This second volume of 180 sketches covers the rest of Windsor County, organized by town and presented in alphabetical order by head of household. These sketches provide a better understanding of the outward migration from southern New England along the northern route to the early westward settlements in New York, Ohio, Michigan, and beyond.
Including Notes on the Vinson Families of Newport
Winner of the 2021 New England Society in the City of New York Book Award in the Art and Photography category. The awards recognize books of merit that celebrate New England and its culture.
Author: F.G. Emmison
Published: 1983
Hardcover, 292 pages
The great-great-grandson of Captain George Denison returns from the Revolutionary War to the reality that he must move west for fertile soil and his family's future. With 40 of his kin (Gallup, Thompson, Chesebrough and Gardiner descendants), Robert Denison leaves Stonington, Connecticut to settle near Albany, New York and suffer years of turmoil, which ultimately culminate in murder. Rebelling from the repression, the family disperses westward and settles in Canada. Four generations later, after 100 years as farmers in Ontario, the Denisons move to the United States.
Author and historian Sue Allan has extensively researched Brewster’s early years in Scrooby and elsewhere in England, and here presents an original and insightful view of how he developed into the man who would spiritually lead and nurture the congregation at Plymouth Colony.
In order to understand Brewster, the man, it is necessary to study the life and times within which he developed as a youth. A study of his family – his father, mother, grandparents, and siblings – provides the foundation.
Relying on parish registers, Bishops' transcripts, court records, and a variety of other source materials, Brandon Fradd has compiled the most extensive treatment of the Winslow family's origins to date.
By Brandon Fradd
Published: December 2008
The Mayflower 500 outlines the Mayflower descents of 585 figures in American history or contemporary life. Included are political, literary, or artistic figures; actors, actresses, or musicians; inventors; military officers; explorers; business leaders; scientists; social scientists; college presidents and religious notables; athletes; and even two circus performers. A first appendix covers 50 more figures descended from brothers of John Howland or Gov.
Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs’s biography of Edward Winslow is now back in print as our first publication bearing the American Ancestors 2020 logo! Dr. Bangs, director of the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, uses fascinating primary source documents to examine Winslow’s long career of public service as a leader and representative of Plymouth Colony’s Pilgrims. This important work provides a detailed study of colony finances and political relations, placing Plymouth Colony in the midst of a lively Atlantic world of commerce and migration.
By Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
Author: Helen Schatvet Ullmann, FASG
Published: 2008
The Pierponts of Roxbury, Massachusetts, are a particularly interesting family of ship’s captains, millers, town selectmen, merchants, builders, ministers and a very few farmers. Ullmann brings her thorough research skills to this family, focusing on descendants through John Pierpont’s son Ebenezer and Robert Pierpont’s sons, Jonathan and James.
