6th of January 1657: It is ordered that the towne Clarke Shall write to Newport to inform them that we haue information of A woolfe beinge on the Island and to desire their helps to drive the Island, one munday Next if it be fayre wether, and if not then on the Next fayre day.
Page 82. The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth. Providence, R.I.: E. L. Freeman & Sons, state printers, 1901.
Deborah Angell, daughter of Thomas, the original ancestor of this Angell branch, married Stephen Sabeere in 1668:
“This present writing may certify all present shall come that the Generall Sergeant Did publish the baines if matrymonye betwixt Steeuen Sabeere and Deborah Angell both Late of Newport at two seuerl meetings of the Genr Courts held at Newport in my Audience Given under my hand this 7th of November John Green Assistant 1668.”
Volume 3 page 104 of The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 1892, at HathiTrust.
Deborah and Stephen had a family, owned land and stayed in the Providence, Rhode Island area. On November 19, 1672 Stephen had some trouble, he called neighbor Henry Palmer’s wife a witch, Henry replied and they went to court.
“Thirdly Wee do Award Stephen Sebeere shall acknowlidge unto Henry Palmer done ronge unto him and his wife in sayinge that his wife is a witch Fourthly Wee do award Henry Palmer, acknowlidge that he hath done Ronge in callinge Stephen Sebeere French dog and french Roug 19th day of Nov. 1672”.
Volume 1 page 25. Rhode Island Land Evidences, Vol. I, 1648-1696: Abstracts. Providence:Rhode Island Historical Society 1921, at HathiTrust.
Still looking into this, dates, when it changed, why it changed. In families up to the 1950s maybe, older people moved in with younger people. Aged uncles lived with nieces and their families. Moms lived with sons and their families then moved to their daughter’s home. Grandparents moved in with grand children. Any number of arrangements of families living together. Occasionally an older person lives as a boarder, the majority live with their family.
So how did that work? How was it decided where Uncle Jake would live, who he would live with? Did Uncle Jake get a choice? Did the younger persons choose? And then how was it decided when it was time for a switch from great niece’s house to 2nd nephews house? By mail? Was it a question or was it understood that everyone took a turn? Was it chronological, first with the older, then the second, third, etc? Was it acceptable to communicate that a break was needed, Uncle Jake was a lot of work?
Rincon Del Rio provides a History of Nursing Homes, timeline of alms houses, skilled care, nursing and so on.
Photo at Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission
Benedict the 2nd born about 1641 has this headstone with the family crest, three shells, a center star and (not shown) a rose in each corner. This is gorgeous and indexed at the Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Commission : the stone was “carved by John Stevens II and lettered by his brother Philip”. Benedict, other Arnolds and Arnold in laws are at the Governor Arnold Burying Ground in Newport, Rhode Island, in a residential area, a tiny cemetery with less than 70 memorials. On Google maps it appears next to a private home with a bike parked on the side fence and a Starbuck’s within 100 feet or so.
There were five Benedict Arnolds in this family in the early days of America.
Benjamin 1- born 1615, son of William and Christiana Peake Arnold, married Damaris Westcott. He became President then Governor of Rhode Island. Father of
Benjamin 2- born about 1641 married Mary Turner, then Sarah Mumford. Parents of
Benjamin 3- born 1683 married Patience Coggleshall. Parents of
Benedict 4- born 1719 married Hannah Waterman. Parents of
Benedict 5- born 1741 married Margret Shippen. This Benedict is the one of the American Revolution, labeled a traitor. He is buried in London, at St. Mary’s of Battersea, where William Blake was married, near the river Thames. Changes in Longitude has a full article and a comment section with many opinions about Benedict 5s actual crimes and intentions.
Benjamin 5s mom Hannah Waterman is buried at Old Norwichtown Cemetery in Norwich, Connecticut. This family suffered. From 1738-1755 four of six children died of yellow fever. For some reason, maybe the death of four children, the dad Benedict 4 drank, a lot. By 1756 the life planned for great-grandson of the Govr Benedict 5, private schools then Yale, was dashed, the money was gone, the family somewhat scorned by their community because of the dad’s drinking. Hannah the mom died in 1759, the dad drank more and died soon after. Benedict 5 got an apprenticeship with his mom’s side of the family, then the rest is history.
Hannah’s grave has an anonymous admirer who decorates the grave about once each year, 2011 story here: An anonymous admirer has once again shown devotion to the mother of one of history’s most infamous figures with a gift of flowers and light.
Brother I am much alarmed At the News of the Conduct of the people in Providence And the towns Adjacent, to hear that they are likely to Rise in mobs on the account of Salt’s rising and Some other Small Articles. I beg of Every honest and well meant Person. both in town and country, to Exert them Selves to The utmost of their power to Suppress any riotous proceedings Among your Selves, Especially at this time. For God Sake Let us unite all as one in America. If we don’t, but fall at variance among our Selves, of all God’s Creation we Shall be the most Miserable.
1775 Dec 1:The war is taking a toll. Israel asks his brother about the status of nails. Their brother Elisha could find no nails in Providence. Israel asks if Hope can find some in Newport. The nails are needed to finish up a room is Israel’s home before winter comes. The British brig Nancy has arrived with 2 Brass Six pounders, Canon Shot and “every war like article that can be mentioned”. Colonel Huntington’s wife Faith Trumball hanged herself months after witnessing the end of battle scene at Bunker Hill.
Israel begins the letter thanking GOD (he always capitalized the word god) for the blessing of health and wishing the same for Hope and his family.
