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How Searching Google Books Led Me to More Goff Family Records
For the last several years part of my research has focused on Licking County, Ohio, about 30 miles east of Columbus. There my 3rd Great Grandfather, Abner Goff and his father, Daniel purchased 200 acres for $1,000 in 1813 after moving from Clarendon, Rutland, Vermont. In a search for “Abner Goff” in Google Books I [...]
William Sears Will – 1885 – Piscataquis County, Maine
On our recent visit to the Moosehead Lake area of Maine, I located the will of William Sears, father of Emily Sears Templeton, and my wife’s great-great grandfather. The will was executed in 1885, about three years before his death. William left eight of his nine surviving children one dollar each. The tenth child, [...]
The Biographical Notes of Nana
We recently had the opportunity to look through a drawer of ”memories” during a recent visit with Ruth’s uncle. One of the treasures was a spiral notebook written by Ruth’s great grandmother, Mabel Louise Hervey (1863-1960), wife of George Rogers Wales and mother of Susan Hervey Wales Rollason. The 30 plus pages of the spiral ring notebook start at [...]
John Kilborn (1651-1711) – a 300 Year Journey Back Home – a Tombstone Tuesday Post
300 years ago this week (November 25, 1711) John Kilborn, one of the founders of Glastonbury, CT died. According to a family history [1], John was instrumental in providing the land and building the parsonage for the first pastor, a requisite for establishing a new town. His father and grandfather arrived in Connecticut in 1635 [...]
Still Making Canoes at the Age of 76
During our recent trip to Moosehead Lake, Maine, we visited the Moosehead Historical Society in Greenville Junction. This was just a short walk from where Ruth’s mother grew up. Following an excellent guided tour we stopped in the office to see what they might have about the Templeton family. Several files! [...]
Today the weather was perfect as we took Ruth’s mother, Ruth Templeton Rollason, back to Kineo, an island on Moosehead Lake in Maine where she lived all of her childhood summers. The shuttle captain loaned us his golf cart so that we could see the island. We had the best guide – Ruth’s mom [...]