Treasure Chest Thursday: 1683 Death Record For William Healy (1613-1683) in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony

  It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1683 death record for William Healy in the Cambridge, Massachusetts vital records book:

The William Healy death record:

The extracted information for this record:

[HEALY] William, Nov. 28, 1683, a. 70 y.

The source citation for the William Healy record is:

Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), Deaths, page 597, William Healy death entry, 28 November 1683, age 70 years.

William Healey (or Healy, Hely, etc.) was born about 1613, perhaps in Cornwood, Devon, England, perhaps the son of Thomas and Anne (Popple) Healey.  William died 28 November in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony.  He married, as his 4th wife, Phebe Green (1628-1677) on 15 August 1661 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony.  They had three children.

William and Phebe (Green) Healey are my 9th great-grandparents, through their son Samuel Healey (1662-1732) who married Hannah Smith (1666-1793) as his first wife in 1685 in Salisbury, Massacusetts Bay Colony.

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Treasure Chest Thursday: 1662 Birth Record of Samuel Hely in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony

 It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1662 birth record for Samuel Hely in the Cambridge, Massachusetts vital records book:

The Samuel Hely birth record:

The extracted information for this record:

[HELY] Samuel, s. of Will[ia]m and Pheby, Sept. 14, 1662

The source citation for the Samuel Hely record is:

Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), Births, page 344, Samuel Hely birth entry, 14 September 1662, son of William and Pheby.

Samuel Healey (or Hely, etc.) was born 14 September 1662 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony to William and Phebe (Green) Healey.  Samuel died after 1732 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire Colony.  He married (1) Hannah Smith (1666-1693) on 26 May 1685 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. They had three children.

Samuel and Hannah (Smith) Healey are my 8th great-grandparents, through their son William Healey (1688-1772) who married Mary Sanborn (1690-b1790) in 1715 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire Colony.

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52 Ancestors - Week 488: #882 William Healey (1688-1772) of Hampton and Chester, New Hampshire

 William Healey (1688-1772) is #882 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married  #883 Mary Sanborn (1690-1790) in 1716 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter #441 Joanna Healey (1718-1808), married  #440 John Underhill (1721-1793), in 1741.

*  their son, #220 John Underhill (1745-1816), married #221 Hannah Colby (1745-????) in 1767.

*  their son, #110 Amos Underhill (1772-1865), married #111 Mary Metcalf (1780-1855) in 1801.

*  their daughter, #55, Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1882) in 1839. married #54 Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) in 1839.

*  their daughter, #27 Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931), married #26 Devier James Lamphear Smith (1839-1894) in 1861.

*  their daughter, #13 Abbey Ardell Smith (1862-1944), married #12 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), in 1887.

*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), who married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977) in 1918.
* their daughter, #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002), who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                        William Healey[1–4]

*  Alternate Name:         William Haley[5]

*  Sex:                            Male

*  Father:                       Samuel Healey 1662-1732

*  Mother:                     Hannah Smith 1666-1693

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                         about 1688, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[2]

*  Will:                         10 July 1767 (about age 79), Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[5]

*  Death:                       before 27 May 1772 (before about age 84), Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[5]

*  Probate:                    27 May 1772 (about age 84), Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[5]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                  Mary Sanborn 1690-1790

*  Marriage 1:               12 January 1715/6 (about age 27), Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[2-4]

*  Child 1:                     Phebe Healey 1716-1806

*  Child 2:                     Joanna Healey 1718-1809

*  Child 3:                     Samuel Healey 1720-    

*  Child 4:                     Mary Healey 1722-    

*  Child 5:                     Dorothy "Dolly" Healey 1724-    

*  Child 6:                     Sarah Healey 1726-1826

*  Child 7:                     William Healey 1729-    

*  Child 8:                     Paul Healey 1729-1790

*  Child 9:                     Hannah Healey 1734-1805

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

William Healey was born in about 1688 in Hampton, New Hampshire, the son of Samuel and Hannah (Smith) Healey[2].  The records spell the Healey last name in various ways - e.g., Healy, Helay, Haley, Hele, Heely, etc.  

