Surname Saturday ~ GLOVER of Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts

GLOVER

John Glover (about 1638 – 1695) Is my 9^th great grandfather.  He was also the great grandfather of the famous Brigadier General, John Glover, of the American Revolution.  He is of unknown origin, but might be related to the Charles and Elizabeth Glover who lived in Salem, and removed to Gloucester.  John Glover was a cordwainer (shoemaker).  He appears in the court records for assault in 1670, and for excessive drinking in February 1677/8. In 1680 he was accused of stealing.

From the Essex Institute Historical Collections (Salem, Massachusetts) Volume 2, No. 3, 1860,  page 148:  "john Glover maryed to Mary Guppy by Major Hathorn the 2d January 1660; theire son John Borne ye 29th 6th mo., 1661; theire son William borne 15th March 1663; da'r Mary born ye 1st 3d mo. 1666; da. Sarah borne ye 5th mo. '68; Hana 24th 4th '70; son Benjamin born ye 28th March 1674; Ebenezer born April 13th, 1685" This document does not name my 8^th great grandfather, Johnathan Glover (1677 – 1736), but he was named as a nephew in the will of one of John Glover’s brothers [The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 9, p. 119 and Vol. 11, p. 118; Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, Vol. IV, 1667-1671 (Salem: The Essex Institute, 1914), page 274].  His birth is in the Salem town clerk records with no parents listed, and published in the tan books.

John left a will which was probated on 13 May 1695 [Essex County Probate #11025]  His son, Jonathan, my 8^th great grandfather.  Jonathan died without a will.  His son, Jonathan Glover, Jr. (1702 – 1737) is my 7^th great grandfather, and he died only a year after his father, leaving his wife, Tabitha Bacon, with four small children.  Three of the four sons grew up to all serve in the American Revolution, and the third son became Brigadier General John Glover (1732 – 1797).  I descend from the youngest son, Daniel Glover, my 6^th great grandfather.

Daniel Glover was a blockmaker and a ship’s captain.  He married his step-sister, Hannah Jillings in 1757.  (His mother remarried to Thomas Jillings in 1756, the previous year).   He captained some of the ships owned by his brothers, including a schooner named Three Brothers.  Some of the maritime notices of Capt. Daniel Glover as master of ships to Europe and the West Indies appear in The Georgia Gazette 1764 and the Boston Evening Post 1765. [see the website by Doug Sinclair on the life of Daniel Glover http://dougsinclairsarchives.com/glover/danielglover.htm  ]   

Daniel Glover had four children, and I descend from his daughter Tabitha (b. 1765) who married Thomas Homan in 1782 and had seven children. She is my 5^th great grandmother.

Some GLOVER resources:

"Of Ships, Shoes, and Sealing Wax: The Early Career of John Glover." By George Billias,  Essex Institute Historical Collections 92 (1956): 376-387.

Memoir of General John Glover of Marblehead,  by W. P. Upham, 1863

My GLOVER genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Glover, born about 1638, died May 1695 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married on 2 January 1661 in Salem, Massachusetts to Mary Guppy, daughter of Reuben Guppy and his wife Eleanor.  She was born about 1640. Eight children.

Generation 2: Jonathan Glover, born 13 April 1677 in Salem, died March 1736; married on 31 March 1699 in Salem to Abigail Henderson, daughter of Peter Henderson and Abigail Bully.  She was born in October 1676 in Salem, and died 29 April 1737 in Salem.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Jonathan Glover, born 14 December 1702 in Salem, died August 1737 in Salem; married on 23 February 1727 in Salem to Tabitha Bacon, daughter of John Bacon and Hannah King.  Four sons, one died young and three served in the American Revolution including Brigadier General John Glover (1732 – 1797).

Generation 4: Daniel Glover, born January 1734/5 in Salem; married on 1  December 1757 in Newbury, Massachusetts to Hannah Jillings, daughter of Thomas Jillings and Hannah Mirick.  She was born 25 November 1737 in Newbury, and died 4 October 1810 in Salem.  Four children.

Generation 5:  Tabitha Glover, baptized on 10 February 1765, died 13 March 1837 in Marblehead; married on 28 November 1782 in Marblehead to Thomas Homan, son of William Homan and his wife Elizabeth.  He was born about 1758 and died 20 January 1832 in Marblehead.  Seven children.

Generation 6:  Betsey Jillings Homan m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 7:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 8:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ GLOVER of Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted  September 30, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-glover-of-salem-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

October 2017 Genealogy and Local History Event Calendar

For last minute updates, see the “Nutfield Genealogy” Facebook page at this link:  https://www.facebook.com/nutfield.gen/ 

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September 28, Thursday, 7pm,  The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at Wilmot Public Library, 11 North Wilmot Road, Wilmot, New Hampshire. Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.  Free to the public.  Contact Information 603-526-6804.

September 28, 6:30pm, Yankee Ingenuity: Stories of Headstrong and Resourceful People, at the Hooksett Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way, Hooksett, New Hampshire.  Jo Radner shares historical tales about New Englanders who have used their wits to solve problems and create inventions. Free to the public through a grant from the NH Humanities council.

September 28,  Thursday, 7pm, Poor Houses and Town Farms: The Hard Row for Paupers, at the Old Webster Courthouse, 6 Court Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire.  Presented by Steve Taylor, hosted by the Plymouth Historical Society.  Free to the public.  Contact information 603-536-1376.

September 30, Saturday, American Canadian Genealogy Society Fall Conference, at the Puritan Restaurant, 245 Hooksett Road, Manchester, New Hampshire (in the Pappas Room).  Annual meeting, three speakers (Jeanne Douillard, Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, and Leslie Choquette), buffet luncheon, and raffle.  Register here:  https://acgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Fall-Conference-2017-1.pdf   Members $70, nonmembers $80.

September 30 and October 1, Saturday and Sunday, Return to Number 4: Revolutionary War Weekend at The Fort at No. 4, 267 Springfield Road, Charlestown, New Hampshire. www.fortat4.org 

October 1, Sunday, 2pm, Giving Voice: An Afternoon with Annette Gordon-Reed, at the Royall House & Slave Quarters, 15 George Street, Medford, Massachusetts.

October 3, Tuesday, 6:30pm, New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them, at the Hampton Falls Free Library, 7 Drinkwater Road, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.  Presented by Jeremy D’Entremont.  Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.  Contact 603-926-3682.

October 3, Tuesday, 7pm, Brewing in New Hampshire: An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State from Colonial Times to the Present, at the Hollis Social Library, 2 Monument Square, Hollis, New Hampshire.  Free to the public. Presented by Glenn Knoblock.  Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Contact 603-465-7721.

October 3, Tuesday, 6:30pm, When There is No Doctor:  Home Remedies of 17^th Century Boston, at the Old North Church and Historic Site, 193 Salem Street, Boston, Massachusetts.  Presented by Lori Lyn Price, an expert in botanical medicine. This event includes a short visit to the St. Francis Garden, behind the church.   Please register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-there-is-no-doctor-home-remedies-of-17th-century-boston-registration-35631981215  

October 4, Wednesday, 12:30pm, Witchcraft in Salem in 1692, but why in Andover?, at the Andover Historical Society, Andover, Massachusetts.  Bring your lunch and hear Enders Robinson, witch trial historian and descendant of Samuel Wardwell discuss theories as to why Andover became so embroiled in the 1692 witch trials.  Free for members, $5 for non-members. 

October 4, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture:  Commerce and the Material Culture of the Maritime Atlantic World, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by J. Ritchie Garrison of the University of Delaware.  Free to the Public. https://www.masshist.org/calendar

October 4, Wednesday, 6 – 7:30pm, Margaret Newell, author of Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, at the Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.  Present by author Margaret Newell.  Free to the public.

October 5, Thursday, noon, Lunch & Learn: Salem Witch Museum and Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and 1693, at the Plimoth Plantation visitor’s center, Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Presented by Stacy Tilney. Register at this site: http://www.plimoth.org/calendar#/?i=14  Free for members, $8 non-members. Bring a lunch or buy one at the visitor’s center.

October 5,  Thursday, 6:30pm,  The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at Fremont Public Library, 7 Jackie Bernier Drive, Fremont, New Hampshire. Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.  Free to the public.  Contact Information 603-702-0120.

October 6, Friday, 2pm, How Boston Became the West: George Ticknor and the Arrival of Spanish Culture to the United States, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.  To reserve a seat please call 617-646-0578 or register online at www.masshist.org/events

October 6, Connecticut Roots at 40 Conference, at Goodwin College, 1 Riverside Drive, East Hartford, Connecticut. Keynote Speaker, Colson Whitehead.  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roots-at-40-reflections-and-rememberances-tickets-32911981623

October 7, Saturday, 1pm, Burial Hill Tours:  History in Progress: Finding Early Plymouth: an Archaeological View of Burial Hill, (tour begins at the top of Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts).  Dr. David Landon from the University of Massachusetts Fiske Center for Archaeological Research will discuss archaeological developments in our understanding of early Plymouth.  For more information please email pasm@verizon.net or call 508-746-0012

October 7, Saturday, 9am – 3pm, Women of the Fort, at the Fort at No. 4, 267 Springfield Road, Charlestown, New Hampshire.  Various activities including dying, cooking, working with wool, etc.  Included with admission to the historic 18^th century wooden fortress on the banks of the Connecticut River.  http://www.fortat4.org

October 8, Sunday, 5:30 – 7:30pm, 1627 Harvest Dinner with the Pilgrims, at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Enjoy a 17^th century meal, sit with Pilgrims who will answer questions, and be entertained with songs and psalms.  Click here to make a reservation and to pay online: http://www.plimoth.org/calendar#/?i=14

October 9, Monday, 10am, October is Polish-American Heritage Month, Northampton, Massachusetts.  High mass at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Church on King Street, followed by a parade to the center of the city to Pulaski Park on Main Street.  This is followed by speeches and music performances.  The day concludes with a buffet at St. Elizabeth Seton’s community room.

October 9 and 16, Climbing Your Family Tree III,  at the Greenwich High School, 10 Hillside Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut.  Greenwich Adult and Continuing Education is sponsoring five two part Monday night Genealogy classes taught by TV researcher and genealogist Janeen Bjork this fall.  Fee: $49.  The class fee includes three daytime bonus labs at the Greenwich Library. See page 11 of the catalog online:  https://www.greenwichace.com/customer-content/www/CMS/files/Fall17catalogws.pdf 

October 10, Tuesday, 7pm, New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones, at the Cornish Town Office Building, 488 Town House Road, Cornish, New Hampshire.  Presented by Glenn Knoblock, hosted by the Cornish Historical Society.  Free to the public. Contact 603-477-2844.

October 10, Tuesday, 7pm,  New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the Elkins Public Library, 9 Center Road, Canterbury, New Hampshire.  Presented by Pam Weeks, hosted by the Canterbury Historical Society, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.  Free to the public.  Contact information 207-783-4090.

October 12 – 14, Thursday – Saturday, Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference:  Gentrification and Prservation: A Reappraisal,  at Salve Regina University, 100 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island,  $175 or onsite registration $199.  Keynote speaker is Dr. Lance Freeman, a leading researcher in the study of gentrification https://salveregina.formstack.com/forms/conference_registration

Oct 12, Thursday, 7pm, Puddn'Heads:  Childhood in Colonial America, at the Andover Historical Society, Andover, Massachusetts.  A talk by author Velya Jancz-Urban.  Members $10, non-members $15.

October 12, Thursday, 2pm, Crosscut:  The Mills, Logging and Life on the Androscoggin River, at the New Hampshire Veteran’s Home, 139 Winter Street, Tilton, New Hampshire.  Presented by Rebecca Rule, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 12, Thursday, 6:30pm, A Visit with Abraham Lincoln, at the Kimball Library, 5 Academy Avenue, Atkinson, New Hampshire.  Presented by living historian Steve Wood.  Free to the public.  Contact 603-553-0531. 

