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This project is for those that were born, lived, and died in the State of Massachusetts.
published in hardcover in 1998, this book outlines twenty families of color in Massachusetts, including the descendants of ==Notables==* Quawk Barbadoes; * James E. Biddle; * Isaiah Butler; * Andrew Camps; * John Ceasar; * Joseph J. Fatal; * John T. Hilton; * Peter M. Howard; * Aaron C. Joseph; * William Kellogg; * Primus Lew ; * Henry G. Lewis; * Stephen Maddox; * Betsy Raymond; * Thomas Reval...
PRESIDENTS 1782-1784 Edward Augustus Holyoke 1784-1786 William Kneeland 1786-1787 Edward Augustus Holyoke 1787-1795 Dr. Cotton Tufts 1795-1798 Samuel Danforth 1798-1804 Isaac Rand 1804-1815 Dr John Warren, M.D. 1815-1823 Joshua Fisher 1823 John Brooks 1825 1825-1832 Dr. James Jackson, Sr. 1832-1836 Dr. John Collins Warren 1836-1840 George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D.
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,[1] 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. ...
Harvard University = Wikipedia Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country. Har...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Official Website The Wampanoag Indians under sachem Massasoit (or Ousamequin) were living in this area when the earliest Europeans arrived. The county seat is the town of Plymouth, the site of the first permanent European settlement in New England (1620); Plymouth Rock State Park commemorates the la...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. History The Mahican (Muh-he-ka-neew) Native American tribe lived in the area that now makes up Berkshire County until the early 18th century, when the first English settlers and frontiersmen appeared and began setting up farms and homesteads. On April 25, 1724, “The English finally paid the Indians 46...
The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered that "the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading.[4] In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Boston annexed several adjacent cities and to...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.= Official Website =Hampshire County was constituted in 1662 from previously unorganized territory comprising the entire western part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. The county is named after the county Hampshire, in England. Adjacent Counties * Franklin County * Berkshire County * Hampden County * Worces...
This will be an umbrella project to pinpoint the families who were early settlers of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Some of these already have their own projects, e.g., Captain John Johnson and Edward Riggs.>> It was said that the best people settled in Roxbury. >> They were people of substance, many of them farmers, none being 'of the poorer sort.' They struck root in the soil immediately and were en...
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 Louis Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court , the first Jewish J...
Finding and documenting all descendants of Edmund Rice. If you are a descendant of Edmund Rice, you are most welcome to join in the Edmund Rice autosomal DNA project. Edmund Rice autosomal DNA project Edmund Rice Association Famous descendants of Edmund Rice include: Steve Young, NFL football player Stillman Pond, Mormon Pioneer
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Suffolk County, MA.
The Massachusetts General Court (formally styled, The General Court of Massachusetts) is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The name "General Court" is a hold-over from the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when the colonial assembly, in addition to making laws, sat as a judicial court of appeals. Before the adoption of the state constitution in 1780, it wa...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hampden County, Massachusetts.Hampden County was split from Hampshire County in 1812, because Northampton, Massachusetts, was made Hampshire County's "shire town" in 1794; however, Springfield—theretofore Hampshire County's traditional shire town, dating back to its founding in 1636—grew at a pace far quicker than Northampton and was...
Amherst College=== Wikipedia =Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,817 students in the fall of 2012. Students choose courses from 35 major programs in an unusually open curriculum. Amherst is ranked as the second best liberal arts college in the country by ...
Wikipedia =Clark University is an American private university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887, it is the oldest educational institution founded as an all-graduate university in the United States. Clark now also educates undergraduates. The U.S. News & World Report ranked Clark 75th nationally in both 2015 and 2014, 83rd in 2013, and 95th in 2012. The accept...
Please add profiles of those who were born in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts.= Official Website =Worcester is the county seat of Worcester County. It is named after Worcester, England and is also known as "The Heart of the Commonwealth". History The area was first inhabited by members of the Nipmuc tribe. The native people called the region Quinsigamond and built a settlement on Pakachoag...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Worcester County, MA.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Massachusetts.Franklin County was created on June 24, 1811, from the northern third of Hampshire County. It was named for Benjamin Franklin. Franklin County's government was abolished by the state government in 1997, at the county's request. Adjacent Counties * Berkshire County * Hampshire County * Cheshire County, N...
