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Title: English and Scotch immigrant ancestors of the Clapp-Cheney family.
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918
Subjects: Clapp family Cheney family
Publisher: Boston in New England. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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he parish of Odell, home of the Bulkley family. Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, where Robert Blood and his brother John owned land. Boston, Lincolnshire, long the home of the Whiting family, and Skirbeck, one of its suburbs,the parish of Rev. Samuel Whiting, immediately before coming to this country, and Lynn, in thecounty of Norfolk, where he had previously been settled. Hull, to which the administrator of the will of Mr. Thomas Nelson had to go in the settlementof his estate; and York where the will was recorded, and where much history relating to the pion-eers of Massachusetts has its focus. t^* t^* t^^ <^* Beside all these points in England proper, the family has a strong interest in Londonderry,Ireland, and in Scotland; in Londonderry, because quite a number of the ancestors of grandmotherAlice (Steele) Cheney were residents of that city immediately before coming hither; and in Scotlandbecause every one of those ancestors sprung from old families of that land of poetry and valor.
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BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. ENG. Hbbot, Hbbott. George Abbot, of Andover, was born about the year J 613, according to a statement hemade when he was giving testimony in Middlesex Court, in 1673. He came to NewEngland before \ 643; for in that year he was an owner of land at Andover. We findno record as to the place in England from which he came, nor do we have any mem-orandum respecting his social standing or his occupation. He married at Roxbury,Dec. \2f 1646, Hannah, daughter of William and Annis Chandler. Children: John;Joseph, born March U, 1649, who died June 24, 1650; Hannah, born June 9, 1650;Joseph, born March 30, 1652; George, born June 30, 1655; William, born Nov. 18,1657; Sarah, born Nov. 14, 1659; Benjamin, born Dec. 20, 1661; Timothy, bornNov. 17, 1663; Thomas, born May 6, 1666; NATHANIEL, born July 4, 1671;Elizabeth, born Jan. 29, 1673-4. tM He died sometime in the winter of 1681-2; his willwas dated Dec. 12, 1681 and probated the 28th of March, 1682, three days after the newyenglishscotchimm00pope

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