Seavers in the News -- Mrs. Walter E. Seaver Dies in Boston in 1950

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from The Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper dated 1 August 1950:

The transcription of the article is:

"Mrs. Walter E. Seaver

"Funeral services for Mrs. Althea Harvey Seaver, wife of Walter Enwright Seaver, were held yesterday afternoon at Trinity Church. The church was filled with leading hotel executives from New England and New York, members of the New England Hotel Women's Relief Associations, and other friends. Rev. Samuel Tyler, Jr., of Trinity, officiated.

"Among those who attended were, George H. Clark, Hotel & Restaurant News; E.B. Stanbro, Hotel Statler; Emil Coulon, Hotel Vendome; Floyd Bell, Statler; Charles Coyle, Robert Kelly, Lenox; P.F. Bryne, Anthony  Acazzinitti, Roscoe Pryor; Larry Taylor, Parker House; Charles Lenigan, Mangar; Harold Speels, Frank J. Hanley, Bradford; Massey Chicquetta, Coply Plaza.

"  Heading the women's group were Mrs. Frances D. Caldwell, president of the Hotel Women's Relief Assciation; Mrs. E.P. Douglass; Mrs. Frank J. Hanley; Mrs. J.E. Wogan, Hotel Puritan.

"Heading the Maine group were Mrs. George Stoble, Augusta, and Ethel Waadleigh.  Mrs. Seaver was many years president of the Women's hotel Relief Association."

The source citation is:

"Seaver," The Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper, death notice, Tuesday, 1 August 1950, page 12, column 4, Mrs. Walter E. Seaver obituary notice;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 18 March 2021).

This obituary provides a married name, an implied death date, a spouse's name, an occupation, and a long list of attendees at her funeral service, but nothing about her birth, birthplace, or children.

Althea Hilda Harvey was born 17 April 1886 in Stewiacke, New Brunswick, the daughter of Robert Albert and Mary Elizabeth (Brown) Harvey.  She married Walter Enwright Seaver (1890-1985) on 15 August 1921 in New York City.  They had three children:

*  Patricia Anne Seaver (1924-1998), married 1945 Joseph Edward Johnson (1904-????).

*  Robert Enwright Seaver (1925-????).

*  Donald Brown Seaver (1927-????).

I am probably not related to Walter Enwright or Althea Hilda (Harvey) Seaver or their children.  Walter is descended from Frederick Randolph. Seaber (1813-1888) who came from Prussia to New England before 1838.

There are over 10,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person has a number of well known friends and colleagues that come to her funeral.  I am glad that I can honor Althea Hilda (Harvey) Seaver today.  

You never know when a descendant or relative will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors or relatives, or will provide more information about them to me.

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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1670 Birth of Joanna Cleveland in Woburn, Mass.

 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 1670 birth entry for Joanna Cleveland  in the Woburn, Massachusetts town vital record book:

The birth entry is near the middle of the page in the "Cleveland" section:

The birth record transcription for Joanna is:

"[Cleveland] Joanna, d. of Moses, April 5, 1670."

As you can see in the image above, a number of the children of Moses Cleveland are listed, including an earlier Joanna who was born in 1661 and died in 1667/

The source citation for this record is:

Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Volume 1, page 51, Joanna Cleveland birth entry, 5 April 1670.

This is an entry in a transcribed and organized vital record book for Woburn, Massachusetts, so it is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the birth Joanna Cleveland and her father's name

Joanna Cleaveland (1670-1758) was the daughter of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleaveland of Woburn, Mass.

She married Joseph Keyes (1667-1757) on 28 May 1690 in Chelsmford, Massachusetts.  He was the son of Solomon and Frances (Grant) Keyes of Chelmsford, Mass.  

