Christa McAuliffe - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at Calvary Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire.  Today is the 34th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle disaster on 28 January 1986.

While we were visiting this cemetery to photograph this tombstone, a bald eagle flew up from the Merrimack River and flew over the cemetery and landed in the trees behind the gravestones.  I thought it was very appropriate for the moments after we were thinking about Christa McAuliffe and the other Challenger astronauts.

S. CHRISTA McAULIFFE

SEPTEMBER 2, 1948 - JANUARY 28, 1986

WIFE  MOTHER  TEACHER

PIONEER WOMAN

CREW MEMBER, SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER

AMERICA'S FIRST ORDINARY CITIZEN TO VENTURE

TOWARD SPACE

SHE HELPED PEOPLE. SHE LAUGHED.  SHE LOVED AND IS LOVED.  SHE APPRECIATED THE WORLD'S

NATURAL BEAUTY. SHE WAS CURIOUS AND SOUGHT TO LEARN WHO WE ARE AND WHAT 

THE UNIVERSE IS ABOUT.  SHE RELIED ON HER OWN JUDGEMENT AND MORAL COURAGE

 TO DO RIGHT.  SHE CARED ABOUT THE SUFFERING OF HER FELLOW MAN.  SHE TRIED

TO PROTECT OUR SPACESHIP EARTH.  SHE TAUGHT HER CHILDREN TO DO THE SAME.

Click here for a 2010 blog post about my memories of this day in 1986:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/january-28-1986.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Christa McAuliffe - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 28, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/01/christa-mcauliffe-tombstone-tuesday.html: accessed [access date]).

A Google Book Search for Mayflower Books

Mayflower II 1957 arriving in Plymouth harbor

There are many, many books on the Mayflower and the Plymouth Colony, and many are listed on Google Books, but few are readable online.  Some are just previews, or are searchable, but not readable.  You won't find the latest research or the newly published books on the Pilgrims here, those books are still under copyright - like Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs' book Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners or Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower.

Many of the older books contain out of date research, but some are invaluable such as the membership directories from the Mayflower Society from 100 years ago, or the epitaphs from Plymouth's Burial Hill written in 1896 (some of those epitaphs are now illegible).  The most recent book on this list was published in 2009, but most are 100 years older than that!  If you are interested in a particular book on this list, just type the title and author into the search bar at https://books.google.com/   Also, please note that these digitized versions of the books are searchable, so you search each volume for surnames, geographic locations, or any other keyword.  Sometimes this is better than having the actual volume in front of you on the desk! 

The Arrival of the Pilgrims, by John Franklin Jameson, 1920, published by Brown University.

Bradford’s History “Of Plimoth Plantation”, 1901, published by Wright & Potter, state printers for the Massachusetts General Court. 

The Brewster Genealogy, 1566 – 1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the Mayflower, Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Church which founded Plymouth Colony in 1620, Volume 1,  by Emma C. Brewster Jones, 1908.

Captain Myles Standish, by Tudor Jenks, 1905, published by Century Company.

Chief of the Pilgrims: Or the Life and Time of William Brewster, Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Company that Founded New Plymouth, the Parent Colony of New England, in 1620, by Ashbel Steele, 1857, published by J. B. Lippincott.

Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth, by Alexander Young, 1841, published by C. C. Little and J. Brown.

The Colony of New Plymouth and Its Relations to Massachusetts: A Lecture of a Course by Members of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Delivered before the Lowell Institute, Jan. 19, 1869, by William Brigham, 1869. 

Elder William Brewster, of the Mayflower: His Books and Autographs, with Other Notes, by Justin Winsor, 1887, published by John Wilson and Son.

Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts from 1657 to 1892 with Biographical and Historical Notes, by Bradford Kingman, 1892, Brookline, Mass.: New England Illustrated Historical Publishing Company.

The Enterprise of the Mayflower, by Amice MacDonell, 1889, published by Walter H. Baker & Company.

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1901, published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

Good Newes from New England, by Edward Winslow, 1996, published by Applewood Books.  

Governor William Bradford’s Letter Book, by William Bradford, 1906, published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (reprinted from the Mayflower Descendant).

