Book Purge - Cape Cod Library of Local History & Genealogy, Vols. 1 & 2

Smith, Leonard Jr., compiler. Cape Cod Library of Local History & Genealogy, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1992.  

Volume 1

Page 18 - Crowell, Joshua, "Cape Cod Byways," 1935.  North Shore Ways of Barnstable - The village of Barnstable, with its abundance of stone walls winding along above a rock-ridged foundation, commands an outlook unique in character and unexcelled in beauty. Sandy Neck, seven miles of irregular glistening dunes forming a giant protecting arm, gives the bay within a distinction and charm which can only be measured by frequent visits with varying ide, cloud, sun and seasonable effects.

One space along the highway presents a beautiful picture, signifying that the few but choice approaches to Barnstable Bay will amply repay investigation.

Of these approaches, beginning at the Yarmouth end of the highway through Barnstable, Keveney Lane is rural and picturesque, Indian Trail compelling but almost too narrow for comfort and Commerce Road has advantages not to be denied. Besides the fact it is a fishing village at the signs at the sandy lanes disclose with gleaming touches of bay and dune in the distance it is primarily a long curving sweep around the edge of thicket, swamp growth, marshes and creek.

Pausing at the bridge over the creek, with the storage plant opposite, we try to locate the ship-yards of

Ahnentafel #1029 - Elizabeth Goodwin

Elizabeth Goodwin 

Born: ca. 1620, Essex, England

Died: after 1686

Buried: probably in Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT

Married: ca. 1638 John Crow in Hartford, CT

Immigration 1632 on the Lyon with her parents.  They lived first at Cambridge, Massachusetts and removed to Hartford, Connecticut in 1636.  

Records:

1632 - June - The Lyon set sail from London with Elizabeth, her parents and aunt, uncle and cousin.

Notebook - England, Canada, Ireland & Scotland No. 2

Allison, K.J. A History of the County of York, East Riding, Vol. II, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Map of the Wapentake of Dickering includes towns/parishes Lowthorpe, 

In 1086 the East Riding was the only part of Yorkshire which was divided into hundreds. The transformation of hundreds into wapentakes had already been completed in the other two ridings and was in various stages of completion in the rest of the Danelaw. The change took place in the East Riding during the next 80 years and by the 1160s the 18 Domesday hundreds had been formed into 6 wapentakes. Dickering wapentake, first mentioned in 1166, was broadly coextensive with the three Domesday hundreds of Hunthou, Turbar and Burton.

Burton hundred took its name from its principal township of Burton Agnes. It contained in 1086 the remainder of the townships, mostly in the centre and west, which make up Dickering wapentake. These were Binnington, Boythorpe, Burton Agnes, Butterwick, Carnaby, Caythorpe, Ganton, Gransmoor, Haisthorpe, Harpham, Kilham, Langtoft, Lowthorpe, Octon, Potter Brompton, Rudston, Ruston Parva, Swaythorpe, Thornholme, Thorpe, Thwing and Willerby, together with 'Fornetorp' later depopulated. 

The hundreds of Hunthou, Turbar, and Burton were probably grouped around the large manors of Bridlington, Hunmanby and Burton Agnes respectively. . . . Burton Agnes had 3 berewicks and soke in 5 townships in Burton. 

The wapentake remained in the hands of the Crown until at least the mid 17th century. In 1552 and 1567 the office of wapentake bailiff, traceable from c. 1220 was granted for life to successive holders, the second of whom was rewarded out of the issues of this and other wapentakes.

Research Log - 400 Years Ago

1617


March

2 - Margerie Skynner of Braintree, Essex England wrote her will:

To my daughter Margerie five pounds (and other goods) and to her son John Gill a bullock.  To my son William Skynner five pounds.  

To my son John Skynner twenty pounds.  

To my daughter Rachell five pounds.  I do give and bequeath further to my daughter Rachell three pewter platters of the greater sort and three of the best cushions in the great chamber and my warming pan.  

To Sara Taylcoat a flock bed and a flock bolster, a coverlet and a pair of blankets (and other effects). To Rachell Taylcoate a little kettle of a gallon, a brass pot, a posnet (&c.).  

And I will that the pewter which I had of my son in law

Notebook - Connecticut No. 1

Allis, Marguerite. Historic Connecticut, New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, nd.

Further excursion among the stones revealed monuments to five Lathrops and six Leffingwells.  Still musing, the Pilgrim trudged off beside the meadows to where the two Old Lathrop Houses face one another across the brink of Washington Street. [Norwich, CT]

The lower one stands on land Samuel Lathrop inherited from his mother, but his seventeenth century house was burned in 1745.  Dr. Daniel Lathrop, his grandson, was responsible for the present structure, yet it cannot be said that he built it, for there is no way of knowing how much was reclaimed from the former damaged abode.  It is quite possible that this very kitchen saw Mohegan Indians lying before the fire of an autumn night, for the Lathrops would never close their doors against the original owners of the soil, and Colonel Simeon, one of Samuel's sons, was a great sympathizer with the wrongs of the Mohegans. 

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Barber, John. Connecticut Historical Collections, New Haven, CT: Durrie & Peck & J.W. Barber, nd

Norwich, Lebanon, New London, Windsor, New Haven, Farmington, Norwalk, Saybrook, Guilford, Stonington, Hartford, East Hartford

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Barbour, Lucius. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1977. 