Joseph Keyes and Joanna Cleaveland are my 7th great-grandparents, through their son Joseph Keyes (1698-1744) who married Elizabeth Fletcher (1698-1775) on 28 February 1719/20 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day - I Didn't Know I Was Irish Until My DNA Told Me

 Am I Irish if my AncestryDNA test says that I am 7% Irish ancestry?  I guess I'm entitled to post this:

Here are my AncestryDNA test ethnicity results:

Some thoughts about my "Irish" ancestry:

*  The matches they've made of my autosomal DNA with that of other "Irish" people show that I'm 7% "Irish."  however, the range could be 30% to 8%.  Of course, it was 18% three years ago, so I'm losing my Irishness every few years. 

*  This ethnicity estimate is based on a pool of 732 persons identified as having "Irish" ancestry.  

*  I am nowhere near the percentage of the "typical native" of Ireland.  For all we know, those 732 could have significant English ancestry.

*  From what I've heard, the autosomal DNA test indicates ethnicity as of about 2,000 years ago - around the time of the Roman invasion and rule of southern England, but not of Ireland.  The Celts in England were pushed westward to Ireland and Wales and Cornwall.  There were earlier migrations to the British Isles in prehistoric times from central Europe, Gaul and Iberia. 

*  My ethnicity according to my genealogy research is about 65% British Isles and about 35% Western Europe (mainly Germany, with a little Dutch, French and Scandinavian).  But that's based on where my ancestors lived about 500 years ago.  Of course, it's those Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans, Vikings, etc. who muddied up the gene pool in England and Ireland. 

*  Over the last 400 years, I may have a few ancestors who lived in Ireland, but I doubt that I have 7% who were born there.  If the ethnicity estimate was 3% or even 5%, I'd tend to believe it.  It may be that some of those conquering heroes took Celtic wives and they contributed to my gene pool with a fair amount of Irish ancestry in the green end. 

For the record:

*  I love Irish music.

*  I love the spirit of the Irish people, both sides, Orange and Green.

*  I've been to Northern Ireland once on business in 1985, and it was really green.

*  We visited Dublin for a day on the Legacy Family Tree 2013 genealogy cruise, and we visited St. Patrick's cathedral.

*  I don't like beer, and especially green beer.

* I would love to experience Irish research...if I could only find the connection in my genealogy.  I do have some "dead ends" in my pedigree chart, and some of them may lead to Irish ancestry if I can find the intervening generations.  I have searched a bit for Seaver persons in Ireland records.

I also posed for this picture in Dublin with a wee Irish lass (is this my cousin?) ...

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Downloading My AncestryDNA Match List With Google Sheets

 I have wanted to know the number of my Common Ancestors for a long time, and have asked Ancestry to provide it in their DNA page, but they have not provided it yet.  

 I watched the Family History Fanatics YouTube video titled "How To Download Your AncestryDNA Match List with Google Sheets."  In the video Greg Clarke from Ontario demonstrates how to do this task.  Here is the video:

Devon Lee passed the link to the Google Sheet file for those that requested it:

"You need to SAVE a copy of this spreadsheet to your own Google Drive account to use it. 

 "Be advised, this spreadsheet has complex formulas that won't work if you download it for use in Excel or other spreadsheet programs. 

 >>>>>>>>> Ancestry DNA Match Maker  <<<<<<<"

You do have to follow the directions exactly.  It works great.  Watch it, and come back to my post to see my results.  

You do need to have a Google Account and Access to Google Sheets (their spreadsheet program).

 When you download the spreadsheet, the "Instructions" appear on the first page of the file (the pages are at the bottom of the screen.

First - you need to go to the "File" and choose "Make a Copy" and then change the file name at the top of the screen:

So now I am in the Copy and can work with it.  The "Instructions" page has 4 Steps and several Notes that need to be understood and followed in order to make this work.

Step 1 is to go to your DNA Match list on AncestryDNA and select the matches you want to put into your Google Sheet file.  I decided to select my "Common Ancestors" list first, and I have about 400 of them.  I picked the "Common Ancestors" filter on the AncestryDNA match list and had to keep scrolling down the  list of matches to the end and then did a Ctrl + A to select all of them and then a Ctrl + C to copy them.

