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Regards, Kevin York
You should send a private message to the Puritan Great Migration project via the link in yellow above. That way the Project will have your email information.
S Willson
Welcome to WikiTree. This page is not the best place to ask for help. Requests can be posted in the genealogist-to-genealogist (g2g) forum to reach a larger audience and others can help point you in the best direction.
I'd also suggest reaching out to the "greeter" who left a comment on your proflie to see how best to get started.
WikiTree is not like some sites where people share family trees. Here we all work together towards creating a single world-wide tree. That means that we all share in creating and editing the profiles. I'm afraid we don't have a group who can handle 50,000 profiles that would need to be added, edited and potentially merged with the existing database. Perhaps you could compare what we have on Edmund Ingalls and his descendants and provide us with any needed corrections and source records? It would be a far less difficult job, and might give you some satisfaction in improving what we have already.
Regards, Bobbie
You have listed a birthplace for Nehemiah Smith (1605-168 6) as NewCastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. My great uncle, Walter Burgess Smith, a noted and published genealogist, travelled there in person and found no evidence to support that claim. In his published newsletter,"News of the Nehemiah Smith Clan" Vol 1 Number 2 March 1992, he offers a explanation of the probable origins of this "story".
Thank you for your continuing interest in Nehemiah Smith Sr. (abt.1605-1686). When we last collaborated about this, we marked his birth location as uncertain. I then suggested those details should be moved to research notes. It's been six months without that happening, so I'll do it shortly.
If you have access to reliable sources including contemporaneous records and sound analysis that would improve WikiTree's Nehemiah Smith Sr., I would encourage you to share those details so that the community is able to collaborate further. Consider creating a linked space page to document the various information. Such a page could then form the basis for a G2G question about all this.
Most of us probably do not have ready access to the 1992 article to which you refer. It does not seem to have been widely circulated; lacking other information, I suspect it is covered by copyright.
FamilySearch has cataloged issues of the "News of the Nehemiah Smith Clan." The particular issue to which you refer is housed, apparently at Salt Lake, in "Off-site Storage." See here.
Thank you again, Mike. I look forward to seeing how your research progresses. --Gene
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I agree that she should be PGM. Have updated the profile and posted the query on G2G, Should Jane (Young) (Hatch) King be PGM? Mentioned your comment in the G2G.
edited by GeneJ X
has a headstone photo that suggests her maidan {or middle} name was Hutchins
Can someone help me with this? Lydia Chandler is my is my 9th great grandmother.
Thank you, Shelley Engle
Edit: Anne, you might want to Project Protect this profile.
edited by Joe Cochoit
Samuel Smith, with his wife Elizabeth, each aged 32, and their four children, Samuel 9, Elizabeth 7, Mary 5, and Philip 1, sailed from Ipswich, England on April 30, 1634. They arrived in Boston in June 1634. He was one of the Founders of Wethersfield, Conn., where he was Lieutenant Deputy from 1641-1656. He was among those who signed an agreement in 1659 to remove from Conn. to the Massachusetts Jurisdiction and was one of the Founders of Hadley, Mass.; on May 11, 1661, the residents of Hadley voted that there should be military training and Samuel Smith, among others, was chosen to be a Lieutenant. This was approved by the County Court in March of 1663. He was a Lieutenant for about 15 years. In May of 1678, he requested to be freed from military trust, being as he said, "nearly 80 years old." He was discharged, and his son, Philip, was appointed in his place, approved by the County Court in 1678. Samuel Smith died in 1680, at the age of 78. Elizabeth his wife died on March 16, 1686.
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Thank you! Natalie French
After finishing the Goole-2 bio I was looking for more info and came across records of Plymouth Colony by Nathaniel Shurtleff which lists both Francis Goulder and Francis "Goole" separately. Francis Goulder remained in Plymouth Colony, unlike Francis Gould/Goole and Goulder took a freeman's oath there in 1656 and then was listed as a freeman in 1658 in the town of Plymouth, long after Francis Gould was 30 miles away in Braintree having children. The capper is that Francis Goulder died in Plymouth 17 May 1664, 12 years before Gould who was in Chelmsford by that date, 70 miles away and well documented for another 12 years. So, I think that the section of bio about Francis Gould being a smith in Plymouth needs to be struck as that record also identifies Francis "Goulder", who we assumed all along was the same as our "Gould". Plymouth records are here with a search for 'Goulder' https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/26917-records-of-the-colony-of-new-plymouth-in-new-england-printed-by-order-of-the-legislature-of-the-commonwealth-of-massachusetts?viewer=1&offset=0#page=39&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=goulder
The only place I see "our" Francis is in the 1643 list of men able to bear arms in Duxbury, Plymouth colony assuming that "Goole" is ours.
Advice is welcomed on this potential edit...
Update: Great Migration Begins vol 1, A-F page 617 under the entry for Samuel Eddy says that he (Samuel) put his son John Eddy to dwell "with Francis Goulder and Katherne his wife" as a smith apprentice so that would seem to confirm that the smith of Plymouth was a different man than our PGM Francis Gould/Goole-2. Working on this Francis Goulder and his wife now.
edited by Brad Stauf
1) James Bellows, the son of Elizabeth HOWE (b. 1673) and her husband, Isaac Bellows, married a lady named Thankful WILLIS (b.1690) {James Bellows is the great-grandson of John Howe}
2) Abigail HOWE (b. 1777) married Asa Allen WILLIS {Abigail Howe is the great-great-great-granddaughter of John Howe}
edited by Kathryn Lanier
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Does anyone know of a transcript of this or be interested in helping to produce one? If I end up with useful information, can I add to his profile or must someone else do that? I am working on Earls Colne One Place Study and am bumping into a few PGM candidates. The Will is here https://archive.org/details/stokesrecordsnot11stok/page/n313
Thanks for any assistance. I have removed most of the ancestry links,that was all they had.
[[Darms-1|Donald Darms the PM for Sarah (Scott) Graves sourced wife of Thomas Graves previously requested and received a copy of the original will of Christopher Scott a portion of which I you can see since placed it on the profile of above mentioned Thomas Graves. (You can see the note/inquiry Darms sent to me on my WT profile here: Cheryl Skordahl.)
Since one vocal person is concerned about the change of Thomas Graves-170 wife from Whiting-20 to Scott-17829, and is a PM, I think it would be beneficial if one of us checked over the copy of original . Darms will to e-mail it to someone who has experience in deciphering old English wills.