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Merry Christmas! Lobster Pot Christmas Trees

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Here is a selection of Lobster Pot Christmas Trees from all over New England and Canada...

Cape Porpoise, Maine

Chilmark, Massachusetts
Photo by Laurie Conn

Gloucester, Massachusetts Menorah
Temple Ahavat Achim

Marblehead, Massachusetts

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Portland, Maine

Provincetown, Massachusetts

Rockland, Maine

York, Maine
Stonewall Kitchen store and restaurant
Photo by Sharon Gillis

York, Maine

Barrington, Nova Scotia

The Flying Santa- Edward Rowe Snow

Many years ago I saw a TV newscast about the work of Edward Rowe Snow and the Flying Santa program in New England. It was a service provided by Wiggins Airways, and every time I pass by the Manchester Airport and see the Wiggins sign, I think of the Flying Santas – even in the heat of summer!

Since colonial times the New England lighthouses were manned by families. In 1929 William Wincapaw started a tradition of dropping presents from Santa from planes to children of lighthouse keepers. In the footage I saw on the television special, most of these lighthouses were on isolated islands or other inaccessible points of land. Over the years the program was expanded to more lighthouses and Coast Guard stations. Edward Rowe Snow participated in the program for more than forty years as a pilot.  He paid for the gifts – a toy, a candy cane, and a copy of his latest book – out of his own pocket.

Edward Rowe Snow is a familiar name to New England Yankees. He attended Harvard, and studied under historian Samuel Eliot Morrison, who was a maritime expert. Snow wrote over 100 books on the maritime history of New England, with subjects as wide as pirates and ship wrecks. There is a boat named for him plying the waters of Boston Harbor, and providing ferry service to George’s Island and the state parks. He was a driving force behind saving Fort Warren, on George’s Island as part of the state park system. He led ghost story tours of the Civil War fort, and used to tell the story of the “Lady in Black”, which I think of every time we are in the dark tunnels there!

Snow served as a Flying Santa from 1936 to 1980, and some years he brought his little girl, Dolly, along for the rides to help drop the packages to the children waiting below. She loved to see the faces of the island children when her father buzzed the lighthouses. When a memorial to Snow was established in 2000, a granite marker was placed at the pavilion for tourists on George’s Island, and the plaque reads “Author, historian, and ‘Flying Santa’ to lighthouse keepers, Edward Rowe Snow was the president of the Society for the Preservation of Fort Warren and led the fight to preserve the fort as a public park. The presence of Edward and his wife, Anna-Myrle, will always be felt on George’s Island.” Dolly Snow Bicknell, his daughter, was part of the memorial committee.

At the dedication of the memorial marker Seamond Ponsart Roberts read a letter about how when she was little, Snow dropped a gift from Santa on Cuttyhunk Island, where her father was lighthouse keeper. Inside the package, the doll broke during the fall from the plane. The next year Snow personally rented a helicopter and directly handed her a new doll. She wrote, “He is my Flying Santa, a man I’ll love forever. I know this because I know he cared very much for people and gave of himself. I hope this will be a big part of what people remember him for when they see this monument to Edward Rowe Snow.”

Eventually, lighthouses became automated and children were no longer living on the isolated islands off New England. Now helicopters provide the flights as a tradition to Coast Guard stations as a gift of thanks for the work performed by these brave men and women. Edward Rowe Snow’s tradition is still alive, and being carried on by George Morgan and the Friends of the Flying Santa.

I learned about Edward Rowe Snow because I had a Civil War ancestor who served six months as a guard at Fort Warren on George’s Island, when it was a prisoner of war camp. We enjoyed several Civil War reenactments and encampments on George’s Island, and my daughter (she is now 32 years old!) used to love exploring the tunnels of Fort Warren and searching for the Lady in Black when she was little. Only later did I find out that one of my favorite historians was also the “Flying Santa!”

Also, when you visit the Boston Harbor islands, you are onboard a ferry named "The Edward Rowe Snow"!  Look for this ferry which is usually moored near the New England Aquarium at Long Wharf when it isn’t out in the harbor.