Step 2 is to open the second page of the Sheet file, and here you have a choice.  The 2nd page is labeled "Worksheet: View Match Btn" and the 3rd page is labeled "Worksheet: No Btn."  It all depends if you have the green "View Match" button on your list of AncestryDNA matches.  If you do, use the Worksheet: View Match Btn" page.  If not, choose the "Worksheet: No Btn" page.  the system works differently, but on the "No Btn" page you can see your Notes.

I want to see my Notes, so I have to use the "Worksheet: No Btn" page.  Here is what it looks like from the sample data:

It is probable that the Google Sheet you download will have sample data in it, so you need to "Clear Previous Data."  When you click the light blue "Clear Previous Data" button, I was asked to authorize my Google account to run the built-in macro that clears previous data.  After doing that, you will be able to tap the "Clear Previous Data" button and the existing data in the spreadsheet will disappear after running the macro script.

The next Step in the Instructions is to click in cell A6 in the Worksheet, and then do a Ctrl + Shift + V to copy the AncestryDNA match data into the A column of the spreadsheet.  A macro then runs to put that data into the remainder of the spreadsheet (Columns G to Q).  Here is the top of my spreadsheet after doing that:

I hid the columns G and H above because they have identifying info for my DNA matches.  

The spreadsheet now has the following columns:

G   Category/Name

H   Name/Manager

I    Relationship [this is the AncestryDNA estimate]

J   DNA Amount

K  CentiMorgans

L   Segments

M   Tree ? [blank if the match has a tree]

N   People in Tree

O   Found ? [Ancestry notation]

P   Groups [blank for now]

Q   Note [any note you have created for the match]

By noting the first Row in the spreadsheet with data (i.e., your highest match] is row 3, and the last Row in your spreadsheet (i.e. the last row with match data in columns G through Q), which is row N (417 for my "Common Ancestors"), you can figure out how many Common Ancestors you have (equation is N - 3 + 1) .  I have 415 right now.  

There is a limitation on how many DNA matches you can put into the spreadsheet.  At present it is 1400 AncestryDNA matches.  The "Instruction" page tells you how to add more match data after #1400 in your AncestryDNA match list.

Greg recommends copying Columns G through Q to your own spreadsheet on your computer, and naming it as you choose, in order to save it.

There is another page with "What's New" with an Updates log.  Be sure to check that every time you download a new copy of this Google Sheet file.

Thank you to Greg Clarke for permitting use of this Google Sheet, and for Devon Lee for providing the YouTube video of the process.  It works well for me, and I appreciate it.  

I have avoided making a list of my AncestryDNA matches because there are so many, so this really helps.  I will probably make lists of all of my" Close Relatives" matches and all of my "Starred" matches occasionally just to have them updated. 

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Brother Scott's 4th Birthday -- Post 661 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

 I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs:

This photograph was taken on 16 November 1959 on the occasion of my brother Scott's 4th birthday.  He sure looks happy here.  In this photo, I am age 16 on the left and our brother Stan is age 13 on the right.  I think this photo was taken in our home kitchen in the apartment at 2119 30th Street in San Diego.  My guess is that our mother bought the beautiful white cake at the bakery two blocks up the street.  

This photograph was originally black-and-white and I colorized it and enhanced using the MyHeritage InColor photo tools.  

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Census Whacking (Again) On St. Patrick's Day

 

Here's an oldie but a goodie from 17 March 2007 on Genea-Musings (with updates and additions over the years):  I browsed through the 1920 U.S. Census on www.Ancestry.com  looking for funny or strange names to help celebrate St. Patrick's Day and Irish names.There is a rich selection:

* Patrick Ireland resided in Matagorda County TX (born in Texas - who knew?)

* St. Lester Patrick resided in Hillsborough County NH (born in Canada)

* Patrick Patrick resided in Macon County AL (born AL)

* Patrick Fitz Patrick resided in Queens County NY (born in Ireland)

* Paddy Green resided in Lucas County OH (born Ireland)

* Green Kelley resided in Hudson County NJ (born Ireland)

*  Kelly Banshey resided in Beardstown, Illinois.

*  Banshe Jedinak resided in Trinidad, Colorado.

* There are 64 males named Patrick Green born in Ireland.

* Daniel Boy resided in Cuyahoga County OH (born in Russia)

* Daniel Erin Ireland resided in Wyandotte County KS (born in KS)

* Patrick Luck resided in Kings County NY (born in Ireland)

*  Erin Ireland resided in Logan County, CO (born in Nebraska)

* There are 87 females named Rose Ireland - but only one was born in Ireland.

*  There are 1,889 persons with the surname Clover, but only 6 were born in Ireland.

*  There are 222 persons with the surname Shamrock, and 6 with the first name of Shamrock, but none were born in Ireland.

*  There are 9 Kate Irelands in the census, but none were born in Ireland

*  There are 91 persons with surname Ireland that were born in Ireland.

*  There are 606 persons with the surname Limerick, but only 5 were born in Ireland.

*  There are 5,372 with the surname Cork, but only 39 were born in Ireland.

*  There are 102 persons with the surname Fairy, but only 2 were born in Ireland.

*  There are 3,861 persons with surname Irish, but only 22 were born in Ireland.

*  There are 26,144 persons with the first name starting with "Kat" and 41,434 starting with "Cat" born in Ireland

*  There are 22,043 persons with the surname Shannon, but only 880 were born in Ireland.

*  There are 52,560 persons with the first name starting with "Pat" and 49 starting with "Pad" born in Ireland

*  There are 1,059,917 persons in the 1920 census that were born in Ireland.

*  There are 3,888,940 persons whose father was born in Ireland.

*  There are 3,799,355 persons whose mother was born in Ireland.

*  There are 3,078,127 persons whose mother and father were born in Ireland.

*  I have exactly 1 known ancestor who were born in Ireland after 1600.  

There were no people in the 1920 census with the surname of Leprechaun or Banshee.  Not being Irish, or having much known Irish ancestry, or much experience researching in Ireland - I don't know all of the legends and songs that might provide more names to search.  What other names should I look for next year? 

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Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Welcome to Genealogy News and Education Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop since the last issue.    

1)  News Articles:

*  50 Million Animations Created with Deep Nostalgia™! 

*  FamilySearch Community Receives New Look and Improvements

*  80 Years After Her Fiance Died in a Car Crash, Their Descendants Found Each Other

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 6 to 12 March 2021

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 6 to 12 March 2021

*  Brace yourselves - ScotlandsPeople adds kirk session records!

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  New England Regional Genealogical Consortium Virtual Conference 2021 (1 April to 31 May 2021)

*  FHF Really Useful Family History Show (10 April 2021)

*  National Genealogical Society Conference (17-21 May 2021)

*  We Are Open! The 51st Jamboree Conference! (4-5 and 11-12 June 2021)

*  2021 International German Genealogy Conference (17 and 24 July 2021)

*  41st Annual IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (Philadelphia PA, 2-5 August 2021)

4)  Genealogy Education - Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Classes and Webinars for March 2021

*  Genealogical Forum of Oregon Hosting a FREE Virtual Open House From 27 March to 3 April 2021

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinars:   Announcing the 2nd Annual 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon - April 8-9, 2021 - Registration now open (and free)

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 16 March, 5 p.m.:  Reporting on Research: Standards Encourage Better Communication, by Nancy A. Peters

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 17 March, 11 a.m.:  FamilySearch.org - 10 Links You Have to Try, by Devin Ashby

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 19 March, 11 a.m.:  Tracing Your War of 1812 British Soldier, by Paul Milner

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

 

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 140: Pre-1850 U.S. Census Research

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 367 – RootsTech Connect Shines / Family History Library Goes Global / Ancestry’s New Databases & Genie Spring Cleaning

*  Fisher's Top Tips:  #258r - Research Logs

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 119: Dressing for the Camera: Rules are Foremothers Followed (and Sometimes Broke)

*  Ancestral Findings:  New Resolutions for Genealogy | AF-455

*  Lisa Louise Cooke Genealogy Gems:  Episode 251 - Online Records at the Genealogy Center Website (AUDIO PODCAST)

