1911 Editorial Cartoons in Southeastern Massachusetts
Rufus A. Soule and Charles S. Ashley already have writeups and photos in the Soule & Alden-Mullins and Cooke & Warren sections (respectively) of this website. I am including them here to point out an interesting source for New Bedford, MA-area images specifically and more generally to point out a possible medium you might not have thought of for your 19th-20th century research. The University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth has a library with a pretty minimal (IMO) Special Collections archive but one thing they do have is the downloadable "'Just For Fun'" A Series of Cartoons as Published in the New Bedford Daily Standard" dated 1911. I don't know if the 96 individuals depicted (all male) appeared in 1911 newspapers or if this entity was printed then, perhaps at the end of a years-long series. The likeness are pretty good, accurate enough for my purposes (facial pictures) but more importantly, looking at the entire picture tells you something about the individual's standing in the community, his line of work as of 1911, and the specific companies with which he was associated. This info is particularly useful in distinguishing between two people of the same name. Occupation data usually suggests additional lines of inquiry. For example, it was impossible to miss the fact that Charles was the longtime mayor of New Bedford (the picture on the right was of a younger Charles) but the book with Rufus Soule's picture gave me his middle name, his brother, his military service but I had no idea he was the local Customs Agent for this port city. Incidentally, he must have worn his GAR pin every day because he has one on in both images. The numbered volumes next to cartoon Charles indicate he was mayor for a long time. The titles on Rufus's documents tell us he was a baseball fan, was in the state senate for 8 years and reached the office of senate president, he was Collector of Customs in 1895, and names 3 prominent (textile) mills and 2 prominent manufacturing companies of the day, including the Soule Mill. Moral of the story: look for historical/retrospective/anniversary pieces in newspapers in later years, not just contemporary issues, look at the editorial cartoons, too, and check out the local university's Special Collections Archive as there is usually material of local interest.
Rufus A. Soule and Charles S. Ashley already have writeups and photos in the Soule & Alden-Mullins and Cooke & Warren sections (respectively) of this website. I am including them here to point out an interesting source for New Bedford, MA-area images specifically and more generally to point out a possible medium you might not have thought of for your 19th-20th century research. The University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth has a library with a pretty minimal (IMO) Special Collections archive but one thing they do have is the downloadable "'Just For Fun'" A Series of Cartoons as Published in the New Bedford Daily Standard" dated 1911. I don't know if the 96 individuals depicted (all male) appeared in 1911 newspapers or if this entity was printed then, perhaps at the end of a years-long series. The likeness are pretty good, accurate enough for my purposes (facial pictures) but more importantly, looking at the entire picture tells you something about the individual's standing in the community, his line of work as of 1911, and the specific companies with which he was associated. This info is particularly useful in distinguishing between two people of the same name. Occupation data usually suggests additional lines of inquiry. For example, it was impossible to miss the fact that Charles was the longtime mayor of New Bedford (the picture on the right was of a younger Charles) but the book with Rufus Soule's picture gave me his middle name, his brother, his military service but I had no idea he was the local Customs Agent for this port city. Incidentally, he must have worn his GAR pin every day because he has one on in both images. The numbered volumes next to cartoon Charles indicate he was mayor for a long time. The titles on Rufus's documents tell us he was a baseball fan, was in the state senate for 8 years and reached the office of senate president, he was Collector of Customs in 1895, and names 3 prominent (textile) mills and 2 prominent manufacturing companies of the day, including the Soule Mill. Moral of the story: look for historical/retrospective/anniversary pieces in newspapers in later years, not just contemporary issues, look at the editorial cartoons, too, and check out the local university's Special Collections Archive as there is usually material of local interest.
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Fred C. Standish on the USS Arizona Memorial in downtown Phoenix
I spotted this at a Pearl Harbor Day event at the Wesley Bolin Plaza, across from the state capitol, where components of the USS Arizona, USS Missouri, and rows of these metallic markers commemorate all Arizona residents who died in the military during World War II. Fold3.com shows Corporal Fred C. Standish of the 10th Engineer Combat Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, U.S. Army, buried at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy where he died 16 July 1944. He received the Purple Heart. Fred is not mentioned in the findagrave memorials of other family members, but the memorial-writers may not have known about his service, particularly if he left no descendants. In Arizona, birth records (1855-1942) and death records (1870-1967) are online here for free, courtesy of the Arizona Department of Health Services. Using all of the above sources plus HeritageQuest (via the Mesa Public Library) for federal censuses, familysearch.org for the Massachusetts 1855 state census, and the New England Historic Genealogical Society's online databases for vital records I was able to find Fred's line to Myles Standish (with about 95% certainty.) I am sure Fred knew he was a Mayflower descendant, as this family seemed to have had a "Miles Standish" in every generation, including a younger brother of Fred. There were three Fred's in a row, but beginning with his father, this is Cpl. Fred C.'s Gen 10 Standish line: Fred C. Standish, Frederic Carl, Miles, Thomas, Myles, William, Thomas, Alexander, Capt. Myles of the Mayflower. Fred was also a Doty through Alexander's wife Desire Doty. His Gen 10 Doty line runs: Fred C. Standish, Frederic Carl, Miles, Thomas, Myles, William, Thomas, Desire (Doty) Standish, Edward Doty of the Mayflower. So thank you, Fred C. Standish, for your service to your country. We have not forgotten you. (Webmaster photo, 2018.)
I spotted this at a Pearl Harbor Day event at the Wesley Bolin Plaza, across from the state capitol, where components of the USS Arizona, USS Missouri, and rows of these metallic markers commemorate all Arizona residents who died in the military during World War II. Fold3.com shows Corporal Fred C. Standish of the 10th Engineer Combat Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, U.S. Army, buried at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy where he died 16 July 1944. He received the Purple Heart. Fred is not mentioned in the findagrave memorials of other family members, but the memorial-writers may not have known about his service, particularly if he left no descendants. In Arizona, birth records (1855-1942) and death records (1870-1967) are online here for free, courtesy of the Arizona Department of Health Services. Using all of the above sources plus HeritageQuest (via the Mesa Public Library) for federal censuses, familysearch.org for the Massachusetts 1855 state census, and the New England Historic Genealogical Society's online databases for vital records I was able to find Fred's line to Myles Standish (with about 95% certainty.) I am sure Fred knew he was a Mayflower descendant, as this family seemed to have had a "Miles Standish" in every generation, including a younger brother of Fred. There were three Fred's in a row, but beginning with his father, this is Cpl. Fred C.'s Gen 10 Standish line: Fred C. Standish, Frederic Carl, Miles, Thomas, Myles, William, Thomas, Alexander, Capt. Myles of the Mayflower. Fred was also a Doty through Alexander's wife Desire Doty. His Gen 10 Doty line runs: Fred C. Standish, Frederic Carl, Miles, Thomas, Myles, William, Thomas, Desire (Doty) Standish, Edward Doty of the Mayflower. So thank you, Fred C. Standish, for your service to your country. We have not forgotten you. (Webmaster photo, 2018.)
Which Samuel Fuller died in Stowe, VT in 1849?
