Author Archive
We are happy to announce that we have added Volume 71 (2023) to the Mayflower Descendant database. This update adds 232 pages, 4,344 records, and 4,316 searchable names.
The Mayflower Descendant was originally published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants starting in 1899. In 2015, New England Historic Genealogical Society assumed stewardship of the venerable journal. It is an essential source of information on many New England families, and its focus is not limited to those with Mayflower lineage. The journal includes transcriptions and abstracts of deeds, wills, vital records, and other original documents. In addition, it features compiled genealogies and analytical studies of genealogical problems.
The indexing for these records includes full names, publication year (not the year of the record), and article titles, and authors.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added six new and updated sketches to Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. The people profiled in these sketches lived in Fort Dummer, Springfield, and Vernon.
These sketches were created by Scott Andrew Bartley, who is researching the heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War. His study project is not only identifying those who sought better lives on the frontier, but is also illustrating major players on the political and religious fronts and uncovering regional migration patterns for this period.
The following new and updated sketches have been added:
Powers, Nathaniel (Springfield)
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
We have added 32 new sketches to our Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies database today! All of the sketches included in this update are proven participants, disproven participants, or eyewitnesses.
The goal of this project is to create comprehensive biographical sketches for all individuals associated with or known to have participated in the Boston Tea Party, which took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston Harbor. This project is launched in conjunction with the announcement of the Boston Tea Party Descendants Program, a new lineage society for those whose ancestors participated in the historic revolutionary event. This project, as well as the Descendants Program, are both in collaboration with the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. You can learn more about the Boston Tea Party Descendants Program here.
Below is the list of new biographies for the following individuals:
Beals, Adam, Jr. (1754-1834) [Participant]
Bolter, Thomas (1735-1811) [Participant]
Bradlee, Josiah (1754-1798) [Participant]
Bradlee, Thomas (1744-1805) [Participant]
Burbeck, William (1716-1785) [Eyewitness]
Clarke/Clark, Benjamin (1727-1783) [Participant]
Coolidge, Joseph (1730-1775) [Eyewitness]
Dana, Thomas, Jr. (1753-1787) [Participant]
Davis, Robert (1747-1798) [Participant]
Eaton, Joseph (1750-1825) [Participant]
Eayres, Joseph (1733-1790) [Participant]
Grant, Moses (1744-1817) [Participant]
Guy/Gye, Timothy (1720-1757) [Disproved Participant]
Hendly/Hendley, William (1748-1830) [Participant]
Hunnewell, Richard (1731-1805) [Participant]
Hunnewell, Richard, Jr. (1757-1823) [Participant]
Kinnison/Kennison/Kinniston, David (__-1852) [Eyewitness]
Lee, Joseph (1744-1831) [Participant]
Loring, Matthew (1751-1829) [Participant]
Lovering, Joseph (1759-1848) [Participant]
Lyon/Lyons, David (1737-1803) [Eyewitness]
Machin, Thomas (1744-1816) [Disproved Participant]
Maxwell, Thompson (1741-1832) [Participant]
Melvin, William (1742-1832) [Participant]
Moore, Thomas (1753-1813) [Participant]
Mountfort/Mountford, Joseph (1750/51-1838) [Participant]
Palmer, Joseph Pearse (1750-1797) [Participant]
Shed/Shedd, Joseph (1732-1812) [Participant]
Sloper, Samuel (1747-__) [Participant]
Williams, David (1759-1836) [Participant]
Williams, Thomas (1754-1817) [Participant]
More sketches will be released soon, so stay tuned for more!
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members, including Guest Members, at no cost. Consider membership.
We are excited to announce that we have added 103 more volumes of school records to our database, Portsmouth, NH: School Records, 1846-1958. This database is the result of a partnership between the Portsmouth Athenaeum and NEHGS, and it is full of interesting surprises that can help paint a picture about the students’ lives. This addition contains more records from the late 19th and early 20th century and includes many names of children whose families emigrated from Eastern Europe, Italy, and Greece.
In addition to birth dates, parents, and residences, you can also find nicknames, deaths, doodles, course plans and books, notes about major events, staff, children running away, the weather, pranks, and punishments. When complete, this database will have 597 volumes. The current addition includes 103 volumes from Cabot, Farragut, and Franklin schools, and the Portsmouth Teacher Training School.
The Portsmouth Athenaeum maintains a library of over 40,000 volumes and has held the city’s historic school records since 1991.
The records included in this database are now housed in the collections of Portsmouth Public Library.
We thank the volunteers who have made this database possible! If you are interested in volunteering, please contact our Database Volunteer Coordinator, Zobeida, at zobeida.chaffee-valdes@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added 6 new and updated sketches to Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. The people profiled in these sketches lived in Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Vernon.
These sketches were created by Scott Andrew Bartley, who is researching the heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War. His study project is not only identifying those who sought better lives on the frontier, but is also illustrating major players on the political and religious fronts and uncovering regional migration patterns for this period.
The following new and updated sketches have been added:
Orvis, William, Jr. (Vernon, Dummerston)
Partridge, Jasper (Brattleboro, Guilford)
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Edwin Whitefield, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today we’ve updated Early New England Families, 1641-1700, adding two new sketches. These new sketches feature Samuel Gaylord (m. 1646, 1681) and Gamaliel Phippen (m. 1649).