October 12, Thursday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Laconia Public Library, 695 Main Street, Laconia, New Hampshire.  Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 13 and 14,  Friday and Saturday, 2017 Polish Genealogy Conference, at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel, 1583 Southeast Road, Farmington, Connecticut, sponsored by the Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast.  http://pgsctne.org/

October 14, Saturday, 1 – 4pm, Genealogy Workshop:  Researching Veteran Ancestors, at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 30 Park Street, Concord, New Hampshire.  https://www.nhhistory.org/

October 14, Saturday, 1 – 3pm,  French Canadian Genealogy Society of Connecticut Fall General Membership Meeting, at the United Congregational Church of Tolland, 45 Tolland Green, Tolland, Connecticut.   Coffee, a brief business meeting, followed by guest speaker Lucie LeBlanc Consentino.  Open to non-members $5 suggested donation.  www.fcgsc.org 

October 14, Saturday, 2pm, No Cause to Judge Them:  A narrated hike through Baker's Meadow, Meet at Baker's Meadow, Andover, Massachusetts, hosted by the Andover Historical Society and the Andover Trails Committee.  A narrated history hike through land once owned by Rev. Francis Dane.  Free to the public. 

October 14, Saturday, 10am – 4:30pm, The Rebellion Begins:  Westborough Training Day, at Veteran’s Freedom Park, 169A West Main Street, Westborough, Massachusetts, hosted by the Westborough Rotary Club.  This reenactment celebrates the 243^rd anniversary of the Westborough patriot militia’s march to Worcester in 1774, one of the first events that sparked the American Revolution. Watch drills, musket firing demonstrations, a colonial market, and re-enactors.

October 15, Sunday, 2pm, A City at War:  Concord, NH during World War I, at the Penacook Historical Society, 1834 House, 11 Penacook Street, Penacook, New Hampshire. 

October 15, Sunday, 5:30 - 8:30, After Hours Genealogy Research with Experts and Library Staff, at the Portsmouth Public Library, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Meet up in the Levenson Room for a brief presentation to start, then free time to explore, research, ask questions or go deep on a specific topic.  Call the reference desk to reserve your spot 603-766-1720.  Limit of 40 participants. 

October 17, Tuesday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Dover Public Library, 73 Locust Street, Dover, New Hampshire.  Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 17, Tuesday, 7pm, Songs of Emigration:  Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music, at the Cook Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, Tamworth, New Hampshire.  Presented by musician Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public. 

October 18, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture: Palatable Slavery: Food, Race, and Freedom in the British Atlantic, 1620 – 1838, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by Heather Sanford of Brown University.  Free to the public.  https://www.masshist.org/calendar

October 18, Wedesday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Epsom Public Library, 1606 Dover Road, Epsom, New Hampshire. Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 18, Wednesday, 7pm, Abraham and Mary Lincoln:  The Long and Short of It, at the Medallion Opera House, 20 Park Street, Gorham, New Hampshire. Presented by living historians Steve and Sharon Wood portraying President Lincoln and his First Lady.  Free to the public thanks to a grant from the NH Humanities Council.

October 19, Thursday, 6:30pm, Battlefield Archaeology, at the Old Colony History Museum, 66 Church Green, Taunton, Massachusetts, presented by author Da Sivilich who will trace the history of musket balls and small shot. Free to the public. Refreshments at 6:30 and talk at 7pm.

October 19, Thursday, 6:30pm, Rosie’s Mom:  Forgotten Women of the First World War, at the Brookline Public Library, 16 Main Street, Brookline, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Carrie Brown, and sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 19, Thursday, 7pm, Witch Andover? Which Andover? at Memorial Hall Library, 2 North Main Street, Andover, Massachusetts.  Hosted by the Andover Historical Society and the North Andover Historical Society, in partnership with Memorial Hall Library.  Registration required, free to the public.  Local historian, Char Lyons will explore the history of the witch trials and how they shaped Andover as we know it today. Please register at www.andoverhistorical.org  

October 19, Thursday, 7pm, New Hampshire on High: Historic and Unusual Weathervanes of the Granite State, at the East Andover Grange Hall, 7 Chase Hill Road, East Andover, New Hampshire.  Presented by Glenn Knoblock, and sponsored by the Andover Historical Society and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 19, Thursday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Madison Library (Chick Room), 1895 Village Road, Madison, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 20, Friday, 4pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Barnstead Town Hall, 108 South Barnstead Road, Center Barnstead, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the Oscar Foss Memorial Library and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 21, Saturday, 9am - 2pm, DNA: Who Are You?  Your DNA Results Might Surprise You! , at the Duxbury Senior Center, Duxbury, Massachusetts.  Sponsored by the Duxbury Senior Senior Center Genealogy Club.  Speaker will be genealogist and DNA expert Jennifer Zinck.  $35 including lunch with a Q& A session until 2pm. RSVP 781-934-5774. 

October 21, Saturday, 9:30 - 2:30, New Hampshire Society of Genealogists Fall Meeting, at the Holiday Inn, 172 North Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire.  Guest speaker will be Maureen Taylor "The Photo Detective".  $30 members, $40 non members, continental breakfast, two lectures, business meeting, luncheon, raffle and door prizes.  http://www.nhsog.org/nhsog/mtgs/2017fall.htm   

October 21, Saturday, 2pm, The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost,  at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, presented by Peter Manseau, of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. To reserve a seat please call 617-646-0578 or register online at www.masshist.org/events  

October 22, Sunday, 1pm, Witch Trials Descendants Tour of South Church Cemetery, 41 Central Street, Andover, Massachusetts.  Led by historian Char Lyons who will highlight and discuss the graves of descendants of both accused witches and accusers.  Free to members of the Andover Historical Society, non members $5.  Please register at www.andoverhistorical.org  

October 23 and 30, Mondays, 7pm, Getting More from Ancestry.com, at the Greenwich High School, 10 Hillside Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut.  Fee: $49.  Greenwich Adult and Continuing Education is sponsoring five two part Monday night Genealogy classes taught by TV researcher and genealogist Janeen Bjork this fall.  The class fee includes three daytime bonus labs at the Greenwich Library. See page 11 of the catalog online:  https://www.greenwichace.com/customer-content/www/CMS/files/Fall17catalogws.pdf   

October 23, Monday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture: “Let it be your resolution to be happy”: Women’s Emotion Work in the Early Republic, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by Laura McCoy, Northwestern University. Free to the public. https://www.masshist.org/calendar

October 23, Monday, 2:15pm, Motivating the WWII Home Front via Magazine and Radio Advertising, at the Havenwood Auditorium, 33 Christian Avenue, Concord, New Hampshire.  Presented by Calvin Knickerbocker, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 24, Tuesday, 10am – 11:30am, Genealogy for Beginners, a four part class at the Polish Center of Discovery and Learning, 33 South Street, Chicopee, Massachusetts.  Free to the public.