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  American Ancestors:  Old House Do's and Don'ts

*  Ancestry:  What's New at Ancestry: March 2021 | The Barefoot Genealogist | Ancestry

*  BYU Family History Library:  The Family History Guide Updates March 2021 by Ann Tanner

*  DearMYRTLE:  Mini-Myrt: WikiTree AGC (Automatic GEDCOM Cleanup)

*  DearMYRTLE:   Mini-Myrt: RootsMagic to a WikiTree Profile

*  DearMYRTLE:  Mondays with Myrt - 1 Mar 2021 #RootsTech​ Follow-Up

*  DearMYRTLE:  Mini-Myrt: WikiTree Workshop

*  DearMYRTLE:  WACKY Wednesday: Goldie May (research assistant)

*  DearMYRTLE:  Mondays with Myrt - 8 Mar 2021

*  DNA Family Trees:  Ancestry NEW dna match list! HOMERUN! 40% Faster Clustering DNA matches than EVER before! WOW!

*  Family Connections Experiment:   How to use FamilySearch Guided Research

*  Family Connections Experiment:  How To Get the Most Out of Records

*  Family History Fanatics:  Google Image Search for Genealogy: Keywords You Need to Try

*  FamilySearch:  Helpful Research Tools

*  Findmypast:  Using Census Records For Family History | Findmypast

*  Genealogy Adventures Live:  S04 E25: The Women’s Army Corp 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion – Part 1

*  GeneaVlogger:  Relative Race Season 7 Episode 2 - Part 1 - Professional Genealogist Reacts

*  GeneaVlogger:  Relative Race Season 7 Episode 2 - Part 2 - Professional Genealogist Reacts

*  MyHeritage:  Finding New Cousins and Building Your Family Tree with DNA

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree LiveCast (13 March 2021) - Weekly Recap + WikiTree Challenge

7)  Did you miss the last post -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 12 March 2021?

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Some New York Counties Have Death Dates in Their Probate Records Indexes

 This is probably not news to expert New York genealogists, but it was to me as a non-expert.

I went looking for Ann (Donelson) Seaver in the St. Lawrence County, New York probate records on FamilySearch, thinking perhaps she went to live with her sister in that county after 1860.

On the FamilySearch record collection for New York Probate Records, 1629-1971, which is not indexed, I found St. Lawrence County easily, and their probate records had an index for Administrations and another index for Wills.  I searched for Seaver by guessing image numbers and quickly found the pages for "Se" and noted that there were a number of Seaver and Sever entries in both set of indexes.

I expected to see the usual records - the name, the date of administration or will proved, the estate number, plus volumes and page numbers for specific papers in the probate court records.  What surprised me was that both indexes provided the date of death also.

Here is an image of the top of one of the Administrations pages:

On the left-hand page of the image above, there are columns for Date of Death - year, month, day. 

Here is a close-up of part of the left-hand page:

 There are four Seaver people on this part of the page:

*  Bemsley G. Seaver - died 16 October 1913.

*  Bert A. Seaver - died 27 August 1924.

*  Lucia M. Seaver - died 30 Jan 1930.

*  Ruth Seaver - died 22 April 1936.

I am "collecting" those names and death dates in both sets of indexes to try and match them up to Seaver persons in my RootsMagic family tree.  I've already found Bemsley.

After matching them up, I will go look at the probate records themselves to see if they mention children and spouses that I don't have for them in my database.  Then I will source these records in my database, and perhaps even transcribe some of the wills.  

I wonder what other New York counties are using this type of printed index for their probate records.  I don't know, but I'm going to look in a number of others so that I can "collect" more death and/or probate records for Seaver folks.  As I find more New York counties that have death dates, I will add them to this blog post as an update.

So far:

*  St. Lawrence County, 1800-1955

*  Franklin County, 1800-1900

*  Warren County, 1813-1935

*  Orleans County, 1825-1926

*  Herkimer County - no.

*  Jefferson County - no.

