The following article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2003 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.RootsForum.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Massachusetts Doubles Vital Records Fees The Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics is doubling its fees on April 1, 2003. Individuals performing their own research at the Registry will now be subject to a fee of $6 per hour, double that of the previous fee of $3 an hour. The cost of a birth, marriage, or death certificate ordered in person has also doubled: $12 per certificate instead of $6. The cost of a birth, marriage, or death certificate ordered by mail will now be $22 per certificate -- again, a doubling of fees. The Registry's records include birth, marriage, and death records that occurred in Massachusetts from 1911 to the present day. Records for events that occurred from 1841–1910 are available at the Massachusetts State Archives, which has a separate fee structure. The new fees of the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics may be seen at: http://www.state.ma.us/dph/bhsre/rvr/FeeIncrease.htm. In a related development, the Massachusetts Genealogical Council requests the support of all Massachusetts records researchers: the Massachusetts Legislature Joint Committee On Government Regulations has scheduled public hearings concerning proposed Vital Records bills for Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 9:30 A.M. in Room A-1 WHERE???. Call (617) 722-2120 for hearing schedule confirmation and directions. Several proposed bills would close Massachusetts vital records. For more information, please visit http://massgencouncil.home.attbi.com/index.htm or call (781) 209-8861 or email info@massgencouncil.org. -- Fred Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service Box 2601 - Norman, Oklahoma 73070-2601 http://www.dittmar.net/fred Member: Association of Professional Genealogists Mail List Administrator: MAPLYMOU-L@rootsweb.com MANORFOL-L@rootsweb.com DITTMAR-L@rootsweb.com DITTMAN-L@rootsweb.com DITMER-L@rootsweb.com CANNING-L@rootsweb.com HEMMERLY-L@rootsweb.com ZIEGENGEIST-L@rootsweb.com CLINKSCALE-L@rootsweb.com CLINKSCALES-L@rootsweb.com TX-VINTAGEPHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com OK-GEN-SOC-L@rootsweb.com Board Member & Genealogical Assistant Oklahoma Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgs

Chirokas wrote: >Hello: > >I'm in the initial stages of looking for the parents of: > >Naomi Booth >m. 16 April 1714 to Thomas Pierce at Middleboro, Mass. > > > Hi Chris, I wonder if you have eliminated the Naomy Booth, dau. Benjamin, b. 31 July, 1691, Scituate VR p. 36? The last child of Naomi I found was b. 1727, which would fit reasonably well with a birth year for Naomi of 1691. I also noticed there was a Mary Booth/Thomas Pierce marriage 29 Jan. 1717, Scituate VR 2:32. I don't know how that might relate, if at all. I don't know anything about any of these people--just wondered if you'd already considered this one. I'm sure you saw the old Register article on the Pierce family--the couple is mentioned, but the compiler knew nothing about them.

Thanks to Coralynn Brown's transcribing efforts, the M, N & O surnames from the Bridgewater Vital Records, Births, to 1850 are now on line. Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI janedevlin@ameritech.net Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/

Hello: I'm in the initial stages of looking for the parents of: Naomi Booth m. 16 April 1714 to Thomas Pierce at Middleboro, Mass. Thomas and Naomi had five children recorded in the Middleboro VR's, but I have not found death info/location for Thomas and Naomi. Thomas Pierce was born about 1674 and I believe he was the son of Isaac Pierce who was son of Abraham Pierce. I descend from Thomas and Naomi's son Richard who m. Mary Simmons. If anyone else descends from this couple or has any good source suggestions, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Thank you, Chris Chirokas

The L surnames from Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA are now on line, thanks to Coralynn Brown. Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI janedevlin@ameritech.net Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/

The Bridgewater Births to 1850 are online through the Surname Keith at my web site, thanks to the good work of Coralynn Brown. If you have never used the books on Vital Records to 1850 for a Mass. town these have a lot of information besides the names and dates of birth. Almost all give the parents, some also have the Grand Parents, some what church they were Bap't. in, occupation of Father, Ect. This information was compiled from many sources when the book was written, there is a seperate page for the sources, and marked on the records. Some have several sources besides the town records. Several Towns in Plymouth, Middlesex and Norfolk Counties are in there as where parents and grand parents came from. These records may be found at: http://www.rays-place.com/town/bridgewater/index.htm or at Jane Devlins web site at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/bw_main.htm Both web sites have the same records for Bridgewater, only differance is I tend to make more smaller pages, Jane puts a lot more on a page. Have found that some like it each way, so you have a choice. Both of these web sites also have hundreds of other pages that are not the same as well as a few the same, so why not explore both of them. I have to admit that Jane has added a lot more than I have lately, but we are both working on it. Her keyboard has to be on fire from all her new pages to the web site. My main page is at: http://www.rays-place.com Janes index is at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ Cheers Ray Brown

