Spring 2017 NEHG Register is Available

The Spring 2017 (Volume 171, number 2) issue of the Register: The Journal of American Genealogy, America’s premier genealogical journal, is now available online for NEHGS members. (Log in to read the digital version. If you receive the Register in print, you should receive it soon if you have not received it already.)

The lead article treats the English ancestry of John Holmes, Messenger of the Plymouth Court. Other articles treat the children of Ebenezer and Hannah (Wood) Ellis of Middleborough and Bridgewater, Massachusetts; the English origin of Anthony Sadler of Salisbury, Massachusetts; the children of David Briggs of Halifax, Massachusetts, and Buckfield, Maine; the Edgerly family of New Hampshire; the English origin of Roger, Ann, and William Billings of Dorchester, Massachusetts; the Wylley and Cramphorne families of Hertfordshire; and unpublished vital records of Union, Connecticut. Continued in this issue is the article on William H. Johnson (1791–1863), a free man of color of Tyringham, Massachusetts, and his family.

The Table of Contents includes:

83 Editorial

85 “The Black Sheep of Some Good Family”: The Essex Ancestry of John Holmes, Gentleman, Messenger of the Plymouth Court, by Denwood Nathan Stacy Holmes

93 Identifying the Children of Ebenezer and Hannah (Wood) Ellis of Middleborough and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, by Victor S. Dunn

104 The English Origin of Anthony1  Sadler of Salisbury, Massachusetts, by Randy A. West

109 The Children of David Briggs of Halifax, Massachusetts, and Buckfield, Maine, by Judith A. Bowen

120 An Edgerly Family Update, by Paul Friday

129 English Origin of Roger, Ann, and William Billings of Dorchester, Massachusetts by Rachelle Child and Helen Schatvet Ullmann

133 The Wylley and Cramphorne Families of Hertfordshire and Their Contribution to the Great Migration, by William Wyman Fiske

154 Unpublished Vital Records of Union, Connecticut, by Scott Andrew Bartley

159 William H. Johnson, a Free Man of Color of Tyringham, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, by Patricia R. Reed (continued from 171:17)

173 Reviews of Books

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