October 24, Tuesday, 7pm, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience, at the Andover Historical Society, 97 Main Street, Andover, Massachusetts.  Presented by Professor Emerson Baker on his recent book.  Members $10, non-members $15. 

October 24, Tuesday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at Hampstead Public Library, 9 Mary E. Clark Drive, Hampstead, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the  Hampstead Public Library and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 25, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture: Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.  Presented by Nancy Siegel, Towson University.  Free to the public. https://www.masshist.org/calendar

October 25, Wednesday, 6 – 7:30pm, The East Boston Immigration Center Project, at the Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.  Free to the public, presented by Lisa Berenson about the state-of-the-art exhibit hall that will provide the experiences of Jewish, Irish, Italian and other immigrant groups that come through the Port of Boston in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

October 25,  Wednesday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at Daland Memorial Public Library, 5 North Main Street, Mount Vernon, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the Daland Public Library and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 26, Thursday, 7pm, Minutemen Revisited, at the American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts.  A lecture by Robert A. Gross.  Doors open at 6:30, seating is first come, first served.  http://www.americanantiquarian.org/baron-lecture-robert-gross

October 26, Thursday, 6:30pm, New England’s Colonial Meetinghouses and their impact on American Society, at the Hooksett Public Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way, Hooksett, New Hampshire.  Presented by Paul Wainwright, and sponsored by the Hooksett Historical Society.  Free to the public.

October 26, Thursday 7pm, Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories, at the Stephenson Memorial Library, 761 Forest Road, Greenfield, New Hampshire.  This interactive workshop is led by Martha Andrews Donovan and Maura MacNeil.  Free to the public.

October 27, Friday, Fall Meeting of the Genealogical Society of Vermont, 2962 Vermont Route 12A, Braintree, Vermont, see the website for details. http://www.genealogyvermont.org/

October 27, Friday, 7pm, New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones, at the Harvey-Mitchell Memorial Library, 151 Main Street, Epping, New Hampshire.  Presented by Glenn Knoblock.  Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 28, Saturday, 2pm, An American Nurse at War, at the Webster Public Library and Town Hall, 974 Battle Street, Webster, New Hampshire.  A 36 minute film about Marion Rice who spent four years as a nurse in France during WWI.  There will also be presentations about local nurses who served in WWI.  Free to the public. 

October 28, Saturday, 1pm – 3pm, Crossing the Ocean: Researching Family History in the Polish Archives, at the Chicopee Public Library, 449 Front Street, Chicopee, Massachusetts.  Sponsored by the Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts, and presented by Professor Jonathan Shea.  Free to registered participants at http://pgsma.org/index.html

October 28, Saturday, 3pm – 5pm, Open House at the Polish Center of Discovery and Learning, 33 South Street, Chicopee, Massachusetts.  Free to the public. Refreshments, artifacts, photographs, and a genealogical library. 

October 28, Sunday, 5:30 – 7:30pm, 1627 Harvest Dinner with the Pilgrims, at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Enjoy a 17^th century meal, sit with Pilgrims who will answer questions, and be entertained with songs and psalms.  Click here to make a reservation and to pay online: http://www.plimoth.org/calendar#/?i=17 

October 29,  Sunday, 2pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Center Meeting House of Newbury, 927 Route 103 Intersection of Routes 103 & 103A, Newbury, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the Daland Public Library and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 29, Sunday, 3pm, African American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire During the American Revolution, at the Plainfield Town Hall, 1079 Route 12A, Plainfield, New Hampshire.  Presented by Glenn Knoblock, and sponsored by the Plainfield Historical Society.  Free to the public.

October 29, Sunday, 3:30pm, Sleepy Hollow-een Tour, at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 34 Bedford Street, Concord, Massachusetts.   A guided tour through the cemetery with a guide from the Concord Museum.  $10 per person/  $5 members  http://www.concordmuseum.org/calendar.php?&month=10


November 1, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture:  Equal School Rights: Black Girlhood and School Desegregation in Antebellum Massachusetts, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public.  Presented by Kabria Baumgartner, University of New Hampshire. https://www.masshist.org/calendar  

November 12, Sunday 2pm, Honoring Those Who Served:  Recognition of Local World War I Veterans, at the Penacook Historical Society, 1834 House, 11 Penacook Street, Penacook, New Hampshire. 


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "October 2017 Genealogy and Local History Event Calendar", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 28, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/october-2017-genealogy-and-local.html: accessed [access date]).

Weathervane Wednesday ~ Another Shem Drowne Weathervane

Weathervane Wednesday is an on-going series of photographs I post weekly.  I started out by publishing only weather vanes from the Londonderry area, but now I've been finding interesting weather vanes from all over New England.  Sometimes these weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are very unique.  Often, my readers tip me off to some very special and unusual weather vanes.

Today's weather vane is from somewhere in the Boston area.

Do you know the location of weather vane #330?  Scroll down to see the answer...

This is the third weathervane I have featured here at "Weathervane Wednesday" by my distant relative Shem Drowne. You can click on the links below to see his other famous weathervanes on top of Faneuil Hall and the Old North Church.  This weathervane is above the steeple of the First Church in Cambridge, at 11 Garden Street in Harvard Square.  This church is located right on the common and is visible from Massachusetts Avenue.

This gilded weathercock is very typical of other 18th century weathercocks, with the full tail feathers and the glass eye. This weathervane was originally made in 1721 for the New Brick Church on Hanover Street in Boston's North End.  It was bought in 1873 for the First Church in Cambridge. 