Thanks to Coralynn Brown, I just uploaded Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, Births to 1850, surnames H & I to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI janedevlin@ameritech.net Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/

Wilma, As you no doubt know, Bethia CHIPMAN was a gdaughter of John/1 HOWLAND of Mayflower fame via: Hope/2 HOWLAND and John CHIPMAN > John/1 and Elizabeth TILLEY I have a couple of HOWLAND lines but from John's brothers Arthur/1 and Henry/1. I have only to Bethia's parents in my db. Anyways with Bethia a Mayflower descendent no doubt there is oodles of Mayflower interest research out there on her. I just checked the pages I have of the very dated HOWLAND genealogy: Howland, Franklyn, A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland, and Their Descendants, of the United States and Canada, together with an account of the efforts made in England to learn of their English ancestry, etc (Microfiche of First Edition (1885); Sanford, NC: Microfilming Corp. of America, 1979) in custody of the Memphis Public Library. It quits at Bethia's Mom p. 324 saying only she was "... b. 30, 8, 1629; d. 8, 1, 1684; m. as early as 1646, John Chipman..." They had sons John - graduated from Harvard and Samuel who was father of Judge Nathaniel Chipman who was in the Rev, U.S. Senator and chief justice of Vermont. It says nothing about their other children. This genealogy is notorious for following only the male lines. <groan and moan> Davis's Landmarks of Ancient Plymouth (a dated source with errors) CHIPMAN's section doesn't give names of who the issue of John and Hope married: http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/plyalpgr_c1.html#chipman The GALE section doesn't have any info for you either: http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/plyalpgr_g.html#gale Those sources, Davis and the HOWLAND genealogy, are again very dated and should really only be used for leads. More up-to-date sources: Torrey, p. 291 didn't know GALE's given name either. TGMB only covers the issue of the immigrant: Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to NewEngland 1620-1633, Vols. I-III (Boston: NEHGS, 1995). I believe there is a concise genealogy out on John HOWLAND by the Mayflower Society: http://www.mayflower.org/book.htm Other good Mayflower sources are: Rosser's Mayflower Increasings, I, II (2nd; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1989). Roser and Bowman's Family tree maker's Mayflower vital records, deeds and wills, 1600s-1900s (CD; Novato, CA : Broderbund, 1997) Websites to search: http://www.cyndislist.com/surn-gen.htm http://surhelp.rootsweb.com/srchall.html http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/script/main/rw http://lists.rootsweb.com/ I suspect nothing I've told you is news for you do have Bethia's vitals but you didn't give any of your sources soooo thought I'd send this along anyways incase.... --- Susan SGTAYLOR1@att.net My Genealogy Website - sgt http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ ----------------------------------------------- USGW Mansfield, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcmansf/ USGW New London, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcnewlo/ USGW Norwich, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcnorwi/ USGW Windham, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcwindh/ USGW Coordinator Plymouth Co., MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~maplymou/ USGW Plymouth, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ ********************************************************* At 05:50 AM 3/23/03 -0800, Wilma Fleming Haynes wrote: >I am looking for the following - I am in hopes one of you will know the >answers - cuz, I'm not doing so well in straightening them out. I am sorry >if some of you are getting this more than once - I am sending it to other >lists - > >2. BETHIA CHIPMAN d/o John 2) CHIPMAN & > Mary SKIFF > b. 11 July 1666 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA > d. ......... Barnstable, Barnstable, MA > md1) <1687> Barnstable, Barnstable, MA > TO: > ...... GALE s/o ........... > b. ........... > d. ........... > > Child of Bethia CHIPMAN & Mr. GALE was: > > i. Mary GALE > b. ........ > d. ........ > > md2) 169- Barnstable, Barnstable, MA > TO: > Timothy 3) DIMMOCK s/o Shubael 2) and > Joanna 2) [BURSLEY] DIMMOCK > b. Mar 1668 Barnstable, Barnstable, MA > d. 1718 Ashfield, Franklin, MA > > Child of Bethia CHIPMAN & Timothy > DIMMOCK was: > > i. Jabez 4) DIMMOCK > b. <1699> Barnstable, Barn- > stable, MA > d. .......... > md. 5 Dec 1722 Boston, Suffolk > Massachusetts > TO: > Mary/Molly NEWCOMB > b. 4 Mar 1701 Sandwich, Barn- > stable, Massachusetts > d. bef 1734. > Timothy 2) DIMMOCK > md2) abt 1700 at ........... > TO: > unknown > > Child of Timothy 2) DIMMOCK & ..... > > i. Silence 3) DIMMOCK > b. .......... > d. .......... > > Timothy 2) DIMMOCK > md3) Feb 1702 Mansfield, Tolland, CT > TO: > Abigail 2) DOANE d/o Daniel 1) DOANE & > Constance 2) SNOW > b. abt 1675 Eastham, Barnstable, MA > d. July 1764 Windham, Windham, CT > > Children of Timothy 2) DIMMOCK & > Abigail 2) DOANE were: > > 1. Timothy DIMMOCK b. 2 June 1703 > md 1725 TO: Miriam 4) FULLER > [Nathaniel3,Jonathan2,Robert1] > > ii. John DIMMOCK b. 28 Jan 1705 > md 1728 TO: Hannah KIMBALL > > iii. Shubael DIMMOCK b. 27 May 1707 > md1) 1731 TO: Pricilla HOVEY > md2) 1747 TO: Eunice MARSH > md3) 1768 TO: Sarah KNOWLTON > > iv. Daniel DIMMOCK b. 28 Jan 1709 > md 1732 TO: Mary TIRRELL > > v. Israel DIMMOCK b. 22 Dec 1712 > md <1733> TO: Elizabeth FOLLETT > > vi. Ebenezer DIMMOCK b. 22 Nov 1715 > md 1739 TO: Mary KEYS > > >Thank you very much > >Wilma Fleming Haynes >gencon@harborside.com > > >==== MAPLYMOU Mailing List ==== > ====MAPLYMOU-L/D Mail List===== > +-+ Owners = List Members +-+ > =Administrator Frederick M. Dittmar= > ====== fred@dittmar.net ====== > >============================== >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