Which Samuel Fuller was born in parts unknown around 1763 and died 17 Apr 1849 in Stowe, VT, where he and Sally (Freeman) Fuller had raised a family that included a Samuel F. b (ca 1803), Charles (1809), George (1811), James Madison ( 1813), and Hawley Fuller (1814)? The last person to join the DAR with him as an ancestor somehow got their attention in a bad way because it wasn't that long ago but Samuel is redlined as "treat as new ancestor." Possibly because the birth date is listed as before 1744, which would have made him 105 when he died instead of 85. The man to your left, John Harold Fuller was the son of Jonathan Kingsley Fuller, grandson of Samuel F. Fuller, son of Samuel & Sally. Descendants of pilgrim Samuel Fuller seem to favor the name Samuel and the Samuel Fuller does have a possible candidate, Samuel Fuller b 27 Oct 1762 in Middleboro. His father William died in 1791 because there's a probate record showing a younger brother William, age 14+ at the time, selecting a guardian. It wasn't his brother and the silver book indicates there might have been other siblings. Did Samuel of Middleborough move to Stowe? The book from which this image was taken says that John H. Fuller was a descendant of a Fuller on the Mayflower but either that is legend or no one remembered which Fuller. Image & info from William H. Jeffrey, Successful Vermonters: A Modern Gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties (East Burke, VT: Historical Publishing, 1904), pp. 270-1, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
Which Samuel Fuller was born in parts unknown around 1763 and died 17 Apr 1849 in Stowe, VT, where he and Sally (Freeman) Fuller had raised a family that included a Samuel F. b (ca 1803), Charles (1809), George (1811), James Madison ( 1813), and Hawley Fuller (1814)? The last person to join the DAR with him as an ancestor somehow got their attention in a bad way because it wasn't that long ago but Samuel is redlined as "treat as new ancestor." Possibly because the birth date is listed as before 1744, which would have made him 105 when he died instead of 85. The man to your left, John Harold Fuller was the son of Jonathan Kingsley Fuller, grandson of Samuel F. Fuller, son of Samuel & Sally. Descendants of pilgrim Samuel Fuller seem to favor the name Samuel and the Samuel Fuller does have a possible candidate, Samuel Fuller b 27 Oct 1762 in Middleboro. His father William died in 1791 because there's a probate record showing a younger brother William, age 14+ at the time, selecting a guardian. It wasn't his brother and the silver book indicates there might have been other siblings. Did Samuel of Middleborough move to Stowe? The book from which this image was taken says that John H. Fuller was a descendant of a Fuller on the Mayflower but either that is legend or no one remembered which Fuller. Image & info from William H. Jeffrey, Successful Vermonters: A Modern Gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties (East Burke, VT: Historical Publishing, 1904), pp. 270-1, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
Which Jemima Alden married Joseph Adams in Bellingham, MA 1818?
My money is on Noah Alden Jr. in the Alden silver book Part 3 (w/o the "Jr." but that is how he was referred to in Bellingham VRs.) Jemima married and died as a resident of Bellingham and unfortunately I see no birth record there for her, and her death & marriage records gave no parents. Noah Jr. had a brother Elisha who also lived in Bellingham for a while and had some children there but moved away AND left a will not naming a Jemima. No PR was found for Noah Jr but he had a daughter Jemima b 1777 who died 1788, so it would be natural to name the daughter born in 1789 Jemima. The last recorded birth was another Noah, 1785, when the mother (Joanna Cook) was just 31. Two possible daughters, Lora & Gerusha have been suggested. They both died in 1798. If this conjecture is true, the young man on the left, Edwin C. Holbrook's (b 1889) Gen 9/10 line would run: Alston Holbrook, Maria A. (Adams) Holbrook, Jemima (Alden) Adams, Noah Alden, Jr. Noah, John, Joseph, John & Priscilla. Image from a Brockton High School yearbook page, photographed by me, on the shelf at the Brockton library.
My money is on Noah Alden Jr. in the Alden silver book Part 3 (w/o the "Jr." but that is how he was referred to in Bellingham VRs.) Jemima married and died as a resident of Bellingham and unfortunately I see no birth record there for her, and her death & marriage records gave no parents. Noah Jr. had a brother Elisha who also lived in Bellingham for a while and had some children there but moved away AND left a will not naming a Jemima. No PR was found for Noah Jr but he had a daughter Jemima b 1777 who died 1788, so it would be natural to name the daughter born in 1789 Jemima. The last recorded birth was another Noah, 1785, when the mother (Joanna Cook) was just 31. Two possible daughters, Lora & Gerusha have been suggested. They both died in 1798. If this conjecture is true, the young man on the left, Edwin C. Holbrook's (b 1889) Gen 9/10 line would run: Alston Holbrook, Maria A. (Adams) Holbrook, Jemima (Alden) Adams, Noah Alden, Jr. Noah, John, Joseph, John & Priscilla. Image from a Brockton High School yearbook page, photographed by me, on the shelf at the Brockton library.
William Manning, father and son: HOWLAND-TILLEY OR NOT?
The man on the left, William Henry Manning (b 1852, Boston), journalist and author of an extremely detailed Manning genealogy, made the claim therein that he and his father, William Wallace Manning (b 1826 VT), on the right, were Gen. 8/9 and 9/10 Howland-Tilley descendants via an Amy Gorham, b. 26 July 1766 to "Benjamin" Gorham & Abigail Field of Providence & Attleboro. Amy was said to be the younger sister of the Jabez Gorham whose son Jabez, Jr. founded the famed Gorham silver company. John Howland of the Mayflower, v2 acknowledges this claim but says Amy & Jabez's parents were Jabez Gorham and Abigail Field, and that there is no evidence of her existence nor that of another alleged sister, Abigail. The Gorham parents left no will that anyone has found and the only land records cited were in Rhode Island. Can you help them out? The Howland volume is dated 1990 and if the claim were proven to be true, father and son's line would run: Amy (Gorham) Manning, Jabez Gorham, Benjamin, Jabez, Desire (Howland) Gorham, John Howland & Elizabeth Tilley, etc. I actually first spotted this claim in Seth C. Cary's John Cary the Plymouth Pilgrim (Boston: Cary, 1911), p. 66, digitized by the Boston Public Library, as an offhand mention. The claim is detailed in William H. Manning, The Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England and Descendants, from the Settlement in America to Present Time (Salem: Salem Press, 1902), p. 289; images frontispiece (WHM) and p. 554 (WWM), digitized by the Library of Congress. |
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Priscilla at her Spinning Wheel
This is the rest of the photo from which I excerpted just the image of Priscilla Mullins Alden for her writeup. Her branch of the family had inherited the Alden homestead at Duxbury, though I do not know if she personally lived there. The house no longer has the giant sign on it. This photo may have been taken at the 1903 Alden Kindred reunion (see photo below.) The source is the same: Charles H. Ayers, Ancestors of Silas Ayers and Mary Byram Ayers, including the Alden, Ayers, and Byram Families (Detroit: author, 1905), n.p., digitized by the Library of Congress.
This is the rest of the photo from which I excerpted just the image of Priscilla Mullins Alden for her writeup. Her branch of the family had inherited the Alden homestead at Duxbury, though I do not know if she personally lived there. The house no longer has the giant sign on it. This photo may have been taken at the 1903 Alden Kindred reunion (see photo below.) The source is the same: Charles H. Ayers, Ancestors of Silas Ayers and Mary Byram Ayers, including the Alden, Ayers, and Byram Families (Detroit: author, 1905), n.p., digitized by the Library of Congress.
