Nathaniel Geary (1631-1679) and Anne Douglas (1637-1691) The early colonies were subject to outbreaks of contagious illnesses. Smallpox...

Captain Benjamin Walker was injured at the Battle of Bunker Hill, taken prisoner, and died of his wounds 15 August 1775.

Featured are several descendants of George Abbott and Hannah Chandler, all single women, who worked as teachers. For the first 200 years...

Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1960) was an exemplar of the late 19th century "New Woman", feminist, educated, engaged in social welf

Alfred Ingalls was a farmer in Methuen. He was also known for drawing the first map of Methuen in 1794.

George Carleton was mentally disabled. He lived most of his life with family members but outlived all his family and spent the last five yea

Emily Abbot Everett and Anne Wales Abbot were sisters who lived over 100 years. They are sixth generation descendants of George Abbott an Ha

Enoch Osgood was a successful businessman in Newburyport, He and his wife Mary had four children but no grandchildren so the line of descent

John Stearns, the father of the family, was killed by one of the first locomotives in service of the Boston & Lowell Railroad. That did

Elizabeth Frye and John Stevens raised their family in Greenwich, MA, a town that was lost to a dam in 1938. The damming project required th