Also see the Folger surname page .= Resources = Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3
The Geni profiles included are of the passengers of the ship Mayflower, arrived at Provincetown Harbor, Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts, United States, on 11 November 1620.For more information about Geni Projects, see the Geni Wiki Projects Page . If you would like to contribute to this page, please contact the Project Manager or one of the Project Collaborators. Click here for ins...
Boston University (most commonly referred to as BU or otherwise known as Boston U. ) is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.The university has more than 3,800 faculty members and 33,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, maste...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Boston, Mass.= Official Website =Boston is the capital of Massachusetts and the county seat of Suffolk County.= History =Boston's early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine (after its "three mountains," only traces of which remain today) but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the origin of...
Barnstable County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 215,888.[1] Its county seat is Barnstable.[2] The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands (some adjacent islands are in Dukes County and Nantucket County).Barnstable County comprises the Barnstable Town, MA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Bo...
Wikipedia =Massachusetts Institute of Technology =The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. Researchers worked on compu...
Wikipedia Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges, among which it shared with Bryn Mawr College the popular reputation of having a particularly intellectual and independent-minded student body. Radcliffe conferred Radcliffe ...
This project is for those who are buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Notable Burials Benjamin Adams (1764-1837) - US Congress Phinehas Bruce (1762-1809) - US Congress Edward Joseph Sullivan (1870-1955) - Spanish-American War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Links Find a Grave Billion Graves
WORK IN PROGRESS=======Hyperlinks refer to Wikipedia pages where more information can be found=====.==Motives==* Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) From Library Journal This cultural history explains the European settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. Families of zealous, literate Puritan yeomen and ...
This project is for those who are buried in Milton Cemetery, located on 211 Centre Street, Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Milton Cemetery is a historic cemetery established in 1672. It is the town's only municipal burying ground. There are three distinct sections to its 102-acre grounds: the original burying ground, a tract of 3 acres which was in use between 1672 and 1854, a "new" sec...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Norfolk County, Massachusetts.Norfolk County, Massachusetts was created on March 26, 1793, by legislation signed by Governor John Hancock. Most of the towns were originally part of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The towns of Dorchester and Roxbury were part of Norfolk County when it was created but, as Boston annexed each town, they ...
The Pequot War was an armed conflict between 1634–1638 between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies who were aided by their Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes). Hundreds were killed; hundreds more were captured and sold into slavery to the West Indies. Other survivors were dispersed. At the end of the war, about ...
The aim of this project is to showcase the SIGNERS and MESSENGERS who spread the word of the Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, and within 10 days had alerted 13 colonies to the war finally at hand. Please add their Geni profiles to this project.==The Lexington Alarm Letter==From The Lexington Alarm Letter Late on April 18, 1775, British soldiers marched from Boston, toward Conc...
This project is for those buried in Pittsfield Cemetery, located on 203 Wahconah Street, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The Pittsfield Cemetery is the third Cemetery in Pittsfield. It was preceded by New Town Cemetery (defunct) and Old Burial Ground (defunct). This cemetery was opened in 1850 and, because of the re-interments, the oldest stone dates to 1763. The Massachusetts H...
This project is for those interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. From Find a Grave : Bostonians founded Mount Auburn in 1831 for both practical and aesthetic reasons: to solve an urban land use problem created by an increasing number of burials in the city and to create a tranquil and beautiful place where families could commemorate their loved ones w...
This project is for those buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, located on 140 West Silver Street, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. Notable Burials Joseph Buell Ely (1881-1956) - Governor of Massachusetts Frederick Huntington Gillett (1851-1935) - US Senate; 42nd Speaker of the House of Representatives Links Find a Grave
Scope of Project ===To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Starbuck , Coffin , Gardner and related families, from earlier origins to near modern times=== Overview ===The Starbuck and Coffin families were a group of whalers operating out of Nantucket, Massachusetts from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Some members of the family gained wider exposure d...