The Graves of Myles Standish and Other Pilgrims, by Eugene Joseph Vincent Huiginn, 1914.

Guide to Plymouth and Recollections of the Pilgrims, Volume 2, by William Shaw Russell, 1846.

Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts: Its History, Its Famous Dead, and Its Quaint Epitaphs, by Frank Herman Perkins, 1896.

An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth, by Francis Baylies, 1830, published by Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins.

A History of the Allerton Family in the United States, 1585 to 1885, and a Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac Allerton, Mayflower Pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass., 1620, by Walter Scott Allerton and Horace True Currier, 1900, published by S. W. Allerton.

History of Plimoth Plantation, by William Bradford, 1898, Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co.

History of Plymouth County with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Massachusetts, by Duane Hamilton Hurd, 1884, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co.

History of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford, edited with notes by Charles Deane, 1856, Boston: Privately Printed.

The History of the Pilgrims, Or, A Grandfather’s Story of the First Settler of New England, 1831, Boston: T. B. Marvis for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Union.

History of the Town of Plymouth, by William Thomas Davis, 1885, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co.

History of the Town of Plymouth, from Its First Settlement in 1620 to the Present Time: With a 

Concise History of the Aborigines of New England, and Their Wars with the English, etc., by James Thacher, 1835, published by Marsh, Capen & Lyon.

The Howland Homestead, 1911, published by the Society of the Descendants of Pilgrim John Howland, of the Ship Mayflower.

An Illustrated Guide to Historic Plymouth, Massachusetts, by Walter F. Wheeler, 1921, Boston: The Union News Company.

John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers, A Study of his Life and Times, by Walter Herbert Burgess, 1920, published by Williams & Norgate.

The Last of the Mayflower, by James Rendel Harris, 1920, published by the University Press.

Lives of the Governors of New Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, by Jacob Bailey Moore, 1848, New York: Gates & Stedman.

The Mayflower, edited by Robert Hamilton, 1846, originally published in Boston by Saxton & Kelt.

Mayflower Essays on the Story of the Pilgrim Fathers as Told in Governor Bradford’s History of the Plimoth Plantation:  With a Reproduction of Captain John Smith’s Map of New England, by George Cuthbert Blaxland, 1896, published by Ward & Downey.

The Mayflower: Or, Scenes and Sketches Among the Descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852, published by Knight and Son.

The Mayflower Pilgrims: Being a Condensation in the Original Wording and Spelling of the Story Written by Gov. William Bradford of their Privations and Trials, and the Voyage of the Mayflower and Settlement at Plymouth in the Year 1620, by William Bradford and John Tyler Wheelwright, 1921, published by McGrath-Sherrill Press.

The Mayflower Descendant: A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Volume 23 (1921) and others published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants.

Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After Landing, 1922, published by the Bureau of Military and Civic Achievement, Washington, DC

The Mayflower Pilgrim Descendants in Cape May County, New Jersey, by Paul Sturtevant Howe, 1921, published by A. R. Hand.

Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, 1986, published by Applewood Books.

Mourt’s Relation Or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth, contributors Edward Winslow, Henry Martyn Dexter, and William Bradford, 1865, published by J. K. Wiggin.

The New England’s Memorial, by Nathaniel Morton, 2009, published by Applewood Books.

The Pastor of the Pilgrims: A Biography of John Robinson, by Walter Herbert Burgess, 1920, published by Harcourt, Brace & Howe.

Pilgrim Alden: The Story of the Life of the First John Alden in America, by Augustus Ephraim Alden, 1902, Boston: James H. Earle & Company.

Pilgrims and Puritans: The Story of the Planting of Plymouth and Boston, by Nina Moore Tiffany, 1888, published by Ginn & Company.

The Pilgrims and Their Monument, by Edmund Janes Carpenter, 1911, published by D. Appleton and Company.

Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, In New England, Volume 7, by Nathaniel Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, 1861, Boston: the press of William White. 

Records of the Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Volume 1 1636 to 1705, 1889, Plymouth: Avery & Doten.

