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| Changed: 6 Oct 2004 |
| Residence: Roxbury, Suffolk, MA U. S. A. 1 |
| Residence: Charlestown, Suffolk, MA U. S. A. 1 |
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Marriage:
from TORREY:
NEWELL, Abraham (1626-1692) & Susanna RAND; 8 Feb 1651; Roxbury/Charlestown
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- Title:
New England Marriages Prior To 1700
Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior To 1700 (Balt
imore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1985)
- Title: Walter Lee Sheppard, The Ancestry and Descendants of Thomas Stickney E
vans & Sarah Ann Fifield Both of Fryeburg, Maine (Ann Arbor, MI: privately printed, 1940)Page: p. 95
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Newell Ancestry
William Morrell Emery, Newell Ancestry, The Story of the Antecedents o
f William Stark Newell (Boston, MA: privately printed, 1944)
Page: p. 13
- Title:
The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island
John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island Com
prising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation (Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, 1887 [reprinted with additions and corrections, Baltimore, MD: 1969])
Page: p. 350
- Title:
Basset-Preston Ancestors
Mary Isabella Preston, Bassett-Preston Ancestors; a History of the Ance
stors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Wasson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston) (New Haven, CT: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930)
Page: p. 198
- Title:
Descendants of William and Dorcas Fallas of Boston, Massachusetts
Lura Fallas Alexander, Genealogy, Descendants of William and Dorcas F
allas of Boston, Mass.: Both Male and Female Lines Brought Down Several Generations, Male Lines Bearing the Family Name, Are Complete to Date; Other Ancestors of William Albert Fallas, Designated as Alled Families; Some Hollands; the MacLarens; the Brewer Family, Some Descendants of John and Dorcas Brewer of Boston (Kansas City, MO: privately printed, 1929)
Page: p. 251
- Title: Rand, Florence Osgood, A Genealogy of the Rand Family in the U.S. an
d His Descendants (New York: The Republic Press, 1898)Page: p. 10
- Title:
The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown
Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown -- i
n the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1629-1818, 2 vols. (Boston, MA: D. Clapp and Son, 1879 (reprinted by the New England History Press, 1982])
“A little over a hundred years have passed since the first publication o
f Thomas Bellows Wyman's The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown in 1879. Its broad scope, the thoroughness of its scholarship and the meticulousness of its detail have made it an indispensable tool for the student of history, and the genealogist alike. It has continuously enjoyed the reputation of being one of the best and most accurate books of its type. Charlestown is particularly fortunate in that almost all of its early records have survived, despite the burning of the town by the British in 1775. What makes The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown superior to most other works of its kind is that the author utilized not only obvious sources of information-town and church records-but other types of documents as well, particularly the deeds, and probate and court files of Middlesex County. For over thirty years Wyman collected material from many sources relating to Charlestown's inhabitants from its earliest settlement to 1818, carefully sifting them for their genealogical value. Correlating the facts from these sources and weighing the evidence in his typically impartial manner, he produced a book whose accuracy has stood up to a century of scrutiny. The result is a monumental genealogical compendium of all families and individuals for nearly the first two centuries of the town's existence. As one of the older settlements in New England, Charlestown is genealogically one of the most significant. Many well established families trace their beginnings to Charlestown. From this base people settled all over New England and beyond, and today thousands of Americans can trace lines of ancestry back to its early families. Thus, the book's importance reaches well beyond Charlestown's borders. In addition to being a "parent" town, Charlestown was a major seaport, attracting a constant stream of merchants, mariners and seamen, some of whom intermarried with the local populace and added to the blend of surnames. The most remarkable feature of the book is Wyman's complete lack of discrimination between the distinguished and less distinguished town residents. Most town histories written before or since typically devote most of their space to prominent individuals or families or those of long-standing residence while only mentioning briefly -- or omitting entirely -- the lesser lights. Wyman's method allowed for no such distinction. He was fond of saying that the persons and families eminent in social station or political preferment were sure of recognition in a thousand ways not open to their less fortunate neighbors, and that his aim had been to gather the scattered memorials of the many, rather than to write panegyrics on the few. The book's plan is straightforward, and the alphabetical arrangement of the genealogies does away with the need for a name index. For the larger families an index for the heads of each individual family group is provided at the beginning of the family sketch. Each sketch is divided into two parts: the genealogies and the estates. It is this latter section in which the author makes his most valuable contribution. By making these records readily available, the need to seek out the often inaccessible or deteriorating originals, is eliminated. Besides the genealogies and estates, several other features contribute to the book's usefulness. Among these arc the chronological schedule of conveyances to 1818, a schedule of the ancient colored inhabitants on record prior to 1800, and an 1818 map of the town.Page: p. 782
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