This project is for those who are buried in Pentucket Cemetery on Water Street, Haverhill, Essex County, Florida. The Pentucket Burial Ground was set aside by town ordinance in 1660 and is the oldest burial ground in Haverhill. It is abutting the Linwood Cemetery, which dates back to 1830. The Massachusetts Historical Commission does not refer to this cemetery in MACRIS at this time. This ce...
Thomas Mayhew , an English merchant and a settler of Watertown, Massachusetts, not far from Boston, bought in October, 1641, from Lord Stirling and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, through their agent James Forcett, the islands of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands. Lord Stirling and Sir Gorges having received their right of ownership from the English Crown. Among the families that w...
This project is for those buried in the Locust Grove Cemetery, located on 104 Langsford Street, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts. Although the entrance sign reads Rockport the cemetery is actually located just over the town line in Gloucester. The Massachusetts Historical Commission does not refer to this cemetery in MACRIS. This cemetery is referred to as GR3 Folly Cove Cemetery in t...
Bristol County is a county in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 548,285.[1] The county seat is Taunton.[2] Some governmental functions are performed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, others by the county, and others by local towns and cities. See Administrative divisions of Massachusetts. The property deed records are kept in Taunton, Attleboro, Fa...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature.=Place project portals= Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. ==Geographical==* Australia * Canada * Europe** Al-Andalus ** Austro-Hungarian-Empire ** Belarus ** Czech Republic-Bohemia ** Croa...
History==Woburn was first settled in 1640 near Horn Pond, a primary source of the Mystic River, and was officially incorporated in 1642. At that time the area included present day towns of Woburn, Winchester, Burlington, and parts of Stoneham and Wilmington. In 1730 Wilmington separated from Woburn. In 1799 Burlington separated from Woburn; in 1850 Winchester did so, too.Woburn got its name fro...
A Brief History==* from there was a town of Plympton, before there was a County of Plymouth, and before there was a ship called the Mayflower carrying the Pilgrims to this shore, there were the Wampanoag People who lived, hunted, and raised crops throughout southeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years. Many artifacts have been found in Plympton which prove they were here also.It was in 164...
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...
This project is for those buried in the Old Hill Burying Ground, located on Monument Square and Lexington Road, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.After Concord was incorporated as a town in the fall of 1635, one of the first official acts of its original settlers, along with building a meetinghouse, was the establishment of two small burying grounds. This one, which came to be known as t...
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...
Old Winslow Burying Ground,Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA:This cemetery is an active, town-owned cemetery and is the oldest in the town of Marshfield. The oldest documented headstone was that of William Thomas, but in the mid-19th century that stone was found broken and not repaired. The are over 40 fieldstones, making the established date of this cemetery unknowable.The Early ...
Wikipedia =The College of the Holy Cross or Holy Cross is a private, undergraduate Roman Catholic, Jesuit liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1843, Holy Cross is the oldest Catholic college in New England and one of the oldest in the United States. U.S. News & World Report ranked Holy Cross 25th in the U.S. among liberal arts colleges in 2014. Hol...
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 ...
From the Wikipedia article on Northeastern University .Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private, research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898. It is categorized as a RU/H Research University (high research activity) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.The university offers undergraduate and graduate programs leading to doctoral degrees...
Overview and Scope of Project=The goal of this project is to discover our ancestors involved in the notorious Salem Witch Trials , validate their family trees and our own connections to them, and create nigh-quality, genealogically-valid mini biographies for their Profiles.=About the Salem Witch Trials= The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county...
Ashland Cemetery,Brockton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA: is a town owned cemetery. It was in use between 1748 and 1922.The Massachusetts Historical Commission does not refer to this cemetery in MACRIS.This burial place is referenced to in the book "Vital Records of Brockton, Massachusetts to 1850", Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, as G.R.06.
