William Sergent Hawse & Sarah Hunstable Jan. 30, 1766 Thomas James & Mary March Feb. 6, 1766 Thomas Hall & Sarah Griggs Feb. 15, 1766 William Brown & Mary Newhall Feb. 20, 1766 Edward Richardson & Sarah Quinor Feb. 20, 1766 John Hendley & Sarah Smith Feb. , 1766 Charles Dabney & Mary Bass Mar. …
Hon. Peter Olcott was born at Bolton, Connecticut, April 25, 1733; married Sarah, daughter of Peletiah Mills, Esq., of Windsor, Conn., October 11, 1759, and removed to that place in 1772. That year or the following one he came to Norwich, Vermont. He was the oldest of his parents’ four children (two sons and two …
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 …
Jack Phillips & Flora Hall Jan. 1, 1782 John Hunt Jr. & Sally Sherburne Jan. 1. 1782 John Welch Jr. & Hannah Kilbey Jan. 10, 1782 Samuel Weeks & Rebecca Nash Jan. 16, 1782 Charles Muncriff & Hannah Bowen Jan. 21, 1782 Quaco White & Violet True, free Negroes Jan. 31 ?, 1782 Benjamin Goodwin …
David Ochterlony & Catha. Tyler Jan. 4, 1757 Richard Anderson & Ann Green Jan. 5, 1757 Stephen Wales & Abigail Peat Jan. 6, 1757 John Brooks & Eliza. Wadland Jan. 7, 1757 Robert Cook & Ann Carlisle Jan. 8, 1757 John Barry & Mary Blake Jan. 11, 1757 William Parkman & Mary Hawkins Jan. 13, …
Latty, Samuel D.; sec’y and gen. mgr. The Kirk-Latty Mnfg. Co.; born, Boston, Mass., Sept. 12, 1864; educated in the public schools; began career in the tack business with A. Fields & Son, Taunton, Mass., 1881-1883; Tack Dept., Cincinnati, O., 1883-1885; came to Cleveland and worked for the W. Bingham Co., 1885-1887; took charge of …
John Grohan & Susanna Tucker Jan 9, 1793 William Leveridge & Elizabeth Brown Jan. 9, 1793 John English & Molly Cowell Jan. 16, 1793 Thomas Parker & Abigail Hart Parkman Jan. 15, 1793 John Cholet & Mary Donet Jan. 17, 1793 Cornelius Springsteel & Betsey Berry Jan. 24, 1793 Job Anthony & Mary Purkitt Feb. …
Narrative of the captivity of Frances Noble, who was, among others, taken by the Indians from Swan Island, in Maine, about the year 1755; compiled by John Kelly, Esq. of Concord, New Hampshire, from the minutes and memoranda of Phinehas Merrill. Esq. of Stratham, in the same state; and by the Former Gen. Tleman communicated for publication to the editors of the Historical Collections of New Hampshire.
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.
Mrs. Susan Yocum [Yocom] died at the home of her son, Alva, three miles west of town at the advanced age of 79 years, Sunday [December 25, 1909]. She had lived in the valley since 1876. She was loved and esteemed by a host of friends. The following appeared about three months later: IN MEMORY …
ALDEN CHESTER A WELL-KNOWN, industrious, painstaking lawyer of this city, whose early struggles in life and well-directed efforts to secure an education have been crowned with success in his chosen profession, is Alden Chester. Born at Westford, a small village in Otsego County, N. Y., September 4, 1848, he is the youngest of four sons …
This doughty end intrepid frontiersman, now one of the leading farmers and stock men of his vicinity, having a tine estate eight miles west from Ontario, which is the family home, and being a man of prominence and capabilities, has accomplished much in the development of the County and we are pleased to accord to …
Gilman Frothingham of Newbury Port & Nancy Phillips Jan. 4, 1797 Richd. Stevens Holden & Abigal Farrington of Lyn Jan. 4, 1797 Joshua Thornton Littlefield & Joanna Trefry (forbid) Jan. 5, 1797 William Bethelshire & Catharine Hunt Jan. 12, 1797 Boston Faddy & Mary Freeman, blacks Jan. 16, 1797 Peter Allberry & Roxbury Gardner [blacks?] …
John Wise & Mary Vintenon Jan. 10, 1765 Henry Smith & Elizabeth Draver Jan. 31, 1765 William Hatter & Catharine Adams Feb. 2, 1765 Mr. Robert Earel & Mrs. Mehettable Putnam Mar. 14, 1765 Mr. Ezekiel Price & Mrs. Ruth Avery Mar. 14, 1765 Mr. Edward Rose & Mrs. Mary Revere Mar. 21, 1765 Gidion …
A Faithful Narrative of the Many Dangers and Sufferings, as well as wonderful and surprising deliverances, of Robert Eastburn, during his late captivity among the Indians. Written by Himself. Published at the earnest request of many persons, for the benefit of the Public. With a recommendatory Preface by the Rev. Gilbert Tennent. Psalms 24, 6, …
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John Gyles captivity narrative provides a stunning display of Abenaki culture and lifestyle, as it was in the 1690’s. John was 10 years old when he was taken captive in the attack on Pemaquid (Bristol Maine) and his narrative provides an accounting of his harrowing treatment by his Indian captors, as well as the three years exile with his French owners at Jemseg New Bruswick. His faith in Christ remains central in the well-being of his mind throughout his ordeal.
Hiram C. Ellenwood, a carpenter and undertaker of Charlestown, N.H., was born in Woodward, Vt., November 26, 1826, son of Cyrus and Sally (Draper) Ellenwood. His grandfather, Joseph Ellenwood, was a native of Greenfield, N.H., where he also resided during the greater part of his life, engaged in general farming. He married Mary Punchard, who …
Col. Charles William Durham is the principal assistant in the engineering office at Rock Island Arsenal. His father, Charles Durham, was born in Belfast, Maine; his mother, Dorcas C. Durham, was born in the town of Brewer of the same State. Mr. Durham, senior, was for the greater part of his life a lumber merchant …
Thomas Fox & Elizabeth McMullan Feb. 21, 1792 David Mill Bennett & Mary Cutter Feb. 26, 1792 Job Atkins & Jauna Smith, blacks Mar. 10, 1792 Jeremiah Beals & Ruth Cutter Mar. 15, 1792 David Potter & Nancy Griggory, blacks Mar. 26, 1792 John More & Elsey Lamb Mar. 25, 1792 Joseph Francis & Polly …
Palfrey Collins & Alice Irish Jan. 1, 1761 Joseph Allen & Mary Jenkins Jan. 1761 Joseph Collins & Mary Bosworth of Hull Jan. 1761 Newton Prince, neg. svt. of Mr. Jon. Gould Jr. & Martha Barnaby free Negro Jan. 14, 1761 Benja. Bill & Eliza. Watts of Chelsea Jan. 14, 1761 William Wallis & Eleanor …