The First Church in Cambridge was established sometime in the mid 1630's.  The famous Puritan Rev. Thomas Hooker was the first minister, before he took some of his flock with him to found Hartford, Connecticut.  This stone church is the sixth meetinghouse of the congregation, built in 1872. 

The photo above was sent to me by reader Betty Fredericks.  That's her husband, Robert "Bob" Pacheco, in the photo when he was serving as sexton of the First Church of Cambridge.  During his term as sexton the weathercock was removed for restoration and re-gilding.  You can see in the photo how big the cock is (almost six feet). 

Shem Drowne's grasshopper weathervane over Faneuil Hall:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/06/weathervane-wednesday-genealogical.html

Shem Drowne's weathervane over the Old North Church, Boston:  
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/08/weathervane-wednesday-very-historic.html

The First Church of Cambridge website: http://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/

Click here to see the entire Weathervane Wednesday series of posts!  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Another Shem Drowne Weathervane", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 27, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/weathervane-wednesday-another-shem.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Joseph CLYDE, buried 1858 in Windham, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Cemetery on the Plain in Windham, New Hampshire.

SACRED

To the memory of

JOSEPH CLYDE

Who died

Aug. 16, 1858

AEt. 88

ELIZABETH

his wife died

Dec. 27, 1839

AET. 73

Our glass is run, our days are spent

And we are mouldering in the tomb

To thee O Lord we commit our souls. 

Erected by J. Clyde, Jr.

In memory of his parents

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Transcribed from Genealogical and Family History of the Sate of New Hampshire, Volume 2, page 941

"Joseph (2), youngest child of Colonel Joseph (1) and Margare (Moffit) Clyde, was born in Windham, February 12 1766, and died August 16, 1858, in the eighty seventh year of his age.  He resided on the ancestral farm, about a mile and a half southwest of the meeting house.  He married, March 17, 1797, Elizabeth Wilson, born April 2, 1766, and died December 27, 1839, aged seventy three.  Her parents were Samuel and Elizabeth (Gilmore) Wilson.  The children of this marriage were:  Joseph, Betsey, Gilmore, Samuel Wilson, Hiram and Margaret." 

Joseph Clyde was the grandson of Daniel Clyde, born in Scotland and came through Northern Ireland to Londonderry, New Hampshire about 1732.  He married in Ireland to Esther Rankin, daughter of Hugh Rankin, another Nutfield settler. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Joseph CLYDE, buried 1858 in Windham, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 26, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/tombstone-tuesday-joseph-clyde-buried.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ BEARSE of Cape Cod

BEARSE /  BEARCE /  BIERCE /  BEARS / etc.

My 9^th great grandfather, Augustin (AKA Austin) Bearse (1618 – 1686) arrived on the ship Confidence from Southampton, England on 24 April 1638.  He came to Barnstable on Capt Cod with the first settlers in 1639, and had a twelve acre house lot bounded by John Crocker and Isaac Robinson (another one of my 9^th great grandfathers).  He joined Rev. Lothrop’s church in Barnstable in 1643.  The road from the town of Hyannis to his land was known as “Bearse’s Way”, and is now Bearse Road, near Iannough Road at the Airport Rotary.  He was made a freeman in 1652.

Augustine Bearse’s name is at the head of the list of members of Rev. Lothrop’s church.  His wife was Mary, and they had eleven children, with baptisms all recorded at the Barnstable church on the first Sunday after their birth.  These babies include who was carried 2 miles to church at 2 day old in the cold of January for his baptism.  Apparently he was a very devout Puritan to want to save the souls of his children so promptly.  These are the facts we know about him from primary source material.  He was living in 1686, but dead sometime before 1697. There is no death record for Augustine Bearse.

Most of the compiled genealogy books and local histories of Barnstable written up until the 20^th century repeat these simple facts about Augustine Bearse.  Then another story began to emerge that described Augustine Bearse as a Gypsy, who had to leave England because of his Romany origins, so he came to Massachusetts.  No Puritan woman would marry him, so he married “Mary Hyanno”, the daughter of the sachem Iannough (Hyannis), who was a red headed princess with Viking blood.  Yes, these fantastic details were told and repeated about the Bearse family in several books, journals and online. 

These stories originated with a paper written in the 1930s by Frankin Bearse, also known as Ele-watum, “From Out of the Past – Who Our Forefathers Really Were, A True Narrative of our White and Indian Ancestors” who filed this with the State of Connecticut to obtain benefits as an American Indian.   These claims were based on a diary written by a Zerviah Newcombe, a descendant of Augustine Bearse.

“Austin Bearse and His Alleged Indian Connections”, by Donald Lines Jacobus, The American Genealogist, 1938,  Volume 15, pages 111 - 118  rejects these claims of an Indian marriage, based on the fact that the supposed diary of Zerviah Newcomb has never been examined, and is perhaps false. No record of this diary has ever been found.  Jacobus wrote 8 pages in TAG refuting each detail of the Indian and Gypsy story written by Franklin Bearse.

Even so, the Indian princess story continued to flourish.  You can read about it in books like Bearse-Bears-Barss Family: Genealogy of Augustine Bearse (1618 – 1697) and Princess Mary Hyanno (1625 – 1702) of Barnstable, Massachusetts, by Dale L. Burley, 1979.  This myth of Mary Hyanno, “the flame haired princess of the Wampanoags”, is even repeated in a 2005 book Kindred Spirits: A New World History of the Families of Henry Wickoff Rogers & Grace Dean McLeod, by Geordon Hartt Rogers.   The genealogy of the descendants of Augustine and Mary Bearse is accurate in these books, but the origins of the original immigrant husband and his native wife are lacking in evidence.

However, there is an interesting essay in the NEHGS journal NEXUS, 1985, Volume 2, pages 95 -96, “Keeping an Open Mind” by Rev. Robert J. Good, Jr.  This essay about Austin Bearse and his supposed Wampanoag wife refutes some of the claims made by Jacobus.  “We tend to take the word of those who have rightly earned a position as unassailable as Jacobus’s.  Yet there are mysteries like this one which continue to haunt us and remain unresolved.  They require that we make our own decisions.”  Rev. Good makes several good points about mixed marriages during the 1600s in Massachusetts between the Puritans and the native people.  It was not as improbable as Jacobus imagined. 

