Have you got a Puritan Great Migration Ancestor? (1621-1640 New England) [closed]

Question

   

Do you have Puritan Great Migration ancestors? That's immigrants to New England between 1621 and 1640 (our project doesn't include Mayflower passengers).

1. Who are they?
2. Have you found their profile on WikiTree?
3. Are there duplicates?

Please do a brief analysis of what the profile looks like.

• Is it a hodge podge of merged profiles?
  If so, add {{PGM|Needs=Merge Cleanup}}
• Does it look as though it's been copy/pasted from one or a variety of sources? Does it have sources but no biography?
  Add {{PGM|Needs=Biography}}
• Are the only sources on it Ancestry trees and their counterparts?
  Add {{PGM|Needs=Research}}
• Does it need help that doesn't quite fit a category? Pick the closest and leave a note.
• Is it a wonderful profile that you'd be proud to say you researched and wrote?

Respond here with an answer to let us know what you found. If you are then inspired to tackle the problem yourself, mention that in your answer. Remember to collaborate with managers and here in G2G before you make any data changes or relationship changes.

Comments

I would like to be in the group.  I have several that are listed and some are as follows George Wheeler-219(1605 - 1687);Catherine Penn-117 (Penn) Wheeler (1611-1684);Catherine Hull-967 (Hull) Penn(1592 - 1630); and many more.  Thank you, Loretta Black-1271.

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Loretta, I took out your email address. You don't need to add it here, messages get sent automatically by "G2G runners" (internal G2G stuff).

If you want to join the Puritan Great Migration Project, first read the Project Page carefully. Then follow the directions to join.

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Hello, this is in reference to an email I got asking if I had ancestors in the Great Puritan Migration.   Yes, I do and his name is John Pratt (1608-1655).  It looks good, but I didn't do it.  Robin Lee did it.  All of that line just popped up on my tree one day.  I also have Andrew Benton (1620-1683); it looks like a merged profile that needs cleaning (Benton-56).  I also have George Stocking (1582-1683); it looks great!  I also have Agnes Anna Stocking (abt. 1586-1683), and it probably could use some work.  I also have Thomas Spencer (1607 - 1687), and it looks good.  I also have Nathaniel Bearding (1597 - 1674), and it looks good.  There is also Abigail Bearding (1628 - 1683), and it looks good.  There is a Richard Tucker (Tucker-3192) and his wife Agnes (Wyatt) Tucker (Wyatt-1547 with dau. Elizabeth Pratt b. 1620 in Hartford, CT, but there is very little there - needs research.  I checked all the rest, and those I didn't name are in good shape.  I haven't worked on any of these because, like I said they just popped.  I am not even close to working on them because my tree is not finished.

Nowell-324

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My ancestor who immigrated in the PGM was Daniel Hovey, son of Rychard Hovey of Waltham Abbey. He is my 10th great grandfather. Many family reunions are held yearly. After leaving New England, many descendants moved to Canada, while others helped settled the USA.

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Thanks Dola, Your assessments are good. Thanks for looking. Isn't wikitree fun, people make random connections and the next thing you know you have all kinds of family attached to the family tree.

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Thank you Heather.

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I do have Ancestors that are in that time frame, still working on pulling everything together.   However, I am not sure if they are considered from the Puritan Great Migration. 

Surnames: SMITH, CHASE, ELMES( Helms) PALMER, BENNET, DeWolf are a few that I know of, that I believe fall in that time perions.  

Thank you, any help I can provide, I will gladly share.

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Hi Wanda, you would need to find a record, that shows their immigration to New England in the 1620-1640 timeframe. Sometimes its a court/colony record, or a land record. If they have Wikitree ID's (do extensive searching if you don't find them right off, or I can help), I can check Anderson's Great Migration directory to see if they are there or perhaps point you to theright place to look.

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My 10th great grandfather is William Whiting. I would like to know how to join?

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Hi Jaime. Assuming that you are a member of Wikitree and Pre-1700 certified ... First read the project page. Then go read the directions on the Puritan Great Migration join post and follow the directions.

Answer 1

Here's one of mine. I just finished giving him a facelift Peter Prudden

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prudden-5

Here's another one that needs some research and a biography : Thomas Barnes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnes-657

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Nice job on Peter Prudden's profile! Peter is my 8th great grandfather, through Burr>Penfield>Beach>Terrill's who are from Roger Terrill of New Haven. Actually the Beach's are from early New England too.

