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Monday, January 7, 2019

Christmas Books from Santa 2018

Santa was very good to me this year!  Again!  My Santa has developed a very good relationship with NEHGS’s bookstore, and with several used book shops. I hope you enjoy peeking at the books under my Christmas Tree, and if you scroll down to the bottom of this post you can find links to my previous "Christmas Books from Santa" posts in previous years.



Puritan Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England, by Robert Charles Anderson, 2018.  This is just a piece of paper, but it represents the newest book coming soon from the author of The Great Migration project.  All colonial New England genealogists have been waiting for this one, and I’ve looked forward to it ever since visiting England last year with the GSMD Historic Sites tour.  I balked at the price when I saw it in the NEHGS catalog, but Santa was very generous! 



The Illustrated Story of How Mayflower II Was Built, by Stuart A. Upham, the Builder, 2018.



The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America, by Rebecca Fraser, 2017

These two books above remind me of a lecture I heard years ago by the author and researcher Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, who said that there were “never enough Mayflower books”.  Isn’t it true?  There are so many books about our Pilgrim ancestors, and new ones come up all the time. I like to check them all out. The Mayflower II book was from the Plimoth Plantation bookshop (look online at https://www.plimoth.com/collections/books-media-1 )  It’s a small 64 page paperback, loaded with vintage and new photos. It’s a new edition of what the original English builder, Stuart Upham, wrote in the 1950s.  Rebecca Fraser’s book is one that I have heard mentioned at many Mayflower meetings, on social media, and from Mayflower cousins. Now I can read it for myself.




Robert Dinsmoor’s Scotch-Irish Poems, with an introduction by Frank Ferguson and Alister McReynolds, 2012

I wrote about this book six years ago, but never had the chance to have my own copy because initially it was only available in the United Kingdom!  Believe it or not.  Robert Dinsmoor (1757 – 1836) “The Rustic Bard” was the son Scots Irish immigrants to Windham, New Hampshire (part of the Nutfield grant of land).  He was quite famous in early America, and inspired other New England poets like John Greenleaf Whittier.  This is a new edition of his collected works. You can read more about Dinsmoor at my blog at these several blog posts: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/search?q=robert+dinsmoor   



Leonard Weeks, of Greenland, N.H., and Descendants 1639 – 1888, by Jacob Chapman, 2018 facsimile of the original book.

I just wrote up my Surname Saturday post on the WEEKS family in November 2018 ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-weeks-of-greenland-new.html ) and I used a copy of this book.  Now I have my own copy for future reference, and for when I visit the WEEKS house in Greenland, New Hampshire sometime in the summer of 2019!



The Descendants of Henry Sewall 1676 – 1656 of Manchester and Coventry England & Newbury and Rowley, Massachusetts: The Family in England and the First Six Generations in North America, by Eben W. Graves, 2007

Like the WEEKS family, I just recently found I was a SEWALL descendant, too.  I plan on using this book for lots of look-ups and research this year! This is volume 1 of a two volume set. 



A Place Beyond Courage, by Elizabeth Chadwick, 2007

The author Elizabeth Chadwick has published several novels about the Knight Templar, William Marshall, who is also my ancestor.  I learned about these books from a comment someone made on my blog post about my visit to the Temple Church in London.  Although this book’s cover looks like a real “bodice ripper” romance novel, these historical fiction books are fun to read!  I can’t wait to read this one. It’s extremely interesting to find an ancestor as a main character in a series of fiction books.

You can read all about my ancestor William Marshall, the Knight Templar and my visit to see his effigy at the Temple Church in London at this link: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/tombstone-tuesday-knight-templar-and.html  



A subscription renewal to The Mayflower Descendant, the journal from the Massachusetts Mayflower Society.  You can subscribe to this journal through the NEHGS bookstore.

Christmas Books 2017

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Christmas Books from Santa 2018", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 7, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/01/christmas-books-from-santa-2018.html:  accessed [access date]).

5 comments:

  1. You had a very generous Santa this year. I've order Puritan Pedigrees and can't wait to read it.

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    1. Just two minutes ago I received the email that my book had shipped from NEHGS! Yahoo!

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  2. Thanks Heather, more books to order!! I recently found that William Marshall was also my ancestor. Yet another cousin connection.

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  3. My latest library addition is "Marooned - Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of American's Origin" by Joseph Kelly. He has some interesting theories about how what happened with Stephen Hopkins on Bermuda impacted the the Mayflower Compact. As a Hopkins descendant I am always curious to learn more.

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