Answering Sue's Extracting Challenge - A Simple Massachusetts Deed

After my Amanuensis Monday post last week, Sue Adams challenged me (in comments) to extract all of the information in the land record.  She reminded me again this morning on Google+, saying:

"Hi Randy

"I challenged you to extract all the information from your Amanuensis Monday - Post 190: Luke Bigelow Deposition Concerning Job Seaver Land in Westmnster, Mass. (14 October 2013).

"The next stage in the Claverley analysis shows the sort of thing I meant.  I would be very interested to compare this English land transfer with an American one.

"You might want to use a shorter and perhaps simpler example than my original challenge :-)"

Sue's blog post, where she extracted information from her Claverly document, is at Claverley Property Document Analysis, Part 2: Semantic Mark-up (posted 21 October 2013). I urge my readers to go visit Sue's Family Folklore Blog.

I will take Sue's advice and work with a simpler land record - I'll use the one in Amanuensis Monday - Post 189: Deed of Luke Bigelow to Isaac Seaver 3d in Westminster, Mass.  It's about as simple as I've seen.  

1)  Here is the image of the deed page (the Bigelow to Seaver deed is on the right-hand side of the image):

2)  Here is the deed transcription using the color coding for the semantic tags that Sue used for her document analysis.  The color code is:

*  Red for person's names
*  Green for place names
*  Blue for dates
*  Orange for occupation/rank
*  Purple for legalese (the typical deed boilerplate text)
*  Shaded grey for property descriptions

The line-numbered and color-coded deed:

1.  Know all men by these presents, that I, Luke Bigelow, of Westminster, in 
2.  the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman, in con-
3.  sideration of Twenty-five dollars, paid by Isaac Seaver 3d of Westminster,
4.  County and Commonwealth aforesaid, the receipt whereof I do hereby ac-
5.  knowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey, unto the said Isaac Seaver
6.   3d his heirs and assigns, a certain piece of land, situated on the road
7.   leading to Ashburnham, and adjoining said Seaver land, bounded as
8.   follows.  Beginning on the line of said Seavers line, by said road, and
9.   running south by said road, six rods; thence west by land of said
10. Luke Bigelow five rods; thence north by said Bigelows land, six rods
11. to said Seavers land; thence east by said Seavers land, five rods to
12. the first mentioned bound, by the road.  One condition in the convey-
13. ance of the above-named land, is that said Seaver shall build and for-
14. ever keep in repair, a good and sufficient fence on said described line
15. between our lands.  To have and to hold the afore-granted premi-
16. ses to the said Isaac Seaver 3d, his heirs and assigns, to his and their use
17.  and behoof forever.  And I do for myself, my heirs, executors and administra-
18. tors, covenant with the said Isaac Seaver 3d his heirs and assigns, that I
19.  am lawfully seized in fee of the afore-granted premises, that they are
20. free of all incumbrances; that I have good right to sell and convey the
21. same to the said Isaac Seaver 3d and that I will and my heirs shall
22. warrant and defend the same premises, to the said Isaac Seaver 3d his
23. heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all
24. persons.
25. In witness whereof, I the said Luke Bigelow have here-
26. unto set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of
27. June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight.
28. Signed, sealed and delivered                       Luke Bigelow        {seal}
29. in presence of           }   Worcester ss June 16th 1858  Then the above-
30. Samuel L. Bridge      }    named Luke Bigelow acknowledged the above
31. S.G. Kendall            }     instrument to be his free act and deed.
32. G.M. Whitman, Jus. Of Peace
33. Rec^d June 26th 1858 at 8^h40^m A.M. Ent'd & Ex'd By Alex. H. Wilder, Reg^r.

It is not clear to me how much of the legalese is needed to be color-coded - I only used Sue's example as a guideline.  There may be more definitive guidelines somewhere.  If there is, I'm sure someone will tell me!