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A Mayflower Lineage:                 

Gen 1: Nicholas Snow, born 25 January 1598 in England, died 15 November 1676; married to Constance Hopkins, daughter of Mayflower Passenger Stephen Hopkins and Constance Dudley, born before 11 May 1606 and died October 1677.

Gen 2: John Snow, born about 1638 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, died 1692 in Eastham, Massachusetts; married 19 September 1667 to Mary Smalley, born 1647.

Gen. 3: John Snow, born 3 May 1678; married to Elizabeth Ridley

Gen 4: Isaac Snow, born 11 February 1713/4 in Eastham, died 15 February 1799; married to Apphia Atwood

Gen 5: Reverend Elisha Snow, born 26 March 1739, died 30 January 1832; married on 6 December 1759 at Cape Elizabeth, Maine to Betsey Jordan.

Gen. 6: Elisha Snow, born 29 May 1769, died 20 January 1843;  married Nancy McKown as his second wife.

Gen. 7: Larkin Snow, born 27 September 1799 in Maine, died on 19 October 1861; married Alice Small

Gen. 8: George L. Snow, born in 1828 in Rockland, Maine, died 1891 in Rockland; married to Lucy Ann Snow (also descended from Nicolas Snow, common line through Isaac Snow (above), she descended from Elisha's (1739 -1832) brother Robert- so they were 2nd cousins).

Gen. 9. Edward Sumpter Snow, born 26 April 1861 in Rockland, Maine  and Alice Rowe

Gen. 9: Edward Rowe Snow, born 22 August 1902 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, died 10 April 1982; married on 8 July 1932 to Anna-Myrl Haegg. One daughter, Dorothy (Dolly) Caroline Snow. He is buried in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts and his grave can be seen at www.findagrave.com #7295384 Snow’s gravestone is beautifully engraved with a lighthouse!  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7295384/edward-rowe-snow

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For more information:

Friends of Flying Santa:   https://www.flyingsanta.org/ 

http://www.flyingsanta.com/HistoryOrigins.html

The History of the Flying Santa program (including a cute photo of little Seamond Ponsart and Santa Snow!)

http://www.lighthousedepot.com/lite_digest.asp?action=get_article&sk=862&bhcd2=1260326585

This article from the archives of ‘Lighthouse Digest’ has the letter from Seamond Ponsart Roberts.

http://www.nha.org/pdfs/hn/HistoricNan-Winter2008.pdf 

Historic Nantucket Magazine, from the Nantucket Historical Association, Winter 2008, Volume 57, No. 1, page 18, an article entitled “Flying Santa: Edward Rowe Snow and the Romance of History”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgvr2gsjlJM

Santa tells about the Flying Santa Program

http://www.jacksjoint.com/xmasmemories.htm

A story written by Seamond Ponsart Roberts herself about her beloved Santa Snow

A delightful children’s book about Edward Rowe Snow, The Lighthouse Santa, written by Sara Hoaglund Hunter, 2011

https://www.amazon.com/Lighthouse-Santa-Sara-Hoagland-Hunter/dp/1611680069/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+lighthouse+santa&qid=1576672861&s=books&sr=1-1

From Harvard Magazine, a 2012 article about the life of Edward Rowe Snow, class of 1932, “Edward Rowe Snow: Brief life of a “Flying Santa”: 1902 – 1982”  https://harvardmagazine.com/2012/01/vita-edward-rowe-snow 

This is an updated version of the original blog post which was posted in 2009:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/12/advent-calendar-flying-santa-edward.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “The Flying Santa- Edward Rowe Snow”, Nutfield Genelealogy, posted December 21, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-flying-santa-edward-rowe-snow.html: accessed [access date]). 