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Thanks Julia, I have Beaches in my Ancestry too

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My Grandmother was a Beach and my Grandfather the Terrill. It is funny that these families lived in the same areas from Colonial New England, Mass and CT to the Western Reserve and where only connected, so that we have found when these two married. I am sure that is not the actual case as I well know if you have New England Ancestors, you're connected in all kinds of verious and interesting ways! By what my Mom  has in her file I am 9th great grand daughter of Richard and Catherine Cook Beach of Morris Town New Jersey.

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nice job man thank you for your time.

Answer 2

My best-known direct ancestor was Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett (Fones-9). I think her bio is OK. She was a niece and also a daughter-in-law of Governor John Winthrop and I think his bio is OK too, though it could certainly be expanded.

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Thanks Patricia for looking, your right someone spent a lot of wiki love on Elizabeth Fones and I'm glad to see the Gov. John Winthrop, as important as he is, has also been treated well.

Answer 3

Richard Battiscombe is my 8th great grandfather.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Battiscombe-32

In 1635, Richard Battiscombe, his wife Mary (Strong) Battiscombe, and his daughters Mary and Martha Battiscombe, sailed from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Presumably they emigrated to escape religious restrictions. In September, 1635, he was described as a haberdasher, and was granted 5 acres in Hingham MA, at the first drawing of house lots. He was made a freeman in 1636-1637. They had 5 children, Mary, and Martha (both born in England before departure, and given legacies by their maternal grandfather), John (1637), Anna (1639) and Experience (1641). His wife, Mary died in 1646.

In 1650 he returned to Dorset with his children, perhaps encouraged by the Puritan victory in the English civil war. He may also have been influenced by the annual stipend left by his parent's wills, and the prospect of eventually inheriting the family lands from his elder brother, John.

He married his second wife, Hannah Wood, in Bridport , 29 September, 1653, and had 4 more children, Israel, Paul, Grace and Abigail.

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That's not a bad profile Janet, do you mind if I neaten it a little bit?

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Fine with me.

 

Also wanted to add that, while he returned to England, the family remained Puritan/Nonconformist through the end of the 19th century.

One descendant, Andrew Battiscombe, forfeited his public office when they enforced the law saying all public officials had to attend at least one CoE service a year.

Another, Christopher Battiscombe, was the local leader of  Monmouth's Rebellion (and was hanged by "Hanging Judge Jeffries" for it).

Answer 4

I have a number of PGM ancestors on different branches of my family tree. I have been amused to see how often ancestors on different family lines must have "rubbed elbows" in the early years. For example, names of several of my ancestors appear on a passenger list (I say "a" passenger list because there are multiple versions of the list that don't fully agree) for the Diligent, which arrived in Boston in 1638:

• Stephen Gates and his wife Anne (Neave), plus children
• John Beal and his wife Nazareth (Hobart)
• William Ripley, his wife, and children including daughter Sarah
• Thomas Lincoln ("Thomas the Husbandman")
• Joseph Peck

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I have some Lincoln, Ripley and Beal ancestors as well. Are yours from the Hingham, Massachusetts area?

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Yes, these are all Hingham settlers.

I have the impression that almost everyone on the Diligent settled at least briefly in Hingham, Mass., after arrival in New England. And many of the passengers originated in Hingham, Norfolk, England.

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Carol, Relationship Finder shows that you and I have Thomas Lincoln the Husbandman (of Hingham) as a common ancestor.

Answer 5

Here are 8 that I'm sure of:

James Cutler-26 - 10th Great-Grandfather
Henry Rolfe-23 - 10th Great-Grandfather
Robert Harrington-100 - 9th Great-Grandfather
Richard Cutter-60 - 9th Great-Grandfather
Isaac Stearns-36 - 9th Great-Grandfather
Lt. John Dodge-243 - 8th Great-Grandfather
William Locke-186 - 8th Great-Grandfather
William Russell-546 - 8th Great-Grandfather

I have 10 or 12 more that need more work, mostly to establish connection rather than PGM status.

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Henry Rolfe-23 is possibly an ancestor of mine, but I've not dug hard enough to figure out whether and how Jonathan Rolf connects to the Rolfe family of Newbury.

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Hey, Ellen,

We're 9th cousins, through John Harrington.

