John H Hancock Malden Massachusetts 1913

1780 Document Payment for Stephen Davenport Deceased Connecticut Signed by Abraham Davenport

Abraham Davenport (1715 – November 20, 1789) born in Stanford, Connecticut son of John Davenport (1668-1730) and Elizabeth Morris (1675-1757) grandson of Reverend John Davenport (1597-1669/70) co-founder and Pastor of the Colony of New Haven Yale: A Short History
painted by Ralph Earl, 1788. Yale University Art Gallery

Committee of the Pay Table in Connecticut Also known as the Committee of Four during the Revolutionary War, the Committee of the Pay Table was responsible for handling military finances. The office changed names in 1788 becoming the Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts. Davenport was Judge of the Fairfield County Court at Fairfield and Danbury from 1768 to his death in 1789.

This receipt is from Heritage Collectors Society December 2, 1780 Payment to Stephen Davenport deceased 26 pounds, seven shillings, and six pence. signed by Abraham Davenport Transcription
"12/2/1780 Hartford Connecticut, rec'd of the Pay Table Committee, their order on the treasurer of this state, to secure the payment of 26 pounds 7 shillings 6 pence, the balance due to Stephen Davenport, Dec'd., on the first day of January last. Received for Mr. John/Jonathan?  Davenport, Adm. the said Stephen Davenport, 26 pounds 7 shillings 6 pence by Abraham Davenport.

I propose this is Stephen Davenport (1752-1777) son of John Davenport (1724-1756) and Deborah Ambler (1726-1807) grandson of John Davenport (1666-1742) and Sarah Bishop Brother John Davenport (1749-1820) administrator married to 1st Prudence Bell and 2nd Sarah Gaylord. I found a Stephen Davenport, school teacher, but not sure on his service record. A Big Thanks to Jane Wallace Wild for helping with transcription. The family lived at "Davenport Ridge" Stamford Connecticut 

A Supplement to The history and genealogy of the Davenport family, in England and America, from A. D. 1086 to 1850

More on Abraham Davenport-----During the Revolution Abraham Davenport was a staunch patriot, and served on the state committee of safety. He was a man of stern integrity and generous beneficence, and in times of scarcity and high prices sold the product of his farm to the poor at less than the current value. For some time he was a member of the executive council of Connecticut, for twenty five years he was a member of the state legislature, and state senator from 1766 till 1784. He also held the office of judge of the court of common pleas. When he was a member of the council in Hartford, on the dark day in 1780, it was proposed to adjourn, as some thought the day of judgment was at hand; but he objected, saying: "That day is either at hand or it is not: if it is not, there is no cause of adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish, therefore, that candles may be brought." From
Below is from Stanford Historical Society
Portrait of a Family: Stamford through the Legacy of the Davenports
A few lines composed on the dark day. May 19, 1780. [New Hampshire? 1780]

Digital Photograph. Steve Castagneto, Academy of Information Technology Stamford

Digital reproduction of a section of the mural painted in 1934 by Delos Palmer, a prolific Stamford artist, depicting Abraham Davenport standing before Governor Jonathan Trumbull on the famous Dark Day, the 19th of May, 1870. The nationally funded W.P.A. Federal Arts Project in Connecticut commissioned the mural during the Great Depression, as part of an effort to put artists to work embellishing public buildings.

John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem about the famous incident, "Abraham Davenport", first published in The Atlantic Monthly (May 1866).

John Greenleaf Whittier 1868: “Abraham Davenport” from Tent On The Beach

In the old days (a custom laid aside With breeches and cocked hats) the people sent Their wisest men to make the public laws. And so, from a brown homestead, where the Sound Drinks the small tribute of the Mianus, Waved over by the woods of Rippowams, And hallowed by pure lives and tranquil deaths, Stamford sent up to the councils of the State Wisdom and grace in Abraham Davenport. 'Twas on a May-day of the far old year Seventeen hundred eighty, that there fell Over the bloom and sweet life of the Spring Over the fresh earth and the heaven of noon, A horror of great darkness, like the night In day of which the Norland sagas tell, The Twilight of the Gods. The low-hung sky Was black with ominous clouds, save where its rim Was fringed with a dull glow, like that which climbs The crater's sides from the red hell below. Birds ceased to sing, and all the barnyard fowls Roosted; the cattle at the pasture bars Lowed, and looked homeward; bats on leathern wings Flitted abroad; the sounds of labor died; Men prayed, and women wept; all ears grew sharp To hear the doom-blast of the trumpet shatter The black sky, that the dreadful face of Christ Might look from the rent clouds, not as He looked A loving guest at Bethany, but stern As Justice and inexorable Law.

Meanwhile in the old State House, dim as ghosts, Sat the lawgivers of Connecticut, Trembling beneath their legislative robes. "It is the Lord's Great Day! Let us adjourn," Some said; and then, as if with one accord, All eyes were turned to Abraham Davenport. He rose, slow cleaving with his steady voice The intolerable hush. "This well may be The Day of Judgment which the world awaits; But be it so or not, I only know My present duty, and my Lord's command To occupy till He come. So at the post Where He hast set me in His providence, I choose, for one, to meet Him face to face, No faithless servant frightened from my task, But ready when the Lord of the harvest calls; And therefore, with all reverence, I would say, Let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles." And they brought them in. Then by the flaring lights the Speaker read, Albeit with husky voice and shaking hands, An act to amend an act to regulate The shad and alewive fisheries, Whereupon Wisely and well spake Abraham Davenport, Straight to the question, with no figures of speech Save the ten Arab signs, yet not without The shrewd dry humor natural to the man: His awe-struck colleagues listening all the while, Between the pauses of his argument, To hear the thunder of the wrath of God Break from the hollow trumpet of the cloud. And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half seen Against the background of unnatural dark, A witness to the ages as they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear.

Hartwell Blaisdell Civil War Soldier Vermont

Hartwell Blaisdell (1841-1932) married Zibiah Wright (1842-1911) Children: Elgin Blaisdell (1866-1946) and Adella May Blaisdell (1870-1949) married 1st Newbern Keach Cole (1866-1913) and 2nd Hubert Morton Cole (1866-1913)

The Countess John Greenleaf Whittier Rocks Village

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Toll House

"The Countess" is founded upon the following story: In the stormy month of March, in the year 1792, a brig anchored at Newburyport, Massachusetts from which landed seventeen French exiles, who had fled from Guadaloupe on account of a rebellion on that island. They were part of the French aristocracy escaping a blood-thirsty mob who sought vengeance on all the noble families of France. Of these emigrants nine remained in Newburyport and their graves are still seen in an ancient burial place in that city.

