Wild Rhododendrons

Worlands in Antrim Belfast, Ireland

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I have recieved this email from Andrew Warland of Sydney, Australia. If anyone has information of Irish Worlands, please contact him. Also, check out his website. Good Stuff.

Hi Deci
I came across your Ancestry posting about the
Worlands and related families. I'm on a mobile device so
I'm not yet able to check if your posting includes any
Worland family members I have details for on my Warland /
Worland website:
Www.andrewwarland.com.au/warland.html
A quick question - do you have details of a
Worland family living in Antrim Belfast, Ireland in the late
1800s?
Kind regards
Andrew Warland

Sydney, Australia

On This Day, January 18th

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January 18, 1608- My ninth great grandaunt, Hester Pletjes Op den Graeff, the daughter of Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes, is born in Krefeld, Herzogtum Kleve, Germany. She is one of 18 children, half of whom would die in infancy.

Hester's father, Hermann, (my tenth great grandfather), was the first reported member of the Op den Graeff family.

Op den Graeff stained glass window at Krefeld

He was a Mennonite bishop and a wealthy linen weaver and merchant in Krefeld. He lived in a house with notorious stained glass windows full of hymns (partly to himself) and mystical religious symbolism, some of it Catholic. A window from his house, now in the Krefeld Museum, says in German "To be God-fearing, devout and of good morals; zealous, hospitable and truthful in speech--is Christian, and pleases the Lord; brings favor, and sets many a one to great honor. Herman op Den Graff und greitgen lein hoffrow. A 1630." (Translated from the German.)
Pictured is the Op den Graeff window of Krefeld, with the coat of arms showing the "Lohengrin Swan" of the Arms of Cleves.

The Op den Graeff family were said to be tall and spare in physique and have strongly marked features.

On This Day, January 15th

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Map of Connecticut highlighting New Haven County

January 15, 1659- My eighth great grandaunt, Elizabeth Hubbard, is born to George Hubbard & Elizabeth Watts in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.

January 15, 1706- My seventh great granduncle, Nathaniel Doolittle, is born to Samuel Doolittle & Mary Cornwall in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
January 15, 1693- A son, William Wood, is born to Thomas Wood & Hannah Ricer in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America.

January 15, 1702- Giles Slocum, son of Giles Slocum & Ann Lawton, marries Ann Borden, daughter of Matthew & Sarah Borden, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
The ceremony was performed by Joseph Sheffield.

January 15, 1741- Solomon, the infant son of Theophilus Doolittle & Sarah Dorchester dies one week after his birth in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

January 15, 1742- Demetrius, the infant son of Daniel Collins & Lois Cornwall within a month of his birth in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, British America.

January 15, 1747- A son, John Doolittle, is born to Daniel Doolittle & Elizabeth Dayton in New Haven, Connecticut, British America.
(William Wood is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Wood & Rebecca Hall.
Giles Slocum is my first cousin 10 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.
Solomon Doolittle and John Doolittle are my second cousins 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Abraham Doolittle & Abigail Moss.
Demetrius Collins is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Cornwall & Mary Bailey.)

On This Day, January 14th

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Some of the historic buildings in Newport, near the coast (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

January 14, 1645- My ninth great granduncle, William Hall, is born to William Hall & Mary Thomas in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island.

January 14, 1666- My eighth great granduncle, Andrew Bacon, is born to Nathaniel Bacon & Ann Miller in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.

January 14, 1724- Nathaniel Peck III marries Alice Fish, daughter of Robert Fish & Mary Hall, in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island.
A son, Thomas, is born to Hugh Foulke & Ann Williams in Richland, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

January 14, 1727- A son, Matthew, is born to Matthias Tyson & Mary Potts in Richland, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

January 14, 1733- A son, Thomas, is born to Thomas Shearman & Sarah Sisson in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island.

January 14, 1746- A daughter, Rachel, is born to John Jarrett & Alice Conard in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, British America.

January 14, 1749- Joseph Wolcott, son of John Wolcott & Anna Sperry, marries Content Blakeslee, daughter of Ebenezer Blakeslee & Jemima Tuttle, in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.

January 14, 1750- A daughter, Abigail, is born to Salisbury Sherman & Abigail Tisdale in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

( Alice Fish is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Robert Fish & Mary Hall.
Thomas Foulke is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Aret Klincken & Niske Agnes Jensen.
Matthew Tyson is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.
Thomas Shearman is my second cousin 8 times removed. Abigail Sherman is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.
Rachel Jarrett is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Thones Kunders & Elin Magadalen Tyson.
Content Blakeslee is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.)