ALDEN KINDRED REUNION, DUXBURY, MA 1903
This reunion was even bigger than the one in 1902 (see below.) A couple of children (front left) came in costume and hats were the order of the day. I would love to be able to post a better image, so if you find a paper copy of this book, please scan it and send it my way and it will replace this one. The author noted that the Alden Kindred of America had 600 members just 4 years after its founding, and hoped to buy the Alden home site. The current yearly dues are steeper than 50 cents, but they do now (2016) own the place and I'm sure would love to welcome new Alden descendants to their ranks. Image from Charles H. Ayers, Ancestors of Silas Ayers and Mary Byram Ayers, including the Alden, Ayers, and Byram Families (Detroit: author, 1905), n.p., digitized by the Library of Congress.
This reunion was even bigger than the one in 1902 (see below.) A couple of children (front left) came in costume and hats were the order of the day. I would love to be able to post a better image, so if you find a paper copy of this book, please scan it and send it my way and it will replace this one. The author noted that the Alden Kindred of America had 600 members just 4 years after its founding, and hoped to buy the Alden home site. The current yearly dues are steeper than 50 cents, but they do now (2016) own the place and I'm sure would love to welcome new Alden descendants to their ranks. Image from Charles H. Ayers, Ancestors of Silas Ayers and Mary Byram Ayers, including the Alden, Ayers, and Byram Families (Detroit: author, 1905), n.p., digitized by the Library of Congress.
WINSLOW FAMILY PHOTO, NEW BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1901
In the Winslow section there are 2 images of NB descendants of Edward, a father and son: Gen 5 Loyalist Edward Winslow Jr. (1746-1815) and Gen 6 John Francis Wentworth Winslow (1793-1859). The latter married a Jane Caroline Rainsford (1800-1891) in 1823 so their children were presumably born 1824-1845. Thus they would be age 56-77 in 1901. The author of the book from which this image was taken says that 7 children survived him, 5 still living in NB in 1901: Francis Edward Winslow, a bank manager for 32 years; Mary and Wentworth Winslow; Edward Byron Winslow; and Thomas Bradshaw Winslow. Another son, John Coffin Winslow had died "a few years ago." No mention of child #7. The photo below has 2 white-haired females and 4 white-haired males plus younger folks that could be cousins, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. The caption says, "a group of Judge Winslow's descendants at Winslow House in Woodstock, N.B." Judge Winslow was Edward Jr.'s father, thus they could also be descendants of Edward's sisters Mary, Penelope, Sarah, or Eliza. Looking at Edward & John on the Winslow page, I think I see a family resemblance to the 3 people on the right in the top row and to the oldest individual, a seated woman, and the man in the bowler hat behind her. If you can find any other pictures that would help put a name to a face in this unique photo, let me know. Image & info from W. O. Raymond, ed. Winslow Papers, Vol. 2 (St. John: NB Historical Society, 1901), pp. 10 & 11, digitized by me.
In the Winslow section there are 2 images of NB descendants of Edward, a father and son: Gen 5 Loyalist Edward Winslow Jr. (1746-1815) and Gen 6 John Francis Wentworth Winslow (1793-1859). The latter married a Jane Caroline Rainsford (1800-1891) in 1823 so their children were presumably born 1824-1845. Thus they would be age 56-77 in 1901. The author of the book from which this image was taken says that 7 children survived him, 5 still living in NB in 1901: Francis Edward Winslow, a bank manager for 32 years; Mary and Wentworth Winslow; Edward Byron Winslow; and Thomas Bradshaw Winslow. Another son, John Coffin Winslow had died "a few years ago." No mention of child #7. The photo below has 2 white-haired females and 4 white-haired males plus younger folks that could be cousins, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. The caption says, "a group of Judge Winslow's descendants at Winslow House in Woodstock, N.B." Judge Winslow was Edward Jr.'s father, thus they could also be descendants of Edward's sisters Mary, Penelope, Sarah, or Eliza. Looking at Edward & John on the Winslow page, I think I see a family resemblance to the 3 people on the right in the top row and to the oldest individual, a seated woman, and the man in the bowler hat behind her. If you can find any other pictures that would help put a name to a face in this unique photo, let me know. Image & info from W. O. Raymond, ed. Winslow Papers, Vol. 2 (St. John: NB Historical Society, 1901), pp. 10 & 11, digitized by me.
TABOR, NEWELL Z.
A New England Tabor/Taber is usually a Cooke, but this line got lost in the twists and turns of the Cooke silver book. Newell should be a three-time Warren as well if my theory is correct.
The online records of the NEHGS plus the bio from the Woburn (MA) Library's digital G.A.R. collection, where I found this photo, can get you Newell's parents, Persons T. Taber and Lucinda Batchelder of VT. The death of Persons merited a lengthy news announcement found on genealogybank.com because he (sadly) fell into the flue of his NH mill and drowned, someone having removed an important plank from the flooring. The article mentioned that his brother was a well-known Unitarian minister, L. H. Tabor. The Rev. Tabor was fairly easy to find, and the "L" turned out to stand for "Lemuel." An 1881 VT marriage record showed his parents to be Lemuel Tabor and Nancy Hutchins, possibly accounting for the "H." The newspaper stated that Persons T. had died in 1877 at age 70, so born circa 1807 and I found a VT marriage record for Lemuel and Nancy dated 1805. Tracing that Lemuel, his father was also named Lemuel Tabor. Lemuel #1 was the son of Joseph Tabor and Hannah (---), baptized in Tiverton in 1749. There were 2 Joseph Tabors of Tiverton of about the right age. Our Joseph married Hannah Church in early 1749 (they named their third son Church Tabor) and the marriage was announced in both Tiverton and Rochester, MA. A 1766 warning-out in the Bristol County court listed the couple and their children, Lemuel and (most of) his siblings.
The Cooke silver book assigns this Joseph to parents named Abigail Taber and Ebenezer Taber and gives him 8 siblings who include a Paul, Lydia, Jacob, and 2 Walters. It seems to admits to some confusion over Ebenezer's family and claims his parents to be a Joseph and Hannah (---) Taber, not in the book. Vol. 1 Part 2 of Wright & Wright's handwritten Taber Genealogy, Descendants of Joseph and Philip, sons of Philip Taber (Ithaca, 1952), viewable but not downloadable on Internet Archive, includes Persons T. (for "True") Tabor and offers two other possible lineages through parents far to young to have him for a son. It also has a writeup on the Rev. Lemuel H., not noting that he was Persons T.'s brother. Rev. Lemuel's lineage I believe to be accurate for Persons T. and thus Newell Z. It connects with the other Joseph Tabor born in Tiverton in the 1720s, a son of Philip Tabor and his 2nd wife Phebe Brownell. Philip and Phebe fit better than Ebenezer & Abigail in terms of naming patterns, with children George, Philip, and Pardon as well as Joseph. The silver book includes just 3 children for Joseph Tabor and Hannah Church. The warning-out added Lemuel, the oldest, plus George, Philip, Pardon, David, and Martha. (Hannah Church's brother was named Lemuel.) Church Taber went on to serve in the Revolution and receive a pension; brothers Lemuel, Philip, and David - all of NH & VT - testified. In the silver book the Joseph who was their father was born in 1725 and as Gen. 6 his info ended there. Hannah Church is Gen 6 in the Warren book and no spouse is listed but there is a reference to J. A. Church's Descendants of Richard Church of Plymouth, MA (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1913), p. 72, which claims that she married Joseph Tabor and gave the date. I believe the two Josephs need to be traded; this one really is the son of Philip, not of Ebenezer.
