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Monday, March 29, 2021

Horace Seaver, Boston News Editor ( 1810 - 1889)

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In my last blog post about the Boston Freethinkers and The Boston Investigator newspaper, I noted how my ancestor, Romanus Emerson (1782 -...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Was your ancestor a Freethinker?

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The Boston Investigator Truth, Perseverance, Union, Justice - The Means.  Happiness - The End.  Hear All Sides - then decide. Devoted to the...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Circa 1930s, Spain - Photo Friday

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  Souvenir from the Barracks of Bearzun (Navarra) Maria Josefa My mother-in-law was born just before the Spanish Civil War, while her father...
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Monday, March 15, 2021

Do you know the roots of Margaret (Welch) Locke (about 1796 – 1860)?

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  MARGARET wife of RICHARD LOCKE DIED March 1, 1860 Age 64 [poem illegible] Most of my “Brick Wall Ancestors” are females, usually unknown w...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

The Peabody Essex Museum's Special Exhibit on the Salem Witch Trials 1692

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  Last week Vincent and I carefully planned our first museum visit in almost a year.  The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts had t...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Accident Prone? Aaron B. Wilkinson (1827 – 1897) of Portland, Maine

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  Aaron B. Wilkinson was born about 1827 in Madbury, New Hampshire, the son of Rufus Wilkinson (1800 – 1868) and his wife Catherine Bunker. ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

The Obituary of Jemima (Burnham) Emerson, 1868 - The Christian Wife of an Infidel

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The Col. Joshua Burnham Tavern, photo 2001 where Jemima Burnham grew up, Milford, New Hampshire My 4th great grandmother was born as Jemima ...
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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Romanus Emerson's Self Written Eulogy 1852

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As I wrote in my blog post last week, my 4th great grandfather, Romanus Emerson (1782 - 1852) wrote his own funeral eulogy, with instruction...
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