I am looking for the following - I am in hopes one of you will know the answers - cuz, I'm not doing so well in straightening them out. I am sorry if some of you are getting this more than once - I am sending it to other lists - 2. BETHIA CHIPMAN d/o John 2) CHIPMAN & Mary SKIFF b. 11 July 1666 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA d. ......... Barnstable, Barnstable, MA md1) <1687> Barnstable, Barnstable, MA TO: ...... GALE s/o ........... b. ........... d. ........... Child of Bethia CHIPMAN & Mr. GALE was: i. Mary GALE b. ........ d. ........ md2) 169- Barnstable, Barnstable, MA TO: Timothy 3) DIMMOCK s/o Shubael 2) and Joanna 2) [BURSLEY] DIMMOCK b. Mar 1668 Barnstable, Barnstable, MA d. 1718 Ashfield, Franklin, MA Child of Bethia CHIPMAN & Timothy DIMMOCK was: i. Jabez 4) DIMMOCK b. <1699> Barnstable, Barn- stable, MA d. .......... md. 5 Dec 1722 Boston, Suffolk Massachusetts TO: Mary/Molly NEWCOMB b. 4 Mar 1701 Sandwich, Barn- stable, Massachusetts d. bef 1734. Timothy 2) DIMMOCK md2) abt 1700 at ........... TO: unknown Child of Timothy 2) DIMMOCK & ..... i. Silence 3) DIMMOCK b. .......... d. .......... Timothy 2) DIMMOCK md3) Feb 1702 Mansfield, Tolland, CT TO: Abigail 2) DOANE d/o Daniel 1) DOANE & Constance 2) SNOW b. abt 1675 Eastham, Barnstable, MA d. July 1764 Windham, Windham, CT Children of Timothy 2) DIMMOCK & Abigail 2) DOANE were: 1. Timothy DIMMOCK b. 2 June 1703 md 1725 TO: Miriam 4) FULLER [Nathaniel3,Jonathan2,Robert1] ii. John DIMMOCK b. 28 Jan 1705 md 1728 TO: Hannah KIMBALL iii. Shubael DIMMOCK b. 27 May 1707 md1) 1731 TO: Pricilla HOVEY md2) 1747 TO: Eunice MARSH md3) 1768 TO: Sarah KNOWLTON iv. Daniel DIMMOCK b. 28 Jan 1709 md 1732 TO: Mary TIRRELL v. Israel DIMMOCK b. 22 Dec 1712 md <1733> TO: Elizabeth FOLLETT vi. Ebenezer DIMMOCK b. 22 Nov 1715 md 1739 TO: Mary KEYS Thank you very much Wilma Fleming Haynes gencon@harborside.com