Richard Warren of the Mayflower and Some of His Descendants, by Emily Warren Roebling, 1901, published by David Clapp & Son.

The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims: And Its Place in the Life of Today, by Albert Christopher Addison, 1911, published by L. C. Page.

Signers of the Mayflower Compact, by Annie Arnoux Haxtun, 1896.

The Signers of the Mayflower Compact and Their Descendants, by Henry Whittemore, 1899, published by the Mayflower Publishing Company.

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Michigan, 1915.

Stories of the Pilgrims, by Margaret Blanche Pumphrey, 1912, published by Rand McNally.

A Tribute to the Memory of the Pilgrims, and a Vindication of the Congregational Churches of New England, by Joel Hawes, 1836, published by D. Burgess & Company.

The Voyage of the Mayflower, by Blanche McManus, 1897, published by E. R. Herrick & Company.

The Women of the Mayflower and Women of Plymouth Colony, by Ethel Jane Russell Chesebrough Noyes, 1921, published by Memorial Press. 

The Women who Came on the Mayflower, by Annie Russell Marble, 1920, published by the Pilgrim Press.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Google Book Search for Mayflower Books", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 23, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-google-book-search-for-mayflower-books.html: accessed [access date]).

Mary Adams, Infant, died 1818, Derry, New Hampshire ~ Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry, New Hampshire. At the time of this burial, this was Londonderry, New Hampshire.

Sacred

to the memory of

MARY ADAMS

daughter of Mr. Samuel &

Mrs. Sarah Adams

who died Nov. 9, 1818

aged 1 yr. & 14 days.

While cleaving to this darling dust,

And weeping at her grave

We would adore the wise and just

Who takes but what He gave.

Mary Adams, born abut 25 October 1817 and died 9 November 1818, was the infant daughter of Samuel Adams and Sarah Fitz, who were married on 3 March 1817 in Londonderry, New Hampshire.  They had three daughters: first, Mary Woodman (above), second Caroline Sawyer born 25 August 1819 and married Albert S. Newsmith, and third Louisa, born 17 February 1822 and married the Rev. Charles S. Porter.  They also had a son named George Fitz, born in Derry on 29 June 1824 and married Elizabeth W. Whitney.

Colonel Samuel Adams was born in Newbury, Massachusetts on 20 April 1779 and died 12 September 1861 aged 82 years.  He was a son of the Elder David Adams and Mary Woodman.  Colonel Samuel Adams was a descendant of Robert Adams (1602 - 1682) of Newbury.

Sarah Fitz, his wife, died 26 April 1878, aged 84 years.  Sarah was the daughter of Currier Fitz and Sarah George of Hampstead, Sandown and Derry, New Hampshire.  Her brother Daniel graduated from Dartmouth College and the Andover Theological Seminary and was a pastor at Ipswich, Massachusetts from 1826 to 1867.

To see an online version of The Descendants of Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass, by Andrew N. Adams, 1900,  (see page 126 for Colonel Samuel Adams) click this link:
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ankeny/folklore/Robert%20of%20Newbury/Robert%20Capture.pdf 


UPDATE -  January 22, 2020  A has reader figured out the missing words in the epitaph above "adore the wise" by googling the words of the poetry and matching it to this Barnstable, Massachusetts epitaph on Find A Grave:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130618406/joseph-smith 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Mary Adams, Infant, died 1818, Derry, New Hampshire ~ Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 21, 2020, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/12/mary-adams-infant-died-1818-derry-new.html: accessed [access date]).

A Google Book Search for Nutfield Books

Names of people (ancestors, relatives, their neighbors and friends mentioned in letters and documents) can show up in all sorts of places online. Google Book search is nice place to start from the comfort of your own home http://books.google.com/  When starting out with a family or new branch of the family tree, it is a good idea to just explore the local history where you know your ancestor lived. Once you click on a book found at Google Books, you are able to search for keywords in every volume, one at a time or through all the books in the database. If Google Books doesn’t satisfy, try Internet Archive or the Hathi Trust websites.   For the book best selection, check your local library and see what is available through the inter-library loan system.

