One, our Ancestor, Benjamin Merrill. The other, Daniel Boone We have addressed the importance of Captain Benjamin Merrill and his hanging by the British after the Battle of Alamance before. We have also discussed the lifelong connection between Daniel Boone and Great Uncle Michael Stoner. I don’t know exactly when, but Stoner and Boone likely […]
Read MoreHobnobbing with Henry the VIII
Sir George Cotton: Our 13th Great Grandfather? One of the tidbits you may find while researching family are connections to royalty. One such connection was laid out in a book entitled “The Abell family in America : Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English ancestry and his descendants” published in 1940 by Horace Abell. In […]
Read MoreHenry Van Der Wal’s Military Career
Henry Owen Van Der Wal had a unique military history. He served in the Navy at the end of World War II, then was drafted into the Army during the Korean War and served on the Air Force’s Elmendorf Air Base. How? Henry joined the Navy in September of 1945 just over a month after […]
Read MoreThe Work of Henry Owen Van Der Wal
Henry Owen Van Der Wal did a large number of jobs in his life. For example, he and his father-in-law, Oliver Stiehm were on the crew finishing cement at Milwaukee County Stadium. But his primary work was with the Edward E. Gillen Company as a pile driver. Here are some of the jobs he worked […]
Read MoreBillington’s “Bind Out” Their Children
An excerpt from “The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony,” by James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz pages 116-117 In 1642, Francis and Christian Billington “put Elizabeth, their daughter, apprentice to John Barnes and Mary, his wife, to dwell with them and to do their services until she shall accomplish […]
Read MoreSpeculation: Are there connections to Charlemagne?
I designate this as speculation because I found this published, but with no real documentation. Therefore, it is fun to speculate. Research is necessary. FROM: Abell, Horace A.. The Abell family in America : Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English ancestry and his descendants, other Abell families and immigrants, Abell families in England. Rutland, […]
Read MoreHistory’s Tangled Web: Sir William Phipps, Our Family, and the Oak Island Conspiracy?
EDITORS NOTE: William Phips is NOT related to us. He did, however, play a large part on our family’s history. Specifically, for their participation in the Quebec excursion: Lt Preserved Abel, Sgt Samuel Sabin, and John Ormsby. And with the Salem Witchcraft Trial – Samuel Abbe. This first article discusses those events. Lt Andrew Newcomb […]
Read MoreSchauers in the Frontier Zone between Polish and German Culture and Politics
by Norbert Luedtke 2004 At this time, the earliest we can directly trace the Schauer family is to Jacob Schur, born 1790. His death is listed in the church records as February 24, 1846 in the farming village of Ploetzmin, Tarnowke Parish, in Deutsch Krone Kries (District), in the German Provence of West Prussia. This […]
Read MoreWhere Our Ancestors Lived: William Burton, Casstown
William Burton moved with his mother and step father to Casstown, OH where he lived on the “Burton Homestead” until he died. He was captured in the 1871 Lost Creek Township Platt map.
Read MoreUpdate! The Travels of Albert
Earlier, I posted about the “travails of Albert”. At that time, the evidence we had of Albert and family in a 2 or 3 year stay in Texas was the manifest for the return of Grandfather, Ernest Nehmer, from World War I. And Albert’s WWI draft registration. I found the 1920 census from Justice Precinct […]
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