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By Tichnor Brothers, Publisher [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
At its beginning, Lincoln County, Maine covered most of the modern state. It was established at the same time as Cumberland County, stretching from that western border north and east towards modern Canada. Marriages in this collection are found in modern Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Sagadahoc, and Washington counties, as well as Lincoln.
In the 1700s, Westfield was a frontier town, on the very western edge of Massachusetts’ boundaries at that time. Settlers to the area farmed the alluvial valley. Congregations have been worshiping in the same church building in Westfield since 1860, although the church was first established around 1673.
Lincoln County, ME: Commissioners Marriage Records 1759-1777 is now indexed by:
- first and last name
- spouses’ first and last names
- location
- date
- all records have the record type “Marriage.”
Westfield, MA: Deaths in the First Church, 1728-1836 is now indexed by:
- first and last name
- parents’ first and last names
- spouses’ first and last names
- date
- all records have the record type “Death”
- all records have the location Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
By O.H. Bailey & Co. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Attributed to Angelino Medoro (b.c. 1565/67 – 1631) (Own work Zerguev) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms and Marriages, 1850-1867
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1867-1874
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1874-1882
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1882-1889
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1890-1893
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1894-1897
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1897-1900
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Marriages, 1867-1888
Replica of Mayflower in Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Uploaded by creator. Relased as CC-by-SA. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have added a new volume to the searchable database of authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies, Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880:
- Billington, John (Vol.21)
This database is being constructed from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) very well-known series of books Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620 which document the first generation of descendants of the Pilgrims. Through our partnership with GSMD, American Ancestors is delivering this database with a full index of the fifth-generation descendants, and their children, coupled with the page images for those people.
John Billington travelled on Mayflower with his wife Elinor and sons John and Francis. His family was particularly troublesome for the order-loving Puritans. Billington killed a fellow colony member with whom he had a long-running feud, John Newcomen, and was hanged for the crime in 1630. He was the first man executed by hanging in the colony.
This database index includes birth, baptism, marriage, death, and deed records for these individuals, and where available, the names of parents and spouses.
This update is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our team of volunteers, including; Rich Wood, Marie Wells, and David Anderson. We appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you would like to join the team, please contact Bianca Renzoni, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator bianca.renzoni@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Last name cloud for the Billington Volume
By http://maps.bpl.org (View of Saxonville, Mass. Uploaded by tm) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
St. George (Framingham) Baptisms, 1878-1900
St. George (Framingham) Baptisms and Marriages, 1848-1859
St. George (Framingham) Marriages, 1894-1900
Interior, St. George From One Hundred Years of Progress by James S. Sullivan (1895) p.778
1896 Map of Boston by http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/cartographers/sampsonmo.txt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
A note on St. Margaret (Dorchester) Baptisms and Marriages, 1893-1900: This volume consists of two books which began separately and were later bound together. Usually at the front of a volume in this collection, we have an “Index” page which should give you an idea of how best to browse through the book. This volume has two different indexes, one for the marriages, and one for the baptisms. I’ve created Index_1 which explains how to browse the marriages, and Index_2 which explains how to browse the baptisms. Pages are numbered as B_1 or M_1 to allow for the fact that there are two pages called one, for example, in this volume.
This update consists of the following volumes:
St. Anthony of Padua (Allston) Baptisms, 1986-1900
St. Anthony of Padua (Allston) Marriages, 1896-1900
St. Margaret (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1893-1899
St. Margaret (Dorchester) Baptisms and Marriages, 1893-1900
Sudden Showers, Newbury Marshes, Martin Johnson Heade [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The newest sketch in this collection features Richard Lowell. It isn’t exactly clear when Richard came to Massachusetts, but he had certainly arrived by 1641/2 when his daughter was born in Newbury, MA. He had one or two wives, one of whom was named Margaret. See Williams’s commentary on page six for more details on Richard Lowell’s potential marriages. He had four children, one of whom, Samuel, is particularly well-documented due to disputes relating to a relationship with a woman to which he was not married. Richard died in 1682 in Newbury.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Image Credit: yeowatzup from Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (Saint Leonard’s Church, North End, Boston) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Baptisms, 1873-1887
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Baptisms, 1887-1897
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Baptisms, 1897-1900
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Baptisms, 1900
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Confirmations, 1876-1900
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Index to Baptisms, 1873-1900
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Marriages, 1873-1899
Peter Brown’s Tankard: At the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
We have added a new volume to the searchable database of authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies, Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880:
- Brown, Peter (Vol. 7)
This database is being constructed from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) very well-known series of books Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620 which document the first generation of descendants of the Pilgrims. Through our partnership with GSMD, American Ancestors is delivering this database with a full index of the fifth-generation descendants, and their children, coupled with the page images for those people.
This database index includes birth, baptism, marriage, death, and deed records for these individuals, and where available, the names of parents and spouses.
This update is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our team of volunteers, including; Jane Kivlin, Nancy Borman, and David Anderson. We appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you would like to join the team please contact Bianca Renzoni, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator bianca.renzoni@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Kingfisher Tower on Late Otsego. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have updated the indexes for three of our early databases of marriages and death notices from newspapers, that were originally only searchable by keywords. For the following three index-only databases you can now search by first name and last name, spouse names, dates and locations, and you can still do a Keyword search on the original text:
- New Canaan [CT] Era: Marriages and Deaths in New York State, 1868-1871
- New Hampshire: Marriage and Death Notices Published in Newspapers, 1848-1856
- Otsego County, NY: Newspaper Records, 1808-1831
This update is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our team of volunteers, including; Barbara Holt, Bob Rainville, and Marie Wells. We appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you would like to join the team please contact Bianca Renzoni, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator bianca.renzoni@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Image Credit: ToddC4176 at en.wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
We have added five new sketches to Western Massachusetts Families in 1790. This database focuses on families listed in the 1790 census in historic Berkshire and Hampshire counties, an area which includes parts of modern Franklin and Hampden counties as well. Sketches are submitted by NEHGS researchers and members and edited by Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG. The following sketches comprise this update:
Isaac Sanderson – Whately
Asa Sanderson – Whately
David Prince – Windsor
Asa Hall – Windsor
Josiah Wright – Pittsfield
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.