Here are a few of the books found about Nutfield (Londonderry, Derry, Windham, Derryfield (Manchester)), New Hampshire at Google Book Search:

Bibliography of Manchester, NH, by Sylvester Clark Gould and John Weeks Moore, 1885, originally published by Harvard University.

Manchester Historic Association Collections, Volume 4, by the Manchester Historic Association, 1908. [also volumes 1; 3, 1903; 1897; 7, 1914;  11, 1909; and more]

Contributions to the History of Derryfield, New Hampshire, William Ellery Moore, 1896, originally published by Harvard University.

Derry Revisited, by Richard Holmes and William Dugan, 2005, Acadia Publishing

  

The Descendants of James and William Adams of Londonderry, Now Derry, NH: Also a Brief Account of the Families of Robert Cochran and Joseph Morrison of Londonderry, and of Dea. Thomas Cochran of New Boston, NH, by Andrew N. Adams, 1894, Rutland, VT, Tuttle Company. (Also available is the Higginson Genealogical Books reprint)

Early Records of Londonderry, Windham and Derry, NH 1719-1745, by George Waldo Browne, 1911, Manchester Historic Association.

Early Records of the Town of Derryfield, 1751 – 1782, George Waldo Browne, 1905.

Early Records of the Town of Derryfield, 1782 – 1800, George Waldo Browne, 1907, Manchester, NH.

Historic Tales of Windham, by Derek Saffie, 2016, Arcadia Publishing.

The History of Londonderry, Comprising the Towns of Derry and Londonderry, NH , by Edward Lutwych Parker, 1851, Boston: Perkins and Whipple.

  

James Rodgers of Londonderry and James Rogers of Dunbarton, by Josiah H. Drummond. 1897, Manchester, NH, Gould Publishers

Londonderry, by the Londonderry Historical Society, 2004, Arcadia Publishing. (some pages not viewable)

The Londonderry Celebration: Exercises on the 150th Anniversary of the Settlement of Old Nutfield , by Robert C Mack, 1870, Manchester: Published by John B. Clarke.

Manchester: A Brief Record of Its Past and Picture of Its Present, Including an Account of Its Settlement and of Its Growth as a Town and City; A History of Its Schools, Churches, Societies, Banks,  compiled by Maurice D. Clarke, 1875, published by J. B. Clarke.

Manchester Men: Soldiers and Sailors in the Civil War, 1861 – 66, by George Clinton Gilmore, 1898, originally published by Harvard University.

The Manchester, New Hampshire Directory, 1901, Sampson & Murdock Company.

Poems of Robert Dinsmoor, “The Rustic Bard”, by Robert Dinsmoor and James Dinsmoor, 1898, Damrell & Upham.

Scotch Irish in New England, by Arthur Latham Perry, 1891, J.S. Cushing & Company (originally the University of California).

Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America, by Charles Knowles Bolton, 1910, published by Bacon and Brown (originally the University of California).

Semi-centennial of the City of Manchester, New Hampshire September 5, 7, 8, 9, 1896, by Herbert Walter Eastman, 1897.

A Sermon, Delivered at Londonderry East Parish, May 5, 1816, Occasioned by the Death of John Pinkerton, Esq., by Edward Lutwyche Parker, 1816.

The Siege and History of Londonderry, 1861 [about Londonderry in Northern Ireland before the 1718 migration]

Supplement to the History of Windham in New Hampshire: A Scotch Settlement, by Leonard Allison Morrison, 1892, Boston, Mass: Damrell & Upham

The Road to Derry:  A Brief History, by Richard Holmes, 2009, Arcadia Publishing.

Township, Nutfield, Harrytown, Derryfield, and Manchester, From the Earliest Settlements to the Present Time, by George Franklyn Willey, 1896, Manchester, NH: Willey Publishers

  

Willey’s Book of Nutfield: A History of that Part of New Hampshire Comprised Within the Limits of the Old Township of Londonderry, from Its Settlement in 1719 to the Present Time, by George Franklyn Willey, 1895.