Notebook - Massachusett No. 1

Barber, John. History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts, Worcester, MA: Dorr, Howland & Co., 1839. 

Barnstable County incorporated in 1685, description of the county

Barnstable is the county town of Barnstable county, and is a port of entry.  It was incorporated September 3d, 1639. There is no particular account to be found of the first settlement of this town.  Probably there was none made much before its incorporation, as but two persons are named in the original grant.  "The Indian name of the place appears to have been Mattacheese, Mattacheest, or Mattacheeset,.   The church at Scituate being in a broken condition, the Rev. John Lothrop of that place removed with part of the church to Barnstable, in October, 1639, the same year the town was granted by the Old Colony.  It appears from the records which have been preserved, that all the south side of the town was amicably purchased of Wianno, and several other sachems, about 1650.  Three is reason to believe that all the north part was likewise purchased of the natives, although no record of it now remains.

The Rev. John Lothrop was the first minister in this town, as has been stated; his successor was the Rev. Thomas Walley, who was ordained in 1663 . . .

It has been stated "the West Barnstable church is the first independent Congregational church of that name in the world."  It was organized in 1616, in England, principally through the instrumentality of Rev. Henry Jacob, who was chosen and constituted its first pastor. 

Notebook - Dad's Families No. 6

Addams, Jane. My Friend, Julia Lathrop, New York, NY: Macmillan Company, 1935.

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Arnold, Isaac.  The Life of Benedict Arnold; His Patriotism & His Treason, Chicago, IL: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1880.

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Butler Family Ancestor Charts

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Clark, Donald. Ancestor Charts re: Clark Family

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Fiske, Jane. "A New England Immigrant Kinship Network," The American Genealogist, July/October 1997.

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Fitch, Roscoe. History of the Fitch Family AD 1400-1930, Vol. I, Detroit, MI: Fitch, nd. Includes allied lines Stacie, Algore and Mason

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"Goodwin," Our Genealogy Gateway to the Past, website re: William Goodwin family.

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History of Wayne & Clay Counties Illinois, Chicago, IL: Globe Publishing Co., 1884.  Biographical sketch of J.F.S. Hopkins. 

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Hodges, Almon. Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family in New England, Boston, MA: Dutton & Wentworth, 1853. 

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John Wesley Henry.  Genealogy of John Wesley Henry (1847-1936) married Mary Robertson (1845-1937).

In Memoriam May 17th

1667 Elizabeth (White) Goodwin age 75 in Farmington, CT.  The daughter of Robert & Bridget (Allgar) White was born in Essex, England in 1592.  She married William Goodwin in Shalford, England in 1616 and had at least one daughter Elizabeth.

1935 James O. Osborn Succumbs at Sims

James Oliver Osborn died Sunday at his home in Sims.  He was 44 years old and had been in impaired health for several months.

Surviving are his widow, one daughter Mrs. Irene Legg of Wayne City, three sisters, Mrs. Mary Rogers of Wayne CIty, Mrs. Rose Harmon of Chicago and Mrs. Flossie Robertson of Bluford, and one brother Home Osborn of Four Acres O.  Another brother Everett Osborn died two weeks ago. 

Funeral services will be held at the Baptist church in Sims at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon.  Burial will be made in the Thomason cemetery west of Wayne City.

In Memoriam March 11th

1673 William Goodwin in Farmington, CT age 82.  He was born ca. 1591 in England and married Elizabeth White in Shalford England 1616.  They had a daughter Elizabeth.

1976 Orley Richardson age 94 was born in Illinois in 1881 the son of Edward & Anna (Gentle) Richardson.  He married Ethel Austin in 1903 and they had six children: Leonard, Aubrey, Cyril, Vernon, Clyde and Parvin.

1986 Mildred (McCracken) Courtright in Cisne, IL ag e 73.  She was born in 1912 and married Guy Courtright in 1932.  She is buried in Bestow Cemetery in Wayne Co., IL.

2010 – Phyllis Bergeson, 56 of Mt. Vernon, Illinois passed away at 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.  Surviving family members include her husband: Edward Bergeson of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; 2 sons: Tony Bergeson and wife Kathy of Mt. Vernon, Illinois and Marine Gunnery Sergeant Steven Bergeson and family of San Diego, California; 2 daughters: Teresa Johnson of Richland Center, Wisconsin and Stacy Sherrell and husband David of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; brother: William Phillips and wife Janet of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; 2 sisters: Florence Logue of Mt. Vernon, Illinois and Laura Walker of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; 13 grandchildren; several nieces and nephews also survive.

Her parents, three brothers: John Wayne Philips, Thomas Phillips and James Phillips and one great granddaughter: Hope preceded her in death.

She was born on Friday, August 28, 1953 in Mt. Vernon, Illinois the daughter of the late John Abner and Juanita (Gossage) Phillips.  She married Edward Bergeson on December 29, 1971.

November 7th

Lots of birthdays today:

1596 Arthur Morehead in Edinburgh, Scotland, son of David & Marioun (Lowsone) Morehead.

1651 Deacon Joseph Loomis the son of Deacon John & Elizabeth (Scott) Loomis.  He died in 1699.

1654 Elizabeth Joy in Boston, MA the daughter of Thomas & Joan (Gallop) Joy

1742 Samuel Avery son of Rev. Ephraim & Deborah (Lathrop) Avery