1665 :: Marriage of Sarah and Joseph

On this date in our family history . . . the 18th day of March . . . in the year 1665 . . . Sarah Jackman becomes the bride of Joseph Palmer in Massachusetts . . . this Sarah and Joseph are 5th great-grandparents to Phoebe Merrill . . . who is maternal grandma to Elizabeth Marilla Henry nee Smith (1912-1932) . . . who is maternal grandma to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .

• Title :: Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3
  
• Editor :: William Richard Cutter
  
• Publisher :: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908
  
• Original from :: Harvard University
  
• Digitized :: Sep 20, 2006
  
  

1706 :: Death of Sarah Merrill nee Clough

On this date in our family history . . . the 18th day of March . . . in the year 1706 . . . Sarah Merrill nee Clough dies in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts . . . this Sarah is a 5th great-grandma to Phoebe Merrill . . . who is maternal grandma to Elizabeth Marilla Henry nee Smith (1912-1932) . . . who is the maternal grandma of the Keeper of this family history blog . . .

• Title :: Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume 3
  
• Authors :: Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs
  
• Editor :: George Thomas Little
  
• Publisher :: Lewis historical publishing company, 1909
  
• Original from :: Harvard University
  
• Digitized :: Sep 18, 2006
  

1841 :: Our Kinfolk in the Sterne Diary

On this date in our extended family history . . . the 18th day of March . . . in the year 1841 . . . Felix Grundy Roberts (1818-1901) visits in the home of Nicholas Adolphus Sterne (ca. 1801 - 1852) in Nacogdoches, Texas . . . this Felix is the younger brother of our Mahala Lee Sharp Hall nee Roberts (1816-1885) . . . who is a 3rd great-grandma of the Keeper of this geneablog . . .

Thursday the 18th March [1841] very fine weather saw Mr J. S. Roberts, nothing new from Galvezton many goods no monay to pay for them ! confirms the report of the total wreck of the San Jacinto, saw Mr True, who went to Douglass on Business, returned in the Evening, heard from the Comrs who are dividing the Loco Land, intend to finish the Survey to day, (if it is so, ails right) Felix Grundy Roberts a Son of Elisha Roberts stopped with me this Evening, he is returning from the Trinity, knew him as a little Boy— Major George A. Nixon in Town to day with Mr Tom Garner, tried to get a negro, who Nixon claims as his own, but who has been for the last year in possession of J. S. Mayfield Esqr negro run away Garner after him but no go— no Catch em—

From September 28, 1840, to November 18, 1851, Nicholas Adolphus Sterne kept a diary of his daily activities, which is a valuable source of information on the period of the republic . . . the names of some of our kith 'n kin are scattered through these pages . . . see Volume 031, Number 3, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online . . .