New England Genealogy Notes

Sources

1. Family tradition from Robert Paul O'Hara.
2. Virginia A. May, "Descendants of Isaac Woods," 14-page mimeograph prepared about 1976 (being a continuation of "The Woods Family of Groton" by Henry Ernest Woods, 1910), accompanied by a two-page mimeograph headed "We are descended directly from the following original proprietors of Groton, Mass." which traces Isaac Woods' ancestry back to twelve Groton proprietors.
3. Death Certificate, 27 November 1905, Massachusetts, 1905, Vol. 30, p. 396, No. 1578.
4. Bible given to "Zechariah and Marcella C. Fitch from their sincere friend Joshua Green / Groton / 1 Dec 1861," New York: American Bible Society, 1859. In possession of RJO.
5. Samuel A. Green, Groton During the Indian Wars, Groton: Privately Printed, 1883.
6. Jayne Pratt Lovelace, The Pratt Directory, 1998 ed., East Haddam, Connecticut: Ancestor House, 1998.
7. Elinor F. Skeate (ed.), The Family of Samuel Woods of Groton, MA, Privately Printed, 1998.
8. Ezra S. Stearns, "The descendants of Dea. Zachary Fitch of Reading," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 55: 288-294, 400-407; 56: 41-47, 1901-1902.
9. Elinor F. Skeate (ed.), Groton Family Newsletter.
10. Joseph Thompson Dodge, Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Mass., 1629-1894, 2 vols., Madison, Wisconsin: Democrat Publishing Company, 1894-1898 (reprinted in one volume with new pagination, Dodge Family Association, n.d.).
11. Elias Nason, A History of the Town of Dunstable, Massachusetts, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1877.
12. George Mooar, The Cummings Memorial, a Genealogical History of the Descendants of Isaac Cummings, an Early Settler of Topsfield, Massachusetts, New York: B.F. Cummings, 1903.
13. Peter George Parkhurst (PeterParkhurst@compuserve.com), 12143 Hilltop Drive, Los Altos Hills, California 94024, to RJO, 1 June 1998.
14. "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution," CD ROM ed., Novato, California: Brøderbund Software, Inc., 1997.
15. Caleb Butler, History of the Town of Groton, Including Pepperell and Shirley, From the First Grant of Groton Plantation in 1655, Boston: T.R. Marvin, 1848.
16. William H. Manning, "The Lakin family of Groton," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 63: 318-326, 1909.
17. George Richard Ott, "My Davis & Young Ancestors," http://www.gencircles.com/users/dickott/3, 26 November 2003.
18. FamilySearch, http://www.familysearch.org.
19. Lemuel Shattuck, Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck, Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1855.
20. Judy A. Ollikkala (71431.2534@compuserve.com) to RJO, 11 December 1999.
21. Marilyn Day, Westford Days: The Diaries of Emma, John W. and Ada Day 1862-1878, and the Families, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1998.
22. Herbert Arkin (arkin@sundial.net) to RJO, 3 January 1999.
23. Horace Davis, Dolor Davis: A Sketch of his Life with a Record of his Earlier Descendants, Privately Printed, 1881 (reprinted Salem: Higginson Book Company).
24. SAR Patriot Index, CD ROM ed., Buffalo, New York: Progeny Publishing, 1998.
25. Henry Ernest Woods, "The Woods Family of Groton," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 64, 1910.
26. Samuel A. Green, Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Massachusetts, Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1878 (reprinted at Groton: Town of Groton Bicentennial Committee, 1975).
27. Frank E. Shedd, Daniel Shed Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts 1327-1920, with English Ancestry by J. Gardner Bartlett, Boston: Shedd Family Association, 1921.
28. Douglas Richardson, "The English origin of the Lakin family of Reading and Groton, Massachusetts, with the possible origin of the Bloods of Reading and Groton," The American Genealogist, 71: 142-148, 1995.
29. Dale C. Kellogg & John B. Threlfall, "Richard Sawtell of Watertown, Mass., and some of his descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 126: 3-17, 129-140, 1972.
30. http://www.gendex.com/users/hole/hole/d0001/g0000054.html#I1609, 14 July 1998.
31. Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, 2nd. ed., Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860.
