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From: "Carol L. Dobson" <>
Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] GENMASSACHUSETTS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 34
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:27:59 -0600
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I'd sure like to see your list of books, so when you decide where to list
them, please let us know.

Carol Dobson


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> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: Sparhawk - Historic Homes (etc) of Worcester Co. by E....
> ()
> 2. Re: Sparhawk-Adams-White (url end of report for more)
> ()
> 3. Probate records Worcester county only- What is the code?
> (Chris Burningham)
> 4. Sir William Pepperell's parents - a source in England
> ()
> 5. Re: Probate records Worcester county only- What is the code?
> (mybones)
> 6. The Green Mountain Boys - by Daniel Pierce Thompson - full
> book downloadable ()
> 7. Genealogy Books to sell (Diane Badger)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:30:41 EST
> From:
> Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Sparhawk - Historic Homes (etc) of
> Worcester Co. by E....
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> I am trying to figure out my family that MAY have been descended from the
> Sparhawks. I am trying to prove my gg-grandmother who was a White and he
> ancestors were Adams, were from the Sparhawks.
>
> thanks for running the lineage from Nathaniel.
>
> Margaret
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:42:41 EST
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> Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Sparhawk-Adams-White (url end of
> report for more)
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> Henry Adams*; b. c1583, Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England.
> * m. _Edith Squire*_ (http://www.concentric.net/~pvb/GEN/esqui.html)
> (1587-1672/3) on Oct. 19, 1609, at Charleton Mackrell, Somersetshire,
> England.
> * Henry and Edith had 9 children:
> * Henry Adams, Jr. (1610-1675), emigrated with his parents to
> Braintree
> MA. Henry was appointed Clerk of Writs at Braintree MA on Nov. 4, 1646.
> He
> was a founder of Medfield MA and a Leiutenant in King Philip's War. He
> was
> killed in his doorway in an Indian attack, Feb. 21, 1675/6.
> * m. Elizabeth Paine (1620-1675), on Nov. 17, 1643, in New England.
> She
> was bap. July 23, 1620 in Tenderton, Yorkshire, England, the daughter of
> Moses Paine and Elizabeth ___?
> * Henry, Jr. and Elizabeth had 8 children.
> * _Thomas Adams*_ (http://www.concentric.net/~pvb/GEN/tadam.html)
> (1612-1688)
> * m. Mary Blackmore* (1613-1694/5)
> * Jonathan Adams (1614-1619), the only child of Henry and Edith to
> remain in England when his parents came to America on 1638. Jonathan came
> to
> America later, in 1651.
> * m1. Joane Close on Feb. 7, 1638/9. She may have died prior to
> Jonathan's emigration in 1651. Jonathan and Joane had at least 3 children,
> born in
> England.
> * m2. Elizabeth Holman in c1665. She was born May 19, 1644, in
> Cambridge MA, the daughter of William Holman and Winnifred ___? Jonathan
> and
> Elizabeth had 6 children.
> * Samuel Adams (1616-1688), a Freeman of the Mass. Bay Colony. He
> constructed and erected mills in Lowell MA (part of Chelmsford). He is
> bur. in
> Charlestown MA. Samuel and his 2nd wife, Rebecca Graves are progenitors
> of John
> Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 30th President of the U.S.
> * m1. Mary Eglesfield in c1646. She was the daughter of Emanuel
> Eglesfield and Susanna Gray of London. Susanna was the daughter of Thomas
> Gray and
> Katherine Miles. Susanna was the sister of Parnel Gray (b. c1601), wife
> of
> the Hon. Increase Nowell, and also the sister of Katherine Gray (b.
> c1604), the
> wife of Capt. Thomas Graves. Mary d. in 1650. Samuel and Mary had one
> child,
> Samuel, b. July 3, 1647, Charlestown MA, who died young.
> * m2. _Rebecca Graves_
> (http://www.concentric.net/~pvb/GEN/rgraves.html) (b. c1631), daughter of
> Capt. Thomas Graves and Katherine Gray and a
> niece of Samuel's first wife, Mary. Rebecca d. Sept. 8, 1664, Chelmsford
> MA.
> Samuel and Rebecca had 8 children.
> * m3. Esther Sparhawk (1636-1692) on May 7, 1668 in Chelmsford.
> Esther
> is the daughter of Deacon Nathaniel Sparhawk and Mary Angier of Cambridge
> MA. Samuel and Esther had 4 children.
> * _http://www.concentric.net/~pvb/GEN/hadam.html_
> (http://www.concentric.net/~pvb/GEN/hadam.html)
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:57:39 -0800 (PST)
> From: Chris Burningham <>
> Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Probate records Worcester county only-
> What is the code?
> To:
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>
> I have been 3 times to the Salt Lake family history library and tried to
> find the probate record for Peter Gauvin Jr. of Sutton 1904, #34298. It
> has been a most frustrating challenge. This is the index information, but
> trying to find the administration docket is unbelievable! Has any one ever
> looked in the probates films past 1881for Wocester County? There is an
> excellent index up to that date but I cannot find an clean index after
> that. Usually one will find the index at the beginning of each year of the
> probate and collaborate that with the page and volume. How do the clerks
> do it? Do I have to look at four microfilmed films to find the docket
> number. They are helter-skelter with no distinction of how to find the
> docket. I haven't been able to see a system. They are not alphabetical,
> numerical nor chronological by first indication. Nor page number unless
> there is a system. Has any one looked for a probate during the 1900's and
> more recent and how is that accomplished?
