Osgood McFarland, a son of Major Moses McFarland, of the revolutionary war, a Scotch-Irish immigrant, together with his wife, Mary Bartlett, came to town from Haverhill, Mass., in 1809. A few years afterwards he removed to Marietta, Ohio. He remained there seven years, when, on account of his health, he returned to Vermont, driving his […]
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.
Pennacook Indians (cognate with Abnaki pěnâ-kuk, or penankuk, ‘at the bottom of the of hill or highland.’ Gerard). A confederacy of Algonquian tribes that occupied the basin of Merrimac river and the adjacent region in New Hampshire, northeast Massachusetts, and the extreme south part of Maine. They had an intermediate position between the southern New
An important Algonquian tribe that occupied the country about Massachusetts Bay in eastern Massachusetts, the territory claimed extending along the coast from Plymouth northward to Salem and possibly to the Merrimac, including the entire basin of Neponset and Charles Rivers.
Thomas White is the first generation. His descendants who bear the family name stand in numerical order from himself to NO. 79. Small figures at the end of a name, thus, “THOMAS2″ indicate the generation to which the individual belongs. Figures in parentheses placed before a name, forming the subject of a distinct notice, thus,
Hannah, dau. of Samll Lowell, Jan. 14. Ruth, dau. of Nathan Plumer, Feb. 4. Jacob, son of Joseph Gerrish, Feb. 11. Sarah, dau. of Eben Tenny, Feb. 18. Thomas, son of Benj. Stickney, jr., Feb. 25 Oliver, son of Stephen Stickney, Feb. 25
1738-9 Byfield Massachusetts Parish Records Baptisms Read More »
MELVIN HARVEY WALKER, JR., M. D, has been a medical practitioner in Pittsfield for nearly a decade. He is a native of Westboro, born October 21, 1886, son of Melvin H. and Ann (Moses) Walker; his father being a manufacturer in Westboro; and the mother now deceased. The son Melvin took the usual courses in
Enoch Chase was one of the founders of the City of Topeka. He was actively identified with the free state movement in territorial times, and for years was a man of prominence in the state capital. While these reasons make his career a part of Kansas history, it is also noteworthy that his daughter became
JOHN ABBE, settled in Salem, Mass. He was entered as “Inhabitant” ye 2nd of 11 month 1636.” His wife, Mary Loring, died in Wenham, Mass., Sept. 9, 1662. He then married Mary, widow of Robert Goldsmith, Nov. 25, 1674. He was granted land most of which was situated in Enon, that part afterwards called Wenham,
Alden, Lewis, son of Lewis and Abigail (Belcher) Alden, was born in East Randolph, Norfolk County, April 29, 1848. He received a common and high school education. Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one he worked in the shoe factory of L. F. Wilde & Co. Later, for nearly five years. He worked for Rufus
Judge Lawrence D. Bailey, long a resident of Emporia and the pioneer lawyer of Southwestern Kansas, also accomplished much in forwarding the agricultural interests of the state. He was a New Hampshire man, born at Sutton, Merrimack County, August 26, 1819. He was of an old Euglish manufacturing family, and his American ancestors are said
Biographical Sketch of Lawrence D. Bailey, Judge Read More »
Sea Captains Standley, William to Swett, Woodbury
Sea Captains Standley, William to Swett, Woodbury Read More »
John, Jonathan and Mary, children of John Hopkinson, Jan. 7, 1727-8 Benjamin, son of Benjamin Poor, Jan. 7, 1727-8 Ebenezer, son of Joseph Russell, Jan. 7, 1727-8. James Calf, adult person, Jan. 14. Eunice, dau. of Nathan Plumer, Feb. 4. Sarah, dau. of John Brocklebank, Mar.17. Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel Clark, Mar. 24, 1727-8
1727-8 Byfield Massachusetts Parish Records Baptisms Read More »
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
Abijah, son of Samll Dickinson, Jan. 13. Richard, son of Bartholomew Pearson, and Samuel, son of Samll Jewett, Feb. 10.
1739-40 Byfield Massachusetts Parish Records Baptisms Read More »
Mehitabel, dau. of Aaron Dresser, Jan. 6. Rebecca, dau. of Stephen Stickney, Jan. 27, 1733-4. Hannah, dau. of Samuell Hovey, Mar. 3. William and Hannah, children of Joseph Russell, Feb. 17, 1733-4
1733-4 Byfield Massachusetts Parish Records Baptisms Read More »
John, son of Aaron Dresser, Mar. 28. Ann, dau. of William Longfellow, May 2, 1742 Joseph, son of Joseph Carr, May 2, 1742 Benjamin, son of John Noyes, May 2, 1742. Phebe, dau. of Bartholomew Pearson, May, __1742. Hannah, dau. of John Stewartt, May __. Enoch, son of Enoch Noyes, June 13 A child of
1742 Byfield Massachusetts Parish Records Baptisms Read More »
