unsubscribe -----Original Message----- From: rigenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rigenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of rigenweb-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, 15 August 2008 4:32 PM To: rigenweb@rootsweb.com Subject: RIGENWEB Digest, Vol 3, Issue 190 PLEASE NOTE When replying to a digest message, please quote only the specific portion or message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. ------------------------------- Today's Topics: 1. Re: Mercy Brownell (Lorna) 2. Re: RIGENWEB Digest, Vol 3, Issue 189 (terry-moran@comcast.net) 3. Printers and Printing in Providence (part 159) (Beth Hurd) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:23:53 -0400 From: "Lorna" <lornap@roadrunner.com> Subject: Re: [RI] Mercy Brownell To: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com>, <rigenweb@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <000f01c8fe4b$aea32970$6401a8c0@Lorna> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have a Mercy Brownell who married Joseph Cundall, Jr., but he was b. 1728 and they were married 1760. Lorna in Maine > Author: JMiller66 > Surnames: BROWNELL, PEARCE > Mercy Brownell, daughter of Joseph Brownell and Elizabeth Unknown. She was born 3 Apr 1788 in Portsmouth. I am trying to find out who she married. Perhaps Christopher Pearce? Thank you for any information. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:57:07 +0000 From: terry-moran@comcast.net Subject: Re: [RI] RIGENWEB Digest, Vol 3, Issue 189 To: rigenweb@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <081420082157.29366.48A4AA330005A9C0000072B62200750744020E9D0103D3979D9D0A9 B@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain I do not have information on her spouse, but her mother was Elizabeth Chase, daughter of Borden Chase, b. Feb. 28 1931/32 and Hannah Fish, b. May 12, 1733 > > Mercy Brownell, daughter of Joseph Brownell and Elizabeth Unknown. She was born > 3 Apr 1788 in Portsmouth. I am trying to find out who she married. Perhaps > Christopher Pearce? > Thank you for any information. > > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:44:41 -0400 From: Beth Hurd <beth.hurd@cox.net> Subject: [RI] Printers and Printing in Providence (part 159) To: rigenweb-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20080814234149.DGFA8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed from "Printers and Printing in Providence, 1762 - 1907" prepared by a committee of Providence Typographical Union #33 as a souvenir of the 50th anniversary of its institution printed in 1907 "The Journeymen" (part 159) p. LXXIII. "ALEXANDER MARSHALL ROBERTSON - Born Fall River, Mass., June 5, 1836; served a five-year apprenticeship in the office of the Fall River Monitor, of which Henry Pratt was proprietor, beginning July 14, 1850; commenced work in Providence July, 1856, 'in the job and book office of Knowles, Anthony & Co., located in the Washington building, on Washington row, on the floor above that occupied by the Journal newspaper, to which establishment it had formerly wholly belonged, but then only partially.' Since then he has worked in most of the book and job offices of the city, and for a number of years on the Evening Bulletin. Mr. Robertson is an 1857 charter member of Providence Typographical Union, was Vice President in 1869 and President in 1877 and 1878. He has been a resident of Lakewood, R. I., for a number of years. GEORGE ROBERTSON - Born Smithfield, R. I., July 10, 1828, and died of softening of the brain in a Worcester Insane asylum Aug. 16, 1888; he began to learn printing in 1842 in the office of the Fall River Monitor (Tripp & Pratt); was initiated into Providence Union Aug. 10, 1867; worked on the Worcester Spy, Woonsocket Patriot, New Bedford Standard and Fall River News. In 1859 he started the Fall River Journal, a weekly paper, issued 'simultaneously in Rhode Island and Massachusetts,' and in 1878 the New Bedford Signal, which he continued until his health failed. He was brother of Wm. S. Robertson, publisher of the Fall River Monitor, and of A. M. Robertson of Lakewood. J. W. ROBERTSON (Cigarette Bill) - Born San Francisco Oct. 25, 1855; learned printing at Harper Bros., New York, beginning in 1868; worked in Boston and New York for many years; admitted by card to Providence Union June 26, 1904. CHARLES H. ROBINSON - Born Greenville, O., Aug. 25, 1858; learned printing in Washington, D. C., beginning in 1875; admitted to Providence Union by card at the June meeting, 1888, and worked in this city during that summer; now located in New York city, holding card 2632, and is a member of St. John's M.E. Church. GEORGE W. ROBINSON - Born Waterford, Ireland, April 26, 1865; apprenticed Sept. 3, 1877, in Waterford; initiated in 1884 into Society of Compositors of Dublin, Ireland; worked in Providence in 1891 for a month, and again in 1905 at Livermore & Knight's; admitted to Providence Union at August meeting, 1905; worked in various Boston and Brockton offices previous to 1905." continued in part 160. ------------------------------ To contact the RIGENWEB list administrator, send an email to RIGENWEB-admin@rootsweb.com. 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