Willey’s Semi-Centennial Book of Manchester, 1846-1896: Historic Sketches of that Part of New Hampshire Comprised Within the Limits of the Old Tyng Township, Nutfield, Harrytown, Derryfield, and Manchester, From the Earliest Settlements to the Present Time, by George Franklyn Willey, 1896, Manchester, NH: Willey Publishers

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Google Book Search for Nutfield Books", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 16, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-google-book-search-for-nutfield-books.html: accessed [access date]).

Ann Morrison, died 1825, East Derry, New Hampshire ~ Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery in East Derry, New Hampshire.

In memory of

MRS. ANN,

wife of 

John Morrison, Esq.

who died,

Feb. 27, 1825,

AEt. 68

SUSANNA F.

Died March 28, 1811

AEt. 28

JAMES

died Dec. 25, 1820,

AEt. 32

Son & Dau. of

John Morrison, Esq,

& Mrs. Ann, his wife. 

Ann Grey, born 24 August 1751 and died 27 February 1825, was the wife of John Morrison. They were married in Newburyport, Massachusetts on 19 April 1778.  He was born 28 February 1749 and died 21 April 1840.  They had three children, John, born 2 October 1779 (married Jennette Paul), Susanna, and James.  

I'm not sure which Morrison family John Morrison belongs to.  Does anyone know his parents?

This is a link to a blog post about the first few Morrison families in Nutfield (now Derry, Londonderry, and Windham, New Hampshire).  Perhaps John Morrison (above) fits into one of these families?   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/morrison-descendants-of-nutfield.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Ann Morrison, died 1825, East Derry, New Hampshire ~ Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 14, 2020, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/01/ann-morrison-died-1825-east-derry-new.html: accessed [access date]).  

Researching Ancestors Who Were Religious Leaders

Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill
My 3rd great grandfather

I've found quite a few ministers in my family tree.  Are there clergy, rabbis, or any other religious leaders in your family?

When tracing the protestant ministers in my family, I came to the conclusion that in early colonial New England the ministers' children married mostly the children of other ministers.  This pattern was quite common in the 1600s and 1700s, but I can see it also in the 1800s.  Perhaps it was a social class distinction.  Ministers were well educated, but often very poor, so their children tended to marry teachers and other ministers instead of lawyers and other businessmen?  Perhaps it was due to the fact that they led a strict upbringing?  This is just my theory. What do you think?

Most religious leaders had some sort of formal education, but not all.  Take advantage of this education to find where they attended schools, colleges and universities.  Some of the Puritan ministers who came over with John Winthrop's fleet in the 1630s went to Cambridge and Oxford Universities in England, and that is a great place to look for personal family information.  Harvard was founded as a place to instruct these ministers in the New World.  You can contact the colleges, universities, and religious institutions in the areas where your family lived to find out if they attended, and what records might be available.  Even if the school is no longer in existence, the records were often moved to another school's archives or library.

Sometimes someone in your family tree will just "see the light" or have a calling to the ministry.  This is what happened to my ancestor Ingraham Ebenezer Bill, who was the son of Asahel Bill, a Connecticut farmer who relocated to Nova Scotia during the planter movement in the 1760s.  Ingraham Ebenezer Bill was the youngest of eleven children, born in 1805 in "Billtown", Nova Scotia.  During his youth he experienced a religious conversion to the Baptist faith.  He was uneducated beyond grade school, yet went on to be one of the founders of the Baptist school Acadia College in 1831, and was later granted an honorary Doctorate of Theology.

Once I found Rev. Bill's connection to Acadia College (now Acadia University), I contacted their archive and received a large envelope with copies and newsclippings of his activities, photographs, sermons, and travels through Canada, all the eastern USA, and England.  The college also had a copy of his personal journal, and a biography written by one of his sons!  You can be sure that I wrote a nice donation to the Acadia library in lieu of regular copy charges.  You can read about the Bill family at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/03/surname-satruday-bill-of-boston.html 

Finding a religious figure in your family tree can open up lots of information.  Just Google all the variations of your ancestor's name and see all the results.  Try "Rev. John * Smith"  or "Reverend *Smith" or "Rev. Smith DD", etc.   Each denomination and religion has it's own variations. Google can bring up sermons, weddings, funerals, newspaper articles, and obituaries this way.

Make a time line to see where your religious leader may have lived.  Some led one congregation for their entire life, and others moved from town to town, state to state, or even from country to country.  Timelines can be invaluable for genealogy research.

If your family was Roman Catholic, often there were siblings (great aunts and uncles) who entered religious service as nuns, priests, and or monks.  These family members didn't leave descendants (unless they were widows or widowers, and even rarer, divorced), and often changed their names, making them difficult to trace  (census records will use their religious name, not their birth name).  However, there are patterns in some families about which religious orders they preferred, which can help you to find the convent or monastery, and often the catholic schools other family members attended.  Once you find the religious order this relative entered, you can write to the order, or visit your own parish priest for help.  Once you find the religious order, you will find they kept very good records on their members, including birth place, parents names, burials, and more.

For the truly curious:

Is a Rabbi Hiding in Your Family Tree?  Lessons from Genetic Genealogy for Traditional Genealogists   https://www.academia.edu/18659950/Is_a_Rabbi_Hiding_in_Your_Family_Tree_Lessons_from_Genetic_Genealogy_for_Traditional_Genealogists 

Rabbinical Genealogy: Sources at the Center for Jewish History
https://www.cjh.org/pdfs/Rabbis.pdf 

Finding Family in Religous Service, by Juliana Smith
http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=3243 

Researching Irish Catholic Priests, Nuns and Religious Brothers, by Kyle J. Betit
https://www.irishrootsmedia.com/img/products/Sample%20issue%20108_1.pdf 

Colonial American Ministers Project at geni.com
https://www.geni.com/projects/Colonial-American-Ministers/13900 

The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England, by Frederick Lewis Weiss, reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company of Baltimore, Maryland, 1936  (there are similar books by Weiss for Maryland, Delaware, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina).  Some of these are available online - check Google books.

Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
http://colonialclergyorg.blogspot.com/  

The Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy has sponsored a book Pedigrees of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, by Robert Glenn Thurtle, 1976 available online at the Hathi Trust website:  https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005802358

A handy list of the New England Puritan ministers and their approximate time of arrival from England (1630 - 1641):  http://sites.rootsweb.com/~genepool/preacher.htm 


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Researching Ancestors Who Were Religious Leaders", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 9, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/01/researching-ancestors-who-were.html: accessed [access date]).

The "Baby Garden" at the Davis Cate Cemetery, Hooksett, NH - Tombstone Tuesday

These tombstones were photographed at the Davis-Cate Cemetery in Hooksett, New Hampshire. This small cemetery is on Hackett Hill Road near our house. I have driven by hundreds of times, but finally I decided to walk the cemetery to read the names and take pictures. I'm glad I did because I found many distant cousins here.

DAVIS-CATE

CEMETERY

Presented by

John A. Cate

1953

Like many New England cemeteries, there is a "Baby Garden" in this burial ground.  It is to the far left of the entrance gate, next to the stone wall.  Small children were buried here, and there are only three tombstones, although I suspect that there were many more burials.  The little gravestone of Craigh Otterson is especially poignant with the headless lamb carved on top.  Little lambs were often carved on the top of tombstones for young children and infants.

JEREMY JAY                 CRAIGH ALAN

BARNES                    OTTERSON

JULY 5 1978                 DEC. 16, 1946

JULY 30 1978                 APR. 7, 1955

                                          - A GOOD BOY-

RICHARD A. COTE JR.

"RICHIE"

MAY 30, 1988 - JULY 6, 1993

FOREVER YOUNG

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "The "Baby Garden" at the Davis Cate Cemetery, Hooksett, NH - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 7, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-baby-garden-at-davis-cate-cemetery.html: accessed [access date]).

Happy Birthday, Dad!

John "Jack" Warren Wilkinson

3 January 1934 - 7 August 2002

Photo taken at his home at 7 Dearborn Avenue, Beverly, Massachusetts

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Happy Birthday, Dad!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted 3 January 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/01/happy-birthday-dad.html: accessed [access date]).