According to the John Greenleaf Whittier papers: Count Francois de Vipart with his cousin Joseph Rochemont de Poyen came to the United States with these French families and took up their residence at Rocks Village on the Merrimac, where they both married. The wife of Count Vipart was Mary Ingalls, "who as my father remembered her was a very lovely young girl." Her wedding dress, as described by a lady still living, was "pink satin with an overdress of white lace, and white satin slippers." She died in less than a year after her marriage. Her husband returned to his native country. He lies buried in the family tomb of the Viparts at Bordeaux.

Historic Summer Haunts From Newport to Portland written by Frederic Lauriston Bullard
In a churchyard quite near the river is the grave of " the Countess " of Whittier's poem, the village bride of Count Francois de Vipart, who died within a year of her marriage. On the south side of the Merrimac was the home of Sarah Greenleaf, and farther down are the well-remembered laurels of Newbury. On the north bank again and in Rocks Village is the home in which " the Countess " lived.

Ingalls-Colby House, East Haverhill, Mass., ca. 1830–1840. Rufus Porter (1792–1884) nineteenth-century New England muralist

                                                     Main Street Haverhill MA

                    RIVER VALLEY, NEAR GRAVE OF COUNTESS
"For, from us, ere the day was done The wooded hills shut out the sun. But on the river's further side We saw the hill-tops glorified." The River Path

                 DR. ELIAS WELD, AT THE AGE OF NINETY

I inscribed this poem to Dr. Elias Weld of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to whose kindness I was much indebted in my boyhood. He was the one cultivated man in the neighborhood. His small but well-chosen library was placed at my disposal. He is the "wise old doctor" of Snow-Bound.

                   Photo from Rocks Village Memorial Association

Rocks Village by Leonard Woodman Smith
Notes from the Chase Chronicles -October 1918
added commentary from Photos 

Years ago, as one crossed the old covered bridge that stretches across the river Merrimac, and emerged from its semi-darkness, a busy little village came into view. This village was known for years as "The Rocks". An inquisitive person would soon ask, why was it called "Rocks" People would ride over the modern bridge at low tide, will see the rocky bed of the river, with the water rushing over it. A man owning land near, by the name of Holt, gave the name of "Holt's Rocks", to that section of the river; before any bridge was placed at this spot, there was a ferry boat that went from West Newbury to Haverhill, and it was known as " Holt's Rocks Ferry." Also see Swett's Ferry as noted in Ben H Swett Records

This worn image of the Merrimack Bridge and the Rocks Village Toll House dates from between 1891 and 1912. It shows the 1828 covered bridge and toll house (marked #2) along the approach to the right of the bridge. Photo from Henry Ford Museum.

The Rocks Village Toll House
Jim McCabe, Curator of Historic Buildings Henry Ford Museum
The 1828 Rocks Village Toll House is a simple, functional building made to house the toll keeper, and provide room for his other work as a shoemaker.  The Rocks Village Toll House, which now sits adjacent to the Ackley Covered Bridge in Greenfield Village, formerly served a much larger covered bridge and drawbridge which spanned the Merrimack River, connecting the towns of Haverhill and West Newbury, Massachusetts.  The bridge and toll house were built in 1828 to replace an earlier bridge that had been destroyed by a flood.  Their construction was not the responsibility of the towns where they were located, nor the state or federal government, but of the Proprietors of the Merrimack Bridge, a group of Haverhill and West Newbury investors who had built the first Merrimack Bridge in 1795.  The building housed a toll keeper, who was responsible for collecting the tolls and for opening the drawbridge when necessary.  In his considerable spare time, the toll keeper also worked as a cobbler, making shoes.  Tolls were collected until 1868, and the toll house remained in use for the drawbridge until 1912.
When the first Merrimack Bridge was built at Rocks Village in 1795, there was a need for good routes from the farmlands of northern Massachusetts and New Hampshire to the growing urban markets of Boston.  Neither the new federal or state governments had the resources to build and maintain many roads.  As a result, privately-owned turnpike and bridge companies, like the Proprietors of the Merrimack Bridge, were encouraged to fill that need with toll roads and bridges, and they proliferated around the new nation.  The era of turnpikes and toll bridges was beginning to draw to a close when the second Merrimack Bridge was built in 1828.  By mid-century, canals, and then railroads, had replaced roads as the primary means of traveling across distances, so roads and bridges were generally used more for local travel.  This change can be seen in the decline in weekly receipts at the Rocks Village Toll House, from a high of $58 in 1857, to $29 in 1868, when the Merrimack Bridge became a free bridge.  At that time, Essex County assumed authority over the bridge, and the towns it served, Haverhill, West Newbury, and Amesbury, shared the costs of its upkeep.  With only local support, upkeep was sporadic at best, and by 1912, most of the bridge had to be replaced.  The Rocks Village Toll House had witnessed the decline of the American road during the mid-19th century.  It would not be until the advent of the bicycle in the late 19th century, followed by the automobile in the early 20th century, that this decline would be reversed.

More info The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts By Benjamin L. Mirick, John Greenleaf Whittier
At one time there was a shipyard also near and quite a little shipbuilding was done. The first bridge built at this turn of the river, was washed away in the great freshet of 1818; for nearly one hundred years, the second bridge, known to the present generation as the old covered bridge did duty as a highway, joining the two villages; there were but few openings to let in the light, and for this reason at all times of day there was a peculiar dimness, and at night, with a few whale oil lanterns hung here and there, the dimness could almost be felt. I remember the village as it looked sixty years ago, and the general appearance has not changed much. In a mental picture I see the Old Toll House, The Tavern, the house of Dr. Kenniston, the residence of Mr. Samuel Elliott, and many of the other homes, and the old Brick Store.

On each end of the old bridge there was a sign, stating that driving a horse faster than a walk was forbidden, and a fine for not obeying. The old Tavern fifty years ago, was the centre of the village life. At that point railroads only connected the most important towns and cities, so that the old Stage coach was the usual means of travel for people who did not own a family horse; also long journeys were taken by this method, making it quite important to have sections in the journey where entertainment for the traveler and the horses could be had.

