A Peek Into My Office (My Mini Christmas Tree)

This is the first year I've put a little Christmas tree in my office.  I decorated it with my collection of little miniature books.  These books are tiny Christmas ornaments my husband gave me back when we were first married. He gave me one or two a year until suddenly one year in they were no longer available.  Although we have searched, we never found these little books in the Christmas shops again.

Most of these tiny books have a Christmas theme.  Most have a tiny sewn-in ribbon book marker, and a gilt thread for hanging them on the tree.  Some have gilt edged pages and faux leather covers. Some are popular books for the time period (remember the extremely popular Gnomes books in the 1970s and 1980s?).  My tiny Gnome book has a paper cover and illustrated pages.  Only two of the books are comic books (mini graphic novels?), including a reproduction of the 1940s Mickey Mouse magazine in miniature. The books range from about 10 pages to 20 pages.  In all there are 18 little books, and they usually hang on our big tree in the living room, but I think they look fun all together on this little Christmas tree in the library!

Do you have a special collection of ornaments on your Christmas tree?  Isn't half the fun of collecting, the hunt? I'll continue to search for more of these little books, but I haven't been very successful in the last 15 years.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Peek into My Office (My Mini Christmas Tree)", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 13, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-peek-into-my-office-my-mini-christmas.html: accessed [access date]).

Weathervane Wednesday ~ Another London Weathervane

I post 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 England.

Do you know the location of weathervane post #393?  Scroll down to find the answer.

Last week I featured the weathervane atop St. Clement Danes church on the Strand in London.  Just down the street from St. Clement Danes we saw this weathervane atop St. Mary Le Strand, which is also in the middle of the street.  

The church building for St. Mary Le Strand was consecrated in 1723.  When the Strand was widened in the 20th century, this building was almost demolished.  Like St. Clement Danes, it was also damaged during the Blitz in World War II, but it escaped the extensive damage of the other church.  

This gilded weathervane is supposed to depict a comet.  But I couldn't find any explanation why the comet was associated with this church.  According to one source it was a reference to the coming of Jesus Christ - as some people believe the star of Bethlehem may have been a comet. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Another London Weathervane", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 12, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/weathervane-wednesday-another-london.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ SHEPHERD family of Manchester, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Valley Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire.

WILLIAM SHEPHERD

1796 - 1883

MARY DOAK

1800 - 1884

HIS WIFE

THEIR CHILDREN

JAMES E. SHEPHERD

1841 - 1845

JOSEPH L. SHEPHERD

1843 - 1851

SAMUEL H. SHEPHERD

1830 - 1870

THIS LOT HAS PAID PERPETUAL CARE

Although the epitaph on this tombstone states "perpetual care", without the care of volunteers this family plot seems to be receiving no care at all.  If you see the photo below above, this stone was languishing in a jungle of vegetation.  Smaller stones nearby were completely covered.  Please look at this stone at the Find a Grave website to see how it used to look when the city of Manchester took pride in this cemetery:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75651100/mary-shepherd    

The Shepherd stone is near the bottom of the stairs (yes, there are stairs under the vegetation!) behind the Hildreth memorial stone, which was featured last week for Tombstone Tuesday.

The other side of this stone (no photo) reads:

BENJAMIN E. THOMPSON

1835 - 1922

SARAH E. SHEPHERD

1836 - 1911

HIS WIFE

THEIR CHILD

EDWIN THOMPSON

1873- 1875

William Shepherd was born on 7 June 1796 in Dedham, Massachusetts and died 28 August 1883 in Manchester, New Hampshire.  He was the son of John Shepherd and Sally Fairbanks.

Mary Doak was born 18 September 1800 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and died 17 December 1884.  She was the daughter of “R. Doak” of Marblehead according to her death record in the New Hampshire vital records.  Although there were many DOAK/DOAKE/DOKE records in the Marblehead published vital records, there was no one with a first name beginning with the letter R. 

