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There is a birth record for Mary Eastman in Corinth, Vermont, daughter of Josiah and Rachel Eastman, born on December 5 1804. There is also a record for a Nancy Eastman born in the same place on March 21 1807, also a daughter of Josiah Eastman. In the book "150 years in the Dales and Hills" by Milton Ferguson, Nancy Eastman is described as being the daughter of Josiah Eastman and Rachel Holden.
Thomas Munsell (Junior) married Mary Eastman on September 7th 1823, in Licking County,...
In October of 1814, Cuthbert and Anna Harrison sold six acres of land to Wilford Lee. The land lay on the Bullitt County side of the Rolling Fork River. Beyond that, the only clue as to its location was that it was "opposite Frakes Ferry."
We learn from an early survey that one Henry Frakes was living on the Hardin County side of Rolling Fork River in November 1797. The survey text is transcribed below. We have attempted to transcribe it without altering its spellings.
"Surveyed for the...
Article written by Ricki Lazzerini, 2006.
During the 19th century, women had a very specific and limited role in society. Their domain consisted of the home and children, and they rarely strayed from this role. Historians have created names for this 19th century family construct, such as the Cult of Domesticity and Separate Spheres Ideology. The women's sphere was the home and the men's sphere was the bread-winning job. These Victorian ideals were the norm for upper and middle class...
Not far from the grave of William Red ford (about half a mile) upon a little knoll is another Covenanter's grave,—the grave of another "forefather of the hamlet." Here "Old Mortality" would have lingered lovingly, for Walter Ker had been a prisoner in the Whig's Vault of Dunottar Castle, near Stonehaven, on the North Sea, south of Aberdeen. Throughout the long defense of the Covenant the name of Ker had been constantly conspicuous in the low countries among its defenders. Sir Walter Scott...
Pages 520/1 of Provincial and State Papers of New Hampshire, 1936, (Henry Harrison Metcalf)
JOHN DAVIS 1756 HAMPSTEAD
In the Name of God Amen this 15th day of November 1756 I John Davis of Hampstead in the Province of New Hampshire in New England Weaver: * * * Imprimis I Give and bequeath to Sarah my Dearly beloved wife the one half of my Dwelling House the improvement thereof. During her natural life with her thirds of the rest of my Estate Item I Give to my well beloved sons namely...
Margaret (Jones) Brockway, who married Wolston Brockway, was possibly the daughter of Lewis Jones and Deborah Palmer.
The following snippet from the book "Tillotson, Tillison, Tillitson" by Margaret Tillotson Ragsdale connects Mary Jones as a sister to Margaret Jones.
"...Brockways owned contiguous acres and seemed chummy. Wolston and Jonathan co-signed an instrument early in 1709; Wolston had drawn lots for the Tillotson brothers; Jonathan and Wolston’s widow signed the administrator’s...
The following is a snippet from a book by Margaret Tillotson Ragsdale:
"Brockways owned contiguous acres and seemed chummy. Wolston and Jonathan co-signed an instrument early in 1709; Wolston had drawn lots for the Tillotson brothers; Jonathan and Wolston’s widow signed the administrator’s bond; the Brockway son Jonathan and a Tillotson son, David, were close friends. These incidents cry out the relationship between Mary (Jones) Tillotson and Margaret (Jones) Brockway. The crux of the...
John Davis was the seventh great grandfather of actress Bette Davis. Here is a story on him:
John Davis , [another source states he was the son of THOMAS DAVIS, brother to JAMES] son of James & Cicely (Thayer) Davis, was b. 28 Jan 1621/23 in Newbury, Essex Co MA, and d. 18 July 1694 in Haverhill MA. He married 10 Dec 1646 in Haverhill MA to Jane Peaslee, dau of Joseph & Mary (Johnson) Peaslee. She b. 1627 in Haverhill MA and d. 12 Jan 1684 in Dover, Strafford Co NH. According...