Thanks to Coralynn Brown's transcriptions, I have just uploaded a new file containing the D to G surnames from the Bridgewater Vital Records. This file can be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ in the Plymouth Co. section. Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI janedevlin@ameritech.net Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/

Looking for info on a Walter Whiting who married an Alice Brown. I believe they were buried in East Douglass Mass. children were Curtis, Marjorie, Frank I've also been told I'm related to John Brown and was wondering if anyone has come across then last names of Currier, Whiting while doing research. I'm new at this so any help would be great-thanks- sheila

Has there been any newly discovered evidence supporting the belief that Joseph/4 and Hannah (JOHNSON) WASHBURN - md. 1716 Bridgewater, MA - were the parents of Hannah (WASHBURN) DAVIS (c1718 prob. Bridgetown, MA - before 1750 Middletown, CT) who md. 1737 Bridgewater Thomas DAVIS? About every 5 years I take ol' Hannah out for an airing to see what's the latest condition of her ancestry. A little background..... No direct evidence has been found like her birth record to prove her as a daughter of Joseph/4 and Hannah (JOHNSON) WASHBURN. Also Joseph's will doesn't mention a daughter Hannah. There is a preponderance of evidence (several "pieces of indirect evidence, and their cumulative force" per Donald Lines Jacobus) to have convinced Jacobus and Charles Thornton Libbey (noted genealogists); author Mary Bates Woods author of Genealogy of Sarai Stow Ellis, A Direct Descendant of John Stowe of Roxbury, Mass; Edward J. Paul author of The Ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul, Now Mrs. William J. Young, Jr. and the Mayflower Society (Mayflower Ancestral Index, Vol. I and Mayflower Index: Revised Edition of the Two Volumes of the Mayflower Index) that she was their daughter. Indirect evidence per Jacobus, etc...: 1. The marriage of Thomas DAVIS and Hannah WASHBURN, 2 Jun 1737 in Bridgewater, MA was recorded so know her maiden name was WASHBURN and that she was located with the Bridgewater WASHBURNS. [Bates per Jacobus, Libbey] 2. No place for her has been found in other WASHBURN families. [Bates per Jacobus] 3. Joseph/4 wife and mother both were named Hannah. [Bates per Jacobus] 4. "The dates harmonize with the supposition that she was the first child of Joseph Washburn Jr. and Hannah Johnson." There were no recorded births for children born to Joseph/4 and Hannah (JOHNSON) during the 1st 7 years of their marriage except for their son Joseph in 1720. [Bates per Jacobus 5. Land Records: a. "Joseph Washburn bought several parcels of land in 1732, most of which he sold 11 Dec. 1738, the rest being sold by Thomas Davis on 16 Jan. 1738/9. The very fact that the deed from Washburn to Davis was not recorded favors the belief that it was a family transaction. The marriage of Davis having occurred between the date of purchase by Washburn and the date of sale by Washburn and Davis, makes it probably that the part of the land sold by Davis was his wife's portion from her father. It was common thing for daughters to be 'portioned off' at marriage." [Bates per Jacobus - Source of Land records: Paul Genealogy] 2. "two deeds of sale given by Washburn and Davis, although drawn on different dates, were both acknowledged on the same day. 19 May 1738/9." [Bates] 3. Both families "made their early purchases [of land] in Middletown from the same man." [Bates - Source: Middletown Land Records] 6. Both families migrated to Middletown, CT in the same year - 1738. 7. Hannah and Joseph/4 and Hannah (JOHNSON) WASHBURN were admitted to the 1st Cong. Church East Middletown on the same day. [Bates - original church records] 8. Joseph/4 and Hannah (JOHNSON) WASHBURN removed to Leicester, MA in 1745 and in that same year one of the daughters of Hannah (WASHBURN) DAVIS and Thomas moved to Leicester also. This daughter and her husband later moved on to VT - Thomas and Anna (DAVIS) WICKER. They probably were following her grandparents. 