William Shepherd and Mary Doak were married on 18 December 1825 in Boston, Massachusetts.  They had eight children:  William F, Charles Henry, George Franklin, John B., Hannah M, Sarah E, Maria Louisa, Samuel R., and Joseph L. Shepherd.  Four of the children (Samuel, Sarah, James and Joseph) are listed on this tombstone. The rear of the stone reads “ERECTED BY Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Thompson and Mrs. A. H. Bixby 1907”

From the website Yodelout! Travel  

http://travel.yodelout.com/nineteenth-century-hotels-in-the-united-states/

“In Manchester, New Hampshire, is an old hotel which has borne several names and finally was removed bodily and joined to another hotel. Recently the house was purchased, refitted and renamed, being now called the Rice Varick Hotel. For many years after it was originally built, in 1840, the place was called Shepherd’s Tavern, from the landlord, William Shepherd, who leased it from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, which built the house, having just sold off by auction a number of building lots in the town. The house prospered, and in 1851 was much enlarged. Not long afterwards Shepherd purchased the property, which later was named the Manchester House. Situated so remotely from the great centres of things, the old hotel was nevertheless favored with guests whose names were house-hold words throughout the nation. President Lincoln, President Pierce, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, General Winfield Scott, General Benjamin F. Butler, Theodore Parker, Daniel Webster and Stephen A. Douglass were among those who stopped at Shepherd’s Tavern. When the hotel building was moved a few years ago and incorporated with the New Manchester House, its old names were discarded, and it was known by the name of the latter. Its historical significance is entirely confined to the nineteenth century.”

According to the Find A Grave website for this tombstone, “Also in this family lot are two of his employees/or individuals that lived in the hotel. Hepsabeth Dudley who was 60 in 1850 but doesn't have an occupation listed for her and Susan Robbins who was buried in this lot after his death. She is also listed in the 1850 census, but in 1903 she was working at another hotel when she died. Should there be a blood relationship, this writer could not locate it and would appreciate it if someone could contact me if they know of one.” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75651084/william-shepherd  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ SHEPHERD family of Manchester, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 11, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/tombstone-tuesday-shepherd-family-of.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ PICKWORTH of Plymouth and Manchester, Massachusetts

PICKWORTH / PECKWORTH / PIKWORTH / PICKWORD

My 10^th great grandfather, John Pickworth (about 1606 – 1663) arrived in New England about 1631, and lived briefly in Plymouth before settling in Salem, Massachusetts.  He eventually lived in that part of Salem known as “Jeffrie’s Creek” which is now the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.  On 6 February 1631/2 [Winthrop Papers, 1498 – 1654, Volume 3, page 65] the Governor of Plymouth, William Bradford, wrote to John Winthrop, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, that  “John Pickworth, he came but as a sojourner to work for a few weeks, in which time he got a wife, and so is long since returned double, and hath no cause to complain, except he hath got a bad wife”.  There is no description of why the Governor thought Pickworth’s wife was “bad”.  She is known in records as Anne, but her maiden name is a mystery.

John Pickworth was a very active citizen of Manchester.  He was elected to several town positions, including selectman and constable.  He owned many parcels of land, and a share of the town sawmill.  He was also in court a few times, and the records show him being fined for drunkenness, and for fighting with John Norman (also my 9^th great grandfather from Manchester, Massachusetts).  He was a member of the church in Salem, and had eight of his nine children baptized there.

John Pickworth died in 1663, and he left a will which names his wife, sons, and daughters.  The inventory of his estate included his land, house, meadows, and his share of the sawmill.  His wife died in 1682, named as “the widow Ane Pickworth Of Manchester” who left items to her daughters and to granddaughters “Ane Pickworth” (daughter of son Joseph), “Ane Killem” (daughter of John Kilham), and “Ane Sibblie” (daughter of her daughter Rachel Sibley).  All three granddaughters who were listed in the will were all named Anne. 

I descend from John and Anne’s daughter, Ruth Pickworth (1633 – 1716) who married Nathaniel Masters about 1653 and had seven children.  Her husband was presented at court in Salem for “his wife being with child by him before they were married, the act having been committed in Pequott Harbor.”  The case was sent to Connecticut for trial (Pequot Harbor is the mouth of the Pequot River (now the Thames River and the city of Groton, Connecticut).  I have not seen a record of the trial in Connecticut.

Some PICKWORTH resources:

For this blog post I used the sketch about John Pickworth in The Great Migration Begins, Volume III, pages 1462 – 1464.  I also researched in the Essex Quarterly Court records, the Winthrop Papers (see above), the Salem Town Records, and the book History of Manchester, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1645 – 1895 by Rev. Darius Francis Lamson, 1895.  See Alicia Crane Williams’ blog post “Human Nature Writ Large” at the Vita Brevis blog of NEHGS 2 January 2014 for another account of John Pickworth’s brawl with John Norman https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2014/01/human-nature-writ-large/   

My PICKWORTH genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Pickworth, born about 1606 probably in England, and died between 27 June 1663 and 25 August 1663 in Manchester, Massachusetts; married about 1631 to Anne Unknown.  Nine children.