First Cemetery,Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA: cemetery is referred to in the book "Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to 1850", Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, as G.R.7.This cemetery is referred to in the book "Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts", by Charles Thatcher.This cemetery is referred to in the book "Epitaphs in Old Bridg...
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 "Massachuset...
United First Parish Church,Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 02169-5112 USA: First Parish Church contains the Adams Crypt, located in the basement. The church is often referred to as "the Church of the Presidents".Abigail Adams died in 1818 and her husband John Adams died in 1826. They were buried at Hancock Cemetery. In 1827 and 1828, their son, John Quincy Adams, was one among many who h...
This project is for those interred in North Brookfield Cemetery, North Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts.The cemetery is located on Maple Street and North Main Street and has also been known as Maple Street Cemetery and Old Cemetery .The Massachusetts Historical Commission does not refer to this cemetery in MACRIS.This cemetery is referred to in the book "Vital Records of Brookfield, ...
This project is for those interred in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.All of the graves from the Cross Street Cemetery were moved here between 1956-1958 to make way for the building of the Interstate Route 93.This cemetery contains all the GR2 Cross Street Cemetery records from the "Vital Records of Medford Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849." Notable Interme...
Wyoming Cemetery,Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02176 USA: 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 inhabitants were buried in ...
This Portal project focuses on Blacks in Massachusetts from the earliest period up to the American Revolution. See other Geni projects on specific areas, periods, and events in Colonial Massachusetts.==Summary=="An early muster roll from the Plymouth Colony in New England, founded by the Pilgrims in 1620, shows that at least one African, " blackamoor" (the old English term for a dark-skinned Af...
Wikipedia =Emmanuel College (EC) is a coeducational Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Boston, Massachusetts. The college was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as the first women's Catholic college in New England. John F. Kennedy served on the college's advisory board from 1946 until his death in 1963. In 2001, the College officially became a coeducational institution.It...
Welcome to the Staffiere Family project!==The main goal of this project is to help identify and establish a connection between the Staffiere families in the town of Anzano di Puglia, who have emigrated to Massachusetts. The progenitor of the largest recorded Staffiere family currently found, is named Angelo Rocco Staffiere . Another progenitor is named Domenico Staffiere (as of 10/6/2021). He i...
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts is the oldest chartered military organization in North America and the third oldest chartered military organization in the world. While it was originally constituted as a citizen militia serving on active duty in defense of the northern British colonies, it has become, over the centuries primarily an honor guard and a social and cerem...
Back To Gardner Name Study =Gardner family of whalers operating out of Nantucket,=== Overview ==The Gardner Whaling Family has been traced back to Roger De Gardiano .The Gardner family were a group of whalers operating out of Nantucket, Massachusetts from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Some members of the family gained wider exposure due to their discovery of various islands in th...
Passenger List of the Diligent 1638 Ipswich, Suffolk England to Boston Harbor==Source: The Planters of the Commonwealth , Charles E. Banks, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. (1930), pages 191-194.>DILIGENT, of Ipswich, John Martin, Master. She sailed from Ipswich, Suffolk, in June and arrived August 10 at Boston, with about one hundred passengers, principally from Hingham, Norfolk, destined for...
John Johnson was born about 1592 in Ware, Herts, Kent, England. He died on 30 Sept 1659 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA. Others give his birth date as 1590. John Johnson was one of the founders of the town and church at Roxbury, Massachusetts and, with his sons Issac and Humphrey, was an original donor to the Free School in Roxbury. John Johnson's parents are unknown!!! See Gerald Garth Johnson (Herita...
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...
Burial Hill,Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA : Hill is the second cemetery in Plymouth, preceded by the Coles Hill Burial Ground. The exact date as to when this ground became used as a cemetery is not known. There are no written records of the earliest burials. The earliest grave markers were made of wood, and none exist today. The site was used as a fort from 1621 until 1676. The ...
