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Benjamin and Sarah Brown of Hampton, NH
beginningsBenjamin Brown was born in about 1647 in Hampton, New Hampshire. He was the son of John and Sarah (unknown) Brown. John, his father, was one of the first settlers in Hampton, arriving there...
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William Brown and Ann Heath Brown of Hampton, New Hampshire
beginningsThere is not much written about William Brown. Â We know he was the son of Benjamin Brown of Hampton and his wife Sarah Brown of Salisbury. His father, Benjamin, inherited much of his father's...
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Henry and Israel Pike True of Salem and Salisbury, MA
You know, there's nothing better than going down the rabbit hole and actually coming up with the rabbit. Today, I went down rabbit hole and came up empty handed. This post is about Henry True of Salem...
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Henry True and Jane Bradbury of Salisbury, MA
Henry True, son of Henry True and Israel Pike, was born in Salem, Massachusetts  on 8 March 1646. His father was a mariner by trade. He died when Henry was about thirteen years old. The date and...
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Eleanor Thornton: An Unfortunate Woman
This is a brief story about the life of Eleanor Thornton. What little I know about her was gleaned from the probate records of her father, William, her mother Eleanor and her own probate. Life in the...
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Cleopatra 'the Shawano' Powhatan and the Genealogical Proof Standard
Searcher or researcherFamilies come in all shapes, sizes and styles; so do the the people who search for them. We may share a common love for genealogy, but we don't always share the same methodology...
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James Pemberton (1608-1662) England to Malden, Massachusetts
english originsAt least two men named James Pemberton immigrated to New England in the early 1630's. [1] They have been confused by some genealogy researchers in the past but their lives have been...
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Edmund Barlow England to Marden, Massachusetts
english originsEdmund Barlow is one of those mystery men who just suddenly appear in the records of Massachusetts. No prior information for him can be found which is very frustrating to anyone trying...
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John Folsom: Hingham, England to Hingham, Massachusetts
english originsHingham is a small rural market town in the county of Norfolk, in England. A town which, I would wager, most people have never heard of. This little English town has a 'daughter' town in...
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Edward Gilman (1587-1655) Hingham, England to Exeter, NH
Edward Gilman and his family were part of a large contingent of  immigrants from the market town of Hingham, Norfolk, England who over the course of several years established a daughter town of Hingham...
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Percival Levett of York, England
Every good genealogist begins their research with a research question. This helps tighten the search and avoid distractions from interesting information that leads one astray. You know how it goes, you...
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Nullis Credite: John Foss of Rye, NH vs. Wrestling Brewster, An old fashioned...
john foss in the recordsLast week I was looking at the early court records of New Hampshire for my ancestor John Foss. John Foss is believed to have come to New Hampshire by 1660 when he married Mary...
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English Ancestry of William Berry's Wife Jane (Locke Hermins), is it Junky...
When I first started doing genealogy on ancestry.com two things happened. One, I fell in love with genealogy and two, I became a 'copy and paster'. After several months of building this giant unsourced...
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An Abundance of Abbotts: The George Abbotts of New England and their English...
As my title indicates there were quite a few men who immigrated to New England during the years of the great migration. Some were father and son, but others were of no known relationship. Two of the...
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Godfrey Dearborn (1603-1686) Willoughby, Lincolnshire to Exeter, New Hampshire
Like many 16th century Englishmen, Godfrey Dearborn came from a small village, deep in the English countryside. Despite it's rural location, the area has provided history with some colorful characters....
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John Marion and Sarah Eddy of Boston and John Marion and Sarah Unknown of...
Attention ya'll! If you are a descendant of Henry Dearborn and his wife Elizabeth Marion and you think you are related to Sarah Eddy, get out your pruning shears, it's time to lop that branch off your...
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William Estow and Mary Moulton of Ormesby, Norfolk, England and Hampton, New...
For such a small village, Ormesby was once the home of a large number of Great Migration immigrants including William Estow and his wife Mary. The men, husbands, sons, brothers, in laws, on whose...
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John Hammond and Agnes Garrold of Lavenham; Parents of Thomas Hammond, or...
It fun to see how far back in time we can trace our ancestors. When the years roll back and I'm finding names in the sixteen century, I get really excited. However, when we get this far back, the...
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Ancestry of Dorothy Yorke, wife of Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts
I was intending for my next blog post to be about the ancestry of Thomas Dudley, one time Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It is still in the works but I got sidetracked by the ancestry of his...
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