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Identifier: newenglandhistor1853wate (find matches)
Title: The New England historical and genealogical register
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Waters, Henry F. (Henry Fritz-Gilbert). Genealogical gleanings in England New England Historic Genealogical Society New England Historic Genealogical Society. Proceedings
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Publisher: (Boston) : (New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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of which there are four grown per-sons dead in our uillage ; uiz. Jonathan Hathaway, Rose Spooner, Jemima Bad-cock, & Amos Tabers wife ; but people are generally pon recouery, & it lookslike a time of health. 2d. Of the season (we haue Tndeferent good Crops.) We haue had a greatdrought which lasted from Inglish mowing till about ye Middle of Sept. sincewhicn we haue had extrordinary groing weather, till within this 4 or 5 weeks. 3d. Of an earthquake, which was a week yesterday, about ten att night, whichshook both y* Land &- water, the Islands & seae, at that degree that seueral doorswere shook of y* Latch in our uillage, & tis said that at Nantuket ye harth stonesgrated one against another, and, that Car, ye boat builder, Run out of his house,got in to a boat for fear ye Island should sink. Mother desiered rne to acquaint you that she Greatly desires to se you, and sowe doe all. My Loue to all our friend(s) farwell your Brother Dar* Nouem 6lh 1727 JABEZ DELANO. J
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. 1853.) Memoir of Gen. John Sullivan. 137 MEMOIR OF GEN. JOHN SULLIVAN. (With a Portrait.) The family to which Gen. Sullivan belongs was one of high distinction.The paternal and maternal ancestors of the name came to New Englandafter the year 1700. They came from Ireland, and settled in Berwick inthe state of Maine. The christian name of the emigrant ancestor wasJohn, and his wifes name was Margery. He was born in Limeric, Ire-land, 1692, and died at Berwick, 1796, at the age of 104 years. Hiswife was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1714, and died in 1801. Their re-mains rest together at Berwick, where a monument is erected to theirmemory, from which the above facts are gathered.* Many aged people of the present day, in New Hampshire, well remem-ber the stories told by their fathers of the old Irish school-masters. Thoseschool-masters were almost always of good families at home ; were welleducated, and men of enterprise. Of this class was John Sullivan, thefather of Gen. John Sullivan, the

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