Author Archive
Today we’ve updated our database: Vermont Genealogy, adding Volume 22 from 2017. This database is available thanks to our partnership with the Genealogical Society of Vermont. This update adds 224 pages and 5,003 names. The index for this database includes full names, the publication year (not the year of the records), and article titles and authors.
Vermont Genealogy made its debut as a quarterly journal in January 1996. In addition to featuring compiled genealogies, the journal often contains other material including: freeman’s lists, church memberships and dismissals, newspaper vital record abstracts, probate abstracts, cemetery transcriptions, Bible records, Civil War journals, 1890 Census reconstructions, book reviews, and “Seen Elsewhere,” a bibliography of other journal articles relevant to Vermont.
In 2009, Vermont Genealogy switched to semi-annual publication with spring and fall issues. Appointed editor in 2016, Michael F. Dwyer, FASG, has expanded the scope of coverage to include nineteenth-century century immigrant studies, “Gems from the Vermont State Archives,” and continuation of family sketches from “Vermont Families in 1791.”
This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteer Sam Sturgis. If you are interest in joining our team of volunteers, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Zobeida, at zobeida.chaffee-valdes@americanancestors.org.
The entire run of Vermont Genealogy is available at our American Ancestors research library, call number F48.V48 1996.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above American Ancestors members only. Consider membership.
We are happy to announce that the volume “Supplemental Applications” has been added to our database, Massachusetts: Society of Colonial Wars Membership Applications, 1560-1970. This update contains 12,400 pages, 136,123 records, and 324,844 names.
Since its founding in 1893, the SCWMA has combined fraternal good fellowship with a dedication to promoting patriotic values and a knowledge of colonial American history, particularly its military dimension.
This database provides records that includes the applicant’s name, their colonial ancestor, and the birth, marriage, and death information for each generation of descendants on the application. In addition, the membership numbers for the state and the general society are displayed.
The page number for the applications are in the format [MA state member number]:[supplemental number]:[page number].
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above American Ancestors members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added two new sketches to Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. The people profiled in these sketches lived in 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 sketches have been added:
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above American Ancestors members only. Consider membership.
We are happy to announce that we have added Volume 72 (2024) to the Mayflower Descendant database. This update adds 222 pages, 4,095 records, and 4,065 searchable names. The indexing for these records includes full names, publication year (not the year of the record), article titles, and authors.
The Mayflower Descendant was originally published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants starting in 1899. In 2015, American Ancestors 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.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above American Ancestors members only. Consider membership.
We’re excited to announce that the final 67 sketches have been added 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:
Bassett, Joseph (1738-1833) [Eyewitness]
Beverage, Thomas (1750-1834) [Eyewitness]
Boardman, Joseph (1750-1831) [Eyewitness]
Bradlee, Nathaniel (1746-1813) [Participant]
Brimigion/Brimijion, Thomas (1754-1843) [Participant]
Brown/Browne, Seth Ingersoll (1750-1809) [Participant]
Campbell, Nicholas (1732-1829) [Participant]
Carlton/Carleton, George (1728-1781) [Eyewitness]
Child/Childs, Nathaniel (1740-1815) [Eyewitness]
Clark, Jonathan (1746-1827) [Eyewitness]
Collier, Gershom (1738-1822) [Participant]
Coolidge, Samuel (1753-1816) [Participant]
Cooper, Samuel (1756-1840) [Participant]
Cowdrey, John (1757/8-1835) [Participant]
Cox, William (1750-1833) [Participant]
Curtis, Obadiah (1724-1811) [Participant]
DeCarteret/Carteret, John (1745-1821) [Eyewitness]
Dolbeare/Dolbear, Edmund (1757-1796) [Participant]
Dyer, Samuel (1729-1800) [Eyewitness]
Fenno, Samuel (1745-1806) [Participant]
Foster, Samuel (1751-1778) [Participant]
Fracker/Fricker, Thomas (1751-1825) [Eyewitness]
Gay, Eleazer (1733-1819) [Eyewitness]
Gore, Samuel (1751-1831) [Participant]
Greene/Green, Nathaniel (1738-1791) [Participant]
Hammond, Samuel (1748-1842) [Participant]
Harrington, Peter (1752-1813) [Eyewitness]
Haskins/Hoskins, William (1735/6-1786) [Eyewitness]
Hicks, John (1725-1775) [Participant]
Hobbs, Samuel (1752-1823) [Participant]
Holyoke, John (1743-1807) [Eyewitness]
Houghton, Elijah (1739-1819) [Eyewitness]
Howard, Samuel (1747-1840) [Particpant]
Howard, Samuel (1752-____) [Participant]
Hunnewell, Jonathan (1759-1842) [Participant]
Hunstable, Thomas (____-1798) [Eyewitness]
Jackson, Michael (1734-1801) [Participant]
Joy, Jared (1749-1792) [Eyewitness]
Larrabee, Samuel (1753-1844) [Participant]
Lash, Robert (1741-1818) [Eyewitness]
Lee, Nathaniel (1733-1795) [Eyewitness]
Ludden, Joseph (1753-1829) [Eyewitness]
Mackintosh/MacIntosh/McIntosh, Peter (1757-1846) [Eyewitness]
Marston, John (1756-1846) [Eyewitness]
Martin, John (1752-1817) [Participant]
May, John (1748-1812) [Participant]
Nowell, Samuel (1749-1833) [Participant]
Peck, Samuel (____-1778) [Participant]
Peters, John (1731-1832) [Participant]
Pitman, Isaac (1752-1818) [Eyewitness]
Porter, Thomas (1756-1800) [Participant]
Putnam, Seth (1756-1827) [Eyewitness]
Randall, John (1750-____) [Participant]
Robins/Robbins, Jonathan Dorby/Darby (1758-1848) [Eyewitness]
Sawtelle/Sawtell, John (1743-1811) [Eyewitness]
Sayward, George (1753-1836) [Eyewitness]
Sears, Edmund (1712-1796) [Eyewitness]
Sessions, Robert (1752-1836) [Participant]
Slater, Peter, Jr. (1760-1831) [Participant]
Tuffs/Tufts, William (1750-1847) [Participant]
Watson, James (1745-1834) [Eyewitness]
White, Thomas (1739-1820) [Eyewitness]
Whitehead, John (____-1783) [Eyewitness]
Williams, Isaac (1753-1830) [Eyewitness]
Young, Elkanah (1745-1832) [Eyewitness]
Young, Thomas (1731-1777) [Participant]
Please note: This database is available to all American Ancestors members, including Guest Members, at no cost. Consider membership.
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.