Bob

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Bob, if you're looking for a project John Dodge-243 could use some help. Too bad his given name doesn't start with S

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I'll work on John even if his bio won't fit the Bio Builder challenge. It's something I enjoy doing, and it makes WT just that much better.

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Thank you Bob.

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My daughter

Stearns-1495 her 11th great grandfather was Stearns-93 brother to your Isaac.

 

My 11th great grandfather was Anthony Stoddard-468

Migrated to Boston in 1638

Answer 6

Thanks Anne! 

All these apparently migrated in PGM era, then moved to Long Island.  Do Long Island colonists fall under PGM?  None of these profiles has an Anderson quote yet.

Josiah Stanborough has some sources, needs a better biography. His wife Frances Gransden needs work, has limited sources. Per profile, she was in Mass aged 18 in time to marry Josiah in 1636. Frances' sister Alice Gransden married John Hand about 1633 in England, they were in Lynn by 1636(?).  So I guess teenage Frances, whose father had died in '23 but whose mother died in '45 tagged along to Lynn with her sister and her brother-in-law.

Poorly sourced: Edmund Shaw and Anne Kellett were supposedly married in Suffolk County, NY in 1630 (not sure if her parents immigrated).  Edmund's dad "Captain John Shaw" supposedly died in "America" in 1620.

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Some PGM immigrants removed to Long Island pretty early on.

Stanborough is a PGM, but he arrived too late for the two GM book series that have been published so far. Sources for him include NEHGR 63:166 and TAG 26:61-62, 31:1-15.

There was a John Shaw who arrived at Plymouth in the 1620s (he's documented in Great Migration Begins) and lived until 1663. No son named Edmund. I see that John Shaw-3085 is unsourced and has an equally unsourced wife named Jean Editha Cunningham. That wife's name looks highly improbable to me -- people in that era didn't give their children middle names. And that adds to my skepticism about the vailidity of the two profiles.

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The ones who came through New England first and then went to Long Island certainly qualify. And parts of Long Island were part of Connecticut and New Haven Colonies.

Josiah has a mention in the Great Migration Directory, but the other two don't.

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H, thank you for adding the PGM Needs categories.

Answer 7

So far I have found 4:

Thomas Cooper, Cooper-262, my 10th great grandfather, my mother's side

Joseph Peck, Peck-103, my 11th great grandfather, my mother's side

John Train, Train-76, my 8th great grandfather, my father's side

Fulke Davis, Davy-295, my 8th great grandfather, my father's side

All have the PGM designation already, some profiles read well, others probably could be more polished.  I would be glad to add what I can.  

Comments

That would be very helpful Marie. Make sure to add sources. Do you know how to make inline citations?

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I know about inline citations, but have not done them very much in WikiTree.  They seem a bit cumbersome here, but I will look for some advise and give it a shot.

Answer 8

I have 28 ancestors with the PGM indication and another 13 that look like they should have the PGM indication. 

These are the unmarked ones that look like they were part of the Puritan Great Migration: 

• John Nichols
• Susanna (Towne) Hayward
• Anna (Wetmore) Allen
• Elizabeth (Hodgkins) Willis
• Grace (Unknown) Perry
• William Brett
• Susanna (Orcutt) Edson
• Elizabeth (Godfrey) Cary
• John Washburn Jr.
• John Howard Sr.
• Elizabeth (Stream) Holbrook
• Margaret (Ford) Brett
• John Whipple

I will look through all of the profiles and see if they need help.

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Thanks John I'm taking a look at your list checking to see if they need PGM, except the alarm just went off and I have to fix dinner.

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I ended up adding PGM categories to them all, and some others as I went along. Thank you.

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I swear this is like collecting baseball cards or something. Anyone got a Myles Standish rookie card?

I have:
William Sargent

Judith Greenleaf

Edmund Greenleaf

Sarah Moore

George Fairbanks

Mary Adams

Benjamin Albee

Hannah Miller

Tristram Coffin sr

Tristram Coffin Jr

Dionis Stevens

John Ellis

Anthony Fisher

John Metcalf

Mary Chickering

Thomas Wight

Alice Roundy

Benjamin Albee

Hannah Miller

John Folsom Sr

Mary Gilman

Abraham Perkins

Mary Wyeth

John Clifford

Do you want links? I think they all have PGM attached. I think I might even have more. This is just copied from a word document I have. There might be more. I haven't dug that deep and checked everyone on the tree.

