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Find and merge Colonial American duplicate profiles * The first generation to settle in North America was born no later than say 1580. * Their ancestors for a generation or two are in project scope also.* Colonial America became the United States in 1776, so profiles born later are out of scope.* if you have trouble merging them together, post links to BOTH profiles in the discussion: You Know:...
New England Gateway Ancestors of Proven Royal Descent Roland's guide to surviving medieval genealogy in the Internet age. See also:# Mid-Atlantic Gateway Ancestors of Proven Royal Descent # Southern Atlantic Gateway Ancestors of Proven Royal Descent # Gateway Ancestors of Proven Royal Descent of Canada and the West IndiesYou have New England roots. You’ve worked tirelessly for years on your gen...
Exeter Academy=Phillips Exeter Academy (also known as Exeter or PEA) is an American private college preparatory school for boarding and day students between the 9th and 12th grade. It is a large co-educational school, with over 1,000 students. It was founded in 1781 by John Phillips, a wealthy American merchant and early patron of schools.Exeter is located in Exeter, New Hampshire, capital of t...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . About the Massachusetts project The Massachusetts project is created in order to facilitate those researching ancestors or relatives in Massachusetts or elsewhere in the world but with roots or relatives in Massachusetts. We encourage everyone with links in Massachusetts to communicate and explore a common ancestry -- and to add the tag "...
The important municipal post of fence viewer followed European settlers from old England to new and was central to concepts of property ownership and governance. When New Englanders moved to the Old Northwest Territory, the role followed. No wonder that poet Robert Frost coined the phrase, “good fences make good neighbors,” in his 1914 poem, The Mending Wall. References “Hometown History...
Since 1864, Ceder Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut has served as the final resting place of some of the most important people in Connecticut and American history. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Cedar Hill Cemetery is a classic example of the " rural cemetery movement " that combines beautiful architectural and landscaping work with dignity for the deceased. Much mor...
New Netherland , or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod. The settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outpos...
This is the master project for all European Colonial Regions throughout the Americas; North, Central, South and the Caribbean. North America Viceroyalty of New Spain New England Jamestown, Virginia - 1624 Census Jamestown, Virginia 1607-1699 New France New Netherland - Dutch-United States New Spain New Sweden
This is a sub-project for the Colonial Americas Master Project. New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. New England is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada (the Canadian Maritimes and Quebec) and the state of New York. In one of the earliest English...
A study of the origins of the Colonists of the Winthrop Fleet and pre 1632 Massachusetts Bay Colony Settlers. Research on completing passenger lists, name variants, marriages between families, ancestry in England. The Winthrop Society is actively looking for additional passengers, as its lists were never complete, and only partial passenger lists exist. The Winthrop Fleet was a group of eleven ...
Update 6/17/2016(CLM):This is for descendants of Puritan ,Deacon,William Peck. The following is from Janet McLaughlin of Rootweb 11/7/2005.REFN: 595 !1. Reply letter from Jean M. Hathaway 8 Dec 1997. !2. IGI BA: 8508405 38 SO: 1395975 & BA: F610053 19 SO: 1621410 3. DONALD CLEVELAND 2001 FROM DAVID WILLIAM RUMERY, 7-4-2001, FROM DAVID WILLIAM RUMERY, 7-4-2001, page 1 "1. PECK PIONEERS, February...
The Hartford Whalers were an American professional ice hockey team based for most of its existence in Hartford, Connecticut. The club played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1972 until 1979, and in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1979 to 1997. Originally based in Boston, Massachusetts, the team joined the WHA in the League's inaugural 1972 season, and was known as the New Englan...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =The state of Connecticut is one of the original Thirteen Colonies and the fifth state admitted to the Union. This portal is for people researching its residents, southernmost state in the New England region, Connecticut is also often grouped along with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-State Area. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachus...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =The state of New Hampshire is in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. New Hampshire is the 5th smallest by land area and the 9th least populous of the 50 United States.In Ja...
The profile for Moses Foster appears to confuse two men with the same name who lived in Massachusetts at about the same time. (1) Moses (Mosis) ( Moses Foster, of Chelmsford & Ashburnham ) the son of Samuel and Sarah was born on October 4, 1692 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He married a woman named Mary about 1715. Probably she was Mary Davis, the daughter of Samuel Davis Jr. and Hannah (or A...
Read the ebook Genealogy of the Parke families of Connecticut, including Robert Parke, of New London, Edward Parks, of Guilford, and others, by Frank Sylvester ParksFirst Generation - the Immigrant/ 1. ROBERT' PARKE, (or Sir Robert Parke, as he has been sometimes called), was born in Preston, Eng land, in 1580. He was a personal friend of John Winthrop, to whom he addressed a letter relative to...
The New England Order of Protection was fraternal benefit/mutual aid society serving New England. Its foundational principles were equity, benevolence, and charity. The Order was founded in 1887 and incorporated in Massachusetts. It had splintered off from the Knights and Ladies of Honor, which was one of the reasons the N.E.O.P. was always gender-inclusive. According to the N.E.O.P.'s founder...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =The state of Maine is the northernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Maine is the 39th most extensive and the 41st most populous of the U.S. states and territories. It is bordered by New Hampshire to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the north. Maine...
Most of the Huguenot congregations (or individuals) in North America eventually affiliated with other Protestant denominations with more numerous members. The Huguenots adapted quickly and often began to marry outside their immediate French communities fairly rapidly, which led to their assimilation. Their descendants in many families continued to use French first names and surnames for their c...
This project is a place for the Crowninshield Family Association to track all Crowninshields and their descendants on Geni and to work together on developing stronger profiles and sourcing. We are focusing on the blood descendants of the Crowninshield progenitor, Johannes Kaspar Richter von Kronenschildt. The goals are to:- Clean up and expand Crowninshield profiles- Merge Crowninshield profile...
The Northeast Coast campaign (also known as the Six Terrible Days ) (10 August – 6 October 1703) was the first major campaign of Queen Anne's War in New England. Alexandre Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin led 500 troops made up of French colonial forces and the Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia (200 Mi'kmaq and others from Norridgewock). They attacked English settlements on the coast of present...
Let's identify (or create) the Geni profiles for the 80 people & the proprietary governors of what became the "Live Free or Die" state. Collaborators, feel free to update the project - and invite more collaborators.==THEY CAME TO FISH== In the beginning was the fisherman. And the fisherman came to New Hampshire to fish. His trip was paid for by English investors who did quite well at first. The...
This project, Early Settlers of Hinsdale, New Hampshire , is for researching the families that settled in town by 1800 or earlier . With the first settlers arriving in the 1720s, the charter of Hinsdale was granted on September 25, 1753.=About Hinsdale=Like most Cheshire County towns, Hinsdale was settled by families heading north due to the Southern New England land crunch of the 18th and 19th...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =The state of Vermont is a state (and former republic) in the New England region of the northeastern United States and the fourteenth state admitted to the Union. This portal is for people researching its residents, who are known as "Vermonters."Known as "The Green Mountain State," Vermont is the 2nd-least populous of the U.S. states, with nearly 50,00...
This project identifies Geni Profiles for the New Haven Crypt. The Crypt contains the identified remains of about 137 people, and the likely remains of over 1,000 that are unidentified known crypt inhabitants, list uploaded as a Project document or on this link: New Haven Crypt Names Please join us as a collaborator, add your ancestor's profile, and if possible, link the profile in the "overvie...