The First Christmas Tree in Hawaii 1858

2002 Washington Place ballroom

My great aunt (sister to my 4x great grandmother) was Mary Lambert Jones. She was born in Boston in 1803, married a sea captain, and removed to Chittenango, New York where her children were born. On April 23, 1837, aboard the bark “Jones” she arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii with her husband, Captain John Dominis, and their little boy, John Owen Dominis. They had left two daughters in New York at school. Her brother-in-law, Robert W. Holt preceded her to Hawaii, but her sister, Ann Marie, had died in Boston.  Aunt Mary’s two young daughters died in a boarding school in New York before joining up with the rest of the family in Hawaii.

Captain John Dominis was a trader who had traveled from Europe to North America, Alaska, and to China. He wanted to build the finest house in the Pacific for his wife and family. She wanted a house in the New England style, and he wanted to furnish it with imported pieces from China. Windows, doors and trim work were imported from Boston, from the workshop of a great uncle Enoch Snelling, a North End glazier (married to another Jones sister). In 1846 Capt. Dominis left for a voyage to China to buy her items for the new house, and his ship disappeared. He was never heard from again.

Mrs. Dominis moved into the Honolulu house in 1847 and, because of her reduced circumstances, she had to rent out rooms to dignitaries and visiting Americans. One boarder, Commissioner Anthony Ten Eyck, suggested the name “Washington Place” for her mansion, since it looked like the first president’s home at Mount Vernon. King Kamehameha III said "it has pleased His Majesty the King to ... command that they retain that name in all time coming." And so the name has remained as Washington Place for Aunt Mary’s house.

In 1862 her son moved his new bride into his mother’s home at Washington Place. Her name was Lydia Kamaka‘eha Paki. After her mother-in-law’s death in 1889, Mrs. John Owen Dominis was also known as Princess Lili’uokalani, who became the Queen and last monarch of Hawai’i in 1891. Washington Place was her home during her monarchy, and since 1921 it has become the home of the Hawaiian Governors. It is now a museum in Honolulu, open to the public for tours.

Washington Place is a much beloved landmark in Honolulu, but it is also famous for being one of the first places where Christmas was celebrated in Hawai’i. The New England missionaries in Hawai’i were descendants of Puritans. In the Calvinist tradition Christmas was not celebrated, especially not with Christmas trees and parties. But Aunt Mary was not a missionary, and she was the daughter of a Welsh immigrant to Boston.  Perhaps when she lived in Chittenango, New York (near Schenectady) she learned how the Dutch celebrated Christmas. 

On Christmas Eve in 1858 Mary Dominis brought 100 children to Washington Place to see her Christmas tree and Santa delivered gifts to each child. The Christmas tree was an imported Douglas fir. The children were later sent home and the parents held a grand ball and dinner. The missionaries frowned on her display, but it was the beginning of a Victorian Christmas tradition in Hawaii. Four years later, in 1862, the same year that John Owen Dominis married his royal bride, King Kamehameha IV proclaimed Christmas a national holiday in the Kingdom of Hawai’i. The past curator of Washington Place, Corinne Chun, said that Mary Dominis’s Christmas tree may have been the first Christmas tree in Hawai’i.

In 1863 there was another Victorian era style Christmas celebration at the home of Elizabeth Holt Aldrich, the daughter of Robert W. Holt, and niece of Mary Dominis. It is described in a series of articles written for the Honolulu Star Bulletin named “The Fabulous Holts.” Article number 17 is titled “An Aldrich Christmas” and it outlines how Elizabeth Aldrich had a Christmas tree arranged by building a wooden form and decorating it with maile and fern wreaths. Colored candles, toys and dolls were hung on the tree. There were 18 different dollies dressed in handmade outfits. According to the article “Thirty-eight children and forty adults attended the Aldrich party at 7 p.m. Christmas. The children let out many squeals of delight when the parlor folding doors were opened to display the lighted tree. Elizabeth Aldrich took Puritan Maria Rice to attend Episcopalian Christmas Eve services and the two hour high church service on Christmas day. Maria Rice thought the lighted candles and singing were beautiful.” Maria Rice was the wife of missionary William Harrison Rice who had come to Hawai’i in the ninth missionary company.

An excerpt from a book about the first Christmas Tree party in Hawaii in 1858:

"Christmas passed off in good old fashioned style. The eve was ushered in by the assemblage of a large number of children and their parents at Washington Place, the mansion of Mrs. Dominis, where Santa Claus had given out that he would hold his court.... A magnificent Christmas Tree had been provided... and the little folks as they gathered about it...found it all lighted up with candles, and the branches bending with the weight of gifts. Prompt as old Father Time ever was, bells were heard at the windows... and in a moment old Santa Claus stood at the door before the youthful group, who greeted him with a volley of merry shouts. He was dressed in the garb in which children love to image the saintly old elf.  For an hour he bestowed his gifts with princely lavishness among the 100 children present, creating one of the happiest groups ever witnessed in Honolulu... who will long continue to talk of Santa Claus of Washington Place."  [from Hawaiian Annual for 1922, Thomas G. Thrum, compiler and publisher, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1921, page 60, available to view at Google Books.]

Washington Place, Honolulu, today

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Jones/Dominis Family Tree

Gen. 1: Owen Jones, born about 1735 in Wales, died 28 February 1798 and buried in Aberstwyth, Wales; married to Anne (maiden name unknown) served as a customs inspector for some time in Boston where his daughter, Anne was born in 1769.  My 6th great grandparents.

Gen. 2. Owen Jones, born about 1768 in Wales, died 22 April 1850 in Dorchester, Massachusetts; married on 11 May 1793 at the 2nd Baptist Church in Boston to Elizabeth Lambert, born about 1775 in Boston, died on 6 February 1834 in Boston. Eight children.  My 5th great grandparents.

Gen. 3: Mary Lambert Jones, born 3 August 1803 in Boston, died 25 April 1889 in Honolulu, Hawaii; married on 5 October 1824 in Boston to Captain John Dominis, born in Trieste (now Slovenia) and died in 1846 at sea. Three children.  Mary is my 4th great aunt, sister to my 4th great grandmother, Catherine Plummer (Jones) Younger (about 1799 - 1828).

Gen. 4: Governor John Owen Dominis, born on 10 March 1832 in Chittenango, New York, died on 27 August 1891 at Washington Place, Honolulu, Hawaii; married on 16 September 1862 in Honolulu to Lydia Kamekeha Lili’uokalani, daughter of Caesar Kaluaiku Kapa'akea and Analea Keohokalole, born on 2 September 1838 and died on 11 November 1917 at Washington Place, Honolulu, Hawaii. They had no children. John O. Dominis also had a relationship with Mary Purdy Aimoku, and one son.

Gen. 5: John Owen Aimoku Dominis, born 9 January 1883 in Honolulu, died on 7 July 1917 in Honolulu; married on 27 June 1911 in Honolulu to Sybil Francis McInerny, daughter of Edward Aylett McInerney and Rose Kapuakomela Wond. Three children.

Washington Place, Honolulu, with Queen Lili'uokalani in the late 1800s

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Sources:

“Hawaiian Annual for 1921” by Thomas G. Thrum, Honolulu, 1920 (see pages 59 – 60 for information on the first Christmas party)

Honolulu Star Bulletin “The Fabulous Holts” (date unknown) (This was a series of newspaper articles written about the Holt and Dominis families of Hawaii).

http://hawaii.gov/govnat/washington_place/ Official Website of the Hawai’i Governor’s office

http://www.washingtonplacefoundation.org/  The Washington Place Foundation

See my blog post on July 27, 2009 for more information on the Jones family of Boston

The photo at the top is courtesy of the Hawaiian Star Bulletin, 2002, showing the Christmas Tree at Washington Place for the annual Holiday public tour.

Paula Rath, “Recreating Hawai’i’s first Christmas Tree”, Honolulu Advertiser, ( http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Dec/03/il/il01a.html  December 3, 2004) 

And for the latest article I could find mentioning Mary Dominis’s Christmas Tree, here is one by Trustan Kekauoha, “Holiday Classic, with a Twist!”,  https://www.kaleookalani.org/3113/features/entertainment/holiday-classic-with-a-twist/ December 4, 2018.

This blog post is an update of one written originally on December 7, 2009:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/12/advent-calendar-christmas-in-hawaii.html

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To Cite/Link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “The First Christmas Tree in Hawaii 1858”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 19, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-first-christmas-tree-in-hawaii-1858.html: accessed [access date]). 

Stephen Hills, age 16, Hooksett, New Hampshire ~ Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Davis-Cate Cemetery in Hooksett, New Hampshire

STEPHEN

only son of George

& Jane Hills,

died Jan. 27,

1844

AE 16 yrs. 7 mo.

He lay his aching head,

Upon his Savior's breast

His Maker took his soul away

And laid his flesh to rest. 

I couldn't find information on young Stephen Hills, or why he died so young.  His parents were George Hills and Jane Gregg.  She was a descendant of James Gregg, the immigrant for Ayrshire, Scotland and Northern Ireland to Nutfield.  Jane's father, Joseph Gregg, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire in 1763, settled in Acworth, New Hampshire and married Sally Reynolds. [See page 223 of The History of Acworth with The Proceedings of the Centennial Anniversary, Genealogical Records, and Register of Farms, edited by Rev. J. L. Merrill, 1869]

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Stephen Hills, age 16, Hooksett, New Hampshire ~ Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 17, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/12/stephen-hills-age-16-hooksett-new.html: accessed [access date]).

Charles Ingalls and Augusta Rowe of Hooksett, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Davis-Cate Cemetery in Hooksett, New Hampshire

INGALLS

CORP. CHARLES H. INGALLS

CO. K 1ST NH

1845 - 1903

HIS WIFE

AUGUSTA ROWE

- 1898

MARY STEVENS

1820 - 1902

Erected by his wife Bertha B. Ingalls

Charles H. Ingalls, son of Alfred A. Ingalls and Mary S. Ordway, was born in Hooksett on 7 February 1845 and died 12 January 1903 in Saxonville (a section of Framingham), Massachusetts.  He was married first to Augusta Rowe on 26 November 1868 in the town of Hooksett.  She was born in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts in 1849 and died in 1893 in Hooksett.  His second wife was Bertha B. Bowman, born in February 1870 in Ireland and died in 1930 (She is buried in the Catholic Saint Joseph Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire. Their two children were Charles Ordway Ingalls (1894 - 1925) and Catherine M. Ingalls).  

Charles was a veteran of the Civil War.  He enlisted as a private on 25 July 1864 in the New Hampshire Regiment of Houghton's Infantry Company, Martin Guards, and mustered out on 16 September 1864. On 17 September 1864 he re-enlisted as a corporal in Company K, New Hampshire 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, and mustered out on 15 June 1865 in Washington, DC.  According to the 1880 Federal Census, Charles Ingalls lived in Manchester and worked for the railroad.  His second wife received a widow's pension for his service.  

The other woman listed here on this tombstone is Mary S. Ordway Stevens.  She was born 18 May 1820 in Goffstown, New Hampshire and died 9 March 1902 in Hooksett.  She was married second to Samuel H. Stevens in 1863.  She was Charles Ingalls' mother.  His father Alfred A. Ingalls was born about 1820 in Chester, New Hampshire, the son of Josiah Ingalls and Olive Sanborn.  He died 21 March 1891 in Hampton, New Hampshire of Bright's disease.

Alfred's father was Josiah Ingalls, born on 18 July 1777 in Sandown, New Hampshire, and died 10 July 1847 in Chester.  He married Olive Sanborn.  Josiah and Olive had eight children.  Josiah's parents were Nathaniel Ingalls (b. 1727) and Abigail Huse of Chester.  Josiah was the son of Samuel Ingalls ((1683 - 1760) and Mary Watts.  Samuel was the son of Samuel Ingalls (1654 - 1733) and Sarah Hendrick.  Samuel was the son of my 9th great uncle Henry Ingalls (1627 - 1719) and Sarah Farnham. I descend from both Henry's brother Robert Ingalls (about 1621 - 1698) and his other brother Samuel Ingalls (about 1632 - 1717).

The Charles Ingalls buried above is my 5th cousin 5 generations removed.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Charles Ingalls and Augusta Rowe of Hooksett, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 10, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/11/charles-ingalls-and-augusta-rowe-of.html: accessed [access date]).

Happy Birthday to my Little Sister

Happy Birthday to my Little Sister!

This photo was taken at Beverly Hospital, so she must have been just new born.  I was only three years old, and I don't really remember that day except from the stories my parents tell. My Dad dropped my Mom at the hospital to have the baby (that's how it happened in those days) and then took me to the neighborhood Dunkin' Donuts.  It must have been late at night because I was in my pajamas.  A police officer asked my Dad why he had me up so late.  I have a vague remembrance of sitting at the counter on a very high stool, but then again that is where we sat every time at Dunkin' Donuts because in those days there was no drive through or booths.  That same restaurant is no longer standing in Beverly, and we drove by the location with my Mom just a few weeks ago and I heard the story all over again. 

Welcome to the world, Little Sister. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Happy Birthday to my Little Sister", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 4, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/12/happy-birthday-to-my-little-sister.html: accessed [access date]). 

Simeon Batchelder and Eliza Colby of Hooksett, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Davis-Cate Cemetery in Hooksett, New Hampshire

SIMEON BATCHELDER

SEPT. 10, 1820 - APR. 3, 1907

ELIZA H. BATCHELDER

FEB. 8, 1831 - FEB. 19, 1914

Simeon Batchelder, son of Benjamin Batchelder and Mary Spaulding, was born 8 September, 1820 in Bridgewater, New Hampshire and died 3 April 1907 in Hooksett, New Hampshire.  He married twice, first to Adeline Brown in 1834, and second to Eliza. H. Colby, buried here with him.  His only child was from his first wife, Samuel Batchelder, born 1 January 1839, a Civil War Veteran of Company B of the 5th NH Regiment,  who died 8 February 1896 in Hampton Fall, New Hampshire and buried at the West View Cemetery.

Eliza Colby was the daughter of Alvah Colby and Lucinda Hackett, born 8 February 1831 in Hooksett, and died 19 February 1914.  The Davis-Cate Cemetery in Hooksett is located on Hackett Hill Road, so Eliza probably grew up nearby.  Her parents are buried in the same cemetery.   Lucinda was born 22 November 1809 in Hooksett,

Simeon's father, Benjamin Batchelder, was born 2 June 1787 and married Mary Spaulding in 1815.  She was born in Merrimack on 24 January 1790.  They lived in Bridgewater where they had seven children.

Simeon's grandfather, also named Simeon Batchelder, was born in 1765 and married twice, first to Mary (Polly) Marston and second to a Miss Powell.  He had ten children.  His great grandfather was Benjamin Batchelder, born about 1744, who settled in Deerfield, and then Meredith. He had ten children also, with his wife Martha (maiden name unknown). His 2nd great grandfather was John Batchelder, born 9 November 1729 in Hampton, who married Apphia Philbrick on 7 October 1753.  His 3rd great grandparents were John Batchelder and Elizabeth Moulton, who were married on 18 March 1724/5.  This John Batchelder was my 8th great uncle, son of Stephen Batchelder (1675- 1748) and Mary Dearborn.  I descend from John's brother, Stephen Batchelder (1701 - 1748/49) who married Jane Lamprey.

This would make Simeon Batchelder, buried above, my 5th cousin, 4 generations removed.


For the truly curious:

History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire, by Richard Watson Musgrove, 1904

Batchelder, Bachellor Genealogy, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, 1898

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Simeon Batchelder and Eliza Colby of Hooksett, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 3, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/11/simeon-batchelder-and-eliza-colby-of.html: accessed [access date]).