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J. Gardner Bartlett
Joseph Gardner Bartlett (25 August 1872 – 11 November 1927) was a prominent American genealogist, whose work focused on colonial New England and the English origins of colonial families. Trained as an architect at MIT, he gave up architecture for genealogy in his thirties. His best-known works include two genealogies of the Stone family (published 1918 and 1926) and ''The Henry Adams Genealogy'' (1927), which treated the family of Henry Adams, immigrant ancestor of the two American presidents by this surname. Bartlett's paternal ancestors bore the surname Kilham until 1845, when his father changed his surname to Bartlett. Early life and marriages Joseph Gardner Bartlett was born on 25 August 1872 to Joseph Elbridge Bartlett and Antoinette Frances (née Carpenter). On 30 April 1900, Bartlett married Gretchen Piper. Together, he and Gretchen had three children: Dorothy Pickering (born ca. 1901), Dudley Bradstreet (born ca. 1903), and Phillips Payson (born ca. 1905). They divorced s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Atlantic Ocean is to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city, as well as the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts (the second-largest city in New England), Manchester, New Hampshire (the largest city in New Hampshire), and Providence, Rhode Island (the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island). In 1620, the Pilgrims, Puritan Separatists from England, established Plymouth Colony, the second successful English settlement in America, following the Jamestown Settlement in Virg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the most prestigious and highly ranked academic institutions in the world. Founded in response to the increasing Technological and industrial history of the United States, industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European History of European universities, polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. MIT is one of three private land grant universities in the United States, the others being Cornell University and Tuskegee University. The institute has an Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, urban campus that extends more than a mile (1.6 km) alongside the Charles River, and encompasses a number of major off-campus fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Adams (farmer)
Henry Adams (1583–1646) was a British colonial farmer. Also known as Henry Adams of Braintree, he was a patrilineal emigrant ancestor of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Early life Henry Adams was born in Barton St. David, Somerset to John Adams (1555–1604) and Agnes Stone (1556–1616). He emigrated from Braintree, EssexCutter, William Richard''New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'', Volume 4 New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913. p. 2048. in England to what soon became Braintree, Massachusetts in about 1632–1633. While his descendant President John Quincy Adams believed Henry Adams to have been born in Braintree, Essex, numerous records have shown Henry Adams to have been born and raised in the village of Barton St. David in Somerset, England. Henry Adams most likely moved to Braintree upon maturity to work for the Hooker compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth French Bartlett
Elizabeth French Bartlett (27 January 1877-24 October 1961) was an American genealogist. Career In 1908, Bartlett joined the New England Historic Genealogical Society's Committee on English Research. In 1920, Bartlett was elected as a member of the Cambridge Historical Society. In her lifetime, she was also a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the British Record Society. In her research, she specialized on American immigrants from England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...; the New England Historic Genealogical Society wrote that she amassed a valuable collection of research "regarding English Homes of American Settlers (