This would make Newell Z. Tabor's Gen. 10 Cooke line as follows: Persons T. Tabor, Lemuel, Lemuel, Joseph, Philip, Philip, Mary (Cooke) Taber, John Cooke and father Francis of the Mayflower. John Cooke married Sarah Warren, daughter of passenger Richard, so Newell is likewise a Gen. 10 Warren, but as the descendant of Hannah (Church) Tabor, he is a Gen. 10 Warren a second & third time. Those Warren lines run: Persons T. Tabor, Lemuel, Lemuel, Hannah (Church) Tabor, Richard Church, Richard, Nathaniel, Elizabeth (Warren) Church, Richard Warren. Also Persons T. Tabor, Lemuel, Lemuel, Hannah (Church) Tabor, Anna (Sturtevant) Church, Anna (Jones) Sturtevant, Patience (Little) Jones, Anna (Warren) Little, Richard Warren.
If you have documents disproving my theory, please let me know.
A New England Tabor/Taber is usually a Cooke, but this line got lost in the twists and turns of the Cooke silver book. Newell should be a three-time Warren as well if my theory is correct.
The online records of the NEHGS plus the bio from the Woburn (MA) Library's digital G.A.R. collection, where I found this photo, can get you Newell's parents, Persons T. Taber and Lucinda Batchelder of VT. The death of Persons merited a lengthy news announcement found on genealogybank.com because he (sadly) fell into the flue of his NH mill and drowned, someone having removed an important plank from the flooring. The article mentioned that his brother was a well-known Unitarian minister, L. H. Tabor. The Rev. Tabor was fairly easy to find, and the "L" turned out to stand for "Lemuel." An 1881 VT marriage record showed his parents to be Lemuel Tabor and Nancy Hutchins, possibly accounting for the "H." The newspaper stated that Persons T. had died in 1877 at age 70, so born circa 1807 and I found a VT marriage record for Lemuel and Nancy dated 1805. Tracing that Lemuel, his father was also named Lemuel Tabor. Lemuel #1 was the son of Joseph Tabor and Hannah (---), baptized in Tiverton in 1749. There were 2 Joseph Tabors of Tiverton of about the right age. Our Joseph married Hannah Church in early 1749 (they named their third son Church Tabor) and the marriage was announced in both Tiverton and Rochester, MA. A 1766 warning-out in the Bristol County court listed the couple and their children, Lemuel and (most of) his siblings.
The Cooke silver book assigns this Joseph to parents named Abigail Taber and Ebenezer Taber and gives him 8 siblings who include a Paul, Lydia, Jacob, and 2 Walters. It seems to admits to some confusion over Ebenezer's family and claims his parents to be a Joseph and Hannah (---) Taber, not in the book. Vol. 1 Part 2 of Wright & Wright's handwritten Taber Genealogy, Descendants of Joseph and Philip, sons of Philip Taber (Ithaca, 1952), viewable but not downloadable on Internet Archive, includes Persons T. (for "True") Tabor and offers two other possible lineages through parents far to young to have him for a son. It also has a writeup on the Rev. Lemuel H., not noting that he was Persons T.'s brother. Rev. Lemuel's lineage I believe to be accurate for Persons T. and thus Newell Z. It connects with the other Joseph Tabor born in Tiverton in the 1720s, a son of Philip Tabor and his 2nd wife Phebe Brownell. Philip and Phebe fit better than Ebenezer & Abigail in terms of naming patterns, with children George, Philip, and Pardon as well as Joseph. The silver book includes just 3 children for Joseph Tabor and Hannah Church. The warning-out added Lemuel, the oldest, plus George, Philip, Pardon, David, and Martha. (Hannah Church's brother was named Lemuel.) Church Taber went on to serve in the Revolution and receive a pension; brothers Lemuel, Philip, and David - all of NH & VT - testified. In the silver book the Joseph who was their father was born in 1725 and as Gen. 6 his info ended there. Hannah Church is Gen 6 in the Warren book and no spouse is listed but there is a reference to J. A. Church's Descendants of Richard Church of Plymouth, MA (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1913), p. 72, which claims that she married Joseph Tabor and gave the date. I believe the two Josephs need to be traded; this one really is the son of Philip, not of Ebenezer.
This would make Newell Z. Tabor's Gen. 10 Cooke line as follows: Persons T. Tabor, Lemuel, Lemuel, Joseph, Philip, Philip, Mary (Cooke) Taber, John Cooke and father Francis of the Mayflower. John Cooke married Sarah Warren, daughter of passenger Richard, so Newell is likewise a Gen. 10 Warren, but as the descendant of Hannah (Church) Tabor, he is a Gen. 10 Warren a second & third time. Those Warren lines run: Persons T. Tabor, Lemuel, Lemuel, Hannah (Church) Tabor, Richard Church, Richard, Nathaniel, Elizabeth (Warren) Church, Richard Warren. Also Persons T. Tabor, Lemuel, Lemuel, Hannah (Church) Tabor, Anna (Sturtevant) Church, Anna (Jones) Sturtevant, Patience (Little) Jones, Anna (Warren) Little, Richard Warren.
If you have documents disproving my theory, please let me know.
Genealogy really ages one...
Neither this man nor his co-author seem to be Mayflower descendants but I thought Eben Lewis Barnum (b CT 1839) deserved to be immortalized on these pages for his sense of humor. Their pictures are on the page right after the title page, and Eben included two of himself, younger on the left and older on the right. A line leads from left to right with the caption "Before and After Studying Genealogy." Apparently surviving the battles of Bull Run, Newberne, Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Peninsular Campaign, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg during the Civil War (note the 3 GAR medallions on the older Eben's chest) did not age him as much as producing the book from which this image was taken. Or maybe his point was simply the massive amount of time one has to devote to this hobby to achieve results. Image from Eben Lewis Barnum & Francis Barnum, Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family, Presenting a Conspectus of the Male Descendants of Thomas Barnum 1625-1695 (Gardner, MA: meals, 1912), digitized by the Boston Public Library. (Note: if you look for this book at a library, the cover says "The Barnham Barnum Genealogy.") A "conspectus" is apparently a book of charts. There is little text in this book. If you are a descendant of the Ephraim Barnum born 1733, died 1817, you are a Stephen Hopkins descendant via his wife Keziah Covell (c. 1731-1775).
Neither this man nor his co-author seem to be Mayflower descendants but I thought Eben Lewis Barnum (b CT 1839) deserved to be immortalized on these pages for his sense of humor. Their pictures are on the page right after the title page, and Eben included two of himself, younger on the left and older on the right. A line leads from left to right with the caption "Before and After Studying Genealogy." Apparently surviving the battles of Bull Run, Newberne, Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Peninsular Campaign, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg during the Civil War (note the 3 GAR medallions on the older Eben's chest) did not age him as much as producing the book from which this image was taken. Or maybe his point was simply the massive amount of time one has to devote to this hobby to achieve results. Image from Eben Lewis Barnum & Francis Barnum, Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family, Presenting a Conspectus of the Male Descendants of Thomas Barnum 1625-1695 (Gardner, MA: meals, 1912), digitized by the Boston Public Library. (Note: if you look for this book at a library, the cover says "The Barnham Barnum Genealogy.") A "conspectus" is apparently a book of charts. There is little text in this book. If you are a descendant of the Ephraim Barnum born 1733, died 1817, you are a Stephen Hopkins descendant via his wife Keziah Covell (c. 1731-1775).