The old Tavern signs always read, "Entertainment for man and beast". This Tavern at Rocks Village was one of the important stopping places, for people traveling into New Hampshire, and to the large town of Amesbury.

There were shoe factories in the village also, Messrs. Geo. & Samuel Elliott, Mr. Maynard, and Mr. Rufus Chase, and perhaps others I do not remember. Mr. Samuel Elliott built a modern house, that gave quite a distinction to the street.

In front of the house was a very handsome iron fence that was a novelty at the time; the exterior of the house was attractive, painted white, with green blinds; the front door was a feature also, one long panel, with a pointed gothic top, and iron ornamental work inserted. Rocks Village was a bustling place, and its life extended to remote parts of the section.  But the life story of the hamlet is the most

interesting part.  The shoe industry, that makes Haverhill known in a large part of the world, had its beginning here, but soon was transferred to the town centre.  Mr. Rufus Chase, Mr. Maynard and the two Elliott brothers, George and Samuel transferred their shoe business, and moved into town for their residence also, where the
increase in trade brought wealth to them, as it had done to many others.  They were among the pioneers in this great industry.  Romance also had its share in the town history. The fine old colonial home, that for many years was the home of Dr. Kenniston, was also the birthplace of the "Countess", the subject of one of Whittier's poems. Mary Ingalls, daughter of Henry and Abigail Ingalls was born Jan.1786; her paternal grandfather was

the Rev. Payne Wingate.  The French Revolution in Guadeloupe drove many into exile.  Seventeen of these
exiles landed in Newburyport in 1792.  Count Francis de Vipart and Joseph Rochemont de Tojan, came to Rocks Village, and the Count fell in love with Mary Ingalls, and married her Mar. 21, 1805.  The Count
was said to be tall and very fine looking.  Whittier in his poem calls Mary Ingalls, "the pick of the village".  Her wedding dress was pink satin with a white lace overdress, and she wore white satin slippers.
The Countess lived but a few years; her burial place in Greenwood Cemetery, has the old time slate headstone, with the following inscription:

               May Wife of Francis Vipart of Guardaloupe Died Jan.- 5 - 1807 Aged 21

Artist Jacob Towle Rocks Village Firehouse

                             

Book Review of Mayflower Live Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience

Mayflower Live Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience by Martyn Whittock at Amazon
This is a book review from New York Journal  written by Robert S. Davis, an award-winning senior professor of genealogy, geography, and history. His writing credits include more than 1,000 contributions as books, articles, and reviews in historical, library, education, and archival journals related to the South. He is also a frequent speaker.

"Each chapter in this book becomes not just a separate life and adventure but a different way to learn about the Pilgrim experience."
A new century brings special anniversaries as occasions for reflection; 2019 had plenty of such benchmarks including for Jamestown, and 2020 will include the Pilgrims' "impact on popular consciousness" while putting their "hardships in sharp perspective."
Author Martyn Whittock in Mayflower Lives seeks to explore "the motives, trials, tribulations, successes, and significance of this myth-making voyage" of the Pilgrims. The author does this through the "dramatic and colorful" "interlocking lives of fourteen of those who were part of these events." "They move the story forward from journey, to settlement, to building a community."
Religion and its politics permeate this story. "Puritan religious beliefs had set them [the Pilgrims] at odds with an increasingly authoritarian Church of England" and the king. Whittock tells the Pilgrims' tale both in terms of the turbulent politics of 1640 England and as immigrant refugees and exiles.
True Puritans sought to change the Church of England, but the Pilgrims wanted separation in every way. The Pilgrims left England for the religious freedom of Holland but where "their sons were facing conscription into the armies of the Protestant Dutch" in Europe's religious wars.
After a "long and hard" voyage on the Mayflower, weather conditions forced the Pilgrims to settle on Cape Code, "a strange and alien environment," instead of the distant "northern parts of the colony of Virginia" or the Hudson River of today's New York. Plymouth settlement began as a poorly planned fluke, "in an area that lacked royal authority" but so did the other efforts from which would come the British Empire.
The Pilgrims and the strangers (non-Pilgrims) in their impromptu home in the New World would face huge challenges. "Desperate hardly begins to describe them." Half of these 130 settlers died in the first winter of 1620–21" from sickness. Of the survivors, half were "children and teenagers."
Fourteen of the settlement's 18 adult women died that first year. Settlers buried children and spouses. Pilgrims like widow and mother Susanna White married from the survivors; with widower Edward Winslow, she started a new family.
Love could develop powerfully, "even if it was not the initial driving force" of necessity and survival and the Pilgrims "stressed the quality of lovemaking as well as its regularity" in achieving an average of eight children per person. That became the basis of the legendary love story of the Mayflower lives of John Alden, Myles Standish, and Priscilla Mullins.
Scandal and tragedy runs through many of these tales. Whittock devotes a chapter to the rebels and scoundrels of Plymouth. Myles Standish led brutal outrages against the Native Americans.
Of a family of four abandoned children, only Richard More survived the first year at Plymouth. Their vengeful father had declared these helpless infants. Richard grew up to serve against the Dutch, the French, and the Native Americans. He lived to witness the Salem Witch trials.
The book appropriately begins with Christopher Jones, the master of the Mayflower who brought the Pilgrims to America. He had no real experience with the dangerous Atlantic. So much went wrong, but Jones persevered even when the Mayflower started to fall apart.
The author describes Jones and his ship as exceptional in a time of seafaring and trade that Whittock writes even made each of Jones' marriages a "sound commercial prospect." Two years later, he died in England and the decrepit Mayflower became scrap lumber.
William Bradford led the Pilgrims. A modern docudrama told the history of the settlement through his history, a document that, like the Pilgrims, had a complicated history.
Whittock gives the lives of these founding fathers and mothers within the story of the Pilgrims of Plymouth as a whole. "Some were men, some were women, one was a little child who did not survive the first winter; one was a Native American." Each chapter in this book becomes not just a separate life and adventure but a different way to learn about the Pilgrim experience.
Although the Puritans believed in the "weakness of women," the author discusses the forgotten but critical female history of Plymouth. "The girls were tougher than anyone had imagined" and lived longer; young women, although few in number, managed to survive "to a remarkable degree."               
The characters featured each lived a complicated "Mayflower life." Stephen Hopkins, for example, had survived Bermuda and Jamestown. He knew Pocahantas. At Plymouth as "a stranger among the saints" or not a Pilgrim, he proved a skilled hunter, acted as a negotiator with Native Americans, and owned a rowdy tavern.
Native American Squanto (Tisquantum) became a part of the legend of the Plymouth settlement. His story had the elements of the worst of the European discovery. Kidnapped and enslaved by fur traders, he lived in Spain and England before he found himself back home after his people had died from an epidemic passed to them by the Europeans.
Mary Chilton's Mayflower life serves as an opportunity to explain the legends of Plymouth Rock and Thanksgiving. Whittock often uses these biographies to look for truth about myths. She would become the widow of the wealthiest merchant in Boston and mother of their 10 children.
The entertaining narrative of Mayflower Lives carries the reader through the times as reality and not children's stories. The book has annotation but no illustrations.