William married Mary Sanborn (1690-ca 1790) on 13 January 1715/6 in Hampton, New Hampshire[2-4].  She was the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Worcester) Sanborn of Hampton, New Hampshire.  They had nine children, all born in Hampton, New Hampshire, and many are recorded in the Hampton Falls record book:

*  Phebe Healey (1716-1806), married 1738 Winthrop Sargent (1711-1788).

*  Joanna Healey (1718-1809), married 1741 John Underhill (1721-1793).

*  Samuel Healey (1720-????), married 1745 Abigail smith (1722-1759).

*  Mary Healey (1722-????), married 1737 Joseph Clifford (1718-1783).

*  Dorothy Healey (1724-????), married 1741 Winthrop Wells (1726-1797).

*  Sarah Healey (1726-1826), married 1742 Isaac Clifford (1721-1818).

*  William Healey (1729-????)

*  Paul Healey (1729-1790), married 1751 Abigail Allen (1730-????)

*  Hannah Healey (1734-1805), married 1752 William Presson (1728-1804).

William Healey, the son of Samuel Healey, was a grantee of that part of Hampton that is now Hampton Falls[1].

He went to Chester, New Hampshire in about 1728 and settled on Lot Number 7 there[1]. He was a weaver.

William Healey's will was written 10 July 1767 and proved 27 May 1772 in Chester, New Hampshire[5].  

In the Name of God Amen

I William Healy of Chester in the Province of New Hampshire Weaver.  Being in usual Helth of Body, and of and of a Sound Disposing mind and memory, Thanks be given to God for the Same.  This Tenth Day of July Annoq Domini 1767 Calling to minde the frailty and mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appoynted for all men once to Die Do make this my Last Will and Testament and principally and first of all I Recomend my Soul into the hands of God Who gave it, and my Body To the Earth to be Decently Buryed at the Descretion of my Executor here after named; and as to that Worldly Estate Which it hath Pleased God to Bless me With in this Life I Give Demise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and forme.

Imprimus I Give to Mary my Well beloved Wife one Cow to be Kept for her Winter and Summer by my Executor During her Life.  I also give her all my house hold goods and furniture of Every Kind for her to use Improve and Dispose of as She sees Cause.

Item  I Give to my Son Sam^ll Helay my Gun to be Delivered to him Emedialy after my Decease by my Executor and this With what I have heretofore given him by Deed I Judge a Soficient portion for him out of my Estate.

Item  I Give to my Six Daughters Phebe Sargent Joanna Underhill Mary Clifford  Dorithy Wells Sarah Clifford and Hannah Presson the one full half of that Sixty acre Lot for Quantity and   Quality that is Situate in Chester afforesaid Laying in the fourth Division Nomber thirty six and laid out to my origenell Right to be Equally Divided between them or their Heirs or assigns.

Item I give to my GranDaughter Mehetebell Helay my Loom With all the tackling and utencells belonging it of Every Kind whatsoever.

Item I give to my Son Paul Helay all the Remaining part of my Estate which I have not Before Disposed of both Reall and Personell.  And I do appoynt my said son Paul Helay to be my Executor to this my Last Will and Testament he to Receive and Pay all Just Debts Due to and from my Estate and my funurell Charges.  Renouncing all other and former Wills Bequests and and Executors by me named whatsoever.  In Witness To all above written and herein Contained, I have here unto set my hand and affixed my Seal this Tenth Day of July Annoq Domini  1767 first above Written.

                                                                                his

Signed Sealed Published Pronounced }   William  X  Haley

and Declared by the said                      }                mark

William Helay to be his Last               }

Will and Testament in Presents            }

of us Witnesses                                    }

Dorithy Emerson                                    Rockingham Ss May 27^th 1772

James Darban                                         This Will was proved by the Oaths

Sam^ll Emerson                                     of Samuel Dearborn & Samuel

                                                                Emerson in common Form & is

                                                                therefore allowed.

                                                                 Attest

                                                                      John Wentworth J Prob

5.  SOURCES

1. Benjamin Chase, History of Old Chester From 1719 to 1869 (Auburn, N.H. :  the author, 1869), pages 543-544, William Healey family sketch.

