This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KEMP / WARDWELL / BOYNTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1547 Message Board Post: HEADS UP, KEMP RESEARCHERS! You may be interested in the handwritten diaries of Z. W. Kemp who was born April 12, 1857 in Maine. His ancestry is said to be as follows" Samuel Kemp located in Groton, MA 1658, Samuel Kemp 1662, Samuel Kemp 1729, Ebenezer Kemp 1750, Ebenezer Kemp 1773, Jonathan Kemp, Charles Kemp 1830 and Z. W. Kemp April 12, 1857. Zachariah was the Dean of a school according to the person who has listed the diaries for auction. Other interesting genealogical information posted (unverified of course) is: "HIS PARENTS WERE CHARLES E. KEMP AND SYBIL J. WARDWELL KEMP. FATHER BORN AT GORHAM, ME, AUG, 15, 1830 & DIED DEC. 1907. HIS MOTHER BORN OTISFIELD, ME DEC. 24, 1835. THE FIRST OF THE FAMILY TO COME TO AMERICA, AS FAR AS THERE IS ANY RECORD, LANDED HERE ABOUT THE YEAR 1700 AND SETTLED AT GROTON, MASS. EBENEZER KEMP, ZACHARIAH KEMP’S PATERNAL GRANDFATHER, FOUGHT FOR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE AND WAS WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. AT THE AGE OF 18, DR. KEMP BEGAN TEACHING IN ORDER TO EARN MONEY TO PAY HIS WAY THROUGH COLLEGE. GRADUATED COLLEGE IN 1884. THEN TAUGHT IN NORWAY, ME. & PRINCIPAL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL THERE. THEN AT FAIRHAVEN, THEN AT THE TABOR ACADEMY AT MARION, THEN AT SPRINGFIELD, MASS. AND WAS ELECTED DEAN THERE. IN 1901 HE CAME TO KINSTON NH. TO BECOME PRINCIPAL OF THE SANBORN ACADEMY. DR. KEMP MARRIED MARY L BOYNTON ON DEC 24, 1885. DR. KEMP AND MARY KEMP HAD 8 CHILDREN…OLDEST IS IDA, CHARLES, MARION, SYBIL, ALICE, RALPH, RUTH, & ROBERT. MR KEMP WAS A REPUBLICAN IN POLITICS AND BELONGED TO THE MASONIC ORDER AND THE ODD FELLOWS, AND NEW HAMPSHIRE PEACE SOCIETY. HE WAS VERY INVOLVED IN CHURCH. HE MENTIONS A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE BY NAME." Though I have no connection to either the Kemp family nor the auction, I thought perhaps someone who is researching the Kemps might have an interest in these diaries from 1903-1907. The auctions are for various years, some ending as soon as 2 days from now (1/30/06).