Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), 3rd President of the United States of America

30Jun09

Jerry Milo Johnson to President Thomas Jefferson

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George Washington, first President of the United States of America

30Jun09

I finally made the one connection I have always wanted to make.

Below you will find the closest relationship tree I can put together to tie me to George Washington. 17 steps and 3 marriages.

Jerry Milo Johnson to President George Washington

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President Richard Milhouse Nixon (1913-1994)

21Jun09

It isn’t very close, but there it is. Just 23 steps.

I noticed when I was researching my connection to the Teeples and Doans that Richard Nixon was related to Danial Doan as well. Here is that meandering connection, thanks to the research of ML Pope which she shared on ancestry.com

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Orville S Cade (1888-1918)

21Jun09

One of the photos I have in the family photo album was labeled “Orville S Cade”.

Orville S Cade

There was no information on Orville or the Cade family in any of the documents I inherited.

I finally placed Orville S Cade on my tree.

His wife was Susan McLellan, first cousin to Lizzie McLellan Ritchie, who ties into my Hastings line. His sister Myrtle Cade married into the Fettes family.

He died while at Camp Custer in Michigan during WWI of pneumonia, just 21 days before the armistice was signed ending hostilities on the Western Front. He was a member of the 42 US Field Artillery, Co C.

He is buried in Mt Joy Cemetery in Haynes Township.

Jerry Milo Johnson to Orville S Cade

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President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)

05Jun09

President Stephen Grover Cleveland.

He is my 6th cousin, 5 times removed.

Wikipedia article

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George Hull (1590-1659)

04Jun09

George Hull was my 10th great grandfather.  He came from England to Massachusetts among the very first settlers.

George Hull, the immigrant ancestor, was the second brother, and was born in Crewperne, Somersetshire, England, in 1590. He sailed from Plymouth, Devonshire, March 30, 1629, in the ship “Mary and John,” Captain Squeb. He settled in Dorchester, where he was made a freeman, March 4, 1632, and a representative for the town to the first great and general court held in the colony, May 14, 1634. He was also a member of the first board of selectmen of Dorchester, and in 1633 and 1634 was appointed “to fix the rate.” He appears to have been allotted two acres from the “Common,” and later the meadow that “lyes before his doore – down to the sea, making a sufficient passage that way.” In 1636 he removed to Windsor, Connecticut. He was a surveyor by profession, and surveyed both Windsor and Wethersfield. He was a representative to the general court which met at Hartford in 1637 and declared war on the Pequot Indians. Some time after 1646 he removed to
Fairfield, and was again representative to the general court of
Connecticut for a great many terms. He was a personal friend and political adherent of Governor Roger Ludlow. He had come from England with him in the same ship, moved with him to Windsor, and jointly with him obtained from the general court of 1638 a monopoly of the beaver trade on the Connecticut river. He also followed him to Fairfield, and in 1651, 1653 and 1654 was appointed by the governor as associate magistrate for the towns by the seaside. His first wife is supposed to
have been Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Russell. The latter made his will January 28, 1640, proved October, 1640, and in it names “wife Jane and only child, Elizabeth Hull.” She died about 1646, and he married, after 1654, Sarah, widow of David Phippen, of Boston. Another authority gives as his wife, Thamzen, daughter of Robert Mitchell, of Stockland, England. He died 1659, aged about seventy years. He is described as public-spirited, active and intelligent, and as legislator and magistrate was instrumental in establishing two of the
free and enlightened commonwealths of New England, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Cotton Mather distinguished him with a place in his great book, and also places his brother Joseph in his First Classis, or List of First Good Men. The inventory of his estate and that of his widow were presented on the same day, August 25, 1659, and his will was admitted to probate, October 20, 1659.

- New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the
achievements of her people in the making of commonwealths and the
founding of a nation
By William Richard Cutter
Published by Lewis historical publishing company, 1913
Pg 1183

It turns out the ship actually sailed in 1630, not 1629. And it was
considered part of the Winthrop Fleet, although it preceded
the fleet by a few weeks.

“The Mary and John 1630, landed in what is now know as Dorchester,
Massachusetts, on 30 May 1630, two weeks before the Winthrop Fleet
arrived. The passengers of the Mary and John 1630 founded one of the
first towns in New England, Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630 and also
founded the town of Windsor, Connecticut five years later in 1635.”

He was a Puritan, but not a Pilgrim.

Mary and John 1630

Among other interesting notes for George Hull, he helped set the form
of representative government that is so recognizably American. As part
of the “1633 Dorchester Agreement“, he helped set the idea that a
small group of selected or elected representatives would form the
backbone of American governance.

Pretty cool.

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General Moses Cleveland (1754-1806) – Namesake of Cleveland, Ohio

04Jun09

General Moses Cleveland led the party that surveyed and mapped Cleveland. The city was named for him.

He is my 3rd cousin, 8 times removed.

Wikipedia article

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Frederick Law Olmstead (1822-1903) – Landscape architect who designed Central Park

03Jun09

This writeup needs to get much longer, at least as long as the relationship chart below.

He is my 7th cousin 5 times removed.