On This Day, January 13th

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English: My 2009 photo of Wilbor House in Little Compton, Rhode Island, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

JANUARY 13, 1714- My ninth great grandaunt, Anne Sisson, dies at the age of 67 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island. Daughter of Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson, she married Peleg Tripp, son of John Tripp & Mary Paine, in 1667.

January 13, 1688- A son, Ebenezer, is born to William Cornwall & Mary Bull at Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

January 13, 1692- A son, Jonathan, is born to Cornelius Salisbury & Mercy Heath at Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts.

January 13, 1712- A daughter, Hannah, is born to William Davol & Sarah Sisson at Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America.
Hannah Devol's mother, Sarah Sisson, descended from Francis Cooke of the Mayflower through his daughter, Sarah, who married Arthur Hathaway, and their daughter, Lydia, who married James
Sisson.

January 13, 1714- Mary Anne Sisson, daughter of John Sisson & Mary Alice Hopkins, dies at the age of 28 at Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.

January 13, 1726- John Taber, son of Joseph Taber, marries Mary Sisson, daughter of James Sisson & Lydia Hathaway, in Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island.

(Ebenezer Cornwall is my first cousin 10 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Cornwall & Mary Bailey.
Jonathan Salisbury is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Salisbury & Susanna White.
Hannah Davol is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson.
Mary Anne Sisson is my first cousin 10 times removed. Our common ancestors are Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson. Hannah Davol is her first cousin once removed. Mary Sisson is her first cousin.
Mary Sisson is my first cousin 10 times removed. Our common ancestors are Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson.)

On This Day, January 10th

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January 10, 1683- A son, Samuel, is born to William Abernathy & Sarah Doolittle in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.

January 10, 1696- My ninth great granduncle, Samuel Peck, dies at the age of 49 in West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, British America.
The son of Deacon Paul Peck & Martha Hale, Samuel was born in Hartford. In 1672, he married Elizabeth Gilpin.

January 10, 1700- A daughter, Elizabeth, is born to John Stowe & Bathsheba Howe in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.

January 10, 1701- A daughter, Phebe, is born to Ebenezer Cole & Mehitable Luther in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America.

January 10, 1702- A son, Francis, is born to Francis Whitmore & Mary Cornwall in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

January 10, 1703- A daughter, Hepzibah, is born to Robert Hubbard & Abigail Adkins in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

January 10, 1704- A son, Ebenezer, is born to Samuel Salisbury & Jemima Martin in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America.

January 10, 1713- A daughter, Elizabeth, is born to Samuel Abernathy & Elizabeth Peck in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, British America.

(Samuel Abernathy is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.
Elizabeth Stowe is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Wetmore & Sarah Hall and Paul Peck & Martha Hale.
Phebe Cole is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hugh Cole & Mary Foxwell and Samuel Luther & Mary Abell.
Francis Whitmore is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Cornwall & Mary Bailey and John Whitmore.
Ebenezer Salisbury is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Salisbury & Susanna White.
Hepzibah Hubbard is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Wetmore & Sarah Hall and George Hubbard & Elizabeth Watts.
Elizabeth Abernathy is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle)

On this Day, January 9th

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1715- A son, Jeremiah, is born to Nathaniel Bacon & Hannah Wetmore in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

1717- My eighth great granduncle, Joseph Cole, son of Hugh Cole & Deborah Buckland, marries Mary Eddy, daughter of Caleb Eddy & Elizabeth Bullock, in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

1727- My sixth great grandfather, Solomon Stimson, dies at the age of 45 in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Born in March, 1681, Solomon is the son of James Stimson & Hannah Stearns.
At the age of 18, Solomon appeared before the Court for being drunk and fighting. When asked how he pleaded, he declared he would fight again if he had like occasion.
In 1715, he married Elizabeth Finch, daughter of Guy and Rebecca Finch.

Court Records of Prince George's County, Maryland 1696-1699

In March, 1699 true bills were found against Benjamin Stephens, Solomon Stimpson, Peter Scamper, Thomas Wells and John Robinson for being drunk and fighting against
"the Goods laws of God and this Province." All except Stimpson submitted to the
court, received fines of 100 pounds of tobacco and were cleared by proclamation.
Stimpson, when asked how he pleaded, declared he would fight again if he had
like occasion; he was then put in the stocks for 3 hours and required to give security
for his good behavior and appearance at the next court. At the June court he was
cleared by proclamation, nobody appearing against him.

