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Posted above as downloadable Word file is the brief record – from the Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, MA – of a case in which Thomas and Florence Whittridge were sued for slander in 1668.
— posted by Roger Whittredge Smith
November 2015
See also:
Whittredge court cases, Essex County, MA, 17th century
Capt. later Col. Jeremiah Moulton (ca. 1688-1765), was an ancestor, on her mother’s side, of my paternal grandmother Esther Moulton (Whittredge) Smith. He was involved in successful expeditions against the Indian outpost at Norridgewock, Maine that took place in 1722 and 1724.
An account of a scouting expedition by Captain Moulton, transcribed by me from the Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, is posted below as a downloadable Word document.
— Roger Whittredge Smith
November 2015
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See also:
“Origins of the Moulton family in Maine”
This report concerns my ancestor Capt. Caleb Congdon (1767-1832) of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
See downloadable Word document, above.
— Roger W. Smith
November 2015
My mother’s ancestor Amy Hart was born in 1741 in Dartmouth, Mass., the daughter of William Hart (b 1710) and Mary (Shepherd) Hart (ca. 1719-1809). She had an interesting life, which included the birth of a son, Simpson Hart, upon which she was disowned by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). She had distinguished progeny.
Posted above as a downloadable Word file is an article about Amy Hart and her son, Simpson Hart of New Bedford, MA.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2011
Posted above as a downloadable Word document is a very brief account of the death of Florence (Norman) (Hart) Whitredge, who died in 1672 in Ipswich, Mass. under extraordinary circumstances, apparently a suicide.
— posted by Roger Whittredge Smith
May 2011