*  Lewis County -no

*  Albany County - no

*  Saratoga County - maybe (there are two dates, but no column headings found)

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I didn't find a record for Ann (Donelson) Seaver, but I did find something new to me, and perjhaps for you too.  

Who knows what genealogy problems and questions these records will solve?  My guess is that this type of record may be an excellent resource for hard-to-find death dates and probate records.

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Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 15 March 2021

   Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group   Meeting on Wednesday on Zoom, with 31 in attendance.  I reported on the RootsTech Conference, the MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia feature, free cloud storage for photos on FamilySearch, and the Relatives at RootsTech app.  In the second hour, several attendees shared their RootsTech experiences, research questions, challenges and successes.  

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2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society program on Saturday featuring Toni Perroni on "Journey to America" and "Changing Borders of Prussia."

3)  Attended today's Mondays With Myrt webinar.  We discussed voting and traditional costumes in Netherlands, the England 2021 census, census tools on Ed Thompson's YouTube channel, the FAN club concept, my Ann (--?--) Seaver search, Latin first names in church records, and the Family Tree Webinars 24-hour marathon.

4)  Watched the WikiTree YouTube video of WikiTree LiveCast (10 March 2021) WikiTree Challenge feat Katherine Willson/Pat Richley-Erickson.

5)  Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of my 7th great-grandfather #584 Joseph Keyes (1667-1757) of Chelmsford and Westford, Massachusetts  for my 52 Ancestors post on Friday. 

6)  Transcribed a probate record in Amanuensis Monday -- 1707 Will of Robert Herrington (1616-1707) of Watertown, Massachusetts today.

7)  AncestryDNA added 133 new DNA matches this past week, with three new ThruLines, and  MyHeritage added 36 new DNA matches.   Reviewed the new DNA matches on  AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  Added Notes to 30 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known shared ancestors, and added 1 ThruLines to RootsMagic. 

8)  There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 41,079 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 113).

9)  Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 62,226 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 103), and 134,760 source citations (up 479).   I TreeShared with my Ancestry Member Tree twice this week updating 240 profiles, and I resolved 1,630 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 149,661 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily. 

10)  Wrote 17 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were a press release -- the most viewed post last week was "Using Ancestor Explorer for WikiTree to Generate an Ancestor List and Map" with over 772 views.  

11)  We are still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much in Week 52 of COVID-19 isolation.  I went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday, and it wasn't too busy.  Linda went out to lunch with her friend on Friday and we went to the doctor on Monday.  Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing (mainly) genealogy, eating, sleeping, cleaning, cooking, and a little yard work (like picking up leaves).  

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1707 Will of Robert Herrington (1616-1707) of Watertown, Massachusetts

 This week's document for transcription is the 1707 will of Robert Herrington (1616-1707) of Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, which is in Estate File 10459 in the Middlesex County Probate Court records. 

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The transcription of this will is:

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In the name of God amen

I Robert Herrington of Watertown in y'e County of Midd'x in her Majesties Province of the Massachuset Bay in New England y't being weakly in body but

in sound & disposing memory, Praise be given to god for y't some, do make this my last will & testament in manner & form following & (that is to say) first and

Principally I resign my soul into y'e mercyfull hands of almighty god my Creator, assuredly hoping through y'e merits of my blessed Saviour to obtaine

pardon & remission of all my sins, and my body I commit to y'e earth, whence it was taken, to be decently buried by the discretion of my executors herein

after named, and as for y'e worldly goods & estate the lord hath lent me, I dispose thereof as followeth.

Impr  I give & bequeath to my eldest son John Herrington the one moyetie or halfe part of the farm land which I Purchased of Mr. Jeremiah Dumer

Esqr, the Southwest end of s'd farmland be the same more or less, to be parted as afores'd, also y't one third part of my meadowland which I purchased

of Mr. Sam'll Saltonstall, be the same more or less to him & his heirs forever.

2ly  I give and bequeath to my son Daniell Herrington one farme containing by estimation one hundred & five acres which I purchased of the

Lawrance Waters and ten acres of meadow, be it more or less, Purchased of Mr. Sam'll Saltonstall, to him & his heirs forever.

