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Who are the early families of Malden, Massachusetts? Document them, collect their profiles, clean up and extend their family trees.=Early History of Malden=Malden, a hilly woodland area north of the Mystic River, was settled by Puritans in 1640 on land purchased in 1629 from the Pennacook tribe. The area was originally called the "Mistick Side" and was a part of Charlestown. It was incorporated...
Located in Middlesex County, Glenwood Cemetery, Ashby's third cemetery, was established by a private cemetery association in 1851 and acquired by the town on Oct. 1, 1908. It is located off Main Street just south of the town center. The cemetery property has three parts. The eastern part of the cemetery was laid out in the 1850s. The western part of the cemetery was laid out around 1911 with a...
Wikipedia =Brandeis University /ˈbrændaɪs/ is an American private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston.It was founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian Jewish community-sponsored coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University. The university is named after Hon. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Cour...
East Parish Burying Ground Also known as Centre Street Cemetery Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA The oldest of the three city-owned cemeteries is known variously as the Centre Street or East Parish Burying Ground, at the corner of Centre and Cotton streets, dates from 1660. It is about three acres in extent, and about 400 grave sites remain. The oldest marker is dated 1672. The To...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Concord, Massachusetts. Official Website From Wikipedia Concord (/ˈkɒŋkərd/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. In the 2020 census, the town population was 18,491.[2] The United States Census Bureau considers Concord part of Greater Boston. The town center is near where the Sudbury and Assabet rivers join t...
Please add profiles for the founders of Haddam, Connecticut to this project, and link to the index in bold when done.From A Brief History of Haddam ==Plantation at Thirty Mile Island==In 1660 the Connecticut Colonial Legislature sent Matthew Allyn and Samuel Willys down the Connecticut River from Hartford to purchase land from the Wangunk Indian Tribe at the place the English called 'Land of Th...
Evergreen Cemetery is located on Green Hill Road in Killingworth, CT. The cemetery is a non-profit organization. Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1856 by local residents. The cemetery is non-denominational and is open daily from sunrise to sunset. Evergreen Cemetery Association This cemetery is located on Green Hill Road, Killingworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut. It's also known as...
Killingworth is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. The population was 6,174 at the 2020 United States Census. History Killingworth was established from the area called Hammonasset, taken from the local Native American tribe of the same name. The area originally incorporated the area of the present tow...
Many of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's original settlers arrived from England in the 1630s through the ports of Lynn and Salem. In 1639 some citizens of Lynn petitioned the government of the colony for a "place for an inland plantation". They were initially granted six square miles, followed by an additional four. The first settlement in this grant was at first called "Lynn Village" and was loc...
Land was first occupied by a minimum of three Indian Tribes. These tribes included the Wangunks, Mohegans, and Nehantiks. The land which is now Haddam and East Haddam was purchased in 1662 for 30 coats, which was worth about 100 dollars at the time. In 1669 highways were established. The first families established homes along Creeks Row. These families included John Bates, Cone, David Brainerd,...
This cemetery is located on 31 Highland Street, Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave
The town of Billerica was founded from a deed of land from the Shawshin, or Billerica Indians. This site not only looks at the early settlers, but the making of towns that became the culture of America, the United States of America.In 1660, 40 families (mostly from Cambridge, then Woburn) had homes in Billerica. Some are as follows: Champney, Crosby, Danforth, French,Frost, Hamlet, Hide,Hubbard...
This cemetery is located on 410 Main Street, Hudson, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave
Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery is located in Middletown, Connecticut. Find a Grave
The Old Burying Ground on King Street is generally referred to as the first town cemetery. A second burial ground, now known as Westlawn Cemetery, was established by the town in 1801. Initially it was used for paupers and others who were not eligible to be buried in the municipal cemetery. Since around 1900 when the Old Burying Ground became full, Westlawn has been the only active municipal cem...
The district is dominated by St. Mary's Episcopal Church and its burying ground. They were listed in the National Register on April 16, 1980. The simple, Federal-period church, constructed in 1813, is the oldest religious building in Newton. The cemetery was also established in 1813. The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as NWT.803 Saint Mary's Cemetery. Th...
The Mount Hope Cemetery was established in 1848 in Middlesex County. It is the third of three, municipally-owned cemeteries in Acton. It is a well-preserved and well-maintained, Victorian burial ground located as short distance south of West Acton Village. The cemetery is comprised of approximately 10+ acres, with the earliest death date of 1848. It is still used today and in 2009 had about 25...
Wyoming Cemetery,Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02176 USA: Find a Grave Wyoming Cemetery was established as Melrose's community cemetery in 1857, on 21 acres of land northeast of Pine Banks Park. Several years later, the cemetery was expanded with purchase of 28 additional acres of farmland, at a cost of $10,000. Before Wyoming Cemetery was established, many of the city’s first ...
This project is for those buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Essex, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Find a Grave Hale Collection
Wikipedia =Hebrew College is an accredited college of Jewish studies in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Founded in 1921, Hebrew College is committed to Jewish scholarship in a pluralistic, trans-denominational academic environment. The president of the college is Rabbi Daniel Lehmann. Hebrew College offers undergraduate completion and graduate degrees, Hebrew-language training, a rabbinical schoo...
This project is for those who are buried in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts. Established in 1841, the Lowell Cemetery is a non-municipal and non-denominational cemetery. Located on the banks of the Concord River, the cemetery is one of the oldest garden cemeteries in the nation, inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Many of Lowell's wealthy industrialists are ...
This project is for those buried in South Burying Place, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Extremely significant as an early burying ground, the South Burying Place was one of the two cemeteries established by the town of Concord shortly after its founding in 1635. For decades, however, all burials were made in the Hill Burying Ground near the first meetinghouse on the ridge east of th...
This project is for those who are buried in Saint James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The cemetery is located on 2136 Woodbridge Avenue and is also known as Piscatawaytown Burial Ground , White Church Cemetery and Saint James Church Piscatawaytown Burial Grounds . Notable Burials Bvt. Maj. Gen. Thomas Swords (1806-1886) - Union Links Find a Grave
This project is for those who are buried in the Old Burying Ground, located on 7 Springs Road, Bedford, Massachusetts.Bedford's Old Burying Ground was laid out on October 23, 1729, the same year as the incorporation of the town. Israel Putnam, first deacon of the new church on the Common, who lived across the road, donated the one-acre site. The Burying Ground is located in the center of the to...
In researching members of the Stowe family, I realized that there were a number of families from Middletown that intermarried, about whom there is some confusion on Geni. In order to straighten out these families, I began this project about early families in Middletown circa the late 1600s. I will begin with Stowe, Wheeler, Adkins/Atkins, Whitmore. It appears that some of these families origina...