Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Tombstone Tuesday- John Archibald, Nutfield Settler

These are photos I took for a recent Random Act of Genealogical Kindness. The request came from a descendant of John Archibald, one of the original settlers of Nutfield. This stone was located near Cemetery Road, in the new part of the Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry, New Hampshire (I photographed both sides of the stone).


This is John Archibald's original grave stone, located in the old part of Forest Hill Cemetery directly behind the First Church. I think it is just a footstone, and the headstone could not be located or was illegible.



For more information about Forest Hill Cemetery, Derry, New Hampshire, please see the website http://www.forest-hill-1721.webs.com/ or http://www.findagrave.com/ Forest Hill is Derry's only burial ground.

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Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

15 comments:

  1. I'm glad they inscribed his birthdate as 169- instead of making up a number like most people do. Thanks for sharing. I can't believe Derry only has one cemetery!

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  2. This is my 7G Grandfather. Thank you so much for posting!!

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  3. And my 6G Grandfather. Four of John Archibald's sons, and two of his daughters moved to Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada between 1762 and 1767. Another sister, Margaret, named in John's will, presumably remained in New Hampshire as did two other son's, John, who is likely the John Archibald who died at Chester in 1828, and Robert, who also likely stayed in Rockingham County. Dr. Allan Marble, retired Professor from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Soctia, has published an extensive genealogical history, "The Archibald Family of Nova Scotia" and a second edition is planned for those who are interested. I would be particularly interested in hearing from any descendents of the John, Robert and Margaret who stayed in New Hampshire. Thanks for the pictures!

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    1. Hello, Ruth. My name is Steve Archibald, and I can only trace back to David Archibald,1795, from Wakefield, NH. He was married to Susan Witham. I have been trying for 20 years to go back further. Your information, that only two brothers stayed back, mught help me. Thank you.

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  4. Thanks, Ruth, maybe if someone sees your comment here they will contact you. I'm glad you like the photos, too!
    Heather

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  5. Hey Ruth! Please send me your email. I have Archie's from Poland, ME--- which I am sure came from the two Archie's that stayed behind. I'm trying to make a one generation connection. You can email me at pete_archibald@yahoo.com.

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  6. My 6G Grandfather as well, my line coming from Truro. Any cousins can email me at pgsoap@gmail.com.

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  7. I am also related, John Archibald and his wife Margaret Wilson were my 6G grandparents. There seems to be a discrepancy as to exactly when he arrived in the U.S.. Some accounts say 1745 while others claim he arrived earlier. Does anyone have insight on this?

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  8. John and Margaret Archibald were my 6th ggparents. Thank you for posting this photo. Carol in Arizona

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  9. There seem to be a lot of ARCHIBALD descendants here in the comments. I hope you all are able to contact each other to resolve some of these questions and to share information.

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  10. John was my 7x gradfatehr - I'd llike to find out who his grandfather was. Really trying to find out where this family orginiated in Scotland.
    Sailorchronos - there are references in Wiley's Book of Nutfield to John Archibald owning land in 1723 - quite a few maps of the parcels as well

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  11. John was my 7x ggf and his line descended to my great, great grandmother Ann Archibald who married James Weaver--at least from what I have found so far. John's grandson, John (my 5th ggf), moved to Nova Scotia. My family eventually ended up in Massachusetts. My great uncle's middle name was Archibald. One part of my genealogy research that I love is finding out the source of many names and middle names--without this research I would never know how come my uncle's middle name was Leonard or why my great aunt's middle name was Sophie. Again, thanks Heather for all the wonderful information you share with us.

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    1. Another Archibald descendant! I have heard from so many on the comments here, in emails, and also for genealogy requests from the Londonderry Historical Society. It was a very prolific family!

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  12. Hello - a relative of mine did some extensive genealogical research of the family, and we learned that I am related to John Archibald, an original settler and proprietor at the time of the issue of the charter. Some of his family members moved to Nova Scotia in 1762. He and his wife Margaret's 6 children included Eleanor, born 1724. She married Wm. Fisher and had 12 children, including Margaret Fisher (b. 1747). She married John Archibald II, and they later emigrated to Nova Scotia. Of their 10 children, Eleanor was born in 1776, who later married Adam Dunlap and gave birth to Mary Dunlap (b. 1796). Mary later married Wm Dean and had 9 children, including Ruth Dean (b. 1829). Ruth later married John Geddes, and they had 11 children, including Ellen Geddes (b. 1863). Ellen later married James Frame, with whom she had 9 children, including my grandmother, Emma (b. 1898). She married Eugene Stephens, and they had a daughter Nancy (b. 1921), my mother. That makes the original John Archibald my “8G” grandfather.
    Interestingly, many years later my mother and father moved to Londonderry in 1971, upon my high school graduation. Seven years later, I married Linda Feinauer, a 4th generation resident of Derry,NH, and we settled in Londonderry in 1983 (in the oldest section of the West Parish, on Bartley Hill Rd. and called "Canada" back then), had our first child in 1985, and still live in Londonderry today. --From Paul Margolin.

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    1. Hi there, John Archibald is my 7* great grandfather. I’m curious as Ann Archibald (Boyd) his mother) is recorded as passing in 1715 in New Hampshire and his father Robert Archibald also passed in New Hampshire (https://sprague.one-name.net/familygroup.php?familyID=F74625&tree=Sprague) John Archibald would have been 24 years old at the time of his mother’s passing, I’m assuming that Robert Archibald and Ann Boyd may have gone together with John Archibald to New Hampshire earlier than 1718. Otherwise Robert and Ann went first and John followed. I assume that the anew Hampshire recorded death of Ann Boyd is recorded somewhere for it to pop up so repeatedly online. I’d be interested if anyone has any theories about that.

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