Mary Follansbee Wigglesworth and Captain Edwin John Colby

Captain Edwin John COLBY (1812-1859) born in Salisbury, Massachusetts son of John COLBY and Dolly BAGLEY
Originally given the name Lorentz Spitzenfiel Colby, List of Persons Whose Names Have Been Changed in This Commonwealth Feb. 26, 1814.) He appeared in the census in 1850 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: 1850 Massachusetts Census. Salisbury, Essex County, page 20. Age 38.) He died on 19 DEC 1859 at Bremen-Vegesack, Weser, Germany.

Name: Edwin J. Colby

 

Mary Follansbee Wigglesworth daughter of Samuel Wigglesworth and Joanna Heckettboth of Newbury, MA

Capt. Edwin John COLBY and Mary Follansbee WIGGLESWORTH were married on 2 MAY 1836 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. 

Page 3 Newburyport Herald Newburyport, Massachusetts Tuesday, May 10th, 1836
Children were: John Edwin COLBY, Mary Elizabeth COLBY, Ada Josephine COLBY, Joanna Alice COLBY.

Ada Shepard Badger

Ann Adeline "Ada" Shepard/Shephard (1835-1874) daughter of Otis Shepard/Shephard (1797-1858) and Ann Pope (1803-1886) born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She married Henry Clay Badger and had four children: Theodore Badger (1862-1910), Frederick Badger (1865-1944), Ernest Badger (1869-1888), and Katharine Badger (1872-18920. Ada is a direct line to Ralph Shephard, who came to Massachusetts in 1635 on the ship "Abigail." Photo from Special Collections Concord Library

The "Banner of Light" published an account of Ada was governess and translator to the children of author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) and Sophia Peabody (1809–1871): Below is a photo of the Hawthorne children: Una Hawthorne (1844-1877) Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) Rose Hawthorne (1851-1926) taken 1862 by Silsbee and Case courtesy of Hawthorne in Salem
Ada was recommend by Horace Mann, husband of Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, sister of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. Horace was president of the co-ed Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where Ada was a student.
Read my article on GenealogyBank blog "Writer Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Real-Life ‘Ghost Story’"

Ada traveled with the Hawthorne family for two years visiting major cities in France, England, Italy and Switzerland. 

Susan D Abele (1904-1999), granddaughter of Ada notes in her essay, "Ada Shepard and her Pocket Sketchbooks, Florence 1858,"
that "scholars have pigeonholed Ada as the governess, using her correspondence to illuminate her famous employer's European experiences. But Ada was more than a governess. Her education was unusual for the time and her later work as an educator gained the respect of her peers." Susan Abele's assertion is quite accurate. Ada attended speeches and lectures given by women's right advocate Lucy Stone and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison

In Memories of Hawthorne, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1851-1926)  "Last evening Miss Ada Shepard and I went to a neighboring villa to see some table-turning, which I have never seen, nor anything appertaining to spirits,"  Miss Shepard then took a pencil and paper for the spirits to write Photo from Sundry Thoughts

Aunt Ingersoll Julian Hawthorne wrote to regarding Mary Rondel.

Among the artist circles present during these 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1860), Robert Browning (1812-1889) and their son, Robert "Pen" Wiedeman Barrett Browning (1849-1912), Margret Fuller  
William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), his wife Emelyn Story (1820-1895). 

William Wetmore Story (1819-1895) son of Joseph Story (1779-1845) and Sarah Waldo Wetmore (1779-1855) married Emelyn Eldredge (1820-1895) daughter of Oliver Eldredge (1789–1857) and Hannah Smalley (1793–1867) His sculpture Cleopatra Photo from The New York Times 1916

 
Ada married Henry Clay Badger (1832-1894) son of Joseph Badger (1792-1852) and Eliza Mehitable Sterling (1799-184) .

Henry Clay Badger (1833-1894) graduated from Antioch College in 1857, and from 1859 to 1861, he was its Professor of Modern Languages. He was ordained on Nov. 13, 1862, and served congregations in Cambridge, Dorchester (Christ Church), Staten Island, and Ithaca, New York. He was curator of the Harvard Map collection from 1889 to 1892 Photo from Unitarian Universalist Association. Minister files, bMS 1446. Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School

The couple met a professor at Antioch Ada established a  School known as the Newbury Street School in Boston.
One account of Ada's death was published by Henry's brother, William Whittlesey Badger (1835-1898) who it an "over-sensitive constitution resulting in nervous prostration and loss of reason."