I encourage you to read ALL these journal articles, and the primary source material, before making up your own mind.

For more information:

See the books and journal articles mentioned above

“Bearce/Bearse/Bierce Descendants” group on Facebook (where the argument continues!): https://www.facebook.com/groups/303262653109082/

My BEARSE genealogy:

Generation 1:  Augustine Bearse, born about 1618 in England, died about 1686 in Barnstable, Massachusetts; married to Mary Unknown.  Eleven children.

Generation 2:  Sarah Bearse, born 28 March 1646 in Barnstable, died 30 March 1712 in Barnstable; married in August 1667 in Barnstable to John Hamblin, son of James Hamblin and Anne Unknown. He was born 26 June 1644 in Barnstable, and died in 1718 in Barnstable.  Twelve children.

Generation 3:  Benjamin Hamblin m. Hope Huckins

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin m. Jonathan Crosby (removed from Cape Cod  to Nova Scotia)

Generation 5:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson (descendant of Isaac Robinson above)

Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healey m. Matilda Weston (removed from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts)

Generation 8:  Mary Etta Healey m Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BEARSE of Cape Cod”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted  September 23, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-bearse-of-cape-cod.html: accessed [access date]). 

A Visit to Plymouth Plantation

The view from the Fort/Meetinghouse of the 17th Century English Village

Last month we visited Plimoth Plantation with my mother-in-law from Spain. It is always fun to bring visitors from other countries here.  I find that our relatives in Spain are especially interested in the Native American site.  We had a lovely day, not too hot for August, and lots of sunshine.

The wooden Fort/Meetinghouse served both
purposes for the English settlers

Interior of the Standish home

Pilgrim women watching the men drill with muskets

Another hearthside view of a home, note the triangular chairs

Rev. John Lyford was at the colony this day,
giving some controversial opinions on religion (his trial
is set to occur later this month at Plimoth Plantation). 

You can read more about the controversy with Lyford at this link:
http://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/pdf/Religious_Controversies_Plymouth_Colony.pdf

Pottery like this seen in a settler's home
is available for sale in the Artisan Craft Center

Militia drills in the pasture

This lovesick cow would bellow when she saw the
re-enactor playing William Bradford, competing for his attentions.

From the settler's village we traveled to the Wampanoag Homesite...

This winter house is a "nush wetu" and will be replaced with a larger structure later this year

Interior view

Preparing for the new wetu

A native Wampanoag meal of porridge with berries, rabbit soup, and herbal tea

Plimoth Plantation Museum  http://www.plimoth.org/

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Visit to Plymouth Plantation", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 22, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-visit-to-plymouth-plantation.html: accessed [access date]).

Weathervane Wednesday ~ A College Fieldhouse

I post another in a series of weather vane photographs every Wednesday.  This started with images of weathervanes from the Londonderry, New Hampshire area, but now I've found interesting weather vanes all across New England and across the globe.  Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting.  Often my readers tip me off to some very unique or unusual weathervanes, too!  If you know a great weather vane near you, let me know if you'd like to have it featured on this blog.

Today's weather vane was photographed in Massachusetts.

Do you know the location of weathervane post #329?  Scroll down to find the answer.

This weathervane is located on the clock tower above the Dillon Fieldhouse at Harvard University.  The Dillon is home to the offices of the Harvard Football team, as well as locker rooms, offices and storage.  It was built in 1930 on Soldiers Field Road, near Harvard Stadium.

This weathervane is a gilded, swallow-tailed banner, similar to the weathervane on Dunster House.  There are no cardinal points.  The finial is a gold ball.  There are four clocks, one on each side of the clock tower, and a red cupola.

The field house was built with an endowment from Clarence Dillon, Harvard class of 1905, in memory of his son, C. Douglas Dillon, class of 1931, and US Treasury Secretary.

The Dillon Fieldhouse:  http://www.gocrimson.com/information/facilities/dillon_fieldhouse   

Click here to see the entire collection of Weathervane Wednesday posts!

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ A College Fieldhouse", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 20, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/weathervane-wednesday-college-fieldhouse.html: accessed [access date]). 

Woburn, Massachusetts First Burial Ground

I did it again.  I visited an urban cemetery and forgot to call ahead.

FIRST BURIAL GROUND
ESTABLISHED 1642
WOBURN CEMETERY COMMISION

This has happened to me in Nashua, Boston and Hartford, Connecticut - so you would think I had learned my lesson.  But who would have thought of suburban Woburn, Massachusetts as an urban area that locked up their historic burial grounds?  Apparently, now Woburn has taken that step.

This is your warning.

I was tipped off about the new renovations at the First Burial Ground in the Francis Wyman Family Association newsletter that arrived earlier this month.  The front page had a nice color photo of the new monument at the cemetery.  2017 marks the 375th anniversary of the founding of Woburn, and the First Burial Ground was re-dedicated with a survey done by ground penetrating radar, a map, and directory of the burial sites, a new fence and gate.  And a nice big lock!

This new sign has a listing of burials on the front
and a map of the burial sites on the back.
Very handy --- if you can get into the cemetery!