Will of Solomon Stimson

Stimton (Stimson), Solomon, planter, Prince George's County, 9th Jan., 1726-7; 26th Jan., 1726/7.
To son Solomon, £30.
To son Benjamin, 50 A. where he now lives and £30.
To son-in-laws William and Thomas Elder, personalty.
To wife Elizabeth, extx., son Jeremiah, daus. Sarah and Mary, personal estate equally.
To dau. Ann, £5.
to wife Elizabeth and hrs., rights in land adj. Charles Bevans; shd. any of child. die during minority, their
portion to be divided among all child. equally.

Test: Thos. Chartur (Chartor), Paul Talbart (Tabart), Elizabeth Morris. 19.67

1736- A daughter, Phebe, is born to Joseph Moss & Lydia Jones in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.

1737- Ebenezer Cole, son of Ebenezer Cole & Mehitable Luther, marries Prudence Miller, daughter of Samuel Miller & Ruth Curtis, in Swansea, Bristol County, Rhode Island.

1745- A son, Benjamin, is born to William Tallman & Ann Lincoln in Berks County, Pennsylvania, British America.

(Jeremiah Bacon is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Nathaniel Bacon & Ann Miller and Deacon Thomas Wetmore.
Ebenezer Cole is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hugh Cole & Mary Foxwell and Samuel Luther & Mary Abell.
Phebe Moss is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Moss & Abigail "Goody" Charles.
Benjamin Tallman is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Hall & Mary Thomas.)

August 1743, Maryland

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Mount St. Mary's University | Emmitsburg, Md.

August 23, 1743- William Elder purchased from his father-in-law, Arnold Livers, a section of "Ogle's Good Will". William and his second wife Jacoba Clementine Livers built their home on this land. William was a widower with five small children.His first wife, Ann Wheeler, had died of consumption in 1939. In 1742, he wed Jacoba, the daughter of his neighbor Arnold Livers of
Arnold's Delight on Owings Creek. This second marriage would produce seven more children.
Their home was known as Elder Station and one room was reserved as a chapel for their family and the Catholics of the area.
The house was built of logs and the parlor-chapel was equal in size to the rest of the house. Here the Catholics of the area gathered for Mass as often as the presence of a priest permitted. Tradition states that a conch shell was used to summon local Catholics to Mass on these occasions. Sometimes Mass was celebrated by her brother Reverend Arnold Livers.
William had named the mountain St. Mary's Mount, and later on Mt. St. Mary's College would be built there. Most of the land that Mt. St. Mary's is now using for the College and Seminary was deeded by the Elder Family. Ogles Good Will and Elders Resurvey were two portions of land now with the college. The original Elder Cemetary is still sitting in the middle of college land.

(William Elder is my fifth great granduncle. Our common ancestor is Elizabeth Finch.)

August 1743, Connecticut

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Joseph Webb and Isaac Stevens Houses, Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA. Built in 1781 and 1789 respectively. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

August 3, 1743- A son, John, is born to Jonas Wright & Bathsheba Goffe in Wethersfield, Hartford, Conecticut.

(John Wright is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Nathaniel Hubbard & Mary Earle.)

August 1743, Pennsylvania

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August, 1743- Mary, daughter of William Hallowell & Margaret Tyson, dies at the age of one year in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

August 3, 1743- A son, Dyonisius, is born to Dennis Conrad & Ann Knight in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

August 18, 1743- Benjamin Gilbert, son of Nicholas Gilbert & Sarah Chamberlin, marries Mary Conard, daughter of John Conard & Alice Lukens, in Abington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British America.
It is Mary's second marriage, her first husband Henry Evans died in 1739.

(Mary Conard is my first cousin 8 times removed. Dyonisius Conard is her nephew. Dyonisius Conard is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Magadalen Tyson and Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff .
Mary Hallowell is his third cousin.
Mary Hallowell is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.)

July 1743, Connecticut

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July 19, 1743- A son, Zophar, is born to Daniel Tuttle & Phebe Beach in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

Surname Tuttle

English and Irish: from the Old Norse personal name þorkell, a contracted form of a name composed of the elements þórr, name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor) + ketill ‘cauldron’. The personal name Thurkill or Thirkill was in use throughout England in the Middle Ages; in northern England it had been introduced directly by Scandinavian settlers, whereas in the South it was the result of Norman influence. This surname and its variants are especially common in East Anglia. In Ireland the Old Norse name was adopted as a Gaelic personal name (Thorcall), which generated the surnames McCorkle and Corkill.