ZIPLINING CAPE COD, 1912
Don't you wish you were related to this person? (Maybe you are.) Actually, I think this is a demonstration of a breeches buoy rescue at a 3-day beachfront festival commemorating the town's bicentennial. They also demonstrated rescue of a drowning swimmer, held a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for 600 and a lobster dinner for 400, sang "The Star Spangled Banner" and "America," listened to speeches, watched a parade (with horse-drawn floats), played baseball and basketball, marked historic sites, held power boat, "surf boat," and dory competitions, and finished up with Universalist and Methodist Episcopal religious services. The float below was the actual Chatham Lifesaving Station boat and the man at the tiller may be station commander Herbert E. Eldredge. No good people closeups but a fun look at early 20th century New England beach town gayety. Images and info from The Town Celebration Committee, 1712-1912, The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Chatham, Massachusetts (Chatham: Town Celebration Committee, 1913), pp.65-86, 96, 100-104, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Don't you wish you were related to this person? (Maybe you are.) Actually, I think this is a demonstration of a breeches buoy rescue at a 3-day beachfront festival commemorating the town's bicentennial. They also demonstrated rescue of a drowning swimmer, held a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for 600 and a lobster dinner for 400, sang "The Star Spangled Banner" and "America," listened to speeches, watched a parade (with horse-drawn floats), played baseball and basketball, marked historic sites, held power boat, "surf boat," and dory competitions, and finished up with Universalist and Methodist Episcopal religious services. The float below was the actual Chatham Lifesaving Station boat and the man at the tiller may be station commander Herbert E. Eldredge. No good people closeups but a fun look at early 20th century New England beach town gayety. Images and info from The Town Celebration Committee, 1712-1912, The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Chatham, Massachusetts (Chatham: Town Celebration Committee, 1913), pp.65-86, 96, 100-104, digitized by the Library of Congress.
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SHAW, PRISCILLA JANE
Yes, same woman as below. She may also be a Howland and Allerton, as follows: Capt. Joseph Shaw (b Carver 1782), Joseph Shaw + Lydia Shaw, and that Joseph was born April 19, 1749, recorded in Carver, probably from a gravestone record or a Bible. The only Joseph Shaw I find on the NEHGS is the Joseph born April 8, 1749 in Plympton, to Capt. Nathaniel Shaw & Hannah Perkins. If it is the same Joseph, he is a Gen. 6 Howland and Gen. 7 Allerton, making Priscilla a Gen. 8 & 9 Mayflower descendant. Her grandmother, Lydia (Shaw) Shaw, shall remain a mystery for now. Lydia's death record unfortunately lists her parents as being the same as her husband's parents, which would make them siblings. That would not have flown even at a time when 1st cousins routinely married. The author of the book from which this image was taken may have been aware of the genealogical issues "Aunt Jane," as she was popularly known, presented because he called her "a scion of the first settlers of this region and of numerous Old Colony families." So, if you have found a will or other document that would tell me whether Capt. Nathaniel & Hannah were the parents of this specific Joseph Shaw, please let me know.
Yes, same woman as below. She may also be a Howland and Allerton, as follows: Capt. Joseph Shaw (b Carver 1782), Joseph Shaw + Lydia Shaw, and that Joseph was born April 19, 1749, recorded in Carver, probably from a gravestone record or a Bible. The only Joseph Shaw I find on the NEHGS is the Joseph born April 8, 1749 in Plympton, to Capt. Nathaniel Shaw & Hannah Perkins. If it is the same Joseph, he is a Gen. 6 Howland and Gen. 7 Allerton, making Priscilla a Gen. 8 & 9 Mayflower descendant. Her grandmother, Lydia (Shaw) Shaw, shall remain a mystery for now. Lydia's death record unfortunately lists her parents as being the same as her husband's parents, which would make them siblings. That would not have flown even at a time when 1st cousins routinely married. The author of the book from which this image was taken may have been aware of the genealogical issues "Aunt Jane," as she was popularly known, presented because he called her "a scion of the first settlers of this region and of numerous Old Colony families." So, if you have found a will or other document that would tell me whether Capt. Nathaniel & Hannah were the parents of this specific Joseph Shaw, please let me know.
SHAW, PRISCILLA JANE
She may or may not be an Alden. Vital records on the NEHGS site show her mother, Hannah (Dunham) Shaw, to be the daughter of Ebenezer Dunham, Jr. and Priscilla Morton. When Ebenezer died, his widow married a Joseph Robbins. She died just shy of age 85 and her death record says she was the daughter of Elisha Morton & Elizabeth Mitchell. The Alden silver books Part 2 show Elisha and Elizabeth marrying in 1760 and having 2 children whom the parents refused to have baptized (thus no records.) Elisha and Elizabeth apparently left no wills. The 1790 census shows Elisha's household with 2 males over 16 (him and Elisha #2) and 3 females, Elizabeth, Elizabeth #2 -- and Priscilla?? The 22 year gap between the birth of Elisha and Elizabeth's daughter Elizabeth and the birth of Priscilla makes me wonder if someone made a wrong guess on the death record. IF she were their daughter, though, it would make Priscilla Jane (Shaw) Barrows a Gen 8/9 Alden-Mullins. Image and almost no info from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), pp. 285, 312, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
She may or may not be an Alden. Vital records on the NEHGS site show her mother, Hannah (Dunham) Shaw, to be the daughter of Ebenezer Dunham, Jr. and Priscilla Morton. When Ebenezer died, his widow married a Joseph Robbins. She died just shy of age 85 and her death record says she was the daughter of Elisha Morton & Elizabeth Mitchell. The Alden silver books Part 2 show Elisha and Elizabeth marrying in 1760 and having 2 children whom the parents refused to have baptized (thus no records.) Elisha and Elizabeth apparently left no wills. The 1790 census shows Elisha's household with 2 males over 16 (him and Elisha #2) and 3 females, Elizabeth, Elizabeth #2 -- and Priscilla?? The 22 year gap between the birth of Elisha and Elizabeth's daughter Elizabeth and the birth of Priscilla makes me wonder if someone made a wrong guess on the death record. IF she were their daughter, though, it would make Priscilla Jane (Shaw) Barrows a Gen 8/9 Alden-Mullins. Image and almost no info from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), pp. 285, 312, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
SAMPSON, MARIA LOUISA
Is she or isn't she a Warren descendant? Louisa Ricketson, as she was known in adult life, was a well-documented Alden-Mullins, Standish, Samson, and Chilton descendant. (See those sections for details.) The Henry Samson silver book Parts 1 (pub 2000) and 3 (2006) declare her a double Gen 10 Warren as follows, 1st: Zabdiel Sampson, Hannah (Cooper) Sampson, Hannah (Sampson) Cooper, Hannah (Harlow) Samson, Mercy (Rider) Harlow, John Rider, Sarah (Bartlett) Rider, Mary (Warren) Bartlett, Richard Warren of the Mayflower and 2nd: Zabdiel Sampson, Hannah (Cooper) Sampson, Hannah (Sampson) Cooper, Hannah (Harlow) Samson, William Harlow, Samuel, Rebecca (Bartlett) Harlow, Mary (Warren) Bartlett, and Richard Warren. William Harlow and Mercy Rider were 2nd cousins. However, the Warren silver book Part 2 (2011) says that Hannah Harlow married a man named Tomson. (No 1st name.) It cites the division of William Harlow's estate in 1758, including "daughter Hannah Tomson." However, the 2000 Samson book cites the 1772 division of the dower of William's widow Mercy, with a portion going to "dau. Hannah Samson, wife of Ebenezer, a fisherman." Both can't be true, as Ebenezer and Hannah were married and having children between 1740 and 1764 (so there was no Mr. Tomson in 1758.) Any answers to this dilemma? Image on the left (an 1833 oil, age 20) from Anna & Walton Ricketson, eds., Daniel Ricketson and his Friends: Letters, Poems, Sketches, Etc. (Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1902), p. 360, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and on the right (crayon, 1850, age 37) from Anna & Walton Ricketson, eds., Daniel Ricketson: Autobiographic and Miscellaneous (New Bedford: Anthony, 1910), p. 10, digitized by the University of California Libraries. |
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GIBBS, NATHAN AUGUSTUS
Nathan was born in East Wareham, Plymouth County, MA in 1857, son of a ship's captain, and relocated as an adult to Connecticut. Nothing I find on his peeps does better than dead-ending in Plymouth County. Here is what I have so far: Nathan A. Gibbs - Nathan Perry Gibbs - Capt. Seth Gibbs of Wareham, d 1840 Caribbean & Delia Perry. Whose son was Capt. Seth? (My Gibbses are Rogers and Warrens; my Perrys were Brewsters.) Delia Perry was the daughter of William Perry & Bathsheba Perry of Sandwich (m 1795.) Bathsheba may have been born in Dighton 1773 to Joseph & Rebecca (---). Whose child was William?