9. Family tradition: the grandchildren of Hannah (WASHBURN) DAVIS always claimed their grandmother was sister of Col. Seth WASHBURN of Revolutionary fame. Col. Seth WASHBURN was the 3rd son of Joseph/4 and Hannah (JOHNSON) WASHBURN. [Bates, Jacobus, etc...] The sources I have personally researched: 1. Mary Wood Bates, comp., Genealogy of Sarai Stow Ellis, A Direct Descendant of John Stowe of Roxbury, Mass(Evanston, IL: s.p., 1935), Repository: NEHGS, pp. 83, 85-95, 96, 129, 130, 132. [Sources on Hannah's parents: The Ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul, pp. 153-6; correspondence with Donald Lines Jacobus; correspondence with Charles Thornton Libbey and his article in Boston Transcript May 1929; Original church records at CT Hist. Library, Hartford, CT; Mayflower Index, II:785]. 2. Milton E. Terry, Ph.D. and Anne Borden Harding, comps., Mayflower Ancestral Index, Vol. I (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1981), p. 660, #36929; p. 661, #36957. 3. Lewis Edwin Neff, comp., ed., Mayflower Index: Revised Edition of the Two Volumes of the Mayflower Index which was compiled by the late William Alexander McAuslan(Boston: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1960), p. 785; Hannah #36,603, Joseph #36,669. 4. Robert M. Sherman & Verle D. Vincent, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims Who landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Families: James Chilton, Richard Moore, Thomas Rogers, Vol. Two (Chilton section) (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1978), p. 76, "no evidence was found to substantiate a daughter Hannah proposed in Washburn Desc." and in footnote "*The Mayflower Society has accepted lineages based on a purported daughter Hannah, for whom no substantiating evidence was found." 5. George T. Washburn, Ebenezer Washburn, His Ancestors and Descendants with some Connected Families: A Family Story of 700 Years (Pasumalai, South India: s. pub., 1913), p. 54, does not list her as a child of Joseph and Hannah. 6. Mabel Hacher Rosemary Washburn, Washburn Family Foundations in Normandy, England and America (Greenfield, IN: s.p., 1953), does not list Hannah as a child of Joseph and Hannah. 7. Vital Records of Bridgewater, MA to the year 1850, Vol. I, Births, no birth listed for her. 8. Henry Edwards Scott, Edit., Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850: Marriages & Deaths, Vol. II - Marriages & Deaths (Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1916), p. 386. 9. "Barbour Collection: Connecticut Vital Records, Middletown, Births-Marriages-Deaths, 1651-1854," compiled in 1923 under the supervision of Lucius Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911-1934, original MS collection in custody of the Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT (FHL microfilm 0002983; Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1949). 10. Robert S. Wakefield, FASG. and Ralph Van Wood, Jr., Mayflower Families in Progress Francis Cook of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations (3rd Ed.; Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1994). and sources such as SAVAGE, POPE, etc... TIA. --- Susan SGTAYLOR1@att.net My Genealogy Website - sgt http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ ----------------------------------------------- USGW Mansfield, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcmansf/ USGW New London, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcnewlo/ USGW Norwich, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcnorwi/ USGW Windham, CT - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctcwindh/ USGW Coordinator Plymouth Co., MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~maplymou/ USGW Plymouth, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ *********************************************************