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I am trying to identify profiles that need work. So if you wanted to take a look that would be great. A link or an ID would be helpful.

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Got it. =) I'll see if I can find some that need work. For some of the ones I listed, they seem solid. I listed the ones I had because I wasn't sure if all of them were okay and well sourced.

For example, this is fine, right?
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clifford-354

and this one?
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Basford-17

He has no profile manager. But, I feel like he should be in the PGM considering  where he came from and where he died. He landed in NH, but died in NC. Which is....odd.

His wife has like no info:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Basford-4

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Good profiles to look at.

Clifford-354 has a big block of copy/pasted material. We try to rewrite things like that in our own words. I've added a maintenace category.

Basford's interesting. I suspect that John in NC is not the father of Jacob in NH. But there probably isn't enough information on either of them to prove it one way or another. Anyway John isn't PGM wrong place and I think Jacob is too late.

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Thank you Anne. I now have 41 PGM greats.

I have 11 more greats that left England in the PGM timeframe but went to Virginia, not New England. Is there a Puritan migration project for them?

• John Bates
• Martha (Malone) Green
• James Smith
• Henry Filmer
• Elizabeth Austin (Standards) Filmer
• Elizabeth (Unknown) Bates
• Thomas Green
• William Griffin I
• Thomas Green
• Jane (UNKNOWN) Griffin
• Martha Elizabeth (Filmer) Green

John

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You're ancestors who settled "south" fall into the US Southern Colonies Project

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Hello.  I am relatively new to researching but noticed that some of the names you listed are also in my family tree i.e. Washburn and Whipple.  I haven't verified this info but would be interested in talking with you.  Thank you.

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Sorry for the delay. Thanks for clearing it up, Ann. I see a lot of profiles with no profile managers. How does that happen?

Lauren, feel free to send me a private message.

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It's very easy to orphan a profile. Go to the privacy tab, scroll down to remove yourself (totally removes you) or remove yourself as manager (leaves you on the trusted list, but removes you from the managers list.

Why does it happen? Lots of reasons. Maybe I created the profile because he was the sibling or spouse of someone in my line, but I don't need to keep an eye on what's on his profile. I orphan it. Sometimes, If people are trying to work on a profile (usually not these, but younger folks b. late 1800s) and they can't do anything because a manager is being unresponsive, the manager (after a whole lot of effort) is removed. Manager's die. Manager's leave wikitree and orphan their profiles. Probably other reasons too.

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Thanks for the info. I've been adding a lot of people from my French Canadian side. They are in a direct line and go way back in time. It would be crazy to manage so many profiles. So, I guess this makes sense. You'd go nuts trying to manage so many on a public space like this.

To be honest it gets a little daunting when I end up making new profiles after profile. Eh, it is what it is. Thanks again!

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There is actually a practical limit to the size of your watchlist of 5000. At that point some of the things you can do with your watchlist, don't work right anymore.

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Who would have the time to watch that many profiles?! Wow! I think I watch like two dozen. Close ancestors and a couple that fill in the blanks. Like, a daughter of someone whose profile is here but they forgot a kid or something.

Answer 9

My "namesake" PGM ancestor is George Aldrich-73.  He has an excellent profile which was done by Roland shortly after I became a WikiTree volunteer.  Just prior and also during the time he was working on the profile, Roland "took me under his wing" and mentored me in WikiTree mark-ups inline citations, and a lot more of the ins and outs of PGM.

I have several other PGM ancestors, it seems every time I follow a different great grandmother's line I find multitudes.  I most recently discovered 9th great grandparent Rowland Thomas-2160.  He is not marked "PGM" and I haven't had time to do much research on him.  He was born in 1621 in England and died Feb. 21, 1698 in Springfield.  The profile says he arrived in 1646, which would make it too late for PGM - but that date is unsourced so I wonder???  Is he in the GM Directory?

Comments

Unfortunately, Rowland Thomas-2160, is not in the GM Directory, but it looks like he's a worthy ancestor none the less

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Yes, to be sure.  Hey Anne, thanks for looking it up for me.

Answer 10

I ran across the profile for Edward Bate when I used the Relationship Finder to see how I was related to President Obama. It needs some help with the bio, so I added {{PGM|Needs=Biography}}.

