Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...to allow it to be printed here: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HENRY STANWOOD. Written for his Daughter Mrs. Bradley Martin Thomas of Kalamazoo. My Dear Daughter, There is nothing in my life that seems worthy of being put on record, except what God has done for and by me. All that I desire to hold in grateful remembrance while I live & to record as a deserved testimony to his & for his praise. And as there will be no one when I am gone from whom you can obtain the information you desire, I have decided in compliance with your wishes, to leave for your own eye, a brief record of such things concerning myself & my relations as may seem calculated to interest you. I was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, October 21, 1798. My parents were Joseph and Sarah Stanwood: our family circle embraced eight--five sons and three daughters of whom I was the youngest but one. My oldest sister Ann (or Nancy as we used to call her) was the only child of my father's by his first wife Eunice Marchant of Cape Ann, who died young. For his second wife he married Sarah Dodge, daughter of William and Deborah Dodge of Beverley, Massachusetts, who was the mother of eight children, one died at the age of two years, all the others settled in life and raised families: their names were Huldah Dodge, Joseph, Cornelius Dodge, John, Sarah, Henry, and Atkinson. I do not know from what foreign countries my ancestors came; my father's family I have been told lived many years ago in Brunswick, Maine, and afterward in Salisbury on the other side of the Merrimac River, opposite to Newburyport, but ultimately the family all settled in the latter place. My grandfather is said to have been a sea-faring man and was lost at sea about the time of the Revolutionary War. My...