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What was Elizabeth Fone Winthrop Feake Hallett’s life like? Missy Wolfe tells us in Isubordinate Spirit.

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I received a most interesting letter in my email last week out of the blue, mind you she must have known of me, but I not of her.  The email was from Missy Wolfe and it was telling me about a book she had written about life in early New England 1610-1665 it was entitled Insubordinate Spirit.  I found it even more interesting that I had just completed another book about another  person that possessed such a spirit among again some of the first settlers of New England, Martha Allen Carrier. It seems that things like this come in threes, my mother was also  reading the Traitors Wife, which is also a book about Martha Carrier.  These last two books about Martha Carrier are historical fictions written by Kathleen Kent and are well done.  The first book is by Missy Wolfe and it is actually a non fiction history of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett’s life and times. Need I say, being a Hallett descendant,  that it took me no time to get to Amazon.com and order the book and read it.

Insubordinate Spirit-A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America 1610-1665 is a well written book. I found it very easy to read and very easy to follow. Missy tells of life and politics and religion and the play between these institutions and the effects they had on Elizabeth and her family. The book is not highly technical in that it is not in legal jargon but in layman’s terms. She has done her homework well and  found some very interesting information on Johana Winthrop Lyon, Elizabeth’s oldest child from her first marriage to the son of John Winthrop Sr. , her Uncle and then also her father in law. I am glad I read it and I think after reading it, I just might need to re-read the Winthrop Women a historical fiction by Anya Seaton , knowing and understand a little more of what was going on in her surroundings. I am sure will make that book even more interesting.

You can find the book at Amazon.com. I will gladly add this to my genealogy book collection.

Happy Hunting!

This piece is unsolicited and my work. I received no compensation for writing this piece.

My lineage from William and Elizabeth Hallett is:

1-William Hallett
+Elizabeth Fones

2-Col. William Hallett
+Sarah Woolsey

3-Rebecca Hallett
+James Jackson

4-General Joseph Jackson
+Mary Rodgers

5-Daniel Jackson
+Jamima Benjamin

6-Silas (2) Jackson
+Mary Polly Peterman

7-Jamima Jackson
+Samuel Craig McCartney

8-Silas Jackson McCartney
+Nancy “Nannie” Curl Terry

9-Arthur Cellus McCartney
+Christina S. Cutter

10-Willard Warren McCartney
+ Adela Ruth Ogilvie

11-James R. McCartney
+ Dency J. Terrill

12-Julia K. McCartney
+ James E. Hogston

5th Annual Carnival of Genealogy Swimsuit Edition! Pictures from the 1930′s check out those suites!

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The topic for the July edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is The 5th Annual Swimsuit Edition! 

 

 

Well I hunted and I hunted and I hunted for more recent swim suit pictures in my albums and these were the only ones I could find. Okay, I confess,  so I didn’t look all that hard! I am not so willing to share my flesh with ya all ! So I have decide to show you a few photos of folks unknown in bodies of water unknown.

These photos were in family photos, so I am guessing they are either cousins or aunts and uncles (my grandparents would NEVER, hee hee hee the more I look at it, it just might be Nana and Grandpa)! The family from which these photos came from lived by water in a few places. This could be one of the great lakes, especially likely would  be Lake Michigan or Lake Erie. There was family in California and Florida too. Could be the Atlantic or the Pacific Oceans or the Gulf.  Where ever it is looks like they are having fun and staying cool.

Lone bather (wader?) having fun can’t tell who it is, again probably in one of those places listed above.
Time period I am guessing is in the 1920′s or 1930′s .

Last but surely not least one last bather. Looks like it might be a young woman and the same one as in the previous photo.  I wish it was a bit clearer, but this one seems to have a double exposure.

Where is your favorite watering hole?  Here in Michigan you have your pick, never have to go to awful far to find water.  Have a safe and wonderful summer as you enjoy the water!

Happy Hunting!

 

 

Family History Friday, David C. Terrill 8 June 1808

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photo in the collection of Dency J. Terrill also can be found on ancestry.org

David Covey and Susan Foreman Terrill

 

 

On this day 204 years ago………

 

David Covey Terrill’s birthday is 8 June 1808. David is the son of Josiah and Chloe Covey Terrill . He came into  this world in Cambridge Twp., Lamoille, Vermont. His grandfather Josiah may have been with the Green Mountain Boy’s, and we believe that he was at Yorktown with the Continental Army where he lost his life.

We find David next in Pine Grove, Warren Co., Pennsylvania in 1840 he didn’t live there long as we find him marrying Susan Foreman on 10 November 1845 in Crawford Co. Pennsylvania. Susan is the daughter of John and Susanna Camp Foreman of Hayfield, Crawford Co. Pennsylvania.

David was a teacher in a one room school house in Hicknell, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania. In the 1850 Pennslyvania Federal Census we find David and Susan in Conneaut, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.

In 1860 we again find David and Susan in Crawford Co. PA but now he is in Spring Twp.  found with he and his wife Susan are their children ,Henry Terrill 10, Clarissa Terrill 8, John Terrill 3, Adelbert Terrill 1 and, his father Josiah Terrill 88. In 1870 we again find him in Spring Twp. with Susan and their children, Clarissa Terrill 18, John Terrill 13 ,Adelbert Terrill 10, David S Terrill 7, James Terrill 1 and, his sister Martha Terrill 76.

The occupation in the census is given as farmer.

The last census that we find David in is the 1880, he is there with his wife Susan and their sons, Adelbert S. Terrill 20, David S. Terrill 17. He is now living in Sheffield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. David will pass away before the 1890 census. At the age of  80 he died in Sheffield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio on 13 December 1888.

David and Susan are my second great grandparents.

1 David and Susan Foreman Terrill
2 Adelbert S. and Dency J. Rugg Terrill
3 Walter I. Terrill and Arleen Beach Terrill
4 Dency J. Terrill and James R. McCartney
5 Julia McCartney and James E. Hogston

Sources: familysearch.org and ancestry.com and Dency Jane Terrill.

Happy Hunting!

 

Friday Family History/Payne Johnson 206 yrs old 25 May 1806

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Payne Johnson – born 2 May, 1807* (in my record I have 25 May 1806) in Sullivan Co. Tenn. and married 29 March, 1834 in Perry Co. Ky. to Margaret Bates, died 5 March, 1882 in Pike Co. Ky. and is buried in the Johnson Cemetery in Pike Co. Ky.

Payne is related  to my husband in many ways. The Burke, Tackett, Johnson, and Hampton  families are  early settlers of Pike Co. Kentucky and it is through all these families that Payne is Jim’s 3rd Great grand-uncle, half 3rd Great grand-uncle,1 st cousin 5 times removed.  Elizabeth Johnson, Payne’s sister, is Jim’s 3rd Great-grandmother. Elizabeth married William Hall.  There are many more twists and turns in these trees, they are fun and challenging to flesh out.

I have not worked these lines in a while and I am going to believe that the information at The Descendants of Thomas Johnson*, maybe up to date. I urge you to visit the following sites to further your quest in your Johnson research especially if they are in Eastern Kentucky.

Johnson History Garyl Arlin Johnson

*The Descendants of Thomas Johnson by Jimmie Jackson

Descendants Of Thomas Johnson Sr. Of Pike Co., KY by Ellen Carper

Happy Hunting!