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Yes definitely needs some help. Thank you

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I had a few free minutes so I cleaned up the profile to remove the broken links and circular citations.  There wasn't much left afterwards.  The TAG article mentioned in the profile contains much more information that should be included in the profile and related profiles.

Answer 11

I have several. The ones I looked at today we're William and his son John Eaton. William looks well done but John has a problem. His birth is listed as 1635 in Watertown, MA Bay Colony but he is listed as a passenger on a ship arriving in 1637. Joe Cohoit is the manager and is very knowledgeable on the Eatons so I would want him to justify the problem. I left a message on the profile.

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Thanks Glenn, That was a good way to handle it. I'm sure Joe can figure it out.

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Perhaps he and his family traveled overseas and returned.

Answer 12

Yes, I'm 6th cousin to Moses Simmons who came on the Florence in 1621 From Holland and yes I have found multiple files under both Simmons and Simmonson.

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Gee Carolyn, Moses seems to be all caught up in a fraudulent genealogy, not his but a Thomas. Interesting...

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I'm not sure fraudulent is the appropriate term for the multiple files, don't understand the Thomas reference

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Actually it's a next generation Moses who had a fabricated genealogy

Answer 13

My family is almost exclusively southern, but my hubby has an ancestor who fits this period. His mother's maiden name is Joyce Lynn Ruggles and this is her family line:
Thomas Ruggles Jr m. Mary Curtis (arrived in Mass in 1637 from England with Mary and family including son Samuel [below], age 8)
son Samuel m. Hannah Fowle (and Ann Bright)
son Samuel m. Martha Woodbridge (Samuel was born in Roxbury, MA)
son Samuel m. Elizabeth Williams (and Elizabeth Whiting)
son William F m. Abigail Walker
son William F m. Rebekah B Hubbard (left Mass and moved to Vermont)
son Ephraim Hubbard m. Susan Stoddard
son Halsey R m. Josephine Weeks
son George Thayer m. Rosette Camber
son Fredrick Halsey m. Germaine Laurette Grenier
dau Joyce Lynn Ruggles m James Ellsworth Gammell
son Jamie Alan Gammell m Yvonne Marie McCowan (me)

I believe I have only loaded this branch only back to George Thayer Ruggles at this point, but I will happily add the rest. There's tons of documentation of the Ruggles family in Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony through to the point where this branch moves to Vermont around the Revolutionary War, and after that family bibles, family cemetary plots, and personal direct knowledge/accounts fill in the blanks. If  you have any questions, please let me know.

I would like to add this badge to my husband's wikitree page. Thanks!

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Hi Yvonne, I've been working my way down these answers, just got to yours. Here's the profile for your husbands ancestor https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ruggles-15 and on down the line for the Samuels If you want to add the PGM template to your husbands profile

just copy the following and paste it on his profile

{{PGM Descendant|[[Ruggles-15|Thomas Ruggles]]}}

Thank you for answering

Answer 14

My most noted ancestor in the PGM is:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Throckmorton-110

As expected, he is very well documented.

Looking at the profile I find that no one is listed as a carrier in the DNA section. But I have taken several of those tests. With 23andMe results yet to come. Is he too far back?

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John is my ancestor also. Unfortunately I know nothing about DNA. If you want to know you could start a new question. Tag it dna and pgm

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Don, John Throckmorton is your 9th great grandfather. That's too far back for auDNA to be useful. Your Family Finder and Ancestry test information (auDNA) is displayed on the profile of Daniel Stillwell-206, your 6th great grandfather, but no further back. The only DNA that might be useful for John Throckmorton-110 would be yDNA. You would need to find living direct male Throckmorton descendants to be tested.

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Thanks Kay.

Answer 15

I am descended from Deacon Thomas Parker (Parker-3884), who arrived in New England in 1635.  The profile seems to be in good shape.  It might be helpful to add another reference to this profile that includes more details of his life and speculation about his ancestry in England.  I don't know how to do that properly.  The reference is John Parker of Lexington and His Descendants Showing His Earlier Ancestry in America from Dea. Thomas Parker of Reading, Mass. from 1635 to 1893 by Theodore Parker, available as a pdf from <https://archive.org/details/genealogybiograp00byupark>.