I have Southern Massachusetts Cemetery Collection, Vol. 2, by Susan Salisubry, pub. by Heritage Books, 1996. Karen Sullivan Visit Alden Kindred of America at http://www.alden.org/ -----Original Message----- From: Chirokas [mailto:chirokas@tiac.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 4:29 PM To: MAPLYMOU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PLY/MA] title of book on southern MA cemeteries Hello: Does anyone have information on a book that is called something like "Southeastern Massachusetts Cemetery Listings"? I remember taking note of it as something to check out as it includes some Plymouth area towns, but with my less-than-perfect filing methods, I can't find it. I searched some on-line genealogy book stores, but couldn't find it there either. If anyone has the full title, author, pub date, I'd certainly appreciate it! Thanks, Chris Chirokas ==== MAPLYMOU Mailing List ==== ====MAPLYMOU-L/D Mail List===== +-+ Owners = List Members +-+ =Administrator Frederick M. Dittmar= ====== fred@dittmar.net ====== ============================== 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

Hello: Does anyone have information on a book that is called something like "Southeastern Massachusetts Cemetery Listings"? I remember taking note of it as something to check out as it includes some Plymouth area towns, but with my less-than-perfect filing methods, I can't find it. I searched some on-line genealogy book stores, but couldn't find it there either. If anyone has the full title, author, pub date, I'd certainly appreciate it! Thanks, Chris Chirokas

Found this on Google and thought it might interest you: From: ANCIENT LANDMARKS of Hingham Massachusetts BY EDWARD T. BOUVE from the History of Hingham published in 1894 Retracing our course over Derby Street, we will turn into Cushing Street and proceed almost due north. Between this street, Whiting Street, and Plymouth River, is BREAKNECH HILL, How Hot a specially perilous descent where it invades the highway, however steel) it may formerly have been East of Cushing Street, at this point, is HOOP-POLE HILL, whore great quantities of trees were cut in the days when the mackerel fishery was in its prime, to furnish hoops for the barrels made at the harbor for packing the fish. Woods How cover nearly all the hills in this romantic and almost deserted portion of the town. A branch of Plymouth River crosses and recrosses the road along the base of these hills six times. The next point of interest is MULLEIN HILL, a Sharp ridge lying on the east side of the road. The extensive growth of mullein in this localily in past days gave this hill its name. The somewhat abrupt ranges next crossed, and extending west of the road, are those of the HIGH HILLS. Hope this helps you. Carol Sherman Houghton Researching: Sherman, Briggs,Carpenter, Lovejoy, Mosher, Winslow, Jewell, Dexter in MA,& RI Hall, Getchell, Richardson in ME Smith,Gibbs, Aldrich, Dexter in NH & VT Houghton, Palmer, Moore,Carter, WVa, Va Franklin, Jewell, Rickerson, in NY& PA _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Found two listings at NEHGS: Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts: A Compilation of Records by Charles M. Thatcher in the Late 1800's, pub. 1995 by Middleborough Library Diane L. Moore, "Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts: An Alphabetic Index", pub. 1996 Hope this helps. Merry Marion Brooks Gonsalves --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!

I have just uploaded the following files to my site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA pre-1850 births, B & C surnames. These Bridgewater files are also available at Ray Brown's site http://www.rays-place.com Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI janedevlin@ameritech.net Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/

2 new CT and 1 new MA file(s) CT Two cemeteries have been added to my web site: West Avon Cemetery, Avon, CT Mountain View Cemetery, New Fairfield, CT. New Fairfield is in the far northern part of Fairfield County, in a small pice of land between Litchfield County and Dutchess County, NY. This completes the Hale Colection of Cemeteries for New Fairfield. MA Bridgewater (Plymouth County) Vital records to 1850 are going online. The births are going on first, so far the surnames starting with A, B and C are online. This will take a long time as the number of records is large so please stop by now and then to see how they are doing. http://www.rays-place.com Cheers Ray Brown -- CT AHGP http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctahgp/ Berkshire County, MA Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~maberksh/ Litchfield County CT AHGP website http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctlitch2/ Ray Brown's Place for New England Genealogy http://www.rays-place.com CT Photo Gallery http://www.state.ct.us/scripts/photo.asp ------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Friends, I'm pleased to announce a new list called First Ships. http://www.mdwsweb.com/genealogy-lists/firstshipslist.html From the description at the list home page: --- This list is for research and sharing of information on those people who came to New England on the first ships, their lives, why they came here, their ancestors and descendants wherever they may be, as well as those who married into these families. The ships include the Mayflower, the Fortune, the Anne and the Little James. There are many mailing lists focusing on the individual surnames of many of these people but this list brings them together so we can study them as a group, as family units, and as individuals. Feel free to create a database to share your information; use the files area to upload your gedcom or other genealogical or historical document; the photos area to display your ancestors connected with these lines or artwork relating to early colonial New England; and the links area to promote your favorite websites. And of course I encourage all to participate in the daily discussions. --- I'm very excited about the future of the FirstShips list and I expect it will be a great success. There are many discussion areas for Mayflower descendants and I felt there was a need for a list to discuss all the people of that group who first came to New England including those who came on The Fortune, The Anne and The Little James. Thus this list was created. Go to http://www.mdwsweb.com/genealogy-lists/firstshipslist.html for sign up information. David FirstShips listowner Permission is granted to forward this message to anyone you think might be interested.

I just uploaded the A surnames of the Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, births extracted from the Vital Records to 1850 and transcribed by Coralynn Brown. Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI janedevlin@ameritech.net Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/