Generation 2:  Ruth Pickworth, baptized in Salem, Massachusetts on 14 October 1638, died on 5 April 1716; married about 1653 to Nathaniel Masters, son of John Masters and Joan Unknown.  He was born about 1613 and died 1 July 1708 in Manchester.  Seven children.

Generation 3: Lydia Masters m. Josiah Littlefield

Generation 4: Anna Littlefield m. Jacob Perkins

Generation 5: Stephen Perkins m. Comfort Chesley

Generation 6: Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ PICKWORTH of Plymouth and Manchester, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 8, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-pickworth-of-plymouth.html: accessed [access date]). 

Was your ancestor a Scottish Prisoner of War from the Battle of Dunbar?

During the English Civil War the Scots were on the side of the monarchy, and fought against the Puritans.  At the Battle of Dunbar on 3 September 1650 hundreds of Scots prisoners of war were marched to Durham and imprisoned in the cathedral.  150 of these prisoners were sent on the ship Unity to the Massachusetts Bay Colony as indentured servants.   Exactly one year later, on 3 September 1651 at the Battle of Worcester, several hundred more Scots were taken prisoner, and 272 were sent to Massachusetts on the ship John and Sara.   There was a passenger list of the men sent from Worcester, and a recreated passenger list of 180 suggested names from the battle of Dunbar.

Was your ancestor a Scot living in New England at this time period?  Is his name on one of these lists?

Next fall the Battle of Dunbar will be re-created and commemorated in Dunbar, East Lothian Scotland. The flyer above has been circulating on social media, and more information will be announced soon.  At the SPOW (Scottish Prisoners of War) Facebook group, many descendants are planning to attend the events in Scotland.

Are you one of the descendants who might be attending?



For the truly curious:

The Scottish Prisoners of War Society -   https://scottishprisonersofwar.com/ 

An alphabetized list of the Dunbar Prisoners:    https://scottishprisonersofwar.com/battle_of_dunbar_pows_america/

An alphabetized list of the Worcester Prisoners:
  https://scottishprisonersofwar.com/battle_of_wor_pows_in_america/ 

Durham University: Scottish Soldiers Project:     https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/europe/pg-skeletons/ 


Some other blog posts I have published on this subject:

September 2015 - The Discovery of the Scots Prisoners of War graves in Durham, England:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/09/discovery-of-scots-prisoners-of-war-at.html 

October 2016 - University of Durham Team visits Descendants in Saugus, Massachusetts
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/university-of-durham-team-is-reaching.html 

August 2011 - The Ship John and Sara Prisoners of War 1651
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/08/ship-john-and-sara-prisoners-of-war.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Was your ancestor a Scottish Prisoner of War from the Battle of Dunbar?", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 6, 2018 ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/was-your-ancestor-scottish-prisoner-of.html: accessed [access date]).

Weathervane Wednesday ~ Seen in London, England

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 England.

Do you know the location of weathervane post #392?  Scroll down to find the answer.

Last year we toured England as part of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants Historic Sites trip, and we arrived in London a few days early to explore.  On the day we visited the Temple Church we walked along the Strand towards Trafalgar Square.  We passed by this lovely weathervane on top of the steeple of the St. Clement Danes Church, which sits in the middle of the road.

This church was originally built on this spot in the 800s by the Danes, rebuilt by William the Conqueror, and the present day building was erected by Sir Christopher Wren in the 1680s.  During the Blitz this building was badly damaged and burned, and in 1958 it was rebuilt as the Royal Air Force Chapel. The steeple survived the Blitz, but I don't know if this weathervane is original.  St. Clement was martyred by being chained to an iron anchor which was tossed overboard.  Now St. Clement is the patron saint of blacksmiths. 

Did you ever sing the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"?  The words go "Oranges and Lemons sing the bells of St. Clement's".  We waited a few minutes and heard the bells, and they did sound like the words of the rhyme! 