3)  Here is the table showing the persons, events, objects and date information for the deed, also color-coded:

Person/ Event	Relationship/ Action	Object	Relationshipto date	Date
Luke Bigelow	Received	$25 from Isaac Seaver 3d	On or Before	16 June 1858
Luke Bigelow	Resided at	Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts	On	16 June 1858
Luke Bigelow	Was a	Yeoman	On	16 June 1858
Isaac Seaver 3d	Paid	$25 to Luke Bigelow	On or before	16 June 1858
Isaac Seaver 3d	Resided at	Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts	On	16 June 1858
Luke Bigelow	Owned	Property in Westminster	On and before	16 June 1858
Isaac Seaver 3d	Purchased	Property in Westminster	On	16 June 1858
[Property]	Consisted of	Piece of land, situated on road leading to Ashburnham, bounded by Seaver's line, the road, and Bigelow's land.	On	16 June 1858
Luke Bigelow	Made Condition	Isaac Seaver to build and keep in repair a good sufficient fence on property line between their properties	On	16 June 1858
Luke Bigelow	Asserted	Lawfully seized in fee of premises, they are free of encumbrances, and has right to sell premises	On	16 June 1858
Luke Bigelow	Signed and sealed	Deed	On	16 June 1858
Luke Bigelow	Acknowledged	Deed instrument as his free act and deed	On	16 June 1858
Samuel L. Bridge	Witnessed	The Deed	On	16 June 1858
S.G. Kendall	Witnessed	The Deed	On	16 June 1858
G.M. Whitman	Signed	The Deed	On	16 June 1858
G.M. Whitman	Occupation	Justice of the Peace	On	16 June 1858
Alex. H. Wilder	Recorded	The Deed	On	26 June 1858
Alex. H. Wilder	Occupation	Registrar of Deeds	On	26 June 1858

I tried to capture all of the person's names, the actions taken by those persons, and the dates of the action.

4)  I am not sure that I did this correctly...or included all of the items that are necessary.  I invite readers to comment - what items (rows) would you add or delete, what would you re-word, etc.  I don't expect you to revise the whole thing!

I have never done this type of organized extracting in this amount of detail before.  Have you done this?  Do you do it routinely?  I have done some abstracting of deeds before as part of the ProGen Group work, but I don't do that routinely.  Heck, I'm lucky to get the transcription done and a coherent source citation crafted.

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Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Tombstone Tuesday - Harvey Carringer (1852-1946) in Mount Hope Cemetery (San Diego)

I went looking for relatives in Find A Grave this morning for Tombstone Tuesday, and found a memorial for my great granduncle, Harvey Edgar Carringer (1852-1946):

He is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in San Diego. The memorial says his birth date is unknown, and his death date (actually his burial date) is 11 May 1946. The Plot description that's given in the memorial is:

"Evergreen (Potter's Field)"

Hmmm.  I wonder if I can visit that plot, or if it is just a "pit" where a number of bodies were buried?

Harvey Edgar Carringer never married, but he was a significant part of the Henry Austin Carringer family, having moved to San Diego with his parents in 1899.  Harvey Edgar's younger brother was Henry Austin Carringer, who married Della Smith, and they had my grandfather, Lyle L. Carringer.

Harvey Edgar Carringer died 22 April 1946, and was buried on 11 May 1946.  Henry Austin lost his wife, Della, on 1 January 1944, and was in ill health until he passed away on 30 November 1946, six months after Harvey Edgar's death.   I wonder if the family was even notified of his death.

I've added the following to my to-do list:

*  Visit Mount Hope Cemetery and see if they can identify a gravesite for Harvey Edgar Carringer.  If they have one, I'll go visit the site.

*  Obtain a death certificate for Harvey Edgar Carringer to see the cause of death, parents names, disposition of the body, and who the informant was.

*  Check GenealogyBank, which has the San Diego newspapers available, for an obituary or a death notice.

I have no idea why I checked Find A Grave this morning for Harvey Edgar Carringer.  It was just a thought "I wonder if there is a memorial for Harvey Edgar Carringer?"  He was the first one I thought of!  Success.

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Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Dear Randy: Are the U.S. Census Records Available on FindMyPast.com?

In my post Will FindMyPast.com Images be Available Through FamilySearch? (posted 18 October 2013), Tara asked (in comments):

"I've been considering subscribing to findmypast.com. Can you please tell me if they offer access to all of the U.S. censuses?"

Tara, the short answer is YES.  They have a search engine that finds census page images and transcriptions for all of the United States Census records from 1790 to 1940 available though their subscription service (either a monthly/yearly subscription or by buying credits over a fixed time period).  See their subscription page at https://www.findmypast.com/payments.

However, there are some drawbacks:

1)  You can download the census image to your computer or a flash drive, but you cannot print it directly from the screen.

2)  The transcription of the specific person searched for can be viewed in a short form or a full form (which also lists other persons in the household).  You can print this transcription using your browser Print function or can save the HTML page.

3)  The user cannot browse the census pages from page to page.