(Zophar Tuttle is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.)

July 1743, Rhode Island

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July 16, 1743- A son, Richard, is born to George Sisson & Drucilla Cole in Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island.

July 27, 1743- A son, Isaac, is born to Isaac Tripp & Susannah Spencer in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island.

Sisson Name Meaning

The name of Sisson is probably derived from Soissons, a province of France. Doubtless the progenitors of the English descendants of the name came to Britain with William of Normandy.

In the Poll-tax Returns of Howdenshire, (Yorkshire), for the year 1379 the following names are found: Johannes Sisson, Robertus Cisson, Henricus Sisson, Thomas Cysson, and William Cisson.

Canon Bardsley in his "Dictionary of English & Welsh Surnames" states: "Sisson, 'the son of Cecelia' " An English genealogist concludes that in one instance the name is derived from Syston, a populous village in Leicestershire.

The first record, yet found, of the name in the United States is at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. On
May 17, 1653 Richard Sisson was admitted a freeman of the town. (Richard Sisson is my tenth great grandfather.)

(Richard Sisson is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah F. Lawton.
Isaac Tripp is my third cousin 8 times removed. Richard Sisson is his third cousin. Our common ancestors are Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson.)

June 1743, Pennsylvania

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In 1682 William Penn and his fellow Quakers came to the New World. They named their new colony Pennsylvania. This meant Penn's woods.

June 30, 1743- A son, Jonathan, is born to George Burson & Sarah Cox in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

William Penn established the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with the goals of religious tolerance and peace. Further, he sought to bring the Society of Friends (Quakers), who long suffered religious intolerance in Europe and the Colonies, to his new Colony.
There were three waves of migrations of Quakers to Pennsylvania.
According to Elliott, “The first and largest group were the English Quakers from London, Bristol, and counties in the west and north. A small minority were wealthy and they purchased the best lots in Philadelphia. The early nucleus of wealthy merchants in Pennsylvania was dominated by English Quakers from Barbados, Jamaica, New York, and West Jersey. English Friends also predominated the first tier of counties in Pennsylvania along the Delaware River. Later, a group of English Friends settled in Ceres in northwestern Pennsylvania.” -Quaker Records (by Wendy L. Elliott, CG, published 1987 by American Genealogical Lending Library)

(Jonathan Burson is my third cousin 6 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.)

June 1743, Connecticut

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“Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636”

June 17, 1743- A daughter, Mercy, is born to Benjamin Harris & Esther Cornwall in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

June 23, 1743- Jonathan Gipson, son of Deacon Samuel Gipson & Hannah Whitmore, marries Mary Goodrich, daughter of John Goodrich & Mary Tillotson at Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

Places: Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut

The city of Middletown, located in Middlesex County, lies along the west side of the Connecticut River in the central part of the state. Incorporated as a town in 1650 under its original Native American name of Mattabeseck. it received its present name in 1653.
At the time the first European settlers arrived in the region, the Mattabesetts were a part of the group of tribes in the Connecticut Valley, under a single chief named Sowheag.

Plans for the colonial settlement of "Mattabesett" were drawn up by the General Court in 1646; the first Europeans arrived from nearby Connecticut colonies in 1650.
It received its present name in 1653. The Name Middletown was chosen because the site was approximate halfway between Windsor and Saybrook on the Great River.

Life was not easy among these early colonial Puritans; clearing the land and building homes, and tending farms in the rocky soil of New England was a labor-intensive ordeal. Law, too, was often harsh among the Puritans; offenses legally punishable by death in the Connecticut colonies included, "witchcraft, blasphemy, cursing or smiting of parents, and incorrigible stubbornness of children."

Pequot Mohegans, at that time traditional allies of the English colonists and enemies of the Mattabesett and other local tribes, arrived in the Middletown area in the latter half of the 17th century; conflict between them and local Native American tribes ensued. The Mattabesett and other tribes referred to the Mohegan as "destroyers of men." Sowheag hoped that the colonists would intervene. They did not. Smallpox, too, afflicted the Mattabesett, significantly lessening their ability to resist and their cohesion as a tribe. Records show that, over time, Sowheag was forced to sell off most of the Mattabesett property to the local colonists; by 1676 the Puritans owned all but 300 acres (1.2 km2) of the former Mattabesett territory. Similar milieus of tragic interaction between Native Americans and colonists were common in 17th century New England.