Henry Clay Badger Photo from Andover-Harvard Theological Library Special collections Unitarian Ministers bms 1446

The Newbury Street School. [A Circular.] 1874 The school year announcement to reopen after Ada passed

Lucretia Peabody Hale (1820-1900) daughter of Nathan Hale and Sarah Preston Everett

 William Wetmore Story--Cleopatra (1858) was described and admired in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance, The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni. The replica in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Bateman (78.3) see William Story and Cleopatra by Albert T Gardner 

• Giles Badger and his Descendants, First Four Generations by a Descendant John Cogswell Badger, Manchester, N.H. 
• A History of the Dorchester Pope Family. 1634-1888: With Sketches of Other Popes in England and America, and Notes Upon Several Intermarrying Families
• Ralph Shepard, Puritan published in Massachusetts 1893 Ralph Hamilton Shepard
• Ada Shepard and Her Pocket Sketchbooks, Florence 1858 Susan D, Abele  http://www.999info.net/Family/Susan/Ada.pdf
• Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, Volume II Julian Hawthorne, 1884
• A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Volume 36
• Letter http://enews.antiochcollege.org/2013/05/songs-stacks/ada-shepard-mary-richardson 
• The Brownings Correspondence https://www.browningscorrespondence.com/ 
• The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne 2001 Margaret B. Moore 
• Hawthorne and his circles Julian Hawthorne 
• Mary Peabody and Horace Mann  http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2016/02/mary-peabody-mann.html 
• Julian Hawthorne's Contributions to the "Pasadena Star-News", 1923–1935 
• Tea, Strawberries, and Spirits: A History of Spiritualism and the Occult in Salem: The Rise of Witch City Maggi Smith-Dalton (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2012)
• Hawthorne's mad scientists: pseudoscience and social science in nineteenth-century life and letters

Joseph Badger the first missionary of the Western Reserve published by Ohio Archeological and Historical publication Byron R Long

Jonathan PHELPS, father of Rachel Phelps Hawthorne from "The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 104"

Photo Collection of Carolyn Hart Wood

STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!!!!

Carolyn Hart Wood, daughter of Elizabeth Hart Marlowe Wood and Henry Wood Jr. contacted me regarding her ancestor Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart (1622-1700), who was targeted in the the Salem 1692 witch hysteria. Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart was the daughter of Thomas Hutchinson and Anne Browne Hawkes and the wife of Issac Hart (1614-1699), son of Thomas Hart and Alice Waters. After a little research Carolyn discovered a wealth of information on her New England heritage. Special Thanks to Steve Hart of Keystone Heights, FL




Early History of Isaac Hart and Family

Isaac Hart came over on the ship The Rose (Captain Anderson, Master of the ship) which arrived in 1637, at the age of 22. He was a tutor for children of Richard Carver. He married Elizabeth Hutchinson about 1650.

July 30, 1640, Isaac Hart gave bond in £20, with Mr. Robert Saltonstall security in £10, for the good behavior of Hart, until he should depart from the Plantation, or bring a vote from {elders?} that he be free from fear [Massachusetts Colonial Records] A Meadow grant to Isaac Hart for 15 acres in Watertown was recorded. (Ancient Redding in Massachusetts Bay Colony H.L. Parker March 3, 1656, Isaac Hart, of Reading, and wife Elizabeth, sold to Samuel Stratton, of Watertown, land. “with an old house,” and other parcels of land. Oct. 4, 1656, he bought a farm of 270 acres of meadow land of Thomas Hutchinson in Reading, for which he paid 120 pounds. Recorded at Salem, Mass., book 14, page 263. This land was in what is now North Lynnfield. April 29, 1672, Goodman Stratton, aged 80, testified that Isaac Hart’s house was in Watertown Field, near Cambridge.

Watertown Records: Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings, with the Lands, Grants and Possessions, Also the Proprietors’ Book, and the First Book and Supplement of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Volume 1  Press of F.G. Barker, 1894. In 1640 Isaac was in Lynn, Massachusetts and in 1647 listed in Redding. In 1688 he sold his land to the town and the meeting house.  He lived west of the Wakefield Common Isaac’s land purchased is now where the Sagamore Golf Coarse is located.
The Essex Genealogist. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) Including the first few pages on the most current updated research on the HART LINE published by New England Historical and Genealogical Society in Boston, Massachusetts





 Carolyn Hart Wood Line

• Elizabeth Hart Marlowe and Henry Wood, JR. See Henry Wood and the Girouard Family of Leominster Massachusetts
• Grace M Hart  1897-1969 and William J Marlowe, son of Thomas Marlowe and
• George A Hart   1864-1938 and Bessie M Wilson
• Henry Jackson Hart 1833-1891 and Lois Augusta Shute
• Joseph Hart JR.1799-1882 and Harriet Davis Clark (1809-1873) d, of Phillips Clark and Sophia Fellowes (Joseph JR m. 1st Mary Richardson had one son Joseph L., b. 29 Jan. 1827; d. in Civil War at Lake)
• Joseph Hart 1774-1830 and Elizabeth Tapley
• John Hart 1733-1811 and Lydia Curtis
• John Hart   1703-1777 and Mehitable Endicott
• Samuel Hart 1656-1730 and Sarah Endicott
• Isaac Hart  1614-1699 and Elizabeth Hutchinson 1622-1700 daughter of Thomas Hutchinson and Anne Browne Hawkes (daughter of Edward Browne and Jane Leids-widow of Adam Hawkes*)
• Thomas Hart  1592-1662 and Alice Waters
• Peter Hart and Alice Hope
• *  Adam Hawkes m. Anne Browne on November 21, 1634 in Saugus, Essex, Massachusetts

George Albert Hart (1864-1938) and Bessie Wilson (1869-1951) and their three children Grace Hart (1897-1969), Dorothy Hart  (1900-1993) and Mary Lois Hart (1908-1978) lived in this small town of Essex, Massachusetts. It was a peaceful place, a little town on the Essex River, not far from the famous old port of Gloucester.
Elizabeth Hart Marlowe was born to Grace Hart and William J. Marlowe Mary 30, 1937.   She married Henry Wood July 26, 1958.  Henry is the son of Henry Wood and Annie Wood of Leominster, Mass.
Elizabeth and Henry were divorced 1968.   Elizabeth married 2nd Norman J. LaLonde October 24, 1969 and moved to Ocklawaha, Florida.  Norman died August 21 1981. She then married 3rd Chester Barrett September 4, 1982 and was divorced November of 1995.
Elizabeth (Betty) works as a receptionist at the Villages of Lady Lake at Ocklawaha, Florida. She has two grandsons.

Portraits Joseph Hart 1774-1830 and Elizabeth Tapley by William Matthew Prior in the collection of Hart/Wood family.  Joseph Hart was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts on October 28, 1774.  He was the sixth son of John Hart Jr. and Lydia Curtis. On March 25, 1799, Joseph married Elizabeth Tapley at Lynnfield, Massachusetts.  Elizabeth Tapley was born on May 19, 1778, in Danvers, Massachusetts.  She was the daughter of Joseph Tapley and Mary Smith.  Mary Smith was daughter of Nathaniel Smith and Mary Flint. Mary was his step-sister via Gilbert Tapley’s marriage to Mary Flint Smith, widow of Nathaniel.  After his first wife’s death Joseph m. second Rowena Page.