Swiped whole cloth from wikipedia as a placeholder:

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City.^[2] Other projects include the country’s oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York; the country’s oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York; Mount Royal Park in Montreal in Canada; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts; the Belle Isle Park, in Detroit, Michigan; the Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan; the Marquette Park in Chicago; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky; Jackson Park, Washington Park, and the Midway Plaisance in Chicago for the World’s Columbian Exposition; the landscape surrounding the United States Capitol building; George Washington Vanderbilt II’s Biltmore Estate in Asheville; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Jerry Milo Johnson to Frederick Law Olmstead

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President John Tyler (1790-1862), 10th President

28May09

Jerry Milo Johnson to President John Tyler

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Books I have added to my genealogy book list

28Apr09

These are books I’ve had for a while, but which I never cataloged. If anyone needs lookups or scans from these or any books, just let me know. I have also added these books to my genealogy book catalog. Table of contents and cover scans to follow.

Periodicals

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine

• No CCCIV September 175 – Vol LI.

American Cookery (Formerly the Boston Cooking School Magazine)

• October 1926 Vol XXXI No 3
• February 1927 Vol XXXI No 7
• May 1927 Vol XXXI No 10
• August-September 1927 Vol XXXII No 2
• October 1927 Vol xxxii No 3
• November 1927 Vol XXXII No 4
• December 1927 Vol XXXII No 5
• January 1928 Vol XXXII No 6

Metropolitan Opera

• Metropolitan Opera L’Elisar D’Amore libretto (donizetti) 1955
• Metropolitan Opera libretto Nabucco (verdi) 1960
• Metolpolitan Opera 1961 Season
• Metolpolitan Opera simon boccanegra (verdi) 1931
• Metolpolitan Opera falstaff (verdi) 1909
• Metolpolitan Opera la gioconda (ponchielli) 1910ish
• Metolpolitan Opera tannhaeuser (wagner) 1910ish
• Metolpolitan Opera peter ibbetson (taylor) 1930
• Metolpolitan Opera vanessa (barber) 1957

the (old) farmer’s almanack

• 1838
• 1844
• 1846
• 1852
• 1853
• 1855
• 1856
• 1857
• 1859
• 1860
• 1860
• 1865
• 1900
• 1903
• 1940
• 1941
• 1944
• 1945
• 1955
• 1957

Steamboat Bill (Journal of The Steamship Historical Society of America

• Winter 1992 Number 204
• Fall 1995 Number 215
• Winter 1995 Number 216
• Spring 1996 Number 217
• Summer 1996 Number 218
• Winter 1996 Number 220
• Spring 1998 Number 225

Life and Light for Women (Woman’s Boards of Missions)

• August 1887
• October 1887
• December 1887
• January 1888
• February 1888
• April 1888
• May 1888
• September 1888

Voyage (Official Journal of the Titanic International Society)

• Winter 2002 #38
• Summer 2002 #40
• Spring 2002 #39

Civil War Times Illustrated

• Dec 1976
• May 1976

New England Quarterly

• sep 1994

Complete works of robert burns – by alan cunningham (1830ish?)

• part 2
• part 14

Yearbooks

• The Lawrence School Yearbook 1923 (Lawrence Private School, Woodmere, Long Island, New York

Local History

Cookbooks

• Medfield New ‘n Towne Gourmet Club – Medfield MA – 1975
• Cooking Thyme – Fairbanks Garden Club – Dedham MA – 1986
• Maine Coastal Cooking (Down East Recipes dating from 1664) – Courier Gazette – Rockland, Maine – 1963
• A book of famous Old New Orleans Recipes – Peerless Printing Co, New Orleans, LA -
• River Road Recipes – Junior League of Baton Rouge – Baton Rogue, LA – Jan 1976
• The West Chop Cookbook – West Chop Club, Martha’s Vineyard, MA – 1983
• Four Seasons, The book of Maine Recipes – Hospital Guild of the North Cumberland Memorial Hospital – Bridgeton, ME – 1963
• North End Union Italian Cookbook – Boston MA – 1975
• The Flavours of Concord, Menus & Traditions of an Historic Town – Garden Club of Concord – Concord, MA – 1974
• Favorite Recipes from St Pauls – St Pauls Episcopal Church – Millis, MA – 1987
• Bach’s Lunch, Picnic and Patio Classics – Junior Committee Cleveland Orchestra – Cleveland OH – 1971
• What’s Cooking in Bermuda – Betsy Ross – Hamilton Bermuda – 1974

Misc

• Fort Clatsop – The Story Behind the Scenery – Russel D Butcher – Fort Clatsop, OR – 1986
• Shennecossett The history of a Golf Course – Ray W Rancourt – Groton, CT – 1989
• The Light-hearted Angler – Clement C Seawell – Lincoln MA – 1975
• Wayland Historical Tours, Wayland Historical Society, 1976
• Famous Front Pages from the Boston Globe 1872-1972
• The civil war through the camera – part 3. Illustrated by Brady War-time Photographs – 1912

Self-published

• Cocoons – Marion Taylor – Scissors Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1971 (with inscription and photo)

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