Hello Everyone, I, too, was astonished to receive all this Mendon mail. It's good hearing from all of you. I will definitely go to your site, Jim, as as I read about your tirp I was wondering if you had any good pics. My Mayflower ancestors were Steven HOPKINS and his son, Giles. Haven't been doing a lot on Mendon, lately, because I accidentally found a site where archialogical digging was being done in the Jamesstown, VA area. It turned out that one of the plantations they have been researching was that of a 12th ggrandfather of mine, Thomas PETTUS. I got so much wonderful Info., including many photos, that I decided to take out time and put togehter a book on my Virginia ancestors, which I have now completed. Also, we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary, and in honor of it, I printed up a book, "Our 50 Years" - all pictures. It got a little out of hhand, and I ended up with three volumes, each with about 200 pages. It was a lot of fun, thiugh, and now all those pictures are preserved for the family in the future. May I ask what your BULLOCK line is, Jim? My line in America begins tith Richard m. Elizabeth INGRAHAM. In this coming year I hope to have time to get back to my Colonial Ancestors in New England -- about 170 families, so no small project. I hope this line will get a little busier again. I do feel sorry for you folks with all the snow - we've had snow 3 times, is all, and each time it was only 1 - 2 inches and melted in a few days. Betty Sullivan 232 E. Church ST. Kewanee, IL 81443 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bullock" <j.b.bullock@comcast.net> To: <MA-MENDON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: [MA-MENDON] End of Year Message > As List Mom Alice knows, I have recently been unsubscribed to the Mendon > list while my wife & I traveled in England. It's the time of year when > there are good bargains and we found non-stop, round-trip, Denver-London > tickets for $300, so we were on our way within two weeks. We did the same > thing last year around Thanksgiving and visited SW England. > > This year we were in the Midlands, north of London. We had three main > objectives: visit some places with Mayflower Pilgrim history, research my > wife's paternal (Frisby) line, in Leicestershire, and research my mother's > paternal (Medbury) line in Bedfordshire & the former Huntingdonshire. My > Medbury line is the one that connects to some Mendon & Uxbridge families > including Aldrich, Farnum, Darling, White, and Gaskill. > > The Mayflower sites we visited were Scrooby, Babworth, Austerfield, > Gainsborough, Immingham (near Grimsby), Boston, and Fishtoft. > > At Scrooby we started by having lunch at the Pilgrim Fathers, an inn built > in 1771. Neece & Geoff Francess-Allen have become the proprietors in the > past four months. While there, they recommended that I go see Malcolm Dolby > who lives in the Old Vicarage on the road (I think it was Church St.) > between the inn and Scrooby Manor. Mr. Dolby, about 60, recently retired as > curator of the museum in Retford. He is an expert on local history, has > participated in archeological digs around the Manor, and gives tours. He > was kind enough to give us an impromptu tour of Scrooby Manor and the town. > > There have been changes in the use of the Manor. The previous owner passed > away and his two sons, one who lives in Lincoln and the other in New > Zealand, now own the property. Rather than farming the land, they now raise > horses there. Scrooby Manor, which previously was being used for storage, > has been restored somewhat and has a family living there. Besides showing > us Scrooby Manor, Mr. Dolby took us to where the Great North Road (the > primary old route from London to the north) runs through town. It was an > excellent tour. Incidentally, Mr. Dolby said he plans to move in about a > year to Wales where taxes are much cheaper. > > In Babworth we were fortunate in arriving at Rev. Richard Clifton's old > church, All Saints' Parish Church, just as Sunday services had concluded. > We were invited in to join the congregation for coffee. The regular > minister who comes only once a month wasn't there, but the Reader showed us > around. They have done an excellent job of maintaining the building thanks > to have a generous membership. St. Helena's Church in Austerfield where > Bradford was baptized was locked when we went there, so I just viewed it > from outside. > > In Gainsborough we went through Gainsborough Manor, now known as the Old > Hall. It is another very well maintained building and has a lot of old > furnishings. They had guides dressed in period costumes who were taking a > group of children through while we were there. In the kitchen there were > stuffed animals (including a wild boar) and other foods of the kind that > would have been prepared for King Richard's visit. This was where Rev. John > Smyth held services for the nonconformists. > > On the way to Grimsby we saw the Immingham Creek Pilgrim Memorial which was > originally erected on the Humber estuary where some of the Pilgrims waited > to be picked up by a Dutch skipper for their trip to Amsterdam. In 1970 the > monument was moved to a location near the parish church to make room for > industrial development. Immingham is an industrial town and not a pleasant > place to visit. > > We went to Boston where the Pilgrims went in their first attempt to sail to > Holland. We were disappointed that the