Transcription (partially obscured in photo taken with telescopic lens):

First Burial Ground Gravesite Legend
1642 - 1794

Name                            Date of Death      Map Number
Alexanders, Philip        05/13/1754             544
Baker, Thomas             03/17/1715              491
Baldwin, Loammi        10/20/1807              Obelisk
Barret, John F.              10/14/1903              350
Bateman, William         07/07/1692             492
Blanchard, Jonathan      09/14/1727             545
Blogget, Elizabeth         05/24/1713             429
Bordman, Martha          08/25/1752             360
Brooks, Abigail             08/01/1778             561
Brooks, Benjamin          09/01/1749             570
Brooks, Benjamin          03/01/1749             532
Brook, Benjamin            01/06/1769            557
Brooks, Betty                 07/03/1764            374
Brooks, Elizabeth           06/08/1755            327 & 329
Brooks, Elizabeth           02/12/1756            327 & 329
Brooks, Hannah              04/14/1742            348
Brooks, Hephzibah         01/01/1746            572
Brooks, Isaac                  03/23/1768            316
Brooks, Jabez                 01/30/1747            571
Brooks, Jemima              11/05/1774            547
Brooks, Nathan               01/06/1751            312 & 325
Brooks, Nathan               01/25/1758            310 & 323
Brooks, Nathan               04/24/1774            322
Brooks, Sarah                  02/21/1747           313 & 326
Bruce, Rose                     09/21/1723           440
Burbeen, Joseph              01/08/1713           529
Carter, Abigail                 02/03/1772           370
Carter, Elizabeth              05/06/1691           455
Carter, John Capt.            09/14/1692           454
Carter, John Lt.                04/07/1727           373
Carter, Joseph Johnson    09/15/1775           372
Carter, Margery               09/23/1728           368
Carter, Margery               09/27/1769           367
Carter, Ruth                     01/11/1724           369
Carter, Sibyl                    08/27/1775           371
Carter, Susanna               08/12/1751           510
Carter, Thomas                02/17/1753          509 & 525
Carter, William                10/06/1728          559
Cleveland, Aaron             09/14/1716          436
Coggen, Joseph                09/22/1698          482
Cogin, Henry                   08/21/1697          486
Cogin, Henry                   03/29/1703          488
Cogin, John                     03/16/1693          487
Cogin, John Capt.           02/17/1725          397
Convers, Ann                  08/10/1691          465
Convers, Ebenezer          11/09/1693          466
Convers, Edward             10/28/1691         463
Convers, Edward             07/26/1692         459
Convers, Elizabeth          07/27/1694         464
Convers, James, Major    07/08/1706         460
Convers, James Lt.          05/10/1715         461
Convers, Josiah Capt       07/15/1717         471
Convers, Josias Deacon   02/03/1689-90    475
Convers, Josias                12/30/1693         474
Convers, Pashence           07/23/1707         599
Convers, Timothy            09/14/1693         474
Convers, Esther               11/07/1703         468
Convers, Benjamin          08/19/1729         462
Converse, Ebenezer         09/06/1765         451
Cooper, Anna                  03/09/1713         425
Cotton, Elizabeth            10/12/1742         417
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Cotton, Susanna              08/03/1748         416
Eames, Judith                  01/10/1766         333 & 337
Eames, Nathan                07/21/1773         332
Eames, Samuel Deacon   01/20/1775        334 & 335
Evans, Andrew               12/18/1778         483
Evans, Mary                    08/31/1781        479
Flagg, Ebenezer              07/10/1746        363
Flegg, Eleazer Col.         07/12/1726        399
Flegg, Esther                  09/18/1744         400
Fowl, Dority                   05/28/1704        502
Fowle, Elizabeth            03/04/1699         499
Fowle, Hannah              10/03/1710         500
Fowle, James Lt            12/17/1690         493
Fowle, James Capt.       03/19/1713         364
Fowle II, John               12/08/1856         300
Fowle, Jonathan            11/21/1714         501
Fowle, Susanna             11/11/1767         347
Fox, Ann                       08/05/1746         472
Fox, Jabez Rev.            02/28/1702          457
Fyfeild, Abraham Capt 09/12/1711         405
Gardner, Dorothy          02/11/1787         539
Gardner, Elizabeth        06/03/1703         444
Gardner, Henry             02/20/1713         534 & 535
Gardner, Henry             12/16/1763         537
Gardner, Richard           05/29/1698        437
Giles, John                    06/20/1761        341
Green, Hannah              08/14/1713        560
Hartwell, John                 05/01/1734      423
Hartwell, Joseph Deacon 11/15/1743      432
Hartwell, Priscilla            08/28/1725      435
Hayward, Jonathan Dr.    08/13/1749      309 & 321
Heartwell, Ruhamah        07/11/1756      431
Hill, Isaac Dr.                   01/09/1723     395
Holdin, John Jr.               01/23/1753      408  
Holdin, Mary                  11/21/1749       407
Johnson, Esther               12/27/1707      438
Johnson, Martha              08/25/1716      375
Johnson, Matthew Lt.      07/19/1696      439
Johnson, Sarah                10/14/1710      406
Kendall, Elizabeth           01/10/1741     565
Kendall, Elizabeth          12/11/1787      496
Kendall, John                  10/17/1697     550
Kendall, Samuel Lt.        12/13/1764     495
Lock, Elizabeth               02/23/1720     393 & 394
Lock, Thomas                 11/26/1717     422
Payn, Daniel                   08/21/1712     443
Peirce, Benjamin            11/27/1713     366
Peirce, Hannah               10/23/1755     551
Peirce, Hannah               12/24/1762     552
Peirce, Mary                   11/11/1753     410
Pool, Jonathan                02/08/1755     398
Poole, Eleazer Flegg      03/17/1776     401
Poole, Mary                    03/24/1776    401
Porter, Asahel (non combatant)  04/19/1775   342
Reed, Abigail                  09/09/1719   442
Reed, Abigail                  12/07/1736   379
Reed, Elizabeth               12/09/1747   351
(obscured in photo)
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Richardson, Abigail          10/02/1747   546
Richardson, Abigail          07/23/1768   521
Richardson, Asa               03/17/1752    353
Richardson, Bridget         09/26/1736    426
Richardson, Bridget         07/01/1750    354
Richardson, Daniel          04/20/1749    336 & 558
Richardson, Ebenezer      02/24/1708    428
Richardson, Edmund Dr.  05/30/1761   522
Richardson, Esther           11/10/1727   404
Richardson, Eunice          04/13/1748   528
Richardson, Hannah         09/07/1748   528
Richardson, Ichabod        03/12/1768    553
Richardson, Isaiah           02/16/1723    505
Richardson, James Capt  03/23/1722    396
Richardson, Jerusha        04/10/1782    414
Richardson, John Lt.       01/01/1697    450
Richardson, John            10/29/1749     536
Richardson, Joshua        11/05/1748     562
Richardson, Joshua        03/13/1774     531
Richardson, Lucy          12/92/1741      527
Richardson, Lucy          07/21/1761      520
Richardson, Mary          01/11/1742      413
Richardson, Mary          11/22/1783      358
Richardson, Mathew     02/11/1722      517
Richardson, Noah         06/23/1756      555
Richardson, Noah, Jr.    07/06/1761     514
Richardson, Phebe        04/02/1776     540 & 554
Richardson,  Rebeckah 02/13/1717     519
Richardson,  Rebeckah 04/11/1771     338, 340 & 563
Richardson,  Samuel     04/29/1712     419
Richardson,  Samuel     09/03/1754     391
Richardson, Sarah         12/14/1717     420
Richardson, Sarah         12/09/1767     515
Richardson, Sarah         06/12/1784     411
Richardson, Stephen     09/21/1703     430
Richardson, Stephen     03/20/1717     384
Richardson, Stephen Lt.  07/18/1783  357
Richardson, Stephen     03/06/1787     359
Richardson, Susanna    08/06/1726     392
Richardson, Susanna    10/07/1754     339 & 564
Richardson, Susanna     Footstone      377
Richardson, Tabitha      11/25/1739    480
Richardson, Thomas     02/22/1769    526
Richardson, Thomas    01/12/1774     328
Richardson, Willing     03/14/1704     448
Richardson, Wyman     06/22/1841     361
Russell, Jonathan          06/20/1708     424
Salter, Thomas              08/02/1748     415
Saltonstall, Nathaniel    06/23/1739     418
Sawyer, Joshua              03/01/1738     315
Sawyer, Mary                10/23/1751     497
Simonds, Benjamin       12/24/1783     485
Sims, Mary                    08/09/1717     473
Skinner, Joanna             06/05/1782     530
Snow, Daniel                 07/07/1717     383
(obscured in photo)
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Snow, Timothy              09/20/1775     305 & 317
Snow, Zachariah           09/21/1754     307 & 319
Stone, Abigail               05/11/1718     598
Symmes, Ruth              11/16/1758      470
Symmes, William         05/24/1764     469
Symmes, Zachariah      04/19/1793     467
Tay, Abigail                  09/26/1778     349
Tay, Mary                     05/05/1747     518
Thompson, Abigail       09/21/1768     542
Thompson, Benjamin   11/07/1755     573
Thompson, Daniel        04/19/1775    549
Thompson, Esther        01/03/1761     409
Thompson, Hannah      06/16/1754     489
Thompson, Jonathan    06/09/1752     494
Thompson, Lydia         10/19/1788     543
Thompson, Mary          03/11/1755     490
Thompson, Samuel       05/13/1748    548
Thompson, James Lt    09/04/1693     421
Tomson, Richard          01/07/1719     385
Tyng, Jonathan Colonel  01/19/1723  478
Tyng, Judith                  06/05/1736    458
Tyng, Sarah                  02/28/1713     477
Vinton, Abigail            05/20/1720     381
Walker, Abigail            03/01/1713    386
Walker, Esther              09/23/1761    533
Walker, Judeth              11/14/1724    388
Walker, Mary               10/23/1748     365
Walker, Samuel Deacon   01/18/1703  449
Walker, Timothy          06/19/1706     451
Waters, Mary               12/11/1721     376
Winn, Elizabeth           05/14/1724    390
Winn, Increase             07/01/1713    402
Winn, Sarah                 01/17/1767    352              
Winn, Timothy            01/05/1752    389
Wood, Joseph              12/30/1713    523
Wood, Ruth                 08/02/1736    524
Wright, Abigail           04/06/1726    481
Wright, James             01/06/1735    378
Wright, John               04/30/1714    511
Wright, Josiah Deacon   01/22/1747   504 & 516
Wright, Phoebe           12/07/1724    433
Wright, Rachel            06/21/1750    434
Wright, Ruth               02/18/1717    387
Wyman, Abigail          08/03/1772    343 & 344
Wyman, Benjamin Capt.   05/26/1774   513
Wyman, Elizabeth       01/06/1773    508
Wyman, Elizabeth      08/12/1776     311 & 324
Wyman, Esther           03/31/1742     498
Wyman, Francis         11/28/1699     446
Wyman, Huldah         05/28/1768     330
Wyman, Jesse            11/02/1754     506
Wyman, John             07/09/1721     452
Wyman, Lucy            12/24/1785     538
Wyman, Nathan         02/04/1773     331
Wyman, Phebe           11/24/1750     503
Wyman, Samuel         05/17/1725    403
Wyman, Samuel Ensign    12/18/1743    346
Wyman, Susanna        Footstone       447
Wyman, Susanna        11/24/1752    345

