Places to go, people to see: New England

Today I started compiling an itinerary.  It is organized by country, state, then by town, city, or county.  Each location is given a page or two in my journal, and I listed everything in each place and told how it is connected to my family.  If I should travel somewhere listed in my journal, I will know exactly what to see and do, and will be able to tell my family's story there.  It is amazing how many places are linked to both my maternal and paternal ancestors at the same time!

Here are the New England places I have included so far:

Massachusetts

Boston - Roger Williams (paternal) - arrived 1631 from Essex, England on the Lyon
Boston - Richard Lyman (maternal) - arrived 1631 from Essex, England on the Lyon
Plymouth - John Howland, John and Joan Tilley, and Elizabeth Tilley (maternal) arrived on the Mayflower
Boston - William Almy & wife, Elizabeth Audrey Barlowe immigrated from England, 1636
Northhampton & Westhampton - Robert Lyman (maternal) - discovered the first lead mines; "Robert's Hill" and "Robert's Meadow" were named for him.
Boston, Harvard University - Orrin Bishop Judd attended one year.
Boston (from findagrave.com):
"Thomas Dickerman of Dorchester in New England, Taylor" purchased a lot in Boston near the commons area for a tailor shop on August 26, 1656. He died the next year without a will at about 60 years of age. His estate was valued at 150 pounds for land and house in Boston, 47 pounds for house, barn, orchards and land in Dorchester plus moveables such as books, thread, leather, scissors, a sword with belt, and livestock, which totaled 235 pounds. (paternal)

Rehoboth - William Sabin, one of the founders - m. Mary Elizabeth Wright, 1640.  Burial Kickemuit Cemetery.

Rhode Island

Providence

Roger Williams founded the
first Baptist church in America.

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• Roger Williams (paternal)  founded Providence after being exiled from the Mass. Bay Colony.  
• Sabin's Tavern (family of Patience Sabin m. Godfrey - paternal), meeting place of the Sons of Liberty
• Greene Hold - surgeon John Greene (paternal) purchased land from Miontonomi on the Occupasituxet Bay.  He is buried there in the Spring Green Burial ground.  His son, Major John Greene, sold the property to the Brown family (of Brown University).  The land is now an active archaeological site.  
• Joseph Bucklin Bosworth (maternal), b. 1790
• Capt. Samuel Godfrey (paternal), Gaspee Affair 1772 - Providence River; burial St. Johns Cemetery.
• Timothy Sabin m. Rebekah Ashton, 1744; burial St. Johns Cemetery.

Newport County

• William Almy & wife, Elizabeth Audrey Barlowe - William was the county assessor for the town of Portsmouth.

Hartford, CT
Founders Monument

Connecticut

Hartford

• Monument to the founders - Welles (paternal), Bidwell (paternal), Hopkins (maternal), Judd (paternal)
• Thomas Welles (paternal), founder, 1st Governor
• Orrin Judd (paternal), Baptist theologian, held various public offices
• James Bradley (paternal), 1729-1813, burial Oak Hill Cemetery, Southington

New Haven

• Center Church on the Green - burial place of Eleazer Brown & Sarah Buckley Brown (maternal); Nathaniel Bradley & Ruth Dickerman Bradley; Alice Prichard Bradley (paternal)
• John Hopkins operated a grist mill built by his father Stephen Hopkins (maternal)
• Capt. Samuel Hickok m. Mary Hopkins (maternal); burial Bronson Library Park
• Jemima Bishop M. James Bradley (paternal) of Hartford, 1751
• James Bishop m. Elizabeth Perkins (paternal), 1725

Wallingford

• Center Street Cemetery - burial place of Abraham & Sarah Doolittle Hall (maternal)
• Doolittle Park

Farmington

• Church of Christ, founded by 7 men, including Deacon Thomas Judd (paternal), 1652
• Samuel & Hannah Hickok (maternal), members Church of Farmington 1679
• Church of Christ has 9 handwritten volumes of early church history.



http://www.firstchurch1652.org/meetinghousegreen

• Hila Bradley (paternal) born 1775
• Elnathan Judd m. Lois Thorpe (paternal), 1758

Middletown

• Washington Street Cemetery - burial site of Daniel & Thankful Lyman Hall (maternal)

New York

Gravesend

• Lt. Nicholas Stilwell (maternal) came from Virginia in 1646 to settle on a plantation outside of Graves End.  Leader in Esopus Wars. Friend to Peter Stuyvesant, governor of New Amsterdam.
• Interesting note:  Graves End was settled by Lady Deborah Moody, the 1st female landowner in America, religious leader/dissenter.  Nicholas had originally left England because of religious persecution.

