>X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 >From: "juliecase" <juliecase@prodigy.net> >To: <WILLIAMS-admin@rootsweb.com> >Subject: handwritten genealogy/diary eBay auction ends Nov 24 >Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:31:50 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 > >This auction will be over before there is time for me to list >this in SOMEBODYS LINKS or MISSING LINKS, but I thought there >might be one or more people on the CHILD, HYDE, GRIDLEY, and/or >WILLIAMS mailing lists who would want to know about this, so I'm >sending it to the list administrators to post if they thins it is >the right thing to do. > >Cheers, Julie > >Julia M. Case juliecase@prodigy.net >Editor, Missing Links and Somebody's Links >http://www.petuniapress.com/ >http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ > >Item # 923256089 >Auction ends: Nov-24-02 19:28:37 PST >Seller: diaries >[unedited] Description: This is a wonderful handwritten piece of >genealogy, and someone has put a lot of work into it. First off >the particulars: It measures about 6 1/4" x 8, has about 40 pages >full of handwritten family notes, memories, and plenty of dates. >There are also within these 40 pages, several newspaper clippings >about deaths etc. Now a little bit about the family: In the front >of the book it says, "Mrs. W. Hyde, Brookline, Mass. Jan. 31, >1883, 9 PM. " The next page is the "Child Genealogy" it starts >with Aaron Child who was born in Roxbury, 1741, and his wife >Susanne Gridley, born in Roxbury 1746. It then lists 5 more >people, and at the end of this page says, "Four were born and >died in infancy, 2 for the name of Lemuel, one Samuel, and one >William." That gives you a small sample of how the journal is >written, and in a beautiful script, I might add. It looks like >this is the genealogy of the Hyde, Childs, Gridley and Williams >family. Of course there are many more names, but these seem to be >the main families. I also believe that this was a very prominent >family in the area, as one of the newspaper articles says, " May >2, 1898, Death of James F. C. Hyde, First Mayor of Newton and a >Leader in many ways. Native of Newton and Descendent of Earliest >Settlers." Places mentioned are, Brookline, Boston, Melrose, >Roxbury, New Hartford, Boston, Westboro, New York, Dorchester, >etc. In the back of the journal another genealogy starts. This >one being the Gridley family. It's written more like a diary, >then anything else. It starts off, "1st Generation Capt. Richard >Gridley born in Boston about 1630.." The first two pages in the >journal are loose, spine is also loose, but not completely. >Someone has placed some kind of tape on the spine, but all pages >accounted for. There are several pages in the middle not written >on, but 40 that are. Someone really needs to study this further, >as I'm sure is hold a lot of historical value. Please email me >with any questions, buy as is and buyer pays shipping. [Editor's >Note: There are three images of handwritten diary pages and a >two-column newspaper clipping with this listing.] Carol C-H <cch@netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/