On his mother's side, Nathan A. Gibbs is son of Hannah Swift (Chubbuck) Gibbs, daughter of Hannah (Swift) Chubbuck b 1800 Wareham to Benjamin Swift & 3rd wife Hannah Cornish (m 1790.) I think Benjamin was not old when he married Hannah, I think his 1st 2 wives died young and that he was born in Wareham 1758 to Ebenezer Swift Jr. & Jedidah Benson (of Middleboro.) Who were Jedidah's parents? Is Ebenezer Jr. the same as the Ebenezer Swift, Jr. who married Martha Eldred and Abigail Hatch in Falmouth? Is his father an Ebenezer Swift, maybe he one who married 2 Gibbs women in Sandwich, 1721 & 1723? Who were Hannah Cornish's parents?
Getting back to Hannah Swift (Chubbuck) Gibbs, her father was Rowland Chubbuck (ca 1796-1868), son of a Benjamin & Ruth of Wareham, per his DR. Was he the son or maybe grandson of Benjamin & Ruth Bump? Amazingly, I find no Ruth Bump/Bumpus born in Wareham, just the Ruth who married a Benjamin Chubbuck Jr. there in 1769. The Bumpus Family web site cites a book that gives that Ruth as the daughter of Joseph Bumpus & Ruth Reed, bpt. 1754 in parts unknown, and does not list a son for her and Benjamin, only 1 daughter. Her line does not lead to the Mayflower anyway. If we are missing a generation between Rowland and that Benjamin & Ruth, finding that couple could lead to a Pilgrim.
Incidentally, Wareham town records of that era are not on the NEHGS site. Go to "Wareham Vital Records from Town Books 1 and 2," transcribed by Richard W. Griffith, CG, in 1996, bless his soul. I have used his transcriptions and the Bumpus book on the Bumpus Family web site for my own Wareham Bumpii.
Photo from Benjamin Tinkham Marshall, A Modern History of New London County, Connecticut, v. II (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1922), p. 19. Be forewarned that the author started numbering the pages all over again when he got to the biographical section, so this is not actually "page 19," though it says so, and that Hannah's maiden name was given as "Churbuck." Digitized by the Library of Congress.
Nathan was born in East Wareham, Plymouth County, MA in 1857, son of a ship's captain, and relocated as an adult to Connecticut. Nothing I find on his peeps does better than dead-ending in Plymouth County. Here is what I have so far: Nathan A. Gibbs - Nathan Perry Gibbs - Capt. Seth Gibbs of Wareham, d 1840 Caribbean & Delia Perry. Whose son was Capt. Seth? (My Gibbses are Rogers and Warrens; my Perrys were Brewsters.) Delia Perry was the daughter of William Perry & Bathsheba Perry of Sandwich (m 1795.) Bathsheba may have been born in Dighton 1773 to Joseph & Rebecca (---). Whose child was William?
On his mother's side, Nathan A. Gibbs is son of Hannah Swift (Chubbuck) Gibbs, daughter of Hannah (Swift) Chubbuck b 1800 Wareham to Benjamin Swift & 3rd wife Hannah Cornish (m 1790.) I think Benjamin was not old when he married Hannah, I think his 1st 2 wives died young and that he was born in Wareham 1758 to Ebenezer Swift Jr. & Jedidah Benson (of Middleboro.) Who were Jedidah's parents? Is Ebenezer Jr. the same as the Ebenezer Swift, Jr. who married Martha Eldred and Abigail Hatch in Falmouth? Is his father an Ebenezer Swift, maybe he one who married 2 Gibbs women in Sandwich, 1721 & 1723? Who were Hannah Cornish's parents?
Getting back to Hannah Swift (Chubbuck) Gibbs, her father was Rowland Chubbuck (ca 1796-1868), son of a Benjamin & Ruth of Wareham, per his DR. Was he the son or maybe grandson of Benjamin & Ruth Bump? Amazingly, I find no Ruth Bump/Bumpus born in Wareham, just the Ruth who married a Benjamin Chubbuck Jr. there in 1769. The Bumpus Family web site cites a book that gives that Ruth as the daughter of Joseph Bumpus & Ruth Reed, bpt. 1754 in parts unknown, and does not list a son for her and Benjamin, only 1 daughter. Her line does not lead to the Mayflower anyway. If we are missing a generation between Rowland and that Benjamin & Ruth, finding that couple could lead to a Pilgrim.
Incidentally, Wareham town records of that era are not on the NEHGS site. Go to "Wareham Vital Records from Town Books 1 and 2," transcribed by Richard W. Griffith, CG, in 1996, bless his soul. I have used his transcriptions and the Bumpus book on the Bumpus Family web site for my own Wareham Bumpii.
Photo from Benjamin Tinkham Marshall, A Modern History of New London County, Connecticut, v. II (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1922), p. 19. Be forewarned that the author started numbering the pages all over again when he got to the biographical section, so this is not actually "page 19," though it says so, and that Hannah's maiden name was given as "Churbuck." Digitized by the Library of Congress.
FROST, SAMUEL W.
