Boston Massachusetts Genealogy – Page 18 of 18

Biographical Sketch of Charles F. Foley

A member of the Kansas Public Utilities Commission since 1913, Charles F. Foley is a lawyer by profession, began practice thirty years ago at Lyons, and is a resident of that city. His duties, however, require his presence in Topeka much of the time. A native of Canada, educated in that country and at Boston, Massachusetts, he came at the age of twenty to Kansas in 1880 and by teaching school in the eastern section of the state earned enongh to defray his expenses at the University of Kansas. He was gradnated from the law department in 1884, then continued … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1763

Samuel Hinds & Dorcas Delancey Jan. 1, 1763 Richard Ryen & Sarah Warner Jan. 6, 1763 Unite Cox & Mary Williams Jan. 6, 1763 Mr. Simeon Freeman & Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson Jan. 12, 1763 Nathaniel Bird & Christian Gregory Jan. 13, 1763 James Hinks & Ann Chandler (forbid) Jan. 13, 1763 Cato, Neg. svt. Dea. Thos. Hill & Dido, Neg. svt. Dec. Thos. Tyler Jan. 19, 1763 Alford Butler & Eunice West Jan. 27, 1763 John Chandler & Susannah Breed Jan. 27, 1763 William Sharp & Sarah Gillins of Dorchester Jan. 27, 1763 Joseph Edmonds & Hannah Tucker Feb. 10, … Read more

Ancestry of Nathaniel Reynolds Packard, 2d of Brockton Massachusetts

Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts

Nathaniel Reynolds Packard, 2d, who belonged to the older school of shoe manufacturers in Brockton, and whose industry and integrity, coupled with his executive ability and iron determination, won him success in his undertakings, died at Cory Hill hospital, Boston, Nov. 6, 1908, aged seventy-five years. He was a descendant of Samuel Packard, the first of the name in America, who with his wife and child came from Windham, near Hingham, England, in the ship “Diligence,” of Ipswich, and settled first at Hingham, Mass., in 1638, thence removing to West Bridgewater, where he became one of the early settlers, and where he was a tavern-keeper

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1754

Names Date Town Richard Williamson & Margaret Burgis Jan. 1,1754 Thomas Smith & Delight Tayler Jan. 3, 1754 James Masters & Rebecca Fowle Jan. 3, 1754 Lemuel Holmes & Prudence Henderson Jan. 3, 1754 Richard Sayward & Jennet Furrest Jan. 3, 1754 Luke Ryan & Sarah Sale Jan. 5, 1754 John Kimball & Elizabeth Patch of Beverly Jan. 10, 1754 George Hodge & Mary Smith Jan. 10, 1754 Magnus Tullock & Experience Lighting Jan. 10, 1754 John Briant & Elizabeth Williams Jan. 10, 1754 Ebenezer Richardson & Keziah Henshaw Jan. 12, 1754 John Desolve & Mary Druet forbid Jan. 12, … Read more

Narrative of the Captivity of Nehemiah How

A Narrative of the captivity of Nehemiah How, who was taken by the Indians at the Great Meadow Fort above Fort Dummer, where he was an inhabitant, October 11th, 1745. Giving an account of what he met with in his traveling to Canada, and while he was in prison there. Together with an account of Mr. How’s death at Canada. Exceedingly valuable for the many items of exact intelligence therein recorded, relative to so many of the present inhabitants of New England, through those friends who endured the hardships of captivity in the mountain deserts and the damps of loathsome prisons. Had the author lived to have returned, and published his narrative himself, he doubtless would have made it far more valuable, but he was cut off while a prisoner, by the prison fever, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, after a captivity of one year, seven months, and fifteen days. He died May 25th, 1747, in the hospital at Quebec, after a sickness of about ten days. He was a husband and father, and greatly beloved by all who knew him.

Biography of Alvah Charles Ferrin

Alvah Charles Ferrin, a retired contractor and builder of Concord, who served in the United States Navy during the Civil War, was born in Plymouth, N.H., August 13, 1835, son of Daniel E. and Mary Jane (Durgin) Ferrin. His father was a native of Hebron, N.H.; and his mother was born in Buxton, Me. On the father’s side he is a descendant of Revolutionary patriots. His education, which was begun in the public schools of Lowell, Mass., where 1841, was completed when he was about sixteen years old in Hebron, N.H., to which they went in 1842. He started in … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1784

James Glover & Sarah Louis Jan. 4, 1784 Jonathan Adams & Sally Cooper (forbid) Jan. 5, 1784 William Pain & Mary Low Jan. 14, 1784 Armitage Gerrish & Nancy Milward Jan. 15, 1784 Israel Reed & Mercy Davis Feb. 3, 1784 Cesar Johonnot & Ruth Grandison, free Negroes Feb. 10, 1784 Solomon Dose & Elizabeth Litchfield (forbid) Feb. 25, 1784 William Bradford & Elizabeth Litchfield Feb. 28, 1784 Charles Baujean & Lucy Snow Mar. 4, 1784 Joseph Lyon & Nancy Rand Mar. 8, 1784 John Miller & Esther Baker Mar. 10, 1784 Benjamin Reynolds of Providence & Betsy Bradford Mar. … Read more

Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1772

Miles Greenwood & Elizabeth Elkins of Salem Jan. 1, 1772 William Crane & Elizabeth Aber Jan. 2, 1772 Jethniel Morse & Martha Hayden of Braintree Jan. 11, 1772 Scipeo, svt. to Isaac Cazneau, & Grace, svt. to Mr. Arthelony Jan. 15, 1772 Richard Barber & Mary Flinn Jan. 21,1772 Thomas Green of Nantasket & Mary Crain Jan. 23, 1772 James Fox & Grace Colly Jan. 24, 1772 John Peel & Susannah Purceful Jan. 24, 1772 John Keton & Mary Kenney Jan. 25, 1772 Salvester Meagan & Nansy Atwood Jan. 29, 1772 Richard Smith Sylvester & Dorcas Phillips Feb. 5, 1772 … Read more