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Katherine (Katie) Florence Perkins (1875-1937) of Pawtucket, Rhode Island: A Single Woman who worked as a bookkeeper, brush-maker, and house-cleaner
Katie Perkins was born in 1875 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a small factory city of traditional New Englanders and immigrants from Europe. Her parents were George Henry Perkins of Rhode Island and Margaret Rennie Crawford, an immigrant from Glasgow, Scotland. … Continue reading
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Diary of Maria Antoinette McCrillis, widow with two young children, living in San Rafael, California, and Moving to Palmyra, Maine in 1876
Maria Antoinette McCrillis was a 24 year old widow with two children from her marriage to James Sullivan Collamore: Eliza, born in 1871, and Edith, born in 1873. James was a carpenter, born in 1838. Maria, nicknamed Nellie, was born … Continue reading
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Diary of a 17-year-old student, Florence Beatrice Brown Phillips, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1917
Florence Beatrice Brown was born August 1, 1899, in Pawtucket Rhode Island to Samuel and Hattie Perkins Brown. She was 17 years old and still a student when she kept this diary for the first three months of 1917. She … Continue reading
The Working Class of Pre-Industrial and Industrial New England: The Phillips and Camac, Brown and Perkins, Families of New Brunswick, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
The United States is a land of immigrants. This is clearly seen when examining the Phillips, Camac, Brown, and Perkins families of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Brunswick. These families were the ancestors of the current living Phillips descendants, including … Continue reading
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Maxwell Lawson (1802-1872) and Anna Gray Lawson (1807-1877), Tennessee and Arkansas Pioneers
Maxwell Lawson (perhaps christened as John Maxwell Lawson) was born in 1802 in Tennessee, but who exactly his parents were is unclear. Maxwell married Anna Gray in 1820, but what her ancestry was (besides her parents) is overall unclear. Maxwell … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, genealogy, history, Lawsons, women's history
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William Hawkins, 1609-1699, and Margaret Harwood Hawkins, 1612-1687: Early Settlers of the English Colony of Rhode Island
William and Margaret Harwood Hawkins were among the first English settlers of Rhode Island. William, by trade a glove-maker, was a native of Exeter, England, born in 1609; his parents were William Hawkins and Katharine Gonson. William, Jr, sailed from … Continue reading
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Harriet Jenkins Wiggin of Massachusetts
Harriet E. Jenkins was born in Vermont sometime in 1815, possibly to John and Mary Jenkins. She was a little girl of 12 in 1828 when she worked on a sampler using needle and thread. She sewed white thread on … Continue reading
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Tagged genealogy, history, History of New Engand, Newcomb Family, women's history, Woodbury Family
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Martha Rhodes Calhoun, Farm Mother and Wife
Martha Rhodes Calhoun was born July 24, 1831 and died in 1873. Martha Rhodes Calhoun was the mother of Arsula Calhoun Amos and grandmother of Bessie Lura Amos. She was born in Williamson, Tennessee; she married William C. Calhoun on … Continue reading
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Lucenda Beach Largent, Illinois Farm Woman of the 19th Century
Lucenda Beach Largent lived from July 12, 1808 to Nov. 26, 1875. Lucenda A. Beach married Archibald Largent (Thomas Largent’s father, George Washington Largent’s grandfather, Claude Christopher Largent’s great-grandfather) in North Carolina in April, 1825, when she was 17. Before … Continue reading
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Bessie Lura Amos Largent, Pioneer Woman in Early Oklahoma
Bessie Lura Amos Largent was born 129 years ago on Christmas Eve, 1891, in Sebastian County, Arkansas, to William Wilburn Amos and Ursula Calhoun Amos. Bessie was the first born to this farm family that rented land in the region … Continue reading
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The American Plutarch 