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The profile of his wife, Amy (Aylesworth) Parker (1609 - 1690)<https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Aylesworth-56>, is in much worse shape.  It lists her as being born in Reading, MA, which seems unlikely.  Theodore Parker in the book mentioned above concluded from the emigration records that she arrived in MA independently, and that they were married in Lynn in late 1635 or early 1636, but doesn't say much more about her.

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I'm going to send you a message.

Answer 16

Looks to me that Theophilus Eaton https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eaton-104 should be part of the PGM.  It is a pretty good profile however, with the exception of some very minor tweaks, I cannot claim any credit.  Of course, if he is in PGM possibly so is his wife https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lloyd-44 and daughter https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eaton-750 (and probably her siblings) although since it appears to me that at some point his wife and at least daughter Hannah returned to England (however, Hannah returned to New Haven as the second wife of William Jones.)  I am, though, perhaps telling you more than I really see documented.

 

 

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I've added the PGM to Theophilus. I've been going through the New Haven Signers, making sure they have adequate profiles along with wives and children. I put off Theophilus, until later, because I know there is so much information.

Answer 17

I just found that my 8th great grandfather, Matthias Button, did not have anyone monitoring his page, so I adopted him the other day. I added some references and information, and noted there is still a need for a great deal more in terms of substantiating original source information. I note that I have several other ancestors in this same time period, and am seeing if I can spot any ways to help.

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Thank you for adopting Matthias. You definitely have the right idea.."a great deal more in terms of substantiating original source information."

Answer 18

I looked at my PGM ancestors and they looked OK until I got to Ralph Ellingwood (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ellingwood-2), who was not tagged and had no biography or sources. I found some useful information, so I gave him a biography and labeled him with PGM. I hope I did it properly. His profile probably needs some polishing but he seems more real now. I'm often not sure what to do with Ancestry data and links so I left everything that was there as it was.

Comments

That's lovely Randall. Did you know that most towns in Massachusetts, printed their vital records to 1850 back in the early 1900's. They are online and easy to access.

Vital records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Salem, Mass., The Essex institute , 1916 pp. 274/5 There are three different spellings.

https://archive.org/stream/vitalrecordsofsa01sale#page/274/mode/2up pp. 274/5

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Thank you Anne. That's very helpful. I did not know those records were available at archive.org. This might be a dumb question, but that link only goes to the letter "L". I'm not finding the second half by searching yet. Am I missing something?

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Salem is actually divided into four volumes vol one births A-L vol 2 births M-Z. Marriages and deaths are in vol 3 and 4. Google search vital records of salem to 1850 vol #

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Thanks, found it. Better search terms are always the answer.

Anne, are those records preferred for sourcing in PGM / Wikitree? I'm partial to Familysearch.org as a source. I often find much more information in the images than I do in transcriptions. I cite them exactly as Familysearch suggests. But I have noticed, that is not how everyone is sourcing in Wikitree. Is there a preference about that in the Wikitree community that I should know about? Thanks for the feedback.

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In the case of images vs. transcriptions, go for the image everytime.

In this case "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," at Family Search that you cited, is an index, which was created from the transcriptions. So the transcriptions are closer to the original than the index.

PS Salem deaths are in Vol. 5 & 6 Marriages in 3 & 4 Family Search has links to download.

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Those are great tips, very helpful. Thanks again.

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I have found the Vital Records of Massachusetts site invaluable. It just helped me find a 127 year old error in Thurston Genealogies--now i have a Webster ancestor who I think goes back to John Webster.

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How exciting Kristine.

Answer 19

I found another one that needs work: Joanna (Cutter) Hale: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cutter-264

I added {{PGM|Needs=Biography}} but I'll leave this one to more experienced folks to sort it out. This one looks complicated since her last name is disputed and there is a unmerged match pending.

Answer 20

I guess I should put this in it's proper place...still figuring out posting. Hopeing I have it right now :D

I came across the profile for https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leatherhead-3 she is believed to have come with https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cutter-60 aboard the Lion, with The Winthrop Fleet. Her profile is rather questionable as to Biography Stye and content. I was going to put that she needed a biography, but I am not sure if its just a format issue or merge, so I will post it here so that better eyes then mine can check it out! Thank You

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As I answered your post on Leatherhead-3. Definitely PGM, defintiely needs help on multiple levels.

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Thank you Anne for your patients and hard work!

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Thank you for locating her.