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3/23/2009 - Anderson, Farrington, Hamblen/Hamlin, Mansfield and Meehan TOCs now have .pdf and .rtf descendant charts.
3/17/2009 - We ran out of space on Earthlink's free Web site. They allow only 10MB! Our new site is www.colonialmassgen.com.
3/9/2009 - Made numerous corrections and additions to Meehan Genealogy.
5/23/98 - Added the Knight surname with a Table of Contents, an Index, descendants of John1 Knight, descendants of Richard1 Knight, and two narratives taken from an unpubublished manuscript by Perley Leighton.
5/23/98 - Added a Berry Index.
5/22/98 - Added the descendants of John (b abt 1595) and Martha Proctor.
5/21/98 - Over 40,000 different user IDs have visited our site.
4/12/98 - Added the Sanford surname with a Table of Contents, an Index and descendants of John and Elizabeth (Webb) Sanford as submitted by Randy Robinson.
3/15/98 - Added the Darling surname with a Table of Contents, an Index, descendants of George and Katherine Darling, descendants of William and Demaris Darling, descendants of John and Asenath Darling and descendants of Benjamin and Tabitha as submitted by Beth Darling.
3/14/98 - Added the transcribed words from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England about the Woodward surname.
3/12/98 - Added the transcribed words from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England about the Noyes surname.
3/10/98 - Redid the Blake Index to include 208 individuals with the surname Blake, including their primary data where available. This html table is 172KB in size.
3/8/98 - Added the transcribed words from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England about the Thurston surname.
3/8/98 - Added the transcribed words from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England about the Waite surname.
3/8/98 - Added the transcribed words from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England about the Watts surname.
3/7/98 - Redid the Anderson Index to now include fathers and mothers where available.
3/7/98 - Added the transcribed words from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England about the Sawyers surname.
3/7/98 - Added the transcribed words from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England about the Blakes surname.
3/7/98 - Added a Sewall Table of Contents and a Sewall Index, 83KB in size containing 231 individuals with the surname Thurston.
2/21/98 - Significant additions were made to the descendants of James and Anne (?) Hamblen.
As of 2/17/98, there have been 30,212 visitors to our site since we started tracking on 6/30/98.
2/8/98 - Added transcribed words of Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England on the Haskells.
8/2/97 - Added a Snow index, 21KB in size listing 51 individuals with the surname Snow plus their parents and spouses where available. Also updated the Hamlin index 175KB in size listing 232 individuals with the surname Hamblen or Hamblin or Hamlin plus their parents and spouses where available.
Month of July - too little! My day job has been all consuming, rolling out over 1000 PCs plus a major new version of software plus a new operating system to about 1,600 desktops in five different centers in four States. Hope to be back to normal by the end of October, 1997.
6/15/97 - Added a Thurston Table of Contents and a Thurston Index, 83KB in size containing 231 individuals with the surname Thurston.
6/15/97 - Added Abbreviations by Savage.
5/31/97 - Added the surname of Mather as submitted by Theresa Terry.
5/30/97 - One year old today. 12,919 different user IDs have visited our site this past year. Thank you to all!
5/25/97 - Finished changing the "visited links" color on each of 306 files. See 4/27/97.
4/27/97 - Have begun to change the "visited link" color on all files from lime green, which is prefer cosmetically, to purple. A friend who has contributed much to this site is partially color blind. This change also should make it easier for others.
4/26/97 - Add several narratives to the Chute line, based on Perley Leighton's unpublished manuscript. Also made some Chute corrections and additions. Chute includes one Epps and two Wood narratives.
4/19/97 - Redid the Giles Hamlin line based on data supplied by Catherine Flower Hamlin Wehrle.
4/12/97 - Redid the Noyes lines and added Noyes narratives based on Perley Leighton's unpublished manuscript. Still need to add Lorie-Ann Noyes' 14 pages of data before redoing the Noyes Index.
3/30/97 - Redid the Bradbury surname and added a Bradbury Table of Contents plus a Bradbury Index, 35KB in size, listing 118 Bracketts and their spouses.
3/29/97 - Added the descendants of John5 and Mary (Fabyan) Brackett as submitted by Al Meyers.
3/23/97 - Redid the Hamblen/Hamblin/Hamlin surname and added a Hamblen/Hamblin/Hamlin Table of Contents plus a Hamblen/Hamblin/Hamlin Index, 41KB in size, listing 148 Bracketts and their spouses.
3/16/97 - Redid the Brackett surname and added a Brackett Table of Contents plus a Brackett Index, 50KB in size, listing 177 Bracketts and their spouses.
3/9/97 - Redid the Woodward surname and added a Woodward Table of Contents plus a Woodward Index, 64KB in size, listing 221 Woodwards and their spouses..
3/8/97 - Redid the Waite surname and added a Waite Table of Contents plus a Waite Index listing 56 Waites and their spouses. Also added a Chute Index.
3/3/97 - Redid the Chute surname and added a Chute Table of Contents plus a Chute Index, plus what Savage has to say about this surname.