Manhatten Island, Staten Island

• Lt. Nicholas Stilwell (maternal) owned land; died on Staten Island.
• St. Sylvester's Roman Catholic Church - formerly Wandell Memorial Chapel (maternal), bought in 1921 from the destitute Methodist church.  Located on Tangee St., coincidentally not far from the location of the Nicholas Stilwell property.



Vintage postcard of St. Sylvester's Church, formerly Wandell Memorial Chapel

Ossining

• Samuel, Joseph, William Haight (maternal) were tenant farmers on Philipsburgh Manor; purchased the land from the government after the owner was exiled for treason.  
• Interesting notes:  Deborah Sampson, revolutionary soldier, stayed with William Haight; Clement Moore wrote The Night Before Christmas here; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was set here.  The Philips manor house is now a tourist attraction in Yonkers.

Brooklyn/Queens

• Elizabeth MacDonald Judd (paternal), writer for the New York Tribune, born 1822
• Alexander MacDonald, 1797-1872, buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn
• Sadie Wright Abbott (paternal), born 1864
• Miriam Olivia Wandell (maternal), born 1824
• Abbott & Son Piano Shop (paternal), 66 Walker Street, 1832
• R&W Nunns Piano Factory - the four Abbott brothers apprenticed here:



Previously the Nunns and Clark factory, Setauket, Long Island.  Photo c1900



• Orrin Judd, occupation - 6th Avenue Elevated Railroad, 1880 (investor?)

Chittenango - home of the Hall family; Ada Clemina Hall born 1856.

Rochester

• John Dillingham (maternal), lived in Genessee County before moving to Ohio.
• Horace Crofford (maternal), Genessee Valley Millwright
• Note:  the Dillingham and Crofford families unite by marriage a generation later in Indiana.

Burlington - Joseph Bosworth (maternal), abt 1800

Pittsfield - Joseph Bosworth (maternal), early 1800s

Fishkill - Jacob Wandell (maternal), born 1747 m. Catherine Stillwell in 1770

Newburgh - Gen. Washington headquarters, Jacob Wandell (maternal) discharge papers stored there.

Havershaw - Jacob Wandell (maternal), millwright

Iona Island - Jacob & Catherine Wandell (maternal) died on this island in the middle of the Hudson River which had been in the VanCortlandt family for 200 years (was then called Weygant Island; now a part of Bear Mountain State Park).  For some interesting stories, look it up!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona_Island_%28New_York%29

David's Island - Andrew Hall (maternal) spent six months at the civil war hospital
Auburn - Jacob Wandell was granted the land that is now Auburn.
Hamilton - Colgate University, formerly Madison University and Hamilton Literary and Theological Seminary, alma mater of Orrin Bishop Judd.  He was later a trustee of Colgate, and his descendants have maintained a tradition of attending school there.

New Jersey

Fort Lee

• Abbott & Sons Piano Factory (paternal), Lemoine Ave, 1872 (building now torn down)
• Church of the Good Shepherd, Parker Ave. - Abbotts, Bryants (paternal)
• George Wright Abbott (paternal), born 1882

Newark

• Robert Lyman (maternal), original proprietor, 1667
• William & Rebecca Bryant (paternal) moved there from Princess Anne County
• Charles Bryant (paternal), piano dealer (wife Mariah owned a boardinghouse in Ocean Grove, Monmouth County)
• Thomas Whitfield m. Betsy Godfrey (paternal) of Providence, RI

Middletown

First Monmouth Baptist Church - founded by Rev. James Ashton (paternal) 1652-1705.

Hackensack

John Abbott (paternal) owned a hotel where his piano factory employees lived.

Pennsylvania

Valley Forge - Jacob Wandell, Quartermaster, obtained shoes for Washington's men.