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Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the total population was 743,159, making it the third-most populous county in Massachusetts. It is part of the Greater Boston area (the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan Statistical Area). The largest city in Essex County is Lynn. It has two county seats: Salem and Lawrence. P...
Wikipedia Andover Theological Seminary (now know as Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School) traces its roots to the late 18th century and the desire for a well-educated clergy among Congregationalists in the United States. That desire was expressed in the founding of Phillips Academy in 1778 for "the promotion of true Piety and Virtue". In 1806, a growing split within the Congregation...
Essex County is a county located in the Middle Peninsula in the U.S. state of Virginia; the peninsula is bordered by the Rappahannock River on the north and King and Queen County on the south. Its county seat is Tappahannock. Essex County was established in 1692 from the old Rappahannock County, Virginia (not to be confused with the present-day Rappahannock County, Virginia). The county is nam...
Salem, located at the mouth of the Naumkeag river at the site of an ancient Native American village and trading center, was first settled by Europeans in 1626, when a company of fishermen from Cape Ann led by Roger Conant arrived. Conant's leadership had provided the stability to survive the first two years, but he was immediately replaced by John Endecott , one of the new arrivals, by order of...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Essex County, New Jersey. Official Website The county is named after Essex, a county in the East of England. Newark, with a population density of 11,458.3 people/square mile, is the largest municipality in the county both in terms of land area and population, while Caldwell is the smallest in terms of land area and Essex Fells has...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Essex County, New York. Official Website When counties were established in the state of New York in 1683, the present Essex County was part of Albany County. On March 12, 1772, what was left of Albany County was split into three parts, one remaining under the name Albany County. One of the other pieces, Charlotte County, contained ...
This cemetery is located on Empire State Trail, Route 22, Willsboro, Essex County, New York. Find a Grave My Tombstone Project
Old North Parish Burying Ground Also known as 1st Burial Ground, North Parish Burying Ground North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA: The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as NAD.800 Old Burying Ground. This cemetery is referred to as GR1 North Parish Burying Ground in the "Vital Records of Andover Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849." Es...
Founded in 1854, Fairmount Cemetery is a Victorian cemetery with many distinctive and beautiful monuments erected by families who have chosen Fairmount as their final resting place. Two beautifully designed mausoleums and countless acres offer families a wide range of choices. As a not-for-profit cemetery, Fairmount is dedicated to serving all faiths and directing all funds to the care and wel...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Essex County, Vermont. Prior to the arrival of colonists of European descent, the area was populated by the Abenakis. They used the Connecticut and Nulhegan rivers as primary means of travel through the area along with many subsidiary rivers and streams. The culture was mostly hunter-gatherer with a combination of agriculture, huntin...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Newark, New Jersey. Official Website Newark was settled in 1666 by Connecticut Puritans led by Robert Treat from the New Haven Colony. It was conceived as a theocratic assembly of the faithful, though this did not last for long as new settlers came with different ideas. On October 31, 1693, it was organized as a New Jersey township ...
Wikipedia Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall consists of 11 schools and colleges with an undergraduate enrollment of about 5,800 students and...
Wikipedia Phillips Academy Andover (also known as Phillips Academy, Andover, or PA) is a co-educational independent boarding preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate (PG) year. The school is located in Andover, Massachusetts, United States, 25 miles north of Boston. The school has a student population of 1,138, and is selective, accepting 13%...
Gloucester (/ˈɡlɒstər/ GLOST-ər) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore. The population was 29,729 at the 2020 U.S. Census.[2] An important center of the fishing industry and a popular summer destination, Gloucester consists of an urban core on the north side of the harbor and the outlying neighborhoods of Annisq...
Please add the profile for early settlers (first families) to this project, and also, hyperlink them below, if you can. Ipswich is located in central Essex County and is 11 miles (18 km) south of Newburyport, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Gloucester, 13 miles (21 km) north of Salem, 20 miles (32 km) east of Lawrence, and 28 miles (45 km) northeast of Boston. It is bordered by Rowley to the nort...
Phillips Academy Cemetery, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA: Between George Washington and Samuel Phillips Halls is the path to the Phillips Academy Cemetery. Originally called Chapel Cemetery, it was established in 1810 as a final resting-place for students, faculty, principals, and others associated with the seminary and the academy. It was enlarged in late 1920 by the Olmsted Br...
The cemetery is municipally owned and has achieved notoriety by being proclaimed as one of the largest cemeteries in the country. Established in the mid 1800s as a privately owned cemetery, it was then sold to the City of Lynn in 1850. It boasts a variety of historically significant features and landmarks and it has been said that the burial ground, rich in history, is home to prominent artist...
The Saint Mary of the Annunciation Church is associated with two Cemeteries in Danvers. This Saint Mary Cemetery on Sylvan Street and the Saint Mary of the Annunciation Cemetery on Hobart Street. This cemetery was officially established in 1868. Here are family stones with names like Kirby, Sullivan, Lyons, Toomey and ONeil. Though there are often spaces between the stones, making it appear as...
A project to unify efforts on a Marblehead-centric view of genealogy. Who were the initial settlers? Where do all of the street-names come from? etc. Some useful/inspiring links... Marblehead Magazine - History Timeline [ ] [ ] 1615 In a war with the Tarrantines, the Naumkeags and their Chief, Nanepashemet, are defeated. 1619 Nanepashemet is killed at Mystic and his widow, Squaw Sachem ...
Westford's first public cemetery is its largest and second-oldest in town; the earliest burial is believed to be that of Abram Wright in 1702. After Westford was incorporated in 1729 the cemetery was called East Burying Ground and also known as Snow's Cemetery after long time caretaker Levi Snow. It was renamed Fairview in 1894 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places sin...
Endicott College is a private college in Beverly, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1939 as a two-year women's college. It began offering four-year degrees in 1988 and became coeducational in 1994. Endicott enrolled approximately 4,300 students as of the fall 2020 semester. It offers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs, as well as graduate-level certificates, with a curriculu...
This cemetery is located on 1660 Front Street, Keeseville, Essex County, New York. Find a Grave
Elizabethtown, New Jersey became a formal settlement in 1664. Elizabethtown was the first permanent English community in New Jersey, and is now known as Elizabeth, New Jersey.Profiles to be added to this project are the Elizabethtown Associates, 1664-1699. The following is an alphabetized list of associates. Those with an * beside their name are the associates known to have been in Elizabethtow...
This cemetery is located on 1830 East Broadway, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave
This cemetery is referred to as GR12 St. Mary's Cemetery in the "Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Volume V - Deaths" and SAL.802 Saint Mary's Cemetery in the "MACRIS survey of Massachusetts Cemeteries". It's located on 226 North Street, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave