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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...
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 "Mas...
If you know of a profile representing someone hanged in Colonial America , please add to this project. Additional resource links welcome for the "overview." From Wikipedia John Billington is thought to be one of the first men to be hanged in New England. Billington was convicted of murder in September of 1630 after he shot and killed John Newcomen.[6]During the Salem witch trials, most of the m...
Howe they lived, died, survived and left their mark...Howe's this:Biography 1676 Lancaster Indian Raid Elizabeth Kerley, who was born in 1660 to Captain Henry Kerley and his first wife, the former Elizabeth White, both of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Elizabeth along with her father had excaped the well documented Massacre at the Lancaster settlement, which was part of the long struggle with the na...