Deputy Genealogy


Book Description




Good Wives


Book Description

This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.




Brackett Genealogy


Book Description







Shannon Genealogy


Book Description

Nathaniel Shannon was born in 1655 at Londonderry, Ulster Province, Ireland. He immigrated to America in 1687 and settled at Boston. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had three sons, 1689-1698. He died in 1723 at Boston. His son, Nathaniel (1689-ca. 1723), married Abigail Vaughan, daughter of Major William and Margaret Cutts Vaughan, at Postsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1714. They had two sons, 1715/6-1717. According to family tradition, he went to the West Indies in 1720, and remained there on business until his death, shortly before his father's death. Abigail Shannon died at Portsmouth in 1762. Descendants lived in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and elsewhere.







The Cushman family


Book Description

Edward Small emigrated from England to Maine during or before 1640, and died after 1653. Descendants lived in New England, New York, the rest of the United States, and elsewhere.










Pawling Genealogy


Book Description

Henry Pawling was living in New York by 1670, when he was appointed Captain of a British foot company. He married Neeltje Roosa, daughter of Albert Heymans and Wintie Ariens Roosa in 1676 in Ulster County, New York. They had eight children, ca. 1677-1692. He took land and settled at Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, where he raised his family. He died there ca. 1695. Most descendants listed lived in New York or Pennsylvania.