The Early New England Families, 1641-1700 study project is led by Alicia Crane Williams. This project highlights heads of families mentioned in Torrey’s New England Marriages to 1700 and focuses on individuals who immigrated from 1641 through 1700. These individuals are grouped by year of marriage.
Interested researchers should also read Alicia’s Vita Brevis post, “Genealogical Clusters”, which discusses her research process and discoveries while preparing a sketch for Edward Jackson.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Whitelaw, James; Callender, Benjamin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today we’ve added 20 new and updated sketches to Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. The people profiled in these sketches lived in Vernon, Dummerston, Brattleboro, and Fort Dummer.
These sketches were created by Scott Andrew Bartley, who is researching the heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War. His study project is not only identifying those who sought better lives on the frontier, but is also illustrating major players on the political and religious fronts and uncovering regional migration patterns for this period.
The following new and updated sketches have been added:
Bridgman, Orlando, Jr. (Vernon)
Holton, Thomas (Vernon, Dummerston)
Partridge, Jasper (Brattleboro, Guilford)
Patterson, Eleazer (Vernon, Brattleboro)
Patterson, Jonathan (Vernon, Brattleboro)
Sargent, Daniel (Vernon, Dummerston)
Sargent, Rufus (Vernon, Dummerston)
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
We’re excited to announce 22 new sketches to our Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies database! All of the sketches included in this update are proven participants or eyewitnesses.
The goal of this project is to create comprehensive biographical sketches for all individuals associated with or known to have participated in the Boston Tea Party, which took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston Harbor. This project is launched in conjunction with the announcement of the Boston Tea Party Descendants Program, a new lineage society for those whose ancestors participated in the historic revolutionary event. This project, as well as the Descendants Program, are both in collaboration with the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. You can learn more about the Boston Tea Party Descendants Program here.
Below is the list of new biographies for the following individuals:
Brewer, James (1742-1806) [Participant]
Burton, Benjamin (1749-1835) [Participant]
Cheever, Ezekiel (1720-1784) [Participant]
Crane, John (1744-1805) [Participant]
Decker, David (1719-1800) [Eyewitness]
Dickman, John (1750- 1833) [Participant]
Fulton, John (1733-1790) [Participant]
Gammell, John (1751-1828) [Participant]
Hewes, George Robert Twelves (1742-1840) [Participant]
Hooton, John (1754-1844) [Participant]
Horton, Elisha (1757-1837) [Participant]
Hunt, Abraham (1748-1793) [Participant]
Ingersol/Ingersoll/Ingoldson/Ingollson, Daniel (1751-1829) [Participant]
MacIntosh/McIntosh/Mackintosh, Ebenezer (1737-1817) [Participant]
McNeil, Archibald (1750-1840) [Participant]
Mellus, Henry (1756-1832) [Participant]
Miller, Aaron John (1749-1838) [Eyewitness]
Newell, Eliphalet (1735-1813) [Participant]
Purkitt/Purkett, Henry (1755-1846) [Participant]
Rice, Benjamin (1722-1796) [Participant]
Simpson, Benjamin (1755-1849) [Participant]
More sketches will be released soon, so stay tuned for more!
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members, including Guest Members, at no cost. Consider membership.
We have added nine new volumes to our General Society of Colonial Wars Membership Applications, 1893-1949 database. These volumes include application numbers 5265-6929 and contain 232,422 records, 549,876 names, and 20,680 pages. This database is searchable for given names and surnames, and includes records for provided births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials listed for persons in the line of eligibility for membership on the application forms.
This database will eventually include all original and supplemental applications to the General Society of Colonial Wars starting from their formal founding in 1893, and currently includes applications 1-5264. Material is not included, however, for individuals listed in the applications who were born after January 1, 1950. If an application in the current range is excluded, it is either due to the privacy policy, or it has been deemed as missing from the archive.
This database was created through a partnership of the General Society of Colonial Wars and American Ancestors. The Society of Colonial Wars was founded in New York in 1892 (the General Society was founded a year later in 1893) for the purpose of furthering the interest in, and study of, America’s Colonial history for the period between the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia on May 13, 1607 and the battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.
Through the years, the General Society of Colonial Wars has established a large network of Colonial War descendants all over the United States. For more information about this society, visit the General Society of Colonial Wars webpage here.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
We are excited to announce that we have added 100 volumes of school records to our database, Portsmouth, NH: School Records, 1846-1958. This database is the result of a partnership between the Portsmouth Athenaeum and NEHGS, and it is full of interesting surprises that can help paint a picture about the students’ lives.
In addition to birth dates, parents, and residences, you can also find the nicknames, deaths, doodles, course plans and books, notes about major events, staff, children running away, the weather, pranks, and punishments, including one about a child who put cayenne pepper in the stove! When complete, this database will have 597 volumes. This addition includes 100 volumes from the following schools: Atlantic Heights, Bartlett, Cabot, Farragut, Franklin, Hanover, Haven, High Street Primary, Jones, Lafayette, Manning, New Franklin, Peabody, Portsmouth High, and Whipple.
The Portsmouth Athenaeum maintains a library of over 40,000 volumes and has held the city’s historic school records since 1991.
The records included in this database are now housed in the collections of Portsmouth Public Library.
We thank the volunteers who have made this database possible! If you are interested in volunteering, please contact our Database Volunteer Coordinator, Zobeida, at zobeida.chaffee-valdes@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.