Letter from Israel to Hope, December 1, 1775 from Prospect Hill
Rhode Island Historical Society. Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society. Providence. Volumes and cataloging are a little wonky, this is the 1873-1874 copy, Section 7, then page 45.
Colonel Huntington and his wife -About May 20, 1775
Wikipedia contributors. “Jedediah Huntington.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 8 Nov. 2016. Web. 26 Jul. 2017
Margery Venebles and Randle Mainwaring my 16th great grandparents on RootsMagic tree
Find A Grave is a questionable source for research, I still agree, but sometimes the site provides some really good information, Margery and Randle’s memorials are an example. Their Find a Grave memorials contain detailed family relationships and images of the couple’s elaborate burial place including sculptures of them, effigies. They are buried at Saint Lawrence Church in Over Peover, Cheshire, England. The whole Mainwaring family has a history at this Saint Lawrence church. This site: http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/peover.html, by Craig Thornber shares several photographs and a lot of information on the church, area and Mainwaring family history.
Margery was born in 1369, Randle in 1363. They married in about 1391, a second marriage for both. They were born and lived in Cheshire, England and had 10 children. There is not much known about Margery. Randle was the 3rd son, and the oldest living son when his dad William died so Randle inherited all the Mainwaring titles and lands. A book, Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph, a family history published in 1934 states that Randle was “lord of Over-Peover and Baddiley”, a king’s servant and a royal archer, a sagittarius de corona.
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Elizabeth Salome Myers, a teacher, was on summer vacation in 1863. She and everyone in Gettysburg knew the war was close so it was on all their minds. Salome probably wondered what would happen over the summer, how her life may be affected by the war. By July 1 the battles to the west of town hit Gettysburg and General Robert Lee and the Confederate army arrived. Instantly Salome’s summer, her whole life was taken over by the war- she began tending to injured soldiers in make do hospitals: her own home on West High Street and the Catholic church nearby. Salome kept a diary: The ties of the past: the Gettysburg diaries of Salome Myers Stewart 1854-1922.
Salome’s first patient was Sergeant Alexander McFarland Stewart (1st cousin 4x removed, or cousin to Elizabeth Stewart 2nd great grandmother). Alexander was seriously injured and knew he was dying. Salome asked if there was anything she could do, he asked her to read from the Bible, so she did. After Alexander’s death Salome received a visit from Alexander’s mother and brother. Henry, the brother, thanked Salome for her kindness and care of Alexander. Henry (1st cousin 4x removed) and Salome would eventually marry and Henry joined as Corporal in the Civil War. The brothers were written up in a memorial book of the Company D, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers. The book has a short biography and a photo of each. (Henry’s bio is on page 87, photo on page 86f. Alexander’s bio is on page 86, photo on page 86c.) Alexander the older brother died at Gettysburg in July 1863, Henry died in 1868 from complications of a war injury.
Elizabeth Salome would return to teaching and received national recognition for her service. She was the treasurer of the National Association of Army Nurses for several years.
This source needs more explanation. It’s a frequent Hint -that’s a shaky leaf hint- on Ancestry. My first reaction was, ‘what a great resource, an index of all these published works.’ My second reaction was ‘what a scam, this is a bogus low quality source masked as a quality source.’ My third and current reaction is ‘what a great index providing paths to actual sources available on HathiTrust and Archive.org’- frequently with volume and page information included.
An example is Richard Smith b. 1589 in England. He has three separate AGBI hints. The page and volume numbers match only if I’m looking at the same edition and format referenced in the AGBI index. I wish the the full title, publisher and place of publication were provided in this AGBI index but its not so locating the referenced source can take time.
FamilySearch.org provides a table of NEHGR links. Links include surname and place indexes and full volumes from vol 1 published 1847 to vol 169 published 2015. Volumes through 76 published in 1922 are free on Google books and/or Internet Archive. Free. Links to American Ancestors paid volumes 1-169 are also provided.
Check out this most helpful page here:
https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_England_Historical_Genealogical_Register_Online
So I’m in the process of moving all the Ancestry.com paid NEHGR sources to the Archive.org free NEHGR sources. It’s a burden pay for these sources on Ancestry when they are provided free elsewhere. And a boon to the Archive.org sources is that they can be opened as PDFs or ‘full text’ formats so copying and pasting requires no effort and involves none of the odd formatting issues of Ancestry.com. Free and Easy.
I appreciate the link formats on FamilySearch.org and Archive.org. They’re short and descriptive.
On Ancestry.com sources are odd. Sources titled something like, Massachusetts Town Clerk Vital Records, turn out to be NOT the records of a town clerk in Massachusetts a long time ago, but the work of a person like me, something found then transcribed, conclusions drawn, maybe actual proof, maybe not. Example below. Labeled as Mass. Town and Vital Records, it’s actually the work of Mr. Stoughton from the 1960s. He was surely conscientious and knowledgeable, but still, his work can’t be recorded as the work of Massachusetts Town clerks from the 1620s? Can it?
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
http://ancstry.me/2soIfkj link requires a paid subscription, here’s a screen shot.
Other sources that may not be high quality:
Find a Grave is completely unverified and put together by well meaning volunteers who may or may not see and transcribe the correct names, dates, etc. When saving FindAGrave as an Ancestry source birth and death dates are cited with Find a Grave as the source, but most times the birth and death dates are not verified, and the burial is only verified if there’s a readable headstone, I think.
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
These are a few of the big low quality sources. When I first began using Ancestry I had these sources for every single person, whenever available. Now that I understand they’re kind of bogus and not worth much as far as proof I tend to use them only as a placeholder for a better source or a way to follow a trail.
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