3ly  I give & bequeath to my son Benjamin Herrington fifty five acres of farm land on which his now dwelling house now stands, be the same more or less,

and also eight acres of meadow land lying within y'e limits & bounds of Sudbury, by me Purchased of M'r Roger Wellington, and Benjamin Wellington, 

and also fower acres of meadowland by y'e same more or less, Purchased of Lawrance Waters, to him & his heirs for ever.

4ly  I give & bequeath to my son Samuel Herrington one hundred & ^twenty^ & five acres of Farmeland whereon his now Dwelling house standeth being a part of the

farmeland abves'd purchased of M'r Jerimiah Dumer Esq'r being the southeast part of s'd farme, be the same more or less, and the meadow

lying in it, called & commonly known by y'e name of Brown's meadow, to him & his heirs for ever.

5ly  I give & Bequeath to my son Thomas Herrington my farm Purchased of David Church containing by estima'n fifty eight acres  be y'e same more or less

and also the third part of my meadowland Purchased of M'r Sam'll Saltonstall, be the same more or less and twenty acres of land called land in low

of Township Purchased of Lawrance Waters, to him and his heirs for ever.

6ly  I give and bequeath to my youngest son Edward Herrington & to his heirs and assigns for ever (he hath under god been the stay of my old age) 

the homestall containing by estimation six acres, be the same more or less, with one mansion house two barnes mill house and cyder works, and

orchards on s'd land, also my lot of Plowland on Watertown little plaine containing by estimation eighteen acres be it more or less and is bounded

Southerly at the highway and easterly with a highway, northerly w'th the Contrey Road leading thro'h s'd town to Sudbury and westerly w'th y'e land of

Sam'll Hager, also twelve acres of upland and meadowland purchased of Nath'll Treadeway with y'e land purchased of Capt. Benja'n Gearfield

adjoyning to s'd land be the whole more or less, and is bounded Easterly and northerly with y'e lands of M'r Abraham Brown, westerly with y'e

lands of y'e aboves'd Capt. Gearfield, southerly with a town highway and northerly w'th y'e aboves'd Contrey Road, also five acres and seven score and fower

Rods purchased of Lawrance Waters, bounded northerly with y'e land of y'e aboves'd M'r Abraham Brown, easterly with y'e land of M'r Ben'n South

with a highway and w'th y'e aboves'd Robert Herringtons land, also thirty acres & a halfe of land purchased of M'r Ric'd Norcrosss, also  eigh acres

of meadowland by me Purchased of Capt. Jn'o Sherman, be it more or less, and also all my movable estate within doors or withough as well as what

is due to me by bils or bond as well as all other due to ^me^ any way belonging, or in any wise in right appertaining.

7ly  I give and bequeath to my eldest Daughter Susanna Beere forty pounds in Chattles or other movables at money prices to be paid to her

out of that part of the movables by me given to my aboves'd Son Edward within one year after my Deceas by my executors.

8ly  I give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary Bemis forty pounds in movables at money Prices to be paid to her by ^my^ Executors 

within two years after my Deceas out of y't movable estate willed to my son Edward.

9ly  I give and bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Winship forty pounds out of my movables at money prices to be paid to her by my

Executors within three years after my Deceas out of y'e movables willed to my son Edward, and also my will is that of the s'd movables will not

amount to pay my three aboves'd Daughters forty pounds a peice to each and every of them then my will is that my s'd son Edward make

payment of y'e sum to ???? them their full proportion in money out of y'e estate willed to him.

10ly  I Give and bequeath to my Grandchild Joseph Herrington son of my son Joseph Herrington Deced five acres of meadow land by me

Purchased of Phebe Barnard to be delivered to him if he live to the age of twenty one years by my executor.

11ly  I give unto my Daughter-in-law Joanna Ward (late y'e wife of my aboves'd Son Joseph Herrington Deced) five shillings in money to be paid

her by my Executor within two months after my Deceas.