Joseph Tapley, was son of Gilbert Tapley and Phebe Putnam daughter of John Putnam and .

Gilbert Tapley was born in Salem, Mass., May 6, 1722, and died in Danvers, Mass., June 17, 1806. He was a Lieutenant and marched in defense of the country on the 19th of April, 1775, in the Danvers Company, commanded by Capt. John Putnam. (Mass. Rev. Rolls, Vol. 13, p. 46.) John Tapley, born at Danvers, Mass., April 10, 1756. He was a Private in Capt. Samuel Flint’s Company, of which Timothy Pickering, Jr., was Colonel, and was at the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. (Mass. Rev. Rolls, Vol. 12, p. 75.)
John Hewes was born in Lynnfield, Mass., July 13, 1741, and died February 14, 1817. He was 1st Lieutenant in Capt. John Bordwell’s Company, Col. Samuel Johnson’s 4th Essex County Regiment, from April 3, 1776. Commencing October 2, 1777, he served forty days as Lieutenant in Capt. Whittier’s Company, Maj. Benj. Gates’ Regiment, and marched to join the Northern Army. (Mass. Records Rev. War, Vol. 32, p. 269; Vol. 24, p. 95.)
From Register of the California Society of Sons of the American Revolution for Member David Hewes born in Lynnfield, Essex Co., Mass., May 16, 1822–Son of Joel Hewes and Ruthe Tapley. Grandson of Joseph Tapley and Mary Smith. Great-grandson of Gibert Tapley and Phebe Putnam. Grandson of John Hews and Anne Wellman. Great-grandson of Benjamin Hewes and Prudence. Great grandson of Samuel Hewes and Hannah Johnson. Great grandson of Joshua Hewes and Hannah Norden. See Hewes Family in Newbury, MA. John Putnam, son of John Putnam and Hannah Cutler. John Putnam SR, son of Nathaniel Putnam and Elizabeth Hutchinson daughter of Richard Hutchinson and Alice Bosworth. Hannah Cutler daughter of Samuel Cutler and Elizabeth ________.

A Special Memorium written on Elizabeth Tapley

Monumental Cemetery Wallis St. in Peabody, Massachusetts

Nathaniel Putnam was known as “Landlord Putnam,” a term given for many years to the oldest living member of the family. On December 10, 1688 Putnam was sent as one of the four elders sent to hire the Rev. Samuel Parris as their new pastor. After Parris was established at the Salem Church, Landlord Nathaniel Putnam became one of his strongest supporters, however when …….

Joseph Hart and Elizabeth Tapley resided at Lynnfield until about 1808.  There was a quarrel regarding the the division of old homestead farm and Joseph decided to move the family to Salem, Massachusetts. On December 3, 1830, Joseph drowned while cutting ice in a Salem pond.  Elizabeth died on July 10, 1853 at 75 years of age. Below Photos of Tapley family and Tapley House at 650 Lowell st c.1866 The people seen here are from left to right James Macgregor, Caroline Norwood Copp, Eliza Macgregor and George Norwood.

The Tapley house at 650 Lowell st. in Lynnfield c.1900 Sold to the Macgregors. “Images in America Series-Lynnfield” and contributed to Genealogy Trails by Carole Dick
The Hart girls facing in the camera and friends Dottie, Margaret, Dot, and Mary Lois (standing) at the Essex, Massachusetts home. 1918 shortly before war ended.

 

Grace Hart’s husband, William J Marlowe Seated center- in France WWI 1918. William Marlowe, son of  Thomas Marlowe (s. of Abraham Marlowe and Katherine Flynn) and Louise Moore was a World War I Veteran who served in France and received a battlefield commission. He enlisted in the Army Oct 17, 1917 at Gardner, Massachusetts and served with the First Infantry Training Regiment, 80th Division. On Feb. 27, 1918  he went overseas and served in the Battle of Marne, Center Sector, Haute Alsace and Commecy Sector.   He was advanced  three times having been commissioned a Corporal April 3 1918. And a Second Lieutenant Sept 25,1918. he was honorably discharged June 1919.  Mr Marlowe was also a member of the commission which organized Massachusetts first State Police Force. Back of Photo with officers listed

Mary Louis Hart at Bradford Academy Haverhill, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Hart Marlowe Wood

William J Marlowe, JR

 

Painting of William & Grace Hart Marlowe’s home in Fitchburg, Massachusetts

 

William J Marlowe’s home the first house in Holden to have a flush toilet! It is Holden’s best example of Victorian Gothic architecture. The owners of the house have been as follows: 1881-1916 Stillman F. Morse 1916-1917 George & Irma Morse 1917-1919 Emma L. Morse 1919-1935 Thomas F. & Louise C. Marlowe 1935-1944 William J. & Grace Nawn 1944-1952 Edwin N. & Rita C. Nygard 1952-1977 Elmer G. & Mary F. Nygard 1977-2005 Elmer G. Nygard & Barbara Ann Nygard 2005-present Barbara Ann Nygard, Carol Koski, & Karen Nahrwold

Wedding Photo of George Hart and Bessie M Wilson Hart of Essex MA And Wedding Announcement Below

William J Marlow and his relative ????

William

                   Elizabeth Hart 1938 in Essex, Massachusetts

On October 14, 1858, Henry J Hart married Lois Augusta Shute, a 22-year-old from Lynnfield, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Benjamin Shute and Lois Smith. Henry lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts in his last days. He was a tanner by trade, and died of consumption on December 25, 1891. Lois, his widow, was living in Ipswich in 1900. Charles Nelson Hart born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts on August 10, 1835. He was the fourth son of Joseph Hart Jr. and Harriet D. Clark Hart. On November 3, 1859, Charles N Hart married Sarah K Estes of Ipswich, Massachusetts, daughter of James Estes and Experience J. Wilson.

