The Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771
The Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771 contains the names and descriptions of taxable property of nearly 38,000 individuals who resided in 152 Massachusetts towns in 1771
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Location: Suffolk County MA
Pierce Family of North Bridgewater, MA
The Pierce families of this country are and have long been very numerous. Early in the settlement of New England came representatives from England, most of them not related, so far as now known. Among them were Abraham, of Plymouth, 1623, who became one of the original purchasers of Bridgewater in 1645; Daniel, of Newbury, blacksmith, who came from Ipswich, County of Suffolk, in 1634, aged twenty-three years; John, of Dorchester, mariner from Stepney, Middlesex, before 1631; another John, of Dorchester and Boston; John, of Watertown, 1638; Capt. Michael, of Hingham and Scituate; Richard, of Portsmouth, R. I.; Robert, of Dorchester; Thomas, of Charlestown, who was admitted to the church there in 1634; and Capt. William, of Boston, who was a distinguished shipmaster of his time.
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Descendants of Francis Brayton of Fall River, MA
BRAYTON. The first in America by this name, one Francis Brayton, came from England to Portsmouth,...
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Descendants of Joseph Borden of Fall River MA
BORDEN (Fall River family – line of Joseph, fourth generation). The Borden family is an...
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Descendants of John Saxton Kent of North Bridgewater, MA
HON. JOHN SAXTON KENT, ex-mayor of the city of Brockton, and one of that city’s leading...
Read MoreWright Family of Boston, MA
WRIGHT. The family of this name is an early Boston family, which through marriage is allied with some of the historic families of New England, among them those of Adams, Winslow and Wentworth. We give herewith an outline of the...
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Descendants of Charles Keith of Bridgewater, Massachusetts
For the ancestry of Charles Keith, please see Descendants of Rev. James Keith of Bridgewater,...
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Seabury Family of New Bedford, Massachusetts
SEABURY – variously spelled Sebury, Saberry, Saberrey and Sabury. The American ancestor of...
Read MoreAllen Family of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
The Allen family, to which Mrs. Louise Prescott Allen Chandler belongs, is one of the oldest in East Bridgewater or, indeed, in Massachusetts. We give her line from the emigrant ancestor, Samuel Allen, from whom she is descended in the ninth generation.
Read MoreChandler Family of Boston and East Bridgewater MA
This Boston – East Bridgewater Chandler family, the head of which was the late Hon. Peleg Whitman Chandler, long one of the leading counselors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and one of a family of lawyers, comes of a Massachusetts-Maine branch of the ancient Duxbury family whose progenitor was Edmund Chandler. The branch just alluded to for several generations at New Gloucester and Bangor, Maine, and at Boston in this Commonwealth, has been one of liberal education, college-bred men, men who have adorned the legal profession, and it has allied itself through generations with a number of the ancient and first families of the Old Colony. There follows in chronological order from Edmund Chandler, the first American ancestor of this branch of American Chandlers, and in detail the family history and genealogy.
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Baker Genealogy of Narraguagus Valley Maine
Among the very early settlers at Steuben was Lemuel Baker, who came from Roxbury, Mass. He must have come about, or soon after, the time that the Leightons came. He married a Tracy, sister of Mrs. Thomas Leighton, 2d, and Mrs. Deacon Stevens. He settled near the shore of Joy’s Bay, on what is known as Baker’s Point, afterwards near where the George Baker house is. By his first wife he had four children. George, Nabby, Rhoda, and Dolly. After the death of his first wife, which occurred while these children were young, Mr. Baker moved to Massachusetts and there married Abigail Griggs, and by her had two children, Susanna and Eli F., both born in Roxbury, and while they were young again moved to Steuben, where Lemuel and Abigail lived for the remainder of their days.
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Bean and Bane Family Genealogy of Saco Valley Maine
Tradition makes the ancestor of this family who first came to our shores a native of the Isle of...
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Lovering Family Genealogy of Taunton Massachusetts
Through much of the nineteenth century there figured prominently in the business and social life...
Read MoreAtkinson Family Genealogy of Saco Valley
The Atkinsons were English, and the ancestors of the New England families came from Bury, in County Lancaster, in 1634. Theodore Atkinson, the emigrant, settled in Boston and was owner of a good estate there. Atkinson street,...
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Harris Family Genealogy of East Bridgewater Massachusetts
The Harris family here briefly considered — that of some of the descendants of the late Deacon and...
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