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
Christmas Books 2016:
Christmas Books 2015:
Christmas Books 2014:
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Christmas Books from Santa
2018", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 7, 2019, (
Mind blowing post
ReplyDeleteYou had a very generous Santa this year. I've order Puritan Pedigrees and can't wait to read it.
ReplyDeleteJust two minutes ago I received the email that my book had shipped from NEHGS! Yahoo!
DeleteThanks Heather, more books to order!! I recently found that William Marshall was also my ancestor. Yet another cousin connection.
ReplyDeleteMy 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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