12ly my will is that if my son Benjamin Herrington afores'd doe pay all my funerall Charges, I will unto him the meadow land, that is to

say) the remaining part being five acres which was purchased of Phebe Barnard afores'd, the whole being ten acres, and also the

twelve acres of land by me purchased of Sam'll Waters.

And moreover my will is that all my lands willed as aboves'd shall not be sould or disposed to any Person or Persons but into the name

or Posterity of the Herringtons aboves'd, also my will is that if any of my aboves'd Children shall in words or actions do any

thing to contradict this my last will & testament, what I have above willed to them shall be equally  Divided between

them that shall take up sattisfyed with my will as aboves'd, and my will is that what of my estate is not willed after all my

Just debts legacies and funerall charges being p'd my will is to equally divided between my executors. And I doe nominate

appoint and ordaine my above named Son Daniel Herrington and my Son Edward Herrington my Sole Executors

to so this my last will & testement performe makeing null and voide all former or other wills by me heretofore made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of January, one thousand seven hundred fower

and in the third year of her Majesties Reign Anne by the grace of God over England &c Queen.

Sealed Published and owned

In the presence of with memo  of the word                                Robert herrington   {seal}

(twenty) interlined between the fourteenth and

fifteenth lines before signing & Sealing of these

??? ??? ????                            Middles'x Ss John Leverett Esq'r Judge of the Probate of Wills &c

            his                               Simon Taynter Abraham Brown & Munnings Sawin  

Simon  S  Tayntor                 prsonally appearing before me made oath that they were

           mark                            present & did see Robert Herrington Sign & Seal & heard

Abra'm Brown                      him publish & declare the above written Instrumen't as his 

Munings Sawin                    Last Will & Testam't.  That when he did so he was to these

                                              Depon'ts Apprehension of sound & disposing mind, and that

                                              they set their hands hereunto as Witnesses in the

                                              presence of the Testato'r.

                                             ????? June 3'd 1707                     Jud'i Cor.  JLeverett.

The source citation for this probate case file is:

Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Volume: Middlesex Cases 10000-11999, Estate File #10459 (5 images), Robert Herrington estate, 1707; "Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate File Papers, 1648-1871," digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014, American Ancestors  (https://www.americanancestors.org: accessed 28 February 2021); Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org from original records at Probate Registry, Cambridge, Mass. 

Robert Harrington (1616-1707), married Susanna George  (1631-1694) on 10 October 1648 in Watertown.  They had 13 children:

*  Susannah Harrington (1649-1708), married (1) 1671 John Cutting (1649-1689); (2) 1690 Eleazer Beers (1644-1691); (3)  1704 Peter Cloyse (1640-1708).

*  John Harrington (1651-1741), married 1681 Hannah Winter (1685-1741)

*  Robert Harrington (1653-1676).

*  George Harrington (1655-1676)

*  Daniel Harrington (1657-1728), married 1681 Sarah Whitney (1654-1720).

*  Joseph Whitney (1659-1691), married 1688 Joanna Mixer (1666-1725)

*  Benjamin Harrington (1662-1754), married 1684 Abigail Bigelow (1664-1754)

*  Mary Harrington (1664-1716), married 1680) John Bemis (1659-1732).

*  Thomas Harrington (1665-1712), married 1686 Rebecca Bemis (1654-1712).

*  Samuel Harrington (1666-1712), married 1691 Grace Livermore (1671-1703).

*  Edward Harrington (1669-1736), married 1692 Mary Ockington (1669-1725).

*  Sarah Harrington (1671-1710), married 1689 Joseph Winship (1661-1725).

*  David Harrington (1673-1675).

Robert died 17 May 1707 in Watertown, and his will was proved on 3 June 1707 in Middlesex County Probate Court in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  In his will, Robert Harrington mentioned all ten of his living children.The only other record in the estate file is an inventory, wherein the movable estate was apprised at about £230 and the real estate at £730.

Robert and Susanna (George) Harrington are my 8th great-grandparents, through their son Edward Harrington (1669-1736) who married Mary Ockington (1669-1725) in 1692 in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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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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