4)  The search engine permits the following options:

**  First name = enter name; exact or variant check box; wild cards permitted

**  Last name = enter name; exact or variant check box (I don't know if it's only Soundex); wild cards permitted

* When Event = Born, Died, Other Event
**  Year field = enter the event year
**  Year Range = +/- 0, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 or 40 years

*  Where Event = World, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
** Location field = enter the country, state/province, county, etc.

If you receive many matches, you can filter them by category and by specific collection

5)  There collection of United States and Canadian records is limited, but they have an excellent Ireland and United kingdom collection that is available with their U.S. subscription.

6)  There are probably other drawbacks, but those are what I recall from my previous work.

The benefits of FindMyPast.com are these, as I see it:

1)  The cost is relatively low compared to Ancestry.com.

2)  If you have a significant United Kingdom ancestry, their collections are extensive, and a subscription is very worthwhile.

3)  For the census records, they have a different set of name indexes, a different search engine, and a different set of images which might be helpful.

UPDATE:  I wrote this post on Sunday due to time constraints, but it went into Draft mode rather than Scheduled mode.  I intended to publish it at 3 p.m. on Monday.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/10/dear-randy-are-us-census-records.html

Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Disclosure:  I have no material interest in DC Thomson Family History or any of its subsidiaries.  I have received no gifts from them other than a sponsored meal or two.  I have a paid annual subscription to FindMyPast.com and a free subscription to FindMyPast.co.uk.

Amanuensis Monday - Post 191: 1861 Land Deed of Isaac Seaver 3rd to James R. Bruce in Westminster, Massachusetts

Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started his own Monday blog theme many months ago called Amanuensis Monday. What does "amanuensis" mean? John offers this definition:

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

The subject today is a land deed in Worcester County, Massachusetts dated 6 February 1861, transferring three tracts of land in Westminster, Massachusetts from Isaac Seaver and Lucretia Seaver (my 2nd great-grandparents) to James R. Bruce  $1000.  

The deed transcription is: 

Know all men by these presents, that I, Isaac Seaver 3d, of Westminster, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and I Lucretia T. Seaver wife of said Grantor who joins in this deed in order to comply with the requisition of the Chapter 238 of the Statutes of this Commonwealth passed in the year 1855 entitled "An Act to exempt from Levy on Execution the homestead of a Householder" in consideration of one thousand dollars paid by James R. Bruce of said Westminster the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey, unto the said James R. Bruce his heirs and assigns the following described parcel of land, situated in said Westminster on the westerly side of the road leading from Main street to the house of Cyrus Winship and bounded and described as follows to wit.  Commencing at the Northerly corner thereof and running North 75 West 8 rods and 16 links, thence South 50 West 4 rods and 11 links thence South 90 East 16 rods, thence South 86 East 12 rods and 4 links, thence North 9-1/2 West 19 rods to the first mentioned bound.  

Also one other parcel of real estate lying on the Easterly side said road and bounded and described as follows to wit: Commencing at a stake and stones at said road and running thence North 8 West 29 rods and 5 links to a stake and stones, thence North 21 East 11 rods and 6 links to a stake and stones, thence South 40-1/2 East 21 rods and 12 links to a stake and stones, thence North 52 East 57 rods and 8 links to a stake and stones, thence 53-1/4 East 24 rods and 10 links to a stake and stones on land of Abraham Mosemans estate, thence North 81 West 21 rods and 5 links to a stake and stones, thence South 33 West 20 rods and 6 links to a stake and stones, thence North 37-1/2 West 1 rod to a stake and stones in a straight line to the first mentioned bound, containing 17 acres more or less. Being the homestead of the late Frederick Winship with all the privileges thereunto belonging.  

Also one other parcel of real estate situated in said Westminster on the road leading from Westminster to Ashburnham and adjoining the first described parcel and bounded and described as follows to wit:  Commencing at the Northeast corner thereof on the line of said road and running thence South by said road 6 rods, thence West by land of Charles Upton 5 rods, thence North by said Upton's land 6 rods to the parcel first described, thence East by the parcel first described 5 rods to the first mentioned corner and is the same real estate conveyed to me by Luke Bigelow by his deed dated June 16th A.D. 1858, and recorded in the Worcester Registry of Deeds Book 596 Page 381 with all the conditions mentioned on said deed.

To have and to hold the above-granted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging to the said James R. Bruce and his heirs and assigns, to his & their use and behoof forever.  And I the said Grantor for myself and my heirs, executors and administrators do covenant with the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee simple of the aforegranted premises, that they are free of all incumbrances; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever as aforesaid and that I will and my heirs executors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the said Grantee and his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. 