Frank Hart son of Henry Jackson Hart

Charles Nelson Hart

Sara Kimball Estes, daughter of James Estes and Experience Wilson. Children born to Charles Nelson Hart and Sarah K Estes Hart: Ruth Estes Hart, died in infancy July 1862. George Pierpont Estes Hart (1864-) He married Margaret Crowell Hogg at St. Myers, Florida, on Jan. 31, 1897. Margaret, born in Argyle, Nova Scotia to Nathaniel W. Hogg and and Agnes Brown. Margaret’s parents lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

(NOTE Surname spelling variations EASTY/ ESTES/ESTY)

• Isaac Eastey 1627-1712 son of Jeffrey Easty and Margaret Plott married Mary Towne 1634-1692 daughter of William Towne and Joanna Blessing.
• John Eastey  1662-1720 and  Hannah–
• Jonathon Eastey-1707-1796 and Susanna Monroe 1721-
• Nathanial Estey 1746-1807 and Mehitable Preston 1738-
• William Estes 1776 and Ruth Hobbs
• James Estes and Experience Wilson
• Sara Kimball Estes and Charles Nelson Hart

In the following excerpt from a letter dated January 10, 1974 and written by Mary Louise Hart Pletsch and sent to Elizabeth Hart Marlowe, we gain additional insight into the Charles Nelson Hart family. ADD KIDNAP

“Charles Hart, If I remember correctly was one of your great grandfathers brothers. I think it was his picture that hung in your mother’s living room to the right just as you entered the room. He married a Sarah Estes- who was a spiritualist- they did a bit of roaming around as I remember and she was always communing with the spirit of some relative or other. That’s our tie with the Estes family. It will tell about their children in the Hart Genealogy book- but they must all be dead by now and with no clues it would be hard to find them. The family or families we really could find are a generation later. There was a George Pierpont Hart who was a cousin of my father’s-good grief- I guess he was a son of Charles we were talking about. He said my father inherited the Lynnfield farm. George Pierpont sold his share to my father-your grandpa-because he lived in Danbury, Virginia-he ran a printing business there and had 2 sons which were your mother’s cousins, one was named Parker-the other named Murray Hart. Either one or both of them could still be alive or have children.” 

— Mary Louise Hart Pletsch, January 10, 1974

Joseph Hart Jr., son of Joseph Hart and Elizabeth Tapley born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts on December 3, 1799. He married Mary Richardson, daughter of Charles Richardson of South Reading, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1824.  They had two children: Joseph Lafayette Hart, born in 1825, and Mary Augusta Hart, born on December 3, 1827.  Both the 22-year-old mother and her young daughter died in 1828.  Mary Richardson Hart died on July 29, 1828 and Mary Augusta Hart, the daughter, at the age of one year and seven days, died on December 10, 1828. Joseph and the family lived on the old Hart farm in Lynnfield, Massachusetts.  He died on February 20——Harriet died on December 23, 1873. On December 17, 1829, Joseph Hart Jr. married Harriet Davis Clark.  Harriet was born in Machias, Maine, and she was the daughter of Phillips Clark and Sophia Fellowes. Phillips was the son of Parker Clark and Judith Lunt (From Lunt : a history of the Lunt family in America Thomas Simpson Lunt)

—Both of Harriet’s parents were born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Clark line was from the Newbury, Massachusetts line. From Genealogy of the Descendants of Nathaniel Clarke of Newbury, Mass: Ten Generations, 1642-1885 Press of T.R. Marvin & Son, 1885

 

Hart House Essex, Massachusetts Grace, Dorothy, & Pony Jago Around 1912-15. George and Bessie’s three daughters: Grace, Dorothy and Mary Lois are in the buggy with their pony “JAGO” pulling them. George A. Hart looks on. Below is a photo of the home from 2010

Photos of Grace Manning Hart and Dorothy Endicott Hart in Essex, Massachusetts

Grace and Dorothy at Hart Farm

                            George Hart in his home Essex, Massachusetts
                           
Grace Manning Hart ready for tennis and looking fabulous
                                           
 George A Hart and William Marlowe JR
                                        
Grace Hart in Essex, Massachusetts
                         
Henry  Jackson Hart

                                                       

Parker Hart
                                             
 Josephine and George Hart

 

Boston Traveler newspaper June 20, 1925 about George A. Hart; UNIQUE DISPLAY BY GENERAL VEHICLE CO. The first Butcher in New England to adopt the motor vehicle George A. Hart of Essex,Mass. Mr. Hart‘s principle business is supplying choice cuts to residents of Essex, Hamilton, and Magnolia. He has been doing business with horses, but now has a custom built butcher cart of the familiar country type. It occurred to Mr.Hart that his customers could be better served and his business more easily done and increased by the use of electric motor vehicles. He is equipping the Standard General Vehicle chassis using his familiar butcher wagon bodies. This equipment is a novelty and at the same time shows enterprise. These modern old style butcher carts will be kept and charged with electricity in one corner of Mr. Hart‘s stable, and the care will be far less than that which the horses have required in the past.  Electricity carried over from the Gloucester Electric Light Company plant will cost less than the former bills for hay and oats. One of these peculiar electric butcher wagons is being shown in the General Vehicle Company space at the Motor Truck Show, where Mr. Dearborne Bailey, who attended to the engineering details, will take considerable pleasure in showing this unique, but extremely practical vehicle.

Mary Lois Hart Pletsch Notes on her family:
George Albert Hart, was the  only son of Henry Jackson Hart.  After his death my father had to leave school to earn money to help support the family.  He had a job with a kindly old gentleman by the name of Balles.  (Ipswich) I don’t know how many years my father worked for Mr. Balles – but certainly long enough to know the provision business. When my father married he started his own provision business in Essex, Mass. A town just south of Ipswich.  His route even took him into the city of Gloucester I believe. My father prospered in his business, partly because he never sold anything that was not of A1 quality – but also because of his sweet and gentlemanly personality.  No bad word ever crossed his lips – no angry word either.  I am sure that everything he said or did could be repeated anywhere at any time in perfect confidence without fear of embarrassment or chagrin.  He worked hard and long with almost no recreation or diversion.  He was a sweet loving father and a wonderful husband.

Hart House Lynnfield, Massachusetts Historic Property current owner Mark Ingaciola, who is preserving the home and forwarded photos.

A newspaper clip from 1813 Lynnfield Ma after death of John Hart (1733–1811), the farm was to be sold to pay his debts, they found sources to keep the farm in the family,,,possibly one of his sons paying off the debtors.

