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The story of my 8x gr-grandfather Wm Eager 1(1629-90) is almost too much. A Scot, he was captured in the Battle of Dunbar and sent to America as an indentured servant. He fought in King Philip's War. He had 14 kids. And he was one of the early white settlers of Marlborough, MA.
Wonderful top see my former student's (Sophi Miyoko Gullbrants) cover of this week's New York Times Book Review! Stunning. https://t.co/MLYTn5m4rt
The Three Cranes Tavern lasted for a 140 years in #CharlestownMa but burned down 1775. It was started in 1635 by my 10x Great Grandfather, Robert Long. Thanks to Boston's Big Dig, you see the unearthed remains on the Freedom Trail.
It turns out, that the author, #cormacmccarthy and I are related. His grandmother and my gr-grandfather were siblings in #Providence making us Blood Meridian Relatives. https://t.co/Ea8bac79aV
This is Stage Neck in York, Maine, and right here, at the place of this rotting old wooden bridge, is where my 8x great-grandfather William Moore worked as a fisherman and ferryman in the 1600’s. #urbansketchers #york #maine
Joel Robinson (my 2nd cousin 6x removed) built this home on a winding country road in 1790 for his marriage to Margaret Blackinton in #Attleboro MA. Generations of ancestors lived here (and maybe still do). He fought in the Revolutionary War. His cousins fought at Bunker Hill.
Peter Etters, my 6x great-grandfather, was raised a Mennonite, knew Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, and lived here in #Quincy, Massachusetts—until the trouble started in 1776. The problem was that he was a Loyalist - evacuated with a fleet of ships from Boston to Halifax, NS.
From my series, #Whence, about my immigrant ancestors. Thomas O’Keeffe had a bad heart but a love for military life. He lived here in 1917. #providence #rhodeisland
James A. Lynch worked in jewelry factories his whole life. https://t.co/AEsfEqb2Pr
Nathaniel Day was the fifth child of English immigrants Anthony Day and Susanna Ring Matchett who lived on the Annisquam River in Gloucester, MA. Born on Dec 9, 1665, he’s my 6x gr-grandfather. Day’s family moved around Cape Ann quite a bit, before settling by Pole’s Hill.