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TROUBLE IN PARADISE: PART 8 27 Aug 2013 | 10:44 am
As I noted in the previous post, the verdict of the Court held at Ispwich was not unanimous; two of the judges, Samuel Symonds and William Hathorne dissented and issued their own opinion. In part it s...
TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT7 26 Aug 2013 | 10:20 am
There other statements concerning Edward Woodman's outburst about Reverend Thomas Parker and also the exchange of words with my ancestor William Gerrish. Again, several of my ancestors were involved...
TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT6 24 Aug 2013 | 10:36 am
When the church in Newbury, Ma, was first established, Rev, Parker was assisted by another minister, the Rev, James Noyse, who shared Parker's Presbyterianism viewpoint. However, Noyes died in 1656...
TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT5 23 Aug 2013 | 10:34 am
It's taken me longer to get around to continuing to write about the church conflict in Newbury than I thought it would. It's a complicated issue and as I said in the first post in the series, my under...
ANNOUNCING THE FIFTH ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE! 20 Aug 2013 | 10:56 am
It's time to start thinking about the Fifth Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge! Wow, I can't believe it's been five years since the first one. This year I'm really giving everyone a lot of lead...
FROM DEFERENCE TO DEFIANCE BY ROGER THOMPSON 15 Aug 2013 | 11:48 am
I've been blessed with a lot of information on many of my New England ancestors. Now, this is a very good thing but the problem with that is that I haven't gotten much work done on those ancestors for...
TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT4 14 Aug 2013 | 10:52 am
The petition protesting the disenfranchisement of Lieut. Robert Pike was partially successful, as James Currier details in his History of Newbury Part 1 p165: "The objectionable order relating to ...
TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT3 13 Aug 2013 | 11:15 am
Before I write about the outcome of the petitions in support of Robert Pike, I thought I'd try to track down the names of the men who signed from the other four towns. I was partially successful, fi...
TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT2 11 Aug 2013 | 10:12 am
The General Court (the legislature of Massachusetts) was not amused by the reaction of the citizens of the towns that had presented petitions in support of Robert Pike, and did what governing bodies...
TROUBLE IN PARADISE PT1 9 Aug 2013 | 10:37 am
If you have Pilgrim or Puritan ancestors, you need to know how religion affected their lives. Religion was an integral part of life in early colonial Massachusetts. This is no great surprise, consid....