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First Burial Ground

1692 - 1794

This ancient burial ground holds the remains of

Woburn's earliest citizens. They were brave men, women

and children who went into the wilderness looking 

to fulfill their dreams of a new and better life.

They were our founding families, named Johnson,

Richardson, Brooks, Convers, Carter, Peirce, Reed

and Wyman. These ministers, soldiers, farmers, doctors

and statesmen established a strong and vibrant town.

Among the distinguished death that are interred here

are the ancestors of eight United States Presidents,

military leader Loammi Baldwin, and

Daniel Thompson, the first Woburn soldier killed

in the Revolutionary War.

We honor their determination and courage.

May it always be remembered by future generations.

The First Burial Ground is on the National Historic Register

Dedicated on the 375th Anniversary of Woburn

May 29th, 2017

Mayor Scott D. Galvin

Woburn Cemetery Commission

Alfred Autenzio     John M. Sawyer     Christopher Kisiel

Joseph McDunough    Catherine B. Shaunessy

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The First Burial Ground of Woburn is located on Park Street, behind the Baptist Church on the town common.  To make arrangements for the gate to be unlocked call the Woburn Cemetery Commission during business hours, Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm, at (781) 937-8297.  No weekend hours.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Woburn, Massachusetts First Burial Ground", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 19, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/woburn-massachusetts-first-burial-ground.html: accessed [access date]).