Guildhall, where they were > imprisoned, was closed for restoration. The door was open, so I did go in > for a look, but it was just full of boxes and construction materials. A > little south of town outside of Fishtoft, we saw the Pilgrim Memorial along > the Witham River. > > Some of my pictures of these places are at > http://home.comcast.net/~j.b.bullock. > > We did other traveling during the year, but the only other trip involving > genealogy was to Lansing, Michigan, where I joined some Bullock cousins I'd > never met before. That was an enjoyable experience, and the Michigan State > Library is a wonderful research facility. The highlight of the trip was > meeting a 100-year old lady who is living by herself on the site where > Jeremiah Bullock had originally built his log cabin. She was sharp as can > be and told us stories about the early years. One thing that made me > chuckle was that she had cigarettes on her coffee table and bottles of gin & > vermouth on a side table. > > Those with whom I've had personal correspondence during the year are aware > that I've been working primarily on my Bristol County, MA, research. I > haven't done much with Mendon relatives other than a few additions to the > Aldriches and Darlings--perhaps a few others. But I'm sure I'll be coming > across more in the future and will put them in my data at > http://wc.rootsweb.com/~jbbullock. > > I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season! > > Jim Bullock > Littleton, CO > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Cousin Betty, and all, My BULLOCK line: Richard & Elizabeth (INGRAHAM) BULLOCK Deacon Samuel & Thankful (ROUSE?) BULLOCK Seth & Experience (SALISBURY) BULLOCK Hezekiah & Jemima (GARNSEY) BULLOCK Benjamin & Mehitabel (FULLER) BULLOCK Hezekiah & Patience (IRONS) BULLOCK Jeremiah & Rebecca (DUTCHER) BULLOCK Noah Porter & Martha Rachel (STRANAHAN) BULLOCK Noah Porter, Jr. & Telva Maud (BROWN) BULLOCK Bernard Eugene & Doris Nadine (MEDBERY) BULLOCK ME BULLOCK wives: Elizabeth was very likely (but not proven) the daughter of Richard INGRAHAM of Rehoboth, MA. Thankful's surname is uncertain and nothing is known of her parents. She was NOT the daughter of John & Annis (PEABODY) ROUSE. Experience descended from William & Susanna (__?__) SALISBURY of Swansea, MA. Jemima descended from Henry & Hannah (MUNNING) GARNSEY of Dorchester, MA. Mehitabel descended from Robert & Sarah (BOWEN) FULLER of Rehoboth, MA. Patience probably descended from Matthew & Hannah (BROWN) IRONS of Boston, MA. There are some uncertainties in this line. Rebecca descended from Wilhelm & Leentje (MARTENS) DUTCHER of NY. DUTCHER was not the original surname. Wilhelm's name in the records was Wilhelm Janszen van Heerden which simply means William, son of John of Heerden (a village in Holland.) He apparently had no surname other than "son of John". Because he was Dutch the DUTCHER surname stuck with the family. Martha descended from John and Martha Isabel (BAILEY) STRANAHAN of Pittsburgh, PA, and Flora, IN. Maud descended from Francis & Mary (EDWARDS) BROWN of East Haven, CT. Doris was descended from John & Sarah (__?__) MEDBURY of Swansea, MA. Incidentally, my parents were 9th cousins from 3 different lines: George & ? (__?__) PUFFER of Braintree, MA. John & Sarah (HUTCHINSON) WHIPPLE of Dorchester, MA, and Providence, RI. Thomas & Alice (ASHTON) ANGELL of Providence, RI. My maternal grandparents Martin Blackmar & Mary Jane "Marie" (DAVIS) MEDBERY were 7th cousins descended from Edward & Katherine (REYNOLDS) STARBUCK of Nantucket, MA. My wife & I are 10th cousins once removed descended from Robert & Susanna (SELBEE) BLOTT of Charlestown, Concord, and Boston, MA. There are a number of other cousin marriages, even two 1st cousins (WASHBURNs), earlier in my lines. I've told my kids they have excuses for being idiots after all of that inbreeding. (They're actually great kids and doing well.) Jim Bullock Littleton, CO -----Original Message----- From: Betty Sullivan [mailto:bettysul@kewanee.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 8:51 AM To: MA-MENDON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MA-MENDON] End of Year Message . . . May I ask what your BULLOCK line is, Jim? My line in America begins tith Richard m. Elizabeth INGRAHAM. In this coming year I hope to have time to get back to my Colonial Ancestors in New England -- about 170 families, so no small project. . . . Betty Sullivan 232 E. Church ST. Kewanee, IL 81443

Jim, Thanks for the run-down. Your parents are apparently also my 9th cousins, and you would be 9th cousin once removed. Here's my line: Richard and Elizabeth (INGRAHAM) BULLOCL Deacon Caleb and Elizabeth (BULLOCK) EDDY Deacon Benjamin and Hannah (EDDY) COLE Ebenezer and (2) Mary (WILSON) COLE Benjamin and Prudence (HARD) COLE Moses and Anna (COLE) BLOOD Abel Russell and Laura (LUCAS) BLOOD Moses and Sarah (HAWKINS) BLOOD Stuart Sylvester and Mabel Clare (BLOOD) HARPER William Harry and Betty (MOELLER) HARPER ME Do you have BULLOCK ancestors in England? I have the BULLOCK line back to Sheriff Robert, d. 1405, mostly from "The Connecticut Ancestors" and from Burke's "History of the Commoners". I'm not sure of all the wives without going through tons of paper records, as apparently I didn't put their sources on my data base. Thanks, Betty Sullivan bettysul@kewanee.com Please visit my web site at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/u/l/Betty--Sullivan -----