This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... family; also one of his wife-s brothers, no better than he; also one Haskell, a sober sort of a man, with his family." William Davis's wife was Patience Foster; and she had a brother Ephraim. The sober Haskell was, of course, Thomas. Thomas Redding was, 1suppose, son of Richard Babson-s second wife. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... family; also one of his wife-s brothers, no better than he; also one Haskell, a sober sort of a man, with his family." William Davis's wife was Patience Foster; and she had a brother Ephraim. The sober Haskell was, of course, Thomas. Thomas Redding was, 1suppose, son of Richard Babson-s second wife. John Brown was probably son of our settler of the same name. William Elwell was, I suppose, brother of his wife. Anthony Coombs married Mercy Hodgkins in 1722. She and Philip and Jedidiah Hodgkins may have been children of Samuel, elsewhere mentioned; though Philip is said to have been of Newbury in 1728, when he purchased land in Falmouth. 1' John Haskell may have been a brother of Thomas. Robert Nason and Rebecca Day were married here in 1720, and had a daughter Mary, born in 1729. He fell overboard from a fishing vessel, and was drowned, in 1734. Thomas Sargent, a grandson of our early settler William, married Elizabeth Haskell in 1710, and had several children. It is a common name, and he may not be the one mentioned in the list. I have no evidence, however, that he resided here after 1729. Our records notice the birth at Falmouth, May 4, 1723, of William, son of William Stevens, by Margaret his wife. It does not appear that the father was of our early family of that name. James Stanwood and Jonathan Stanwood were brothers; and grandsons, I suppose, of our early settler, Philip. Both were married, and had children. Other names of Gloucester persons appear on the list: but they might have been intended to designate individuals of some other town; or they might have been those of some of our inhabitants who designed to remove, but afterwards changed their minds.' The descendants of a few of this Falmouth emigration...
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