A grave marker for Elizabeth Tallman Sperry in Broad Street Cemetery in Claremont New Hampshire – a former mill town on the Vermont-New Hampshire border. Elizabeth Sperry was my 5X Great Grandmother. 
Elizabeth was born in 1715 in North Guilford Connecticut and died in 1810 in Claremont New Hampshire.
More Unexpected Discoveries In My Genealogy Research January 29, 2016
Sarah Kinsman Wells 1705-1772 August 1, 2015
My 5X Great Grandmother
From Ancestry.com:
Sarah Wells
11 Jun 2009 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Headstone Details
- Cemetery name Highland Cemetery
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Public Comments (from all member trees)
5X Great Grandparents July 29, 2015
Major (Judge) John Murdock 1706-1778 was one of my Great Great Great Great Great Grandfathers
Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs
MAJOR JOHN MURDOCK 1708-1778 (father of Reverend James)
He inherited his father’s property and his native sagacity, to which was added a superior intelligence, culture and moral character that made him conspicuous among the distinguished men of the colony. He first carried on the business of farming his plantation with the aid of his slaves, who have left monuments of their labor in enormous stone walls surrounding it. His thrift and sagacity brought a large fortune for the times, and made him a power in the community. He was a deacon in the Congregational church; judge of the court of common pleas, a representative in the general assembly for a number of years, was captain of the Tenth Company, Seventh Regiment Connecticut Militia, and served under Abercrombie in Fort Ticonderoga in 1750, during the French and Indian war. May 13, 1766, he was appointed by the general assembly major of the Seventh Regiment Connecticut Militia. At the time of his marriage, about 1730, his father settled upon him one-half of his estate and built him a dwelling where he spent his remaining days. He carried on the farming business extensively for half a century. He was small of stature and of a very fair complexion, with keen, black eyes. His first wife, Phoebe Sill, of Lynn, and her infant died ten months after their marriage. April 11, 1732, he married (second) Frances Conklin, of East Hampton, Long Island. They had thirteen children, seven of whom were boys and six girls. .Major Murdock died at his homestead on the hill.
