Perhaps the oldest house in New England . . . and the oldest gravestone
Bernard Capen (ca 1562-1638) Bernard Capen is our 11th great grandfather by this path: RWA → Fred Pemberton Abbott → Arthur Merrill...
Benjamin Abbott and the Salem Witch Trials
Benjamin Abbott (1661-1703) Benjamin Abbott (or Abbot) is our 7th great grandfather with this path: RWA → Fred Pemberton Abbott → Arthur...
Battle of Wyoming, Pennsylvania
The Wyoming Massacre of the Revolutionary War This story describes the tragic end of three of our cousins: John Abbott (1741-1778) –...
Woodbridge Township, New Jersey
Jonathan Dunham House,Woodbridge, New Jersey [endif]--Several of our ancestors played a role in the early settlement of Woodbridge. Most...
Settler of Locke’s Neck, Rye, New Hampshire
Locke's Neck, Rye, New Hampshire as it is today. Captain John Locke (1627-1696) and Elizabeth Berry (1635-aft. 1708) John Locke and...
Edmund Strickland and the Founding of Fairfield
Mural of Roger Ludlow buying Fairfield, Connecticut in 1639. The four small figures in the background represent four prominent settlers...