Bring your ancestor profiles on over! Must be set to "public."==Settlement of Salisbury==From the "Records of Massachusetts," we find that, on petition of "Mr. Bradstreete, Mr. Dudley Jr., Capt. Dennison, Mr. Clarke of Newbury, Mr. Woodbridge, Mr. Battye (Batt), Mr. Batter, Mr. Winsley, Hen: Bilye, Giles Firman, Richard Kent, and John Sanders,"[1] permission "to begin a plantation at Merrimack"...
This is a sub-project for the Colonial Americas Master Project. 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 settlemen...
Scituate, Massachusetts is a small town on the South Shore of Massachusetts, south of Boston and northwest of the start of Cape Cod. It was first resettled by Europeans starting in 1623, with major resettlement beginning in 1627 and 1628 under the jurisdiction of the General Court at Plymouth. By 1636, it was developed enough to begin managing some of its own affairs.31 of the earliest families...
A project to clean up duplicates and gather information on the Macy family. Lydia Macy was my father's father's father's father's mother (3rd great grandmother), and it was through this line that I joined "The Big Tree."Earliest known ancestor: Thomas Macy born 1585Related Project: Nantucket Island
Wikipedia =Andover Theological Seminary 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 Congregational churches, known as the Unitarian Controversy, came to a full...
Harvest festival observed by the Pilgrims at PlymouthAmericans commonly trace the Thanksgiving holiday to a 1621 celebration at the Plymouth Plantation, where the Plymouth settlers held a harvest feast after a successful growing season. Autumn or early winter feasts continued sporadically in later years, first as an impromptu religious observance, and later as a civil tradition.Squanto, a Patux...
from Unity left Weymouth, England Sept 12, 1635 with her Master, John Taylor, arriving in Massachusetts Bay.# Buck, William, his wife and family# Cattell, Robert, and his family# Corbin, Hugh, and his family# Davies, Richard, and his family# Ellwood, William, his wife and family# Hollman, Arther (sic), and his family# Looke, Robert, his wife and family# Tailor, Nicholas, and his family# Tise, J...
UNION MASSACHUSETTS TROOPS===5th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Unit:--(Militia 3 Months)==Tendered services to the government April 15, 1861. Left State for Washington, D.C., April 21, and there mustered in for three months May 1. Moved to Alexandria, Va., May 25. Duty at Camp Andrew until July 16. Attached to Franklin's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia. ...
was the name of a 17th-century ship known to have sailed between England and English settlements in Massachusetts. Several historical and genealogical references show the Griffin making such journeys in 1633 and 1634. The 1633 journey left at Downs, England and landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts on September 3. This 1633 journey carried religious dissidents, including Thomas Hooker,[1] John Cott...
Wikipedia =Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including rock, flamenco, hip hop, reggae, salsa, heavy metal and bluegrass. Since 2012, Berkle...
Wikipedia =American International College (AIC) is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in the Mason Square neighborhood of Springfield, Massachusetts. Notable Alumni
Wikipedia =Assumption College is a private, Roman Catholic, liberal arts college located on 185 acres (708,000 m²) in Worcester, Massachusetts. Assumption has an enrollment of about 2,117 undergraduates. The college confers Bachelor of Arts degrees in its undergraduate program, Master of Arts and Masters of Business Administration degrees in its Graduate program, and Associate's degree through ...
Wikipedia =The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest independent school of music in the United States, and it is widely recognized as one of the country's most reputable music schools. NEC is especially known for its strings, woodwinds, and brass departments, and its prestigious chamber music program.The conservatory, located on Huntington Avenue of the...
Great Migration: Passengers of the John of London, 1638===From of London sailed from Hull, England to Boston, MA in the summer of 1638 with Master George Lamberton. The passage was known for its passenger, Ezekiel Rogers who settled in Rowley, as well as carrying the first printing press to the colonies.Note: "John of London of one of 8 to 12 ships organized by Ezekiel Rogers to bring families ...
Early History of Charlestown== Thomas Walford and his wife Jane Walford (Guy) were the original English settlers of Mishawaum (later Charlestown); they settled there in 1624. They were given a grant by Sir Robert Gorges, with whom they had settled at Wessagusset (Weymouth) in September 1623. John Endicott, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, had sent William, Richard and Ralph Sprague t...