2/23/97 - Redid the Carver surname and added a Carver Table of Contents, a Carver Index, and descendants of David and Amy (Fyler) Carver as submitted by E. Frank Carver.
2/15/97 - Added the descendants of Henry and Anne (Hunt) Sewall and the descendants of Henry and Mary (Stimson) and Sarah (Henry) Sewall as submitted by Carma Wallace.
2/2/97 - Added the descendants of Daniel and Anne (Pell) Thurston, of Ambrose and Polly (Gamage) Thurston, and of Amos and Mary (Gott) Thurston as submitted by Dawn James.
1/22/97 - Added the descendants of Robert (Abraham) Farrington as submitted by Arthur Farrington.
1/5/97 - Revised the Farrington Table of Contents and corrected significant amounts of information.
12/28/96 - Added the descendants of Henry and Jane (Bradbury)True as submitted by Bard Webb.
12/15/96 - Added the descendants of Titus Metcalf.
12/7/96 - Added the descendants William Haskell and the Haskell Table of Contents.
11/23/96 - Added the descendants of Richard Conant, as submitted by John Chandler.
11/19/96 - Added the descendants of Edwin Edgar Mansfield, as submitted by Jeff Mansfield.
11/18/96 - Added the descendants of Theophilus and Sybil (White) Mansfield, as submitted by Jeff Mansfield.
11/16/96 - Added the descendants of John Hill, ancestors Rachel (Hill) Mansfield, as submitted by Jim Stevens.
11/6/96 - Added many new Hamblin/Hamlin surnames descended from Timothy Hamblin b: 9 Nov 1769 in Barnstable, MA and Martha Priest b: 3 Nov 1769
10/29/96 - Have redone much of the site to emphasize more of the Colonial Massachusetts and less of the family surnames. This includes standardizing on the structure of a Table of Contents for each of the Colonial surnames. Anderson, Bamford/Basford, Mayberry, Mansfield and Sawyer have been completed.
10/20/96 - Added a Table of Contents for the surname Anderson.
10/19/96 - Added two lines of the surname Basford or Bamford contributed by Bob Bamford.
10//16/96 - Revised index page to include second geographic listing for Cumberland County.
10/9/96 - Revised index page to include first geographic listing for Washington County.
10/8/96 - Added relevand portions of Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, by Henry Bond, M.D., for Anderson, Applin, Bartlett, Waite and Woodward.
10/6/96 - Added the descendants of Joseph Greely Mansfield b: 1872 in North Yarmouth, ME as taken from Luke Stevens' gedcom.
9/23/96 - Added the descendants of Richard Appling, probable ancestor of John Anderson's second wife Mary Applin. Also see the Mitchell line branched off the Appling line.
9/21/96 - Added the first five generations of descendants of Captain Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury, born 28 February 1611, Wicken Bonhunt, England. Also added sixth through tenth generations of descendants of Jacob and Abigaile (Eaton) Bradbury.
9/21/96 - Added the descendants of Thomas Bartlett. John1 Anderson's second wife was Mary Applin born 11 Oct 1677, daughter of schoolmaster John and Bethshuah (Bartlett) Applin. Bethshuah Bartlett's father was Ensign Thomas Bartlett, born 1594 in England. Thomas was an original proprietor of Watertown, Ma.
9/18/96 - Narrative added for Thomas Chute, first settler of Windham, Maine.
9/17/96 - Added the Chute line. Thomas Chute, descended from Lionel Chute of Dedham, England, was the first settler of Windham, Maine some time around 1737.
9/7/96 - Redid and added significantly to the Farrington line form Edmund Farrington through five generations then the six through tenth of Thomas Sewall Farrington descendants.
9/2/96 - Added Len Campbell's descendants of the Mansfield line from Bethiah Mansfield and John Conant.
8/24/96 - Updated the Woodward line.
8/22/96 - Added new surname index files for Anderson, Bamford, Flynn Mansfield, Meehan, Rooney, and Sawyer. Used Microsoft Access 95's Internet Assistant to generate this tables.
8/21/96 - Narratives added for William and Elizabeth (Dennis) Mayberry of Ballemoney, Antrim County, Ireland and Windham, Maine plus one of their sons Richard who married Martha Bolton.
8/14/96 - Added piece found in Windham in the Past by Dole about John Proctor of Salem witchcraft fame and his son Samuel, who married Anthony Brackett's daughter Sarah.
8/13/96 - Redid the Meehan line plus added a very interesting piece by Aidan J Meehan on the history of the Meehan family.
8/12/96 - My burning genealogical questions - what I really, really want to know!
8/10/96 - Major additions to the Robert Mansfield line - first five generations. Also have added narratives on Andrew2, John2, and Joseph2 Mansfield
8/7/96 - This page
8/4/96 - Major additions to the Sawyer line - first five generations plus three additional links of the six through tenth generations. Also includes speculation from Eleanor Sawyer's book that James1 was really the son of Edward.
7/31/96 - Important information about the Noyes line - the wife of Rev William Noyes1 was Anne Parker or was it really Anne Stephens?