 

As noted bu Martha H Willoughby in Patronage in Early Salem: The Symonds Shops and Their Customers Cabinet attributed to the Symonds shops, Salem, Massachusetts, 1679. Red oak, white oak, black walnut, and soft maple with white pine (by microanalysis). initialed “TH,” and, like the Herrick and Pope cabinets, it is dated 1679. This piece evidently belonged to Thomas Hart (d. 1731) of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, and passed to his brother Samuel’s family upon Thomas’ death.H. 16 3/4″, W. 17 5/16″, D. 5 5/8″. (Courtesy, Winterthur Museum; photo, Gavin Ashworth.) Further Note cited by Willoughby: Althought the initials “TH” were thought to have referred to a Thomas Hart residing in Ipswich, Benno Forman discovered that the twentieth-century owner of the cabinet, Eben Parsons, was a direct descendant of Samuel Hart (d. 1731), brother of Thomas Hart of Lynnfield. Forman, “The Seventeenth-Century Case Furniture of Essex County,” pp. 111–13. Winterthur Museum object files 58.526 and 57.540, Winterthur, Delaware. Trent, “The Symonds Shops of Essex County,” pp. 34–35. Christie’s, The Joseph and Bathsheba Pope Valuables Cabinet, New York, January 21, 2000.

Brown-Pearl Hall (Gallery LG35)  Samuel Hart and Sarah Endicott Chair. This chair was owned originally by Dr. Zerubbabel Endicott of Salem, Massachusetts, a well-known surgeon and son of John Endicott, who served as deputy governor and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at various times in the 1640s, 1650s, and 1660s. It is probably one of a set of two great chairs and six side chairs listed in Zerubbabel’s estate inventory. Although the chair has been attributed to a Boston shop for many years, recent research suggests that it was probably made in Salem. Photo from Pinterest Americana Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston American Decorative Arts & Sculpture (Boston, 2006)

Credit Line Seth K. Sweetser Fund Provenance: Dr. Zerubabbel Endicott I (1635?-1683) to his daughter Sarah Endicott (b. 1673?), married Samuel Hart (1656-1730) to their son, Jonathan Hart (1710-1768?), to Abigail Hart (1743-1828), married Amos Smith (1724-1798), to their daughter, Nabby Smith (1765-1849), married Ebenezer Parsons I (1762-1843), to their son, Ebenezer Parsons II, married Mary Hart (1792-1864), to their son, Ebenezer Parsons III, to Starr Parsons (1869-1948), to Eben Parsons (1896-1969). Sold to Helen W. Jacques in the 1940’s. Museum purchase, Sale, Chester Twiss Auctioneer, Estate of Helen W. Jaques, Wenham, Massachusetts, 26-28 July, 1977.

Doll Essex, Massachusetts owned by Grace Hart now in the collection of Carolyn Hart Wood believed to be one in the Lee Lufkin Kuala “The Tea Party”

 

In Memory of Capt Ebenezer Hart, who Fought for the Liberty and Independence of his Country during the War of the Revolution & died…March 26 1840

     

Forest Hill Cemetery Lynnfield, Massachusetts Photo by John Glassford 


 
 

Civil War Lynnfield List of Fallen Heroes Lynnfield, Massachusetts

Files from University of Virginia Collection,  American Ancestors,

Transcribed: You are in theyr Majestÿs Names hereby required to Apprehend & bring before us upon Tuesdaÿ Next, being being the Seavententh day of this Instant Maÿ by [torn] of the clock in the forenoone att the house of Leut Nath’ll: Ingersoll in Salem Village, the bodys of Thomas f [] rer sen’r of Lin Husbandman, and Elizebeth Hart the wife of Isaac Hart of LinHusbandman, whoe Stand charged in behalf of theyr Majestys, with high Suspition of Sundry Acts of Witchcraft done or Comitted upon [the] Bodys of Ann putnam,Mercy Lewis & others in Salem Village, whereby great hurt hath bin done them, And hereof you are nott to faile,

Salem. dat’d. May. 14th 1692
[Pbar ] us *John Hathorne ] Assists
*Jonathan. Corwin ] Assists

Mary Towne, was the daughter of William Towne (1598/99-1661) and Johanna Blessing (1594-1682). Sister to Rebecca Towne married Francis Nurse. Sister to Sarah Towne married Peter Cloyes. Children of William Towne and Johanna Blessing:

• Rebecca Towne married Francis Nurse
• John Towne married Mary Browning, d. of Thomas Browning and Mary Hinds
• Susannah Towne
• Sergeant Edmund Towne married
• Jacob Towne married Catherine Symonds, d. of John Symonds and Ruth Foxe
• Mary Towne married Isaac Eastey
• Joseph Towne (1639-1713) married Phoebe Perkins, daughter of Thomas Perkins and
• Phebe Gould.
• Sarah Towne married 1st Edmund Bridges and 2nd Peter Cloyes.

The Eastey Family Bible

• Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War: A compilation from the archives, prepared and published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth in accordance with chapter 100, resolves of 1891, Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State Wright and Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1900
• History of the town of Lynnfield Massachusetts 1635-1895
• Brown, Lillian Maxwell, Fredericton – The Old Graveyard.  N/A
• Burnett, Frederick C., Biographical Directory of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Free Baptist Ministers and Preachers.
  Lancelot, 1996, ISBN: 0-88999-589-3, 303 pp
• Cook, Ramsay and Jean Hamelin, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  14 volumes covering the years 1000 to 1920, University of Toronto Press, 1998
• Dewitt, Katherine and Norma Alexander, Days of Old: A History of Fredericton Junction.  Centennial Print & Litho, 1998
• Hart, James M., Genealogical History of….. Isaac Hart, et al, Pasadena, CA, 1903
• Hill, Isabel Louise, The Old Burying Ground, Fredericton, NB.  Fredericton, NB, 1992.
• Canadian Newspapers Index
• Cathy Hartt’s, History of Pearl Lake site
• Hartt to Hartt, internet web site
• History of Westminster, Massachusetts – 1728-1893
• Library of Congress
• Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Project description
• Provincial Archives of New Brunswick government records database
• Religious Intelligencer (database of Atlantic Coast newspapers)
• Vital Statistics From New Brunswick (Canada) Newspapers
• Penticton Herald, Okanagan Valley newspaper
• Various Canadian and U.S. Censuses
• Family Bibles
• Genealogy of the Tapley Family
• The Maine Historical Magazine, Volume 6