Like Ruth Page Billington, below, Samuel is a frustration because even the Billington Silver Book says that the Billingtons in this part of Maine, born in the 1760s-70s can only be the children of Ichabod Billington and Betty Peck. The Silver Book ends there and the unattributed author of the book from which this image was taken didn't always state who a spouse's parents were. Thus, we know that Capt. Samuel W. Frost was one of 12 named children of Betsey Billington and William Frost, who came to Wayne around 1800, and Samuel W., their oldest child, had already been born. Thus Betsey is unlikely to be Ichabod's then 38-year-old daughter Betty Billington, of whom no further record was found but could be the child of her brothers Nathaniel, Ichabod, or Job, all Gen. 6 in the Silver Book. If you find Betsey (Billington) Frost's birth records, please let me know. Thus, Samuel W. is tentatively a Gen. 8 Billington but you'd have to submit vital records on his parents to prove to any lineage society via which brother he acquired those genes. Image and info from History of the Town of Wayne, Kennebec County, ME (Augusta: Maine Farmer Publishing, 1898), pp. 30, 223, digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
Like Ruth Page Billington, below, Samuel is a frustration because even the Billington Silver Book says that the Billingtons in this part of Maine, born in the 1760s-70s can only be the children of Ichabod Billington and Betty Peck. The Silver Book ends there and the unattributed author of the book from which this image was taken didn't always state who a spouse's parents were. Thus, we know that Capt. Samuel W. Frost was one of 12 named children of Betsey Billington and William Frost, who came to Wayne around 1800, and Samuel W., their oldest child, had already been born. Thus Betsey is unlikely to be Ichabod's then 38-year-old daughter Betty Billington, of whom no further record was found but could be the child of her brothers Nathaniel, Ichabod, or Job, all Gen. 6 in the Silver Book. If you find Betsey (Billington) Frost's birth records, please let me know. Thus, Samuel W. is tentatively a Gen. 8 Billington but you'd have to submit vital records on his parents to prove to any lineage society via which brother he acquired those genes. Image and info from History of the Town of Wayne, Kennebec County, ME (Augusta: Maine Farmer Publishing, 1898), pp. 30, 223, digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
HAYFORD, OTIS, JR.
This is the author of a history of the Hayford family, whose origins were in New England, and in his book he claims descent from Dr. Samuel Fuller, William Brewster, Francis Eaton, and Henry Samson via his paternal grandmother, Abigail (Fuller) Hayford, Mrs. Gustavus Hayford. Gustavus, in turn, was the son of William Hayward, whose wife Betty Bonney was allegedly granddaughter of an Elizabeth (Howland) Bonney and and daughter of an Ichabod Bonney, Jr., descendant of Dorcas Samson, daughter of pilgrim Henry. It should not be that hard to prove anyone named "Gustavus" in the 1700s, right? None of the relationships in this book worked out as outlined by the author BUT if the Abigail Fuller of Carver, b. 1774 did NOT marry the Zabdee Cobb, to whom she was engaged but Gustavus Hayford instead, then the man in the photo is a Generation 10 Billington, Generation 9 Eaton, and Generation 8 Samuel Fuller and Doty. There was also supposedly Hopkins and Cooke blood in his veins, but I was unable to track that down either. If anyone would like to spend their time doing so, feel free and please email me your evidence and I will change this entry. Otis, Jr.'s parents were second cousins, so if the Bonney ancestor does prove him to be a Samson and or Howland, he would be of that line of descent twice. Photo from Otis Hayford, Jr., History of the Hayford Family, 1100-1900 (Canton, ME: author, 1901), frontispiece. Digitized by the Library of Congress.
This is the author of a history of the Hayford family, whose origins were in New England, and in his book he claims descent from Dr. Samuel Fuller, William Brewster, Francis Eaton, and Henry Samson via his paternal grandmother, Abigail (Fuller) Hayford, Mrs. Gustavus Hayford. Gustavus, in turn, was the son of William Hayward, whose wife Betty Bonney was allegedly granddaughter of an Elizabeth (Howland) Bonney and and daughter of an Ichabod Bonney, Jr., descendant of Dorcas Samson, daughter of pilgrim Henry. It should not be that hard to prove anyone named "Gustavus" in the 1700s, right? None of the relationships in this book worked out as outlined by the author BUT if the Abigail Fuller of Carver, b. 1774 did NOT marry the Zabdee Cobb, to whom she was engaged but Gustavus Hayford instead, then the man in the photo is a Generation 10 Billington, Generation 9 Eaton, and Generation 8 Samuel Fuller and Doty. There was also supposedly Hopkins and Cooke blood in his veins, but I was unable to track that down either. If anyone would like to spend their time doing so, feel free and please email me your evidence and I will change this entry. Otis, Jr.'s parents were second cousins, so if the Bonney ancestor does prove him to be a Samson and or Howland, he would be of that line of descent twice. Photo from Otis Hayford, Jr., History of the Hayford Family, 1100-1900 (Canton, ME: author, 1901), frontispiece. Digitized by the Library of Congress.
BILLINGTON, RUTH PAGE
Here is a genealogical challenge for you family history sleuths out there. This is Ruth (Billington) Maxim, wife of the 2nd Ephraim Maxim (see his entry in the Brewster section.) According to History of the Town of Wayne, Kennebec County, ME (Augusta: Maine Farmer Publishing, 1898), 235-6, she was brought to Wayne, ME by her parents as a very small child from her birthplace, Norwood, NH. There is a Northwood, but no Norwood. The book gives no parents, but does give her birth and death dates: Aug. 17, 1809 and July 5, 1882. She was married at age 18, so 1827 or 1828, presumably in Wayne. She is too late to be in either Billington Silver Book (vols. 5 or 21) and does not appear in the NEHGS database, findagrave, or familysearch. There were several Billingtons in Wayne with daughters in the right age category on the 1810 and/or 1820 federal census. There is a Gen. 5 Ichabod Billington in the 1810 census of Wayne, and he had sons Nathaniel, Ichabod, Jr., and Job, all of whom married. Ichabod had a brother Seth, and there were 2 Seths in Wayne in the 1810 census, but the brother is not known to have ever left Middleboro, MA. None of those families are stated to have lived in New Hampshire. (Hampshire County, MA, yes, but there is no town there named Norwood.) Who is Ruth, who were her parents, how did they get to NH and then ME, and which generation is she? One clue: look for a woman named Ruth Page who married a Billington or close relation. See also Samuel W. Frost, above, who has the same "issue." This photo is on the page facing pg. 183 of History of the Town of Wayne, Kennebec County, ME, digitized by the New York Public Library.
Here is a genealogical challenge for you family history sleuths out there. This is Ruth (Billington) Maxim, wife of the 2nd Ephraim Maxim (see his entry in the Brewster section.) According to History of the Town of Wayne, Kennebec County, ME (Augusta: Maine Farmer Publishing, 1898), 235-6, she was brought to Wayne, ME by her parents as a very small child from her birthplace, Norwood, NH. There is a Northwood, but no Norwood. The book gives no parents, but does give her birth and death dates: Aug. 17, 1809 and July 5, 1882. She was married at age 18, so 1827 or 1828, presumably in Wayne. She is too late to be in either Billington Silver Book (vols. 5 or 21) and does not appear in the NEHGS database, findagrave, or familysearch. There were several Billingtons in Wayne with daughters in the right age category on the 1810 and/or 1820 federal census. There is a Gen. 5 Ichabod Billington in the 1810 census of Wayne, and he had sons Nathaniel, Ichabod, Jr., and Job, all of whom married. Ichabod had a brother Seth, and there were 2 Seths in Wayne in the 1810 census, but the brother is not known to have ever left Middleboro, MA. None of those families are stated to have lived in New Hampshire. (Hampshire County, MA, yes, but there is no town there named Norwood.) Who is Ruth, who were her parents, how did they get to NH and then ME, and which generation is she? One clue: look for a woman named Ruth Page who married a Billington or close relation. See also Samuel W. Frost, above, who has the same "issue." This photo is on the page facing pg. 183 of History of the Town of Wayne, Kennebec County, ME, digitized by the New York Public Library.