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Seen in London, England", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 5, 2018, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/weathervane-wednesday-seen-in-london.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Hildreth mother and son, Manchester, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Valley Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire

HILDRETH

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HARRIETT GILBERT HILDRETH

1841 - 1919

FREDERICK HILDRETH

1865 - 1883

Harriett F. Gilbert was born in 1841, the daughter of Zebedee C. Gilbert and Harriett N. Plummer.  Zebedee Gilbert was born in 1817 and died on 24 January 1853 in Goffstown, and he was listed in many Manchester government and city references online, as well as in the 4th company of the 9th regiment of the N.H. state militia.  He married Harriett Plummer on 28 May 1840 in Goffstown.  She was the daughter of John Plummer and Mary McFerson, born 1817 in Goffstown and died 9 April 1854.  

On 1 June 1864 in Cambridge, Massachusetts "Hattie" F. Gilbert married Charles W. Hildreth, son of  James and Azubah Hildreth.  Charles was born in Haverstraw, New York about 1841.  Charles and Harriett had a son Frederick, born in Washington DC and died 25 April 1883 in Manchester.  He was only 18 years old and he died of spinal meningitis. 

This tombstone is located at Valley Cemetery, near the stairs down to the lower part of the cemetery, on a very steep slope.  It is plot 1153.  When we photographed this area, it was full of undergrowth that had not been trimmed back in a very long time, and many tombstones were obscured.  If you compare this to the photos at the Find A Grave website, you will see how they used to look when the city took good care of this cemetery.  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51122091/harriett-hildreth   

This is how the area looks now...

Click here for a previous blog post on the volunteer efforts to spruce up Valley Cemetery:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/historic-valley-cemetery-manchester-new.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Hildreth mother and son, Manchester, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 4, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/tombstone-tuesday-hildreth-mother-and.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ ROPER of Hampton, New Hampshire and Ipswich, Massachusetts

An early map of Hampton, New Hampshire

ROPER

This is a new blog post on my 10th great grandfather, Walter Roper (1614 - 1680), an early settler at Hampton, New Hampshire and Ipswich, Massachusetts.  Walter Roper’s origins are unknown.  He was born about 1614 and he was a carpenter.  He was given a grant of land in Hampton, New Hampshire in June 1640 [Documents and Records relating to the Province of New Hampshire Volume 1, page 152].  In 1642 he became a freeman in Hampton, and served as a selectman in 1644.  Sometime in the 1640s he removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts. 

The will of Walter Roper, dated 15 July 1680 and proven 28 September 1680

In the name of god amen, I Walter Roper of Ipswich in Newengland being at this present time of perfit understanding & memory though weake in body comiting my soull into the hands of almighty god & my body to deasent buriall in hope of Resorection to eternal life by the power & merit of Jesus Christ, my most mersyfulle savior & redemer, doe thus dispos of the temporal estate that god hath graciasly given me.

Imprimis I give to Susan my wiffe the bed she layeth on with all that belongeth too it, with liberty to dispose of it as she pleaseth amongst my Children at her death; my will is that my sonn John shall maintaine my wiffe Conveniantly Comfortable in diet & Clothis;

& also that my wiffe shall have haife the fruit of my orchard, & also the use of the roome she now lodgeth in which is the parlor, & also the use of the rest of the rooms of the hous that I leave to my sonn John for her nesesary ocations, & if it shall faale out that my wiff doth not like her waye of living, then my will is that my wiffe shall have the use of my household goods, alonge with my sonn John; & allso my sonn John Shall maintaine her one Cow & four sheep, winter & somer, & if any one of th¹¹¹ miscary, he to put another in the roome of it; also to Kepe her one hogg yearly & also to find her nessesary firewood and a horse for her necessary use, & also paye to her therre pounds a yeare, one haife in wheet & mault, the other half in Indian corn, all marchantable, all which she shall injoye so longe as she shall remaine a widdo;

also if my wiffe shall marrye, my sonn John shall paye to my widdo fouer pounds a year, and be freed from all the particulars above expressed. I give to my sonn Nath^### [Nathaniel] four accers of marsh I bought of Nehemiah Jewet or twenty pounds in Currant pay® after my wiffes desseas, also half my Carpenters tooles at my desseas, also eight pounds, foure pounds of it to be p^### within one year after my wiffs desseas, & foure pounds foure years after my wiffes deseas. I give to my dafter Mary five pounds to be p^### one half within one yeare after my wiffes decceas, & the other haife foure years after my wiffes decceas. I give to my dafter Elizabeth five pounds to be p^### one haife one year after my wiffes decceas, & the other haife foure years after my wiffes decceas. I give to my dafter Sarah tenn pounds to be pd one haife one yeare after my wiffes decceas, & the other haife fourer years after my wiffes decceas. I give to my grandchild Elizabeth Sparks five pounds to be p^### at the age of twenty one years. I give grandchildren Susan, Margarit, Rose & Sarah Sparks twenty shillings a pecce to be p^### at the age of twenty one years.

