Sunday, August 3, 2014

May 1743, Connecticut

"New London [Connecticut] in 1813."
"New London [Connecticut] in 1813." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
May 10, 1743- A son, Eber, is born to Stephen Bradley & Jemima Cornwall in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut.

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

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

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

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

Saturday, August 2, 2014

May 1743, Rhode Island

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

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

Friday, August 1, 2014

May 1743, Pennsylvania

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

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