hautwat, a name still extant there. The records of a century and more ago in Boston reveal the spelling Hauthwait, one Francis Hauthwait being the owner and occupier of a dwelling “North on West street; east by John Ballard; West by Frothingham.”

Ancestors of Mereitt G. Perkins of Bridgewater, MA

The Perkins family is one of long and honorable standing in America, being one of the oldest in New England, where it is first found of record in Hampton – then in Massachusetts, now in New Hampshire. This family has numbered among its members men who have been prominent in the learned professions as well as in the business and financial circles of this country. This article is to particularly treat of that branch of the family through which descended the late John Perkins, of Bridgewater, of which town his ancestors were early settlers, and where he was actively identified with the iron manufacturing industry for a number of years. The ancestral line of this branch of the family is here given in chronological order from the first American settler, Abraham Perkins. Through his grandmother, Huldah Ames Hayward, who became the wife of Asa Perkins, Mr. Perkins is also descended from another of the oldest and best known families of Massachusetts. The progenitor of this family, Thomas Hayward, came from England to New England, becoming one of the early settlers of Duxbury before 1638. In the early part of the eighteenth century many of the Haywards changed their name to Howard, the two names in all probability having been the same originally, as both have the same Norse origin. Among the distinguished descendants of this Hayward or Howard family may be mentioned William Howard Taft, president of the United States. The branch of the family through which Mr. Perkins descends is herewith given, in chronological order.