> Where do I find the method of finding the record that corresponds with the
> docket number except looking at every docket number for the four year
> span. I really don't want to send away for it if I can find it myself.
> Even the librarian there had no idea. If there is anyone out there that
> can point me in a better direction it would be wonderful. I look forward
> to hearing from any experience that someone might have had with this
> subject matter. It's that or taking a lot of hours of my time to glean
> the films, record by record. Thank you for any help. Chris
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:10:10 EST
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> Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Sir William Pepperell's parents - a source
> in England
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> Join Date: Feb 2006
> Location: Hertfordshire, England
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>
> Sir William Pepperell
>
> ____________________________________
>>From further delving upon the web it would appear that Sir William
> Pepperell's (the hero of Louisberg) parents were William Pepperell and
> Margery Bray,
> of Kittery, Massachusetts (now in Maine). Sir William's parentage is not
> cited
> in Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies at all. It is interesting that
> Burke states that Sir William is Cornish by descent when you consider
> that the
> Eliots whom focusoninfinity mentioned could also be of Cornish extraction
> in
> that the estates of the Earls of St Germans - family name Eliot - lie in
> the
> county of Cornwall in the south west of England. It could be that the
> portion
> of New England where the Pepperells settled were peopled by settlers from
> England's West Country in general and from Cornwall in particular?
>
> Yours aye,
>
> John
> __________________
> John J. Tunesi of Liongam
> Hertfordshire, England
> _http://www.heraldrysociety.us/forums/showthread.php?t=2089_
> (http://www.heraldrysociety.us/forums/showthread.php?t=2089)
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:43:29 -0500
> From: "mybones" <>
> Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Probate records Worcester county only-
> What is the code?
> To: <>
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>
> The post-1881 (Series B) up to about 1920 were recently moved to the
> Western Worcester Courthouse in East Brookfield. Call Mike at 508-885-6033
> (or 617-742-8383 x344) about getting copies.
> Sandy
>
>>I have been 3 times to the Salt Lake family history library and tried to
>>find the probate record for Peter Gauvin Jr. of Sutton 1904, #34298. It
>>has been a most frustrating challenge. This is the index information, but
>>trying to find the administration docket is unbelievable! Has any one ever
>>looked in the probates films past 1881for Wocester County? There is an
>>excellent index up to that date but I cannot find an clean index after
>>that. Usually one will find the index at the beginning of each year of the
>>probate and collaborate that with the page and volume. How do the clerks
>>do it? Do I have to look at four microfilmed films to find the docket
>>number. They are helter-skelter with no distinction of how to find the
>>docket. I haven't been able to see a system. They are not alphabetical,
>>numerical nor chronological by first indication. Nor page number unless
>>there is a system. Has any one looked for a probate during the 1900's and
>>more recent and how is that accomplished?
>> Where do I find the method of finding the record that corresponds with
>> the docket number except looking at every docket number for the four year
>> span. I really don't want to send away for it if I can find it myself.
>> Even the librarian there had no idea. If there is anyone out there that
>> can point me in a better direction it would be wonderful. I look forward
>> to hearing from any experience that someone might have had with this
>> subject matter. It's that or taking a lot of hours of my time to glean
>> the films, record by record. Thank you for any help. Chris
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:51:50 EST
> From:
> Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] The Green Mountain Boys - by Daniel Pierce
> Thompson - full book downloadable
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> The Green Mountain Boys: a historical tale of the early settlement of
> Vermont. By the author of... By Daniel Pierce Thompson
>
>
> _The Green Mountain Boys: a historical tale of... - Google Book Search_
> (http://books.google.com/books?vid=O
> CLC03679634&id=JuvDqyNKc78C&pg=RA1-PA1&lpg=RA1-PA1&dq=The+Green+Mountain+Boys&ie=ISO-8859-1#PRA1-PA15,M1)
>
> (_http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03679634&id=JuvDqyNKc78C&pg=RA1-PA1&lp
> g=RA1-PA1&dq=The+Green+Mountain+Boys&ie=ISO-8859-1#PRA1-PA15,M1_
> (http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03679634&id=JuvDqyNKc78C&pg=RA1-PA1&lpg=RA1-PA1&dq=T
> he+Green+Mountain+Boys&ie=ISO-8859-1#PRA1-PA15,M1) )
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:16:10 -0500
> From: "Diane Badger" <>
> Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Genealogy Books to sell
> To: <>
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> Does anyone have any ideas as to where I can sell a whole bunch of
> genealogy
> books. Should I just list them on my own Genealogy website?
>
> I am not even sure this is a proper question for this forum. If it isn't I
> apologize, but I need to sell about 100 genealogy books all on
> Massachusetts
> genealogy.
>
> Is Ebay a good place? or half.com?
>
>
> Diane L. Badger
> Old Colony Ancestors
>
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