GAR Member, Southeastern Massachusetts
Any idea who this might be? This image and another of him in a straw hat with a younger, clean-shaven man with stick-out ears was among some scattered photos of a now-dead relative. Best bet is someone in the GAR camp serving New Bedford, Dartmouth, or Freetown based on what I know about my side of the family and hers, specifically where they lived and who served in the Civil War. I have seen few family photos but he does not look like a relative around the eyes. Note: this image is personal property and not for download or republishing anywhere.
Any idea who this might be? This image and another of him in a straw hat with a younger, clean-shaven man with stick-out ears was among some scattered photos of a now-dead relative. Best bet is someone in the GAR camp serving New Bedford, Dartmouth, or Freetown based on what I know about my side of the family and hers, specifically where they lived and who served in the Civil War. I have seen few family photos but he does not look like a relative around the eyes. Note: this image is personal property and not for download or republishing anywhere.
MYLES STANDISH ALDEN
Or Miles Standish Alden, depending on whose spelling is correct. This photo of an intrepid swordsman was in the same book from which the photo of the Charles L. Alden family of Hyde Park, MA (circa 1902) appeared. (You can see it in the Alden-Mullins and Rogers sections on this site.) Miles/Myles proved to be the same boy as the little fellow in the center of the family photo, age 4. He may have been posing for the Alden Kindred reunion at the Alden homestead in Duxbury that same year. I don't see a costumed child in the group photo below, however. This image is one of four on page 189 of Augustus Ephraim Alden, Pilgrim Alden (Boston: James H. Earle, 1902), scanned by me.
Or Miles Standish Alden, depending on whose spelling is correct. This photo of an intrepid swordsman was in the same book from which the photo of the Charles L. Alden family of Hyde Park, MA (circa 1902) appeared. (You can see it in the Alden-Mullins and Rogers sections on this site.) Miles/Myles proved to be the same boy as the little fellow in the center of the family photo, age 4. He may have been posing for the Alden Kindred reunion at the Alden homestead in Duxbury that same year. I don't see a costumed child in the group photo below, however. This image is one of four on page 189 of Augustus Ephraim Alden, Pilgrim Alden (Boston: James H. Earle, 1902), scanned by me.
ALDEN KINDRED REUNION, DUXBURY, MA 1902
This photo predates the two reunion pictures in the Alden Silver Book, vol. 1, by 3-12 years. I scanned it from a 112-year-old book at 600 dpi. The man in the second row, just left of center, head cocked, looks like Marcus Alden Tolman to me. Mrs. Charles L. Alden might be the woman seated on the grass, diagonally down to the left from him, or maybe not. The daughters do not look like those in the family photo and I do not know if she was an Alden herself. That might be Charles, behind the baldheaded man 2 Aldens to the left of the possible Marcus Tolman. However I don't see his children. What do you think? Do you see anyone you recognize? Image from Augustus Ephraim Alden, Pilgrim Alden (Boston: James H. Earle, 1902), p. 210.
This photo predates the two reunion pictures in the Alden Silver Book, vol. 1, by 3-12 years. I scanned it from a 112-year-old book at 600 dpi. The man in the second row, just left of center, head cocked, looks like Marcus Alden Tolman to me. Mrs. Charles L. Alden might be the woman seated on the grass, diagonally down to the left from him, or maybe not. The daughters do not look like those in the family photo and I do not know if she was an Alden herself. That might be Charles, behind the baldheaded man 2 Aldens to the left of the possible Marcus Tolman. However I don't see his children. What do you think? Do you see anyone you recognize? Image from Augustus Ephraim Alden, Pilgrim Alden (Boston: James H. Earle, 1902), p. 210.
SOULE, WILLIAM - MYSTERY SOLVED! SEE HIS SOULE PAGE WRITEUP!
The author of the book from which this image was taken states that Dr. Soule (1827-1900) was a descendant of George the Pilgrim, but gives only his parents's names (Ivory, b. ca 1801, and Marilla Bingham.) There was more than one Ivory Soule, though the other did not live in CT. Ivory lived at least until the 1883 CT census of old people (for lack of a better name.) Can you confirm his Soule lineage and tell us which generation William would be? Here is the info the article provides: William was born in Chaplin, CT; Ivory owned a shoe/boot manufactory at one time. William went to Woodstock Academy and was briefly a teacher, then went to Yale, graduating in 1851 presumably with his MD. He then practiced at Pascoag, RI, later Hampton, CT, then Jewett City, CT. He was appointed assistant surgeon ca 1861 in the 1st CT HA and then ca 1861-2 appointed surgeon of the 21st CT VI, in which he served during the Battle of Fredericksburg. He married Harriet A. Hall and Martha P. Chapman (one at a time) and had children by both. Info and image from Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, CT (Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1905), pp. 52-53, digitized by the Brigham Young University Libraries.
The author of the book from which this image was taken states that Dr. Soule (1827-1900) was a descendant of George the Pilgrim, but gives only his parents's names (Ivory, b. ca 1801, and Marilla Bingham.) There was more than one Ivory Soule, though the other did not live in CT. Ivory lived at least until the 1883 CT census of old people (for lack of a better name.) Can you confirm his Soule lineage and tell us which generation William would be? Here is the info the article provides: William was born in Chaplin, CT; Ivory owned a shoe/boot manufactory at one time. William went to Woodstock Academy and was briefly a teacher, then went to Yale, graduating in 1851 presumably with his MD. He then practiced at Pascoag, RI, later Hampton, CT, then Jewett City, CT. He was appointed assistant surgeon ca 1861 in the 1st CT HA and then ca 1861-2 appointed surgeon of the 21st CT VI, in which he served during the Battle of Fredericksburg. He married Harriet A. Hall and Martha P. Chapman (one at a time) and had children by both. Info and image from Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, CT (Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1905), pp. 52-53, digitized by the Brigham Young University Libraries.
Foster, Louis Frederick
Don't you just want to be descended from this guy? The picture is not a joke; this Bostonian craved excitement and so headed west and by his early 20s was giving exhibitions of his cowboy riding and shooting skills, which were apparently extraordinary. Louis's Foster line is James, John H., Hopestill, Hopestill, James, Hopestill, Richard, and Thomas. More detail can be found in Frederick Clifton Pierce, Foster Genealogy (Chicago: Conkey, 1899), pp. 647-48. If anyone can prove pilgrim lineage for Louis, I will be glad to move this picture to the appropriate section, horse and all.
Alden, John - as portrayed by Elmer Fudd
In the 1940 cartoon "The Hardship of Miles Standish," Mel Blanc voiced this version of the hero of Longfellow's "The Courtship of Miles Standish." The Merrie Melodies sendup has Alden delivering Standish's proposal to Priscilla as a singing telegram, to the tune of "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," thus the pitchpipe in his left hand. Longfellow, an Alden-Mullins descendant, is supposed to have based his poem on family tradition and included physical descriptions of Alden (blonde, fair-skinned, blue-eyed) and Standish (short, muscular, red-bearded). Look at Elmer, then search online and you can see how similiarly far afield the cartoonists went in their depictions of the soldier and the maiden.