32. Fletcher-L mail, December 1998.
33. David P. Szatmary, Shay's Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.
34. Robert A. Gross (ed.), In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993 (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 65).
35. John F. Hartwell, The Hartwells of America, Privately Printed, 1958.
36. Roger Deane Harris, The Story of the Bloods: Including an Account of the Early Generations of the Family in America in Genealogical Lines from Robert Blood of Concord and Richard Blood of Groton, Boston: Privately Published, 1960.
37. Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants, Privately Printed, 1901.
38. Rebecca Hamel (rahamel@yahoo.com) to RJO, 2 March 1999.
39. Edwin R. Hodgman, History of the Town of Westford, in the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, 1659-1883, Lowell, Massachusetts: Morning Mail Company, 1883.
40. Lilley Eaton, Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Mass., Including the Present Towns of Wakefield, Reading, and North Reading, with Chronological and Historical Sketches, from 1639 to 1874, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1874.
41. John Brooks Threlfall, Twenty-six Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins, Madison, Wisconsin: Privately Printed, 1993.
42. Francis Wyman Association, http://www.wyman.org, 30 May 1998.
43. Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818, Boston: David Clapp and Son, 1879.
44. Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Frances Kempton, 1817-1879, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.
45. John Keep Nutting, Nutting Genealogy: A Record of Some of the Descendants of John Nutting, of Groton, Mass., Syracuse, New York: C.W. Bardeen, 1908.
Full text online: http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=%3C%3CAffiliate%20Site%20ID%3E%3E&bfpid=D12199&bfmtype=database
46. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985.
47. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862 (reprinted at Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1998).
48. Lemuel Shattuck, A History of the Town of Concord; Middlesex County, Massachusetts, From its Earliest Settlement to 1832; and of the Adjoining Towns, Bedford, Acton, Lincoln, and Carlisle; Containing Various Notices of County and State History Not Before Published, Boston: Russel, Odiorne & Company, 1835.
49. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003.
50. http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jennin/igmget.cgi/n=Jennings?I1155, 16 June 1998.
51. Clovis A. Brakebill (ed.), Revolutionary War Graves Register, Louisville: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1993.
52. Gwen Campbell (ed.), Tuttle Family in America, Descendants of Symon of Ringstead, Eng., Vol. IV, from "Tuttle-Tuthill Lines in America" Compiled by Alva M. Tuttle - 1968, Keno, Oregon: Solo Press, 1990.
53. Vital Records of Groton Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Salem: The Essex Institute, 1927.
54. http://www.misbach.org/pedigree/g126.html#I633, 1998.
55. Roscoe Conkling Fitch, History of the Fitch Family, A.D. 1400-1930, 2 vols., Privately Printed by the Fitch Family, 1930.
56. Virginia A. May, A Plantation Called Petapawag: Some Notes on the History of Groton, Massachusetts, Groton: Groton Historical Society, 1976.
57. Harriette Merrifield Forbes, Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them: 1653-1800, Boston: The Riverside Press, 1927.
58. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 3 vols., Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
59. John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins, Madison, Wisconsin: Privately Printed, 1990 (reprinted at Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1992).
60. Robert H. Rodgers, Middlesex County in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: Records of Probate and Administration, October 1649–December 1660, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999.
61. Douglas Richardson, "The English origin and ancestry of the Parker brothers of Massachusetts and of their probable aunt, Sarah Parker, wife of Edward Converse," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 153: 81-96, 1999.
62. Robert Charles Anderson, "Focus on Lynn," Great Migration Newsletter, 1(3): 19-22, 1990.
63. Elinor F. Skeate (ed.), The Family of Thomas Tarbell II of Groton, MA, 1618-1994, Privately Printed, 1998.
64. Stephen M. Lawson, http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/, 1998-1999.
65. Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935.
66. John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality .. Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600-1700, London, 1874 (reprinted Baltimore: Clearfield Company, 1997).
67. Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents: First Authoritative Edition, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 1995.
68. Wilhelmena H. (Eliot) Emerson, Ellsworth Eliot & George Edwin Eliot, Jr., Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians" 1598-1905, Published by a Committee of the Descendants, 1905.
69. Henry S. Nourse, The Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1725, Lancaster, 1884.
70. Valerie Giorgi, "Descendants of Samuel Scripture," Berkshire Genealogist, 16(1): 3-15, 1995.
71. http://www.smokykin.com/ged/f001/f72/a0017278.htm, 16 June 1998.
72. Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, 2 vols., Privately Printed, 1931, 1943.
73. Elinor F. Skeate (ed.), The Family of Abigail Tarbell Whitney of Groton, MA 1618-1994, Privately Printed, 1998.
74. GenForum, http://www.genforum.com.
75. GENDEX, http://www.gendex.com.
76. Robert Kline website.
77. J. Gardner Bartlett, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants Compiled by J. Gardner Bartlett for Edward Dean Adams, New York: Privately Printed, 1927.
78. deddier@aol.com to RJO, 26 May 1999.
79. http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/tunnell/03858, 16 June 1998.
80. Roger Thompson, "Edward and Joyce Goffe: New information about their origins," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 158: 101-104, 2004.
81. Roger Thompson, Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
82. Gary Boyd Roberts, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 1998.
83. Zachariah G. Whitman, The History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 2nd edition, Boston, 1842.
84. Arthur Hildreth, The Early Hildreths of New England: Read Before the Reunion of the Hildreth Family, at Chelmsford, June 16th, 1894, Boston: Privately Printed, 1894.
85. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/4858/g0000059.htm, 18 June 1998.
86. http://www.smokykin.com/ged/f001/f20/a0012006.htm, 19 June 1998.
87. Robert Charles Anderson, "English origin of Edward Garfield of Watertown, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 156: 327-332, 2002.
88. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., & Melinda Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Volume I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999.
89. G.A. Davis, 1956.
90. Michael Roman, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mroman/index.htm, 6 June 1998.
91. Eben Putnam, The Holden Genealogy, Boston: 1923-1926 [not seen].
Online edition: http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=%3C%3CAffiliate%20Site%20ID%3E%3E&bfpid=D10288&bfmtype=database
92. Donald James Cogswell, Descendants of John Cogswell: The Cogswell Family, 1635-1996, Ware, Massachusetts: Cogswell Family Association, 1998.
93. RJO's estimate from other sources cited.
94. http://www.gendex.com/users/cfa1996/new_eng/d0003/g0000019.html#I8902, 14 July 1998.
95. Charles Edward Banks, The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, Boston, 1930 (reprinted at Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968).
96. http://members.aol.com/sargen2/g0000049.htm#I0282, 16 June 1998.
97. Marion Parker Congdon, The Ancestry of Joseph Fletcher Parker 1880-1962 of Duluth, Minnesota, Duluth: privately printed, 2003, ISBN 0-88082-168-X.
98. Eric B. Schultz & Michael J. Tougias, King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict, Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1999.
99. J.H. Temple & George Sheldon, History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 Years, with an Account of the Prior Occupation of the Territory by the Squakheags and with Family Genealogies, Albany, New York: Joel Mussell, 1875 [not seen; quoted in Schultz & Tougias, King Philip's War, pp. 166-167].
100. John Plummer, "Isaac Cummings of Essex County, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 145: 239-240, 1991.
101. Abbott Lowell Cummings, "John Comins (c.1668-1751) of Woburn and Oxford, Massachusetts, and Windham County, Connecticut: Exploring his origins and connections," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 153: 52-72, 1999.
102. Frances Rose-Troup, The Massachusetts Bay Company and its Predecessors, New York: The Grafton Press, 1930 (reprinted at Clifton, New Jersey: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1973).
103. Helen Schatvet Ullman, "Notes on a line from Henry1 Adams," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 153: 213-220, 1999.
104. Prentiss Glazier, "Chamberlain families of early New England," The American Genealogist, 51:151-153, 1975.
105. William Lawrence Proctor & Dolly Pauline Proctor, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Proctor of Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., with Notes of Some Connected Families, Ogdenburg, New York: Republican & Journal Print, 1898.
106. http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/jinx/424/fam00768.htm, 16 June 1998.
107. Isaac Cummings Family Association, http://www.mtjeff.com/~bodenst/ICFA/index.htm, 1998.
108. Patti Waldo Swaim, http://genforum.genealogy.com/cogswell/, 21 April 1998.
109. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., & Melinda Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.
110. Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical gleanings in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, pp. 158-188, 1887.
111. Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical gleanings in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, pp. 254-257, 1896.
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