Slavery was part of the early economy of Middletown; African slaves were brought to the town in 1661 from Barbados; by 1756 Middletown had the third largest African slave population in the state of Connecticut—218 slaves to 5,446 whites.

During the 18th century, Middletown became the largest and most prosperous settlement in Connecticut.
In 1784, the central settlement was incorporated as a city distinct from the town, and in the early 2oth century the city and town consolidated. A busy sailing port and trading center in the 18th and 19th centuries, it later became an industrial and commercial center. Middletown is now mainly residential and is also home to Wesleyan University.

(Mercy Harris is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Cornwall & Mary Bailey.
Jonathan Gipson is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors is John Whitmore.)

June 1743, Rhode Island

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June 12, 1743- A son, Rufus, is born to Captain Jonathan Harrington & Sarah Foster in Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island.

Family Lore:

Rufus' second great grandfather, John Errington, drowned in 1631 in Boston Harbor shortly after the family's arrival from England.
His son, Benjamin, went to live with an uncle. (Benjamin is Rufus' great grandfather.) When he was about 15 years old, Ben embraced the Baptist faith, then under ban in Massachusetts. His uncle remonstrated with him without effect, finally punishing him severely and as a final resort tying him to a post and administering a flogging which was most unmerciful; threatening to turn him over to the authorities if he persisted in his heretical opinions. As soon thereafter as possible, he arranged his escape stealing away from his uncle's house penniless and alone with his bible, a fish line and a few other articles done up in a hankerchief and carrying a scanty supply of provisions.

He believed that the God he worshipped would care for him in some way and enable him to reach the Roger Williams settlement in safety. The trust was rewarded when, hungry, footsore and weak, he fell in with a family of Quakers, headed by William White, towards the same goal. They welcomed him, gave of their simple fare, caring for him until he became strong enough to assist them. He repaid them in labor caring for the team or when necessary to unload the wagon. He crossed the swollen streams and ravines, sometimes carrying the oldest daughter Elizabeth. The acquaintance with Elizabeth ripened into an enduring love and soon after their arrival in Providence, Rhode Island, she became his wife and in time the mother of his nine children.

In Providence, they settled on Harrington Lane, now Rochambeau Avenue. He fought in King Phillip's War and acquired considerable property, chiefly land. Possibly because of his bitterness towards his uncle, he changed his name to Herendeen and for two generations the name was spelled Herendeen, Herndern, Hearnden interchangably with Herington, Herrington, and Herrengton.

(John Errington is my tenth great grandfather. Benjamin Hearndon is my ninth great grandfather. Harrington is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Harrington & Lydia Cranston.)

June 1743, Massachusetts

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June 6, 1743- A son, Zephaniah, is born to Caleb Sherman & Elizabeth Lawton in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

The Surname "Sherman" is English: occupational name for a sheepshearer or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excess nap, from Middle English shereman ‘shearer’.

June 21, 1743- A daughter, Abigail, is born to Humphrey Smith & Mary Willcox in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America.

(Zehaniah Sherman is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.
Abigail Smith is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson. )

A Look at Warren Buffet and my Mitochondrial DNA

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Warren Buffet is also H4a.

A few years ago, I had the gift of meeting my half sister, Carla Anderson. She is ten years my junior, and we share the same birth mother. I flew to the Northwest to meet her, and we have continued our

relationship through facebook, email, text and phone.

Carla recently had her DNA done, and has shared the results. Of course, I am only concerned with the maternal line, as my paternal line is unknown to me.

I now know that my maternal haplogroup is H4, subgroup H4a. Maternal haplogroups are families of mitochondrial DNA types that all trace back to a single mutation at a specific place and time. Haplogroup H, the parent of H4, originated in the Near East and expanded throughout Europe after the peak of the Ice Age. Haplogroup H is the most common and most diverse maternal lineage in Europe, in most of the Near East and in the Caucasus region. The frequency of haplogroup H in Europe usually ranges between 40% and 50%.
H4 soon spun off its own sub-branch, H4a, which spread north and west from the Caucusus region or neighboring Turkey into eastern Europe about 10,000 years ago, possibly in association with the spread of farming. The location of its origin is still not certain. The haplogroup is most common today in Poland, where about 5% of the population carries it.
The next highest concentration of H4a is in Ireland, where about 3% of the population falls into the category. Those people may be descended from women who migrated to Britain and Ireland with 5th- and 6th-century Saxon invaders or during the later Viking period.

In an article published in NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, April 2013, entitled "Neolithic mitochondrial haplogroup H genomes and the genetic origins of Europeans" two skeletons associated with a Bellbeaker Culture burial in southeast Germany were carefully analyzed to H4a, using the most stringent and cutting edge techniques to eliminate any contamination. Around 2200 BC, this culture was associated with agriculture, including the keeping of livestock, and may also indicate that the origins of the H4a were via the Black Sea, likely through Anatolia (Turkey).

May 1743, Connecticut

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"New London [Connecticut] in 1813." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

May 10, 1743- A son, Eber, is born to Stephen Bradley & Jemima Cornwall in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut.

May 12, 1743- A son, Amos, is born to Amos Miller & Abigail Cornwall in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

May 16, 1743- A daughter, Phebe, is born to Deacon Richard Ely & Phebe Hubbard in Lyme, New London, Connecticut.

May 26, 1743- My seventh great granduncle, John Hubbard, becomes Deacon of the First Middletown Church, where he would serve until his death.

(Amos Miller is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck. Eber Bradley is his third cousin.
Eber Bradley is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Seargent William Cornwall & Mary Bailey.
Phebe Ely is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Hubbard & Elizabeth Watts and Thomas Wetmore & Sarah Hall.)

May 1743, Rhode Island

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May 4, 1743- A daughter, Sarah, is born to Thomas Sherman & Anne Sisson in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

(Sarah Sherman is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah F. Lawton and Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)

May 1743, Pennsylvania

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Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

May 1, 1743- A daughter, Sarah, is born to Ellis Lewis & Mary Tyson in Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The child will not survive to adulthood, dying shortly before her second birthday.

(Sarah Lewis is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff, and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.)

April 1743, Connecticut

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Connecticut River Panorama (#66) (Photo credit: Christopher Chan)

April 3, 1743- A daughter, Eunice Tyler, is born to Nathan Tyler & Rachel Tuttle in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

April 6, 1743- Joseph Sanford, son of William Sanford & Hope Sisson, marries Bethiah Lothrop, daughter of John Lothrop and Elizabeth Abell, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut.

(Joseph Sanford is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah F. Lawton.
Eunice Tyler is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Sergeant Abraham Doolittle, Deacon Paul Peck & Martha "Hannah" Hale and John Moss & Abigail "Goody" Charles.)

April 1743, Massachusetts

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Sgt. William Harlow Family Homestead, Plymouth Massachusetts, April 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

April 1, 1743- A daughter, Elizabeth, is born to Deacon Robert Harlow & Susannah Cole in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America.
Elizabeth is a descendant of four Mayflower Passengers, Richard Warren, Mary Allerton and her parents, Isaac Allerton and Mary Norton.

April 6, 1743- George Sherman marries Rebecca Sherman in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. George is a blacksmith, and would become a soldier of the Revolution serving as Captain in Colonel Jacob Statford's Independent Company of Volunteers.. He marched Aug 14, 1777 and fought in the battle near Bennington Aug 16, 1777.

( Elizabeth Harlow is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hugh Cole & Mary Foxwell.
Rebecca Sherman is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)

March 1743, Connecticut

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Union Street, Middletown, Conn, by Bundy, J.K. (Joseph K.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

March 17, 1743- A daughter, Abigail, is born to Nathaniel Doolittle & Hannah Foster in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

March 25, 1743- A son, Seth, is born to Joseph Blake & Esther Bacon in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

(Abigail Doolittle is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Samuel Doolittle & Mary Cornwall.
Seth Blake is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Nathan Bacon & Ann Miller and Deacon Thomas Whitmore.)

March 1743, Rhode Island

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Providence, Rhode Island, 1858. Harbor view, taken from the grounds of George W. Rhodes, Esquire. Hand-colored lithograph. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

March 7, 1743- A son, Increase, is born to David Greene & Alice Hall in Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island.

March 8, 1743- Abiel Tripp, son of Job Tripp & Elizabeth Sweet, marries Deborah Cleveland, daughter of Palmer Cleveland & Deborah Gardner, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island.

March 9, 1743- A son, Ezekiel, is born to Job Tripp & Sarah Weeden in Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island.

( Increase Greene is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Hall & Mary Thomas.
Abiel Tripp is my second cousin 9 times removed. Ezekiel Tripp is his nephew. Ezekiel Tripp is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson.)

March 1743, Massachusetts

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Official seal of Dartmouth, Massachusetts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

March 5, 1743- A son, Pardon, is born to William Davol & Abigail Hix in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

(Pardon Davol is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson.)

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