I give my grandchild John Sparks forty shilings to be pd at the age of twenty one years.

I give my grandchild John Duch [Dutch] forty shilings to be pd at the age of twenty one years; & also to my grandchildren Elizabeth & Susan Duch [Dutch] twenty shilings apecce to be p° at the age of twenty one years.

I do apoint my loving trends John Deneson, Senr. , John Brewer, Senr. , & John Whipple, Senr. of Ipswich the overseers of this my last will & testament & I doe hereby give them power to determin any differancs that maye arise betwen my executor & any of the Legatates aforesaid abought the payments afores^###. I doe ordaine & appoint my Sonn John Roper my sole executor of this my last will & testement, to whome I give all the rest of my estate, both houses, lands & Cattle, goods of alsorts, & depts from whomsoever due unto him [&] his heyers forever. In Confirmation whereof I have heruntoe sett my hand & sealle this fivetenth of July 1680 in pressents of us This will proved in court at Ipswich the 28 of Sept 1680. To be the last will & testament of Walter Roper by the oath of Capt John Whipple & John Denison to the best [of] there knowledge and that he was of a disposeing mynd, as attest 

Robert Lord clerk

[From the Sparks Family Association website http://www.sparksfamilyassn.org/pages/164-A.html  Essex County Probate 24143]

For more information on Walter Roper:

There is no sketch of Walter Roper in the Great Migration series.  There are very brief sketches of Walter Roper listed in Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary of New England and Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700.  There is also a sketch of him Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, by Walter Goodwin Davis, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996, Volume III, pages 239 – 241.  There are several land transactions and lawsuits concerning Walter Roper in the Essex Quarterly Court record.  Don't forget that Hampton, New Hampshire was part of Old Norfolk County, Massachusetts at this time period, there are several records of Walter Roper in the Old Norfolk County records, too. 

My ROPER lineage:

Generation 1: Walter Roper, born about 1614 in England, died between 15 July and 28 September 1680 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married to Susan Unknown. Six children.

Generation 2: Mary Roper, baptized on 22 August 1641 in Hampton, New Hampshire, died in 1712 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married John Sparks. He was born about 1630 and died before March 1704 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Eight children.

Generation 3: Elizabeth Sparks m. Jacob Perkins

Lineage A:

Generation 4: Elizabeth Perkins m. David Burnham

Lineage A1:

Generation 5: David Burnham m. Elizabeth Marshall

Generation 6: Amos Burnham m. Sarah Giddings

Generation 7: Judith Burnham m. Joseph Allen

Generation 8: Joseph Allen m. Orpha Andrews

Generation 9: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 10: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage A2:

Generation 5: Westley Burnham m. Deborah Story

Lineage A2a:

Generation 6: Westley Burnham m. Molly Woodbury

Lineage A2ai:

Generation 7: Asa Burnham m. Polly Bray

Generation 8: Lydia W. Burnham m. Samuel Mears

Generation 9: Samuel Mears m. Sarah Ann Burnham

Generation 10: Sarah Burnham Mears m. Joseph Gilman Allen (see above)

Lineage A2aii:

Generation 7: Henry Burnham m. Sally Poland

Generation 8: Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears

Generation 9: Sarah Burnham Mears m. Joseph Gilman Allen (see above)

Lineage A2b:

Generation 6: Sarah Burnham m. Abner Poland

Generation 7: Sally Poland m. Henry Burnham (see above)

Lineage B:

Generation 4:  Jacob Perkins m. Anna Littlefield

Generation 5:   Stephen Perkins m. Comfort Chesley

Generation 6:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 7:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katherine Emerson

Generation 10:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ ROPER of Hampton, New Hampshire and Ipswich, Massachusetts”,  Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 1, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/surname-saturday-roper-of-hampton-new.html: accessed [access date]).