In witness whereof, we the said Isaac Seaver 3d and Lucretia T. Seaver wife of said Grantor who for the consideration aforesaid and one dollar to me paid by said Grantee the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby release to said Grantee & his heirs and assigns forever all right or or to a homestead in or out of said real estate and also in token of my release of all right and title of or to dower in the granted premises have hereunto set our hands and seals this sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty one.

Signed, sealed and delivered    }                              Isaac Seaver 3d      {seal}
in presence of                         }                             Lucretia T. Seaver   {seal}
C.W. Carter                            }                             Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Isaac Seaver                           }                             Worcester ss. Feb 6th 1861. Then
Elis. H. Smith                         }                             personally appeared the within
named Isaac Seaver 3d and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free act and deed.

Before me                         C.W. Carter                       Justice of the Peace

Rec^d March 5th 1861 at 2:20 P.M. Ent^d & Ex^d By. Alex. H. Wilder, Reg^r.

The source citation for this document is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org) , Worcester County, "Deeds 1861 Vol. 637-638," images 229-230 of 679, in Volume 637, Pages 439-440, Isaac Seaver 3d to James R. Bruce deed in Westminster, Mass., 1861.

I don't know the location of these three tracts of land in Westminster, Massachusetts.  There are some clues, including:

*  The road from Main Street (in Westminster) to Cyrus Winship's house.
*  The road leading to Ashburnham.
*  Land of Abraham Moseman's estate.
*  Land of Charles Upton.

James R. Bruce (1814-1884) married Lucinda Seaver (1821-1899) in 1846.  Lucinda Seaver was Isaac Seaver 3rd's older sister.

I don't know who the first witness, C.R. Carter, is.  He is the Justice of the Peace, and so he was probably not related to either party.

The witness Isaac Seaver is almost certainly Isaac Seaver's 3d stepfather (1802-1870), who married Isaac 3rd's mother, Abigail (Gates) Seaver, in 1832.

The witness Elis. H. Smith is almost certainly Lucretia (Smith) Seaver's mother, Elizabeth Horton (Dill) Smith (1791-1869).

I am intrigued by, and need to know know about,  "...Chapter 238 of the Statutes of this Commonwealth passed in the year 1855 entitled 'An Act to exempt from Levy on Execution the homestead of a Householder'..."  The mention of this statute in the deed is probably an effort to fulfill some requirement of the statute.  I need to investigate this more.  

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/10/amanuensis-monday-post-191-1861-land_21.html

Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Best of the Genea-Blogs - 13 to 19 October 2013

Hundreds of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  Ancestral Stories ~ You Can't Make This Stuff Up by Lee R. Drew on the Family History With the Lineagekeeper blog.  This research serendipity story will amaze you!

*  Breaking My Silence: Genealogy Roadshow by Jen Baldwin on the Ancestral Breezes blog.  Jen thinks it's emotion that brings us to do genealogy.

*  Tech Tuesday: Rootsmapper.com ~ Ya, This is Pretty Cool by Jana Last on Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog.  This tool accesses the FamilySearch Family Tree and plots migration paths for a person's ancestors.  It is cool!

*  Second Cousins and Removed Cousins: What's the Difference by Amy Johnson Crow on the Archives.com blog.  Great example and analysis, thanks, Amy.

*  The Genealogy Generation Gap - Reality or Fiction? by guest blogger Thomas MacEntee on the UpFront with NGS blog.  Thomas offers suggestions on how societies can deal with this issue.

*  What is the Minimal Amount of Information Necessary to Identify Any One Individual? by James Tanner on the Genealogy's Star blog.  James ponders the question, and thinks it is only name, date and place.

*  AncestryDNA's New Ethnicity Predictions Rolling Out to Customers by CeCe Moore on the Your Genetic Genealogist blog.  CeCe highlights the new features in AncestryDNA ethnicity estimates.

*  The Benefits of the New Online Genealogical Alliances by James Tanner on the Genealogy's Star blog.  James analyzes the recently announced agreements between FamilySearch and the other big players.

These genea-bloggers wrote weekly pick posts and news summary posts this week:

*  NN Things You Need to Know This Morning, Sunday, 13 Oct 2013, Monday, 14 Oct 2013,  Tuesday, 15 Oct 2013, Wednesday, 16 Oct 2013, 17 Oct 2013, 18 Oct 2013 and 19 Oct 2013  by Caroline M. Pointer on the 4YourFamilyStory.com blog.