Marean marriages in Hubbardston-Worchester:==Marean married Browinng, Greenwood, Brigham, Holden, Fletcher, Brown, Bennet, McClanathan, Mason, Grimes, Hinds, Blood, Wilbur, Wright, Witt, Church, Wheeler, Pond* Asa Marean/Lucy Browning 17Apr1823 * Augusta Marean/Lyman Greenwood 19Nov1829 * Betcy Marean/Asa Brigham 23May1791 * Charlotte Marean/Justinian Holden 1Sep1835 * Eliza Marean/Joseph Fletc...
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 01742 USA: Hollow Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Concord. It has an estimated 10,000 gravesites, many of local, national, and international interest. It was one of the first cemeteries in the United States to be designed to have a sylvan character and has also been listed in the National Register of Historic Places.In 1823 it...
This project will properly document and organize Richard Sears, his descendants, and close relatives. If you are interested in joining please send a message to the project manager.Curators and project collaborators - please feel free to edit this about text.= Notable Profiles = Richard Sears Early settler who lived in both the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony. Today, over 20,000 peo...
A place to collect the families and individuals who settled Taunton, Massachusetts and examine where they came from in England and their marriage patterns.> "Probably the early settlers of this region came largely from the southwest of England, for we there find the familiar names of Norton, Dorchester, Weymouth, Wareham, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Barnstable, Somerset, Dartmouth, Berkley, Tiverton...
The profile for Moses Foster [ Moses Foster ] appears to confuse two men with the same name who lived in Massachusetts at about the same time. (1) Moses (Mosis) 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 Anna). Samuel and Hannah lived ...
Wikipedia =Bridgewater State University is a public liberal-arts college located in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest college in the Massachusetts state university system outside the University of Massachusetts system. The university consists of the main campus located in Bridgewater, and two satellite campuses; one in Attleboro, and one on Cape Cod, which opened in J...
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...
This project is for all those buried in the Meetinghouse Cemetery, Princeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.The cemetery is located on 51 Mountain Road and is also called Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery. From The Landmark: The first meetinghouse in Princeton was built in 1762 and the first burial ground and the town common were established in 1768. Meeting House Cemetery was placed on the National...
The goal of this project is to build a single validated and documented shared family tree for the descendants of Henry Luce, early immigrant to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.== Historical Summary == Henry Luce , the immigrant, was first recorded in America on 13 November 1666 when he was mentioned as a juror in Scituate. In 1668 Henry owned lands at Rehoboth. He moved to Tisbury on Martha's ...
This project is a sub-project of a FUTURE COLONIAL AMERICA PROJECT! Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts, 1650-1865, Revised EditionAuthor: Joseph Caravalho III Published: September 2011 This extensively researched and expanded volume chronicles the lives of African American individuals and families who lived in the area now known as Hampden County in western Massachusetts between the year...
Dukes County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 16,535, making it the second-least populous county in Massachusetts. Its county seat is Edgartown.The county consists of the island of Martha's Vineyard (including Chappaquiddick Island), the Elizabeth Islands (including Cuttyhunk), the island of Nomans Land, and other associated islet...
Cedar Grove Cemetery,Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02124 USA:
Come on over and bring your Greenleaf ancestors with you. Profiles must be set to "public." Oulde Newbury as it was anciently called, was settled, incorporated and paid its first tax in the spring of 1635. It derived its name from Newbury, a town in Berkshire, England, about fifty miles from London.Until its incorporation, it was called by its Indian name Quascocunquen and was one of the larges...
This site is to collect information on immigrants who helped start America, United States. History of Hatfield HATFIELD CHRONOLOGY 1658 - Original land purchased 1660 - First house erected in Hatfield (Capawonk) then a part of Hadley, by Richard Fellows where the house of Frank Szawlowski now stands on Valley Street. 1661- Thomas Meekins opened grist mill on Mill River 1663- First settlers baby...