2. Joseph Dow, History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, From its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892 (Salem, Mass.: Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co., 1893), page 745, Samuel Healey family sketch.

3. Warren Brown, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, From the Time of the First Settlement Within Its Borders, 1640 Until 1900 (Manchester, N.H. : John B. Clarke Company, 1900), page 128, William Healey and Mary Sanborn marriage entry, 12 January 1715/6.

4. Malva Lynn Teed and Mary L. Emil, We Are Because They Were, typescript (n.p.: by the author, 1983), on FHL US/CAN microfilm 1033945 Item 6, page 68, Benjamin Sanborn family sketch.

5. "New Hampshire, Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982," indexed database and digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Rockingham County > Estate Papers, No 3836-3988, 1771-1773, Estate File No. 3934 (images 962-970 of 1551), William Haley estate record.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog in 2014.  I have extended this theme in 2023 to 520 Ancestors in 520 Weeks.

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Treasure Chest Thursday - 1718 Birth Record of Joanah Heely in Hampton, N.H.

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1718 birth record of Joanah Heely in Hampton in the New Hampshire Birth Records:

The extracted information from this record is:

*  Child's Name:  Joanah Heely
*  Date of birth:  20 July 1718
*  Sex:  Female
*  Father's Name:  William Heely
*  Mother's Maiden Name:  Mary
*  Clerk:  Horace M. Lane
*  Clerk of:  Hampton
*  Date:  May 2, 1906

The source citation for this record is:

"New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," online database, FamilySearch International (http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 7 March 2019), FHL microfilm, 98 reels; citing New Hampshire Registrar of Vital Statistics, Concord, N.H., "Index to births, early to 1900," Joanah Heely entry.

This is a Derivative Source record of the New Hampshire Birth Records to the year 1900.  This record was created in 1906 by the Hampton, New Hampshire town clerk.  The Original Source is a Hampton, New Hampshire town record that I have not found to date.  

"Joanah Heely" (1718-1809) was the daughter of William Healey (1688-1772) and Mary Samborne (1690-1790) of Hampton and Chester, New Hampshire.  She married John Underhill (1721-1793).  

John and Joanna (Healey) Underhill are my 6th great-grandparents, through their son John Underhill (1745-1816) who married Hannah Colby (1745-????).

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Amanuensis Monday - 1767 Will of William Healy (1688-1772) of Chester, New Hampshire

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1767 will of  William "Healy" of Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire: 

[Estate File 3234, image 7 of 9]

[Estate File 3234, image 8 of 9]

The transcription of this will is:

[Estate File 3934, image 7 of 9]

In the Name of God Amen
I William Healy of Chester in the Province of New
Hampshire Weaver.  Being in usual Helth of Body, and of
and of a Sound Disposing mind and memory, Thanks be given
to God for the Same.  This Tenth Day of July Annoq Domini
1767 Calling to minde the frailty and mortality of my
Body and Knowing that it is appoynted for all men
once to Die Do make this my Last Will and
Testament and principally and first of all I Recomend
my Soul into the hands of God Who gave it, and
my Body To the Earth to be Devently Buryed at
the Descretion of my Executor here after named; and
as to that Worldly Estate Which it hath Pleased God
to Bless me With in this Life I Give Demise and Dispose
of the same in the following manner and forme.

Imprimus I Give to Mary my Well beloved Wife one Cow to be Kept
for her Winter and Summer by my Executor During her
Life.  I also give her all my house hold goods and furniture
of Every Kind for her to use Improve and Dispose of as She sees Cause.

Item  I Give to my Son Sam^ll Helay my Gun to be Delivered
to him Emedialy after my Decease by my Executor and this
With what I have heretofore given him by Deed I Judge
a Soficient portion for him out of my Estate.

Item  I Give to my Six Daughters Phebe Sargent Joanna Underhill
Mary Clifford  Dorithy Wells Sarah Clifford and Hannah Presson
the one full half of that Sixty acre Lot for Quantity and
  Quality that is Situate in Chester afforesaid Laying in the
fourth Division Nomber thirty six and laid out to
my origenell Right to be Equally Divided between
them or their Heirs or assigns.

[Estate File 3934, image 8 of 9]

Item I give to my GranDaughter Mehetebell Helay my
Loom With all the tackling and utencells belonging
it of Every Kind whatsoever.

Item I give to my Son Paul Helay all the Remaining
part of my Estate which I have not Before Disposed of
both Reall and Personell.  And I do appoynt my
said son Paul Helay to be my Executor to this my
Last Will and Testament he to Receive and Pay all
Just Debts Due to and from my Estate and my
funurell Charges.  Renouncing all other and former
Wills Bequests and and Executors by me named what-
soever.  In Witness To all above written and herein
Contained, I have here unto set my hand and affixed
my Seal this Tenth Day of July Annoq Domini 
1767 first above Written.
                                                                                           his
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced }   William  X  Haley
and Declared by the said                       }                  mark
William Helay to be his Last                }
Will and Testament in Presents          }
of us Witnesses                                      }
Dorithy Emerson                                    Rockingham Ss May 27^th 1772
Samuell Darbon                                     This Will was proved by the Oaths
Sam^ll Emerson                                     of Samuel Dearborn & Samuel
                                                                    Emerson in common Form & is
                                                                    therefore allowed.
                                                                   Attest
                                                                      John Wentworth J Prob

The source citation for this estate file is:

"New Hampshire, Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982," indexed database and digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 March 2019), Rockingham County, "Estate Papers, No 3836-3988, 1771-1773," Estate File No. 3934 (images 962-970 of 1551), William Healy estate record.

This estate file of William Healy (Hele, Haley, Helay, Healey) contains nine images of the original papers filed in the Rockingham County, New Hampshire probate court in Chester.  These are images of the original papers in the file, and are Original Source, Primary Information and Direct Evidence of.the probate event and children's names.

William Healy, weaver of Chester, wrote the will on 10 July 1767, and it was proved in Rockingham County Probate Court on 27 May 1772.  In his will, he names eight of his nine known children (son William born in about 1728 is not mentioned, and is likely deceased in 1767), including the married names of all six of his daughters.  He also names a granddaughter.  

William Healy (1688-1772) was the son of Samuel Healy (1662-1732) and his first wife (of four) Hannah (Smith) Healy (1666-1693) of Hampton, New Hampshire.  William Healy married Mary Samborne (1690-1790) in 1716 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.  They had nine children between 1716 and 1734.  

William and Mary (Samborne) Healy are my 7th great-grandparents.  I am descended from their daughter Joanna Healy (1718-1809) who married John Underhill (1721-1793) in 1741 in Chester, New Hampshire.

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:" 

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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52 Ancestors - Week 268: #441 Joanna Healey (1718-1809) of Chester, New Hampshire

 Joanna Healey (1718-1809) is #441 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married John Underhill (1721-1793) in 1741 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

I am descended through:

*  their son, #220 John Underhill (1745-1816), married #221 Hannah Colby (1745-????) in 1767.

*  their son, #110 Amos Underhill (1772-1865), married #111 Mary Metcalf (1780-1855) in 1801.

*  their daughter, #55, Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1882) in 1839. married #54 Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) in 1839.

*  their daughter, #27 Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931), married #26 Devier James Lamphear Smith (1839-1894) in 1861.

*  their daughter, #13 Abby Ardell Smith (1862-1944), married #12 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), in 1887.

*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977).

*  their daughter #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.

*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                          Joanna Healey[1–3]

*  Alternate Name:          Joanah Heely[4]    

*  Alternate Name:          Joanna Underhill[5]  

*  Sex:                              Female

*   Father:                         William Healey (1688-1772)

*   Mother:                       Mary Samborne (1690-1790)

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                            29 July 1718, Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[1-2,4]    

*  Distribution:                 27 May 1772 (age 53), father's will proved; Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[5]    

*  Death:                          August 1809 (about age 91), Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[1,3]  

  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:              John Underhill (1721-1793)    

*  Marriage 1:           21 October 1741 (age 20), Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[1]   

*  Child 1:                Betty Underhill (1742-1806)    

*  Child 2:                William Underhill (1744-1780)    

*  Child 3:                Sgt. John Underhill (1745-1816)    

*  Child 4:                Molly Underhill (1747-1835)    

*  Child 5:                Moses Underhill (1749-1838)    

*  Child 6:                David Underhill (1751-1827)    

*  Child 7:                Samuel Underhill (1753-1828)    

*  Child 8:                Jeremiah Underhill (1755-1794)    

*  Child 9:                Sarah Underhill (1759-1838)    

*  Child 10:              Joanna Underhill (1764-    )  

  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Joanna Healey was born 29 July 1718 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the daughter of William and Mary (Samborne) Healey[1-2,4].  

The William Healey family was briefly treated in Benjamin Chase, History of Old Chester From 1719 to 1869 (Auburn, N.H. : the author, 1869)[2], in the William Healey family sketch.

The book,  Underhill Genealogy, Volume 4, by Josephine C. Frost, published in 1932 provided the information about the John and Joanna (Healey) Underhill family[1].

Joanna was married in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire to John Underhill on 21 October 1741 by Rev. Flagg[1].  John Underhill (1721-1793) was the son of Sampson and Elizabeth (Ambrose) Underhill of Chester.  John and Joanna (Healey) Underhill had ten children, all born in Chester, New Hampshire[1]:

*  Betty Underhill (1742-1806), married Samuel Buswell (1741-1827) in 1764.

*  William Underhill (1744-1780), married Abigail Choate (1747-1810) in about 1767.

*  John Underhill (1745-1816), married Hannah Colby (1745-????) in about 1767.

*  Molly Underhill (1747-1835), married James Pierce (1743-1796) in 1765.

*  Moses Underhill (1749-1838), married Rachel Lufkin (1771-????) in about 1787.

*  David Underhill (1751-1827), married Jemima Blake (1758-1829) in 1792.

*  Samuel Underhill (1753-1828), married Sarah Underhill (1756-1829), in 1775.

*  Jeremiah Underhill (1755-1794), married Anna Heath (1755-1844) in 1775.

*  Sarah Underhill (1759-1838), married Moses Greenough (1740-1832) in 1789.

*  Joanna Underhill (1764-????), married Moses Preston (1764-????) in 1784.

In his will written in 1767 and proved in Rockingham County, New Hampshire on 27 May 1772, William "Haley" of Chester gave one full half of the 60 acre lot in Chester that was his original right in the Fourth Division, lot 36, to be equally divided between his six daughters[5].  "Joanna Underhill" is one of the six daughters listed.

John Underhill died on 31 July 1793 in Chester, having written his will on 15 September 1785, which was proved on 21 August 1793 in Rockingham County.  His wife Joanna is not mentioned in the will.  Perhaps her children took her in, or she was able to live on the land bequeathed by her father or on the sale of that land.  

"Joanna Healey, wife of Capt. John Underhill," died in August 1809 in Chester, New Hampshire[3].  There is no burial  record for her.

  

5.  SOURCES

1. Josephine C Frost, Underhill Genealogy, Volume 4 (N.p.: Myron C. Taylor, in the interests of the Underhill Society of America, 1932), pages 22-25, John Underhill sketch.

2. Benjamin Chase, History of Old Chester From 1719 to 1869 (Auburn, N.H. : the author, 1869), pages 543-544, William Healey family sketch.

3. Benjamin Chase, History of Old Chester From 1719 to 1869 (Auburn, N.H. :  the author, 1869), pages 622, "Joanna Healey, widow of Capt. John Underhill".

4. "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," online database, FamilySearch International (http://FamilySearch.org), FHL microfilm, 98 reels; citing New Hampshire Registrar of Vital Statistics, Concord, N.H., "Index to births, early to 1900", Joanah Heely entry.

5. "New Hampshire, Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982," indexed database and digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Rockingham County > Estate Papers, No 3836-3988, 1771-1773, Estate File No. 3934 (images 962-970 of 1551), William Haley estate record.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2019 to 312 Ancestors in 312 Weeks.

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