1689 :: Marriage of Poore and Osgood

On this date in our family history . . . the 29th day of May . . . in the year 1689 . . . it is recorded in the vital records of Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts that Deborah Poore became the bride of Timothy Osgood . . . this Deborah and Timothy are 8th great-grandparents to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . and a bit of their story is recorded on the following pages of A Genealogy of the Descendants of John, Christopher and William Osgood . . .

1700 :: Goodale - Cousins Marriage

On this date in our family history . . . the 22nd day of May . . . in the year 1700 . . . Zachariah Goodale marries Elizabeth Cousins in Wells, York County, Maine . . . this Zachariah and Elizabeth are 8th great-grandparents to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .

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Walter Goodwin Davis tells of this couple in his Ancestry of Lydia Harmon . . .

Zachariah Goodale was born in Salem May 15, 1675. In January 1698/9, his mother and brother conveyed to him ten acres of his late father's farm as his share of the estate, and two weeks later, he sold this property to Zachariah White of Lynn for thirteen pounds. In this same year, 1699, he settled in Wells, in the Province of Maine, then and for many years to come a frontier post against French and Indian attack, and on May 22, 1700, he married Elizabeth Cousins, a daughter of Thomas Cousins.

Goodale's first purchase of land in Wells was from William Webb -- a lot on the main highway of the village, near the Ogunquit river, eleven or twelve rods in breadth and stretching back into the country two miles. This was in 1699. In 1716 he added to this the next lot to the westward, twenty rods in breadth, purchased from the Drisco heirs. The highway to Berwick was the western boundary of the large farm which resulted from the joining of these two lots. He also owned a one-hundred acre tract west if the Ogunquit river, which had been a town grant to Francis Littlefield, Jr., and which was sold to him by David Littlefield, a son of the grantee. He sold this land to Gershom Maxey in 1717. He also purchased smaller lots on the river from Richard Stimson and Eliab Littlefield. On Dec. 30, 1734, the proprietors of the town, of whom he was one, confirmed his title to the Webb and Drisco lots by grant. He deeded a portion of his land to his son Zachariah in 1735, and conveyed the homestead and farm to his son John, in return for maintenance, in 1747.

Elizabeth (Cousins) Goodale conveyed her share in her father's estate to her brother Ichabod in 1717. She died before 1747, when, on 27 July, Zachariah Goodale's intention to marry Abigail Tarrott was published. She was the widow of James Tarrott of Peaks island, Falmouth, and was about sixty-seven years of age at the time of her second marriage. She was living in 1757.
The date of Zachariah Goodale's death is not known, and the settlement of his estate is not recorded. . . .

1720 :: Death of Samuel Blodgett

On this date in our family history . . . the 21st day of May . . . in the year 1720 . . . Samuel Blodgett dies in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts . . . this Samuel is a 9th great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .

1930 :: Birth of Robert E Henry, Jr.

On this date in our family history . . . the 21st day of May . . . in the year 1930 . . . Robert E. Henry, Jr. was born at 16A Parrott Street in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts . . . the page in this collage is from his baby book . . . it was filled in by his mother, Elizabeth Marilla Henry nee Smith (1912-1932), who is shown holding our Uncle Bob in the upper right corner . . .

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1574 :: Death of Honor Penfound

On this date in our family history (according to the The Visitations of the County of Devon) . . . the 20th day of May . . . in the year 1574 . . . Honor Pyne nee Penfound dies in East Down, Devon, England . . . and is buried the next day at East Downe . . . this Honor is currently believed to the 13th great-grandma of the Keeper of this family history blog . . . 

1690 :: Death of Thaddeus Clarke

Regarding this date in our extended family history . . . the 16th day of May . . . in the year 1690 . . . it is recorded that The brave Lieut. Clark was no more. . . . They were fired upon, and before they could defend themselves, were fallen upon by the French and Indians, with their swords and tomahawks with so great slaughter that but few escaped, and they badly wounded. . . . at the time of his death Thaddeus is married to Elizabeth Mitton who is a sister to Mary Brackett nee Mitton . . . who is a 9th great-grandma to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . Elizabeth and Mary are daughters of Michael Mitton who at one time held Peaks Island . . .

1731 :: Sarah Nason Keys nee Jenkins

On this date in our family history . . . the 15th day of May in the year 1731 . . . Sarah Nason Keys nee Jenkins appeared & acknowledged ye above [below] & within Instrumt to be her act & Deed . . . this document from York Deeds is the last known to mention our Sarah . . . no record has been found of her death . . . this Sarah is a 9th great-grandma to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .

1763 :: Death of John Kimball

On this date in our family history . . . the 10th day of May . . . in the year 1763 . . . according to the History of the Kimball Family . . . John Kimball dies in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts . . . it is unknown at this time where his remains were laid to rest . . .




This John Kimball is a 7th great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog, as follows . . .


JOHN KIMBALL 1685-1763
&1705 ELIZABETH CHAPMAN
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MEHITABLE KIMBALL †1797/
&1744 TIMOTHY BARKER 1720-1752
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ASA BARKER 1748-1822
&1767 LUCY PORTER 1751-1822
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JONATHAN BARKER 1785-1860
&ca 1805 MAHITABLE PORTER FARNUM 1785-1811
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TIMOTHY BARKER 1809-1870/
&1831 JERUSHA LAKIN HOBBS 1810-/1870
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JERUSHA MARILLA BARKER 1841-1899
&1857 ATWOOD FRANK SMITH 1837-1907
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THOMAS WARREN ALONZO SMITH 1866-1920
&1894 EVA MAY BRACKETT 1874-1936
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ELIZABETH MARILLA SMITH 1912-1932
&1929 ROBERT E HENRY 1905-1976
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Keeper's Mom [living]
&1950 FORREST LEE POUNDERS 1927-1996
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Keeper

1713 :: Birth of Joseph Anthony

On (or about) this date in our family history . . . the 2nd day of May . . . in the year 1713 . . . it is said that Joseph Anthony is born in New Kent County, Virginia . . . this Joseph is :-

• 2nd great-grandpa (via his daughter, Mary) of 16th Texas Governor Richard Hubbard (1832-1901)
• 2nd great-grandpa (via his son, Joseph as well as via his daughter, Agnes) of Mary Ann Penelope Cunningham nee Anthony (1835-1917) [her parents were 2nd cousins]
• 2nd great-grandpa (via his son, James) of Texas Lawyer and Congressman Edwin L. Antony (1852-1913), whose parents are 1st cousins once removed, and whose mother, Margaret (1833-1912), is the older sister of the following Josephine
• 2nd great-grandpa (via his son, James) to Josephine Wingfield Henry nee Davis (1843-1899), who is 2nd great-grandma to the Keeper of this family history blog

One of Joseph's grandsons is Dr. Milton Antony, Sr. (1789-1839), who founded the Medical College of Georgia, and whose son, Dr. Milton Antony, Jr. (1824-1885), marries the older sister of our Josephine and moves to Texas, where he is a Confederate Surgeon in Brazoria County before removing to Milam County, where he is a local physician and the 3rd postmaster in the new community of Rockdale ca. 1876.


For more information about our Joseph :-

• Joseph Anthony according to Dana Huff
• Joseph Anthony according to Genealogy Quest
• Joseph's Will
• Joseph Anthony according to Patricia Davidson-Peters