Gravestone for Zechariah Walker, South Cemetery, Woodbury, Lichfield County, Connecticut
Zechariah Walker was my 8th Great Grandfather. He was born in Boston in 1637, died in 1699, in Woodbury Connecticut at age 63.
His parents were born in England and married in Boston in 1635. His mother came to America in 1630. She lived first in Salem. I haven’t been able to determine when his father immigrated to America.
I like the way this gravestone has weathered – beautiful.
My latest statistic – five thousand seven hundred, 5700, ancestors on my family tree and still counting on June 2 2017.
I keep finding more ancestors to add to my tree. Ancestry.com keeps growing and various other genealogy resources are being revealed. The digital age!
More specifically I’m trying to be sure I have identified all the ancestors who emigrated to North America. But this work results in pursuing many other ancestors and their stories as well. The pursuit of knowledge!
A gold mine of information
4 more books I might acquire – when I was visiting the East Coast last week, my cousin and I shared some of our research and these books are part of her library. She is deep into genealogy research and far more trained than I am. She volunteers at the New England Genealogical Research Institute once a week. We spent a bit of time exchanging and sharing information but other activities intervened and called upon our time. A return visit when we might have more time to focus on our shared genealogy interests is called for – maybe a visit to the Saugus Ironworks and the Peabody Essex Museum.
Lady Lucy Higginson Burwell
Lewis Fairfield Burwell
Early settlers in the area that later became Williamsburg Virginia
These are my 8X Great Grandparents
This is All Saints Church in England where my 9X Great Grandparents were married in 1619. They emigrated to North America in 1623 on the ship “Anne & Little James”. They were early settlers in Plymouth Colony.
A great find – this book, The Laces of Ipswich, The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry by Marta Cotterell Raffel is perfect for combining my interests in history, genealogy, and economics. I am only marginally interested in lace making in that it relates to weaving…..but this is a thoroughly researched picture of an industry in early New England and just maybe some of my ancestors!
The Laces of Ipswich
Whipple House, Ipswich Massachusetts – some of the work highlighted in this book are displayed in Whipple House.
A description of my 8th Great Grandfather Matthew Beckwith, a man of means. The term planter meant
The path of the Winthrop Fleet across the Atlantic from England to New England in 1630
Illustration credit: The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 by Charles Edward Banks, 1930