*  Follow Friday - Favorites for October 18, 2013 by Heather Kuhn Roelker on the Leaves For Trees blog.

*  Follow Friday ~ Fab Finds for October 17, 2013 by Jana Last on Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog.

*  Genealogy Blogs, News & Tidbits, #12 by Deb Ruth on the Adventures in Genealogy blog.

*  From Hemingway to Hack Genealogy: Blog Posts and News Stories for Genealogists, October 18, 2013 by Michael Leclerc on the Mocavo Genealogy Blog.

*  Friday Finds - 10/18/13 by Julie Cahill Tarr on Julie's Genealogy & History Hub blog.

*  Saturday Serendipity (October 19, 2013) by John D. Tew on the Filiopietism Prism blog.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I am currently reading posts from over 1400 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.


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Copyright(c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver 

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Birthday and Anniversary Calendars

It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  Do you know which of your ancestors were born on your birthday?  Or married on your anniversary?  

2)  Use your genealogy software program to find out who was born on your birthday, or married on your wedding anniversary.  

3)  Tell us how you determined this.  Write it in your own blog post, or in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post.

4)  NOTE:  If you have no one born on your birthday or married on your anniversary, do it for one of your parents or for all of the children of your ancestors.  

Here's mine:

1.  Here are my charts created using RootsMagic:

a)  October birthdays for ancestors (up to 13 generations):

With over 2,000 ancestors in my genealogy database, you would think that there would be someone other than myself born on October 23rd.  Or someone born on on October 21, 24 and 25! The average number should be 6 or 7 for 2,000 persons.  Oh well...

b)  March Anniversaries (13 generations):

March 21 has only one other ancestral couple married on that date - Michael Metcalf and Lydia White (7th great-grandparents, in 1705 in Mendon, Mass.).

c)  October birthdays for Relatives (13 generations, children of ancestors):

This chart shows 8 persons born on 23 October.  There are 4 additional names on the "overflow" pages.  So 12 out of about 7,500 ancestral families children.  The average should be about 20 for 7,500 persons.

2)  I did these charts using RootsMagic 6, in Reports > Calendar, then selected 13 generations of Ancestors Only using myself as the key person.  When the chart was created, I used the Windows Snipping Tool to capture the chart, saved it to a file, and then uploaded the file to Blogger.

3)  I just did!

I will be interested to see how other software programs do this task.  

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-birthday.html
Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Surname Saturday - LNU (England > colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor  #727, who is Mary LNU (1688-????) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through one generation in this LNU family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver (1943-living)

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

10.  Thomas Richmond (1848-1917)
11.  Julia White (1848-1913)

22.  Henry Arnold White (1824-1885)
23.  Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864)

44.  Jonathan White (1806-1850)
45.  Miranda Wade (1804-1850)

90.  Simon Wade (1767-1857)
91.  Phebe Horton (1772-????)

180.  Simon Wade (1731-1790)
181.  Deborah Tracy (1731-????)

362.  John Tracy (1695-1751)
363.  Mary Hawkins (1710-1767)

726.  William Hawkins, born 1676 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died about 1752 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.  He was the son of 1452. John Hawkins and 1453. Sarah Daniels.  He married before 1710 in Rhode Island, United States.
727.  Mary, born about 1688 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Children of William Hawkins and Mary are:

i. Mary Hawkins, born about 1710 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died 1767 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; married John Tracy 02 January 1728 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
ii. John Hawkins, born about 1711 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
iii. Josiah Hawkins, born about 1713 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died 02 June 1751 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; married Amey Olney 07 September 1735 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
iv. Job Hawkins, born 1715 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died 22 May 1790 in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States; married (1) Catherine Turpin February 1745 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; born 25 October 1719 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died 30 December 1749 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; married (2) Hope Hopkins 05 September 1752 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; born 03 March 1716 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died before 20 August 1803 in Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
v. Rufus Hawkins, born about 1717 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died 12 April 1788 in Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; married (1) Elizabeth Sanders; married (2) Martha Waterman 08 November 1761 in Johnston, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

vi. Sarah Hawkins, born about 1719 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States;  married Richard Smith 19 June 1738 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; born 02 April 1714 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died 03 January 1774 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

A search through Ancestry Member Trees and on Google reveals no positively known surname for Mary LNU, the wife of William Hawkins.  Several trees on Ancestry say Mary Ann Dodge, with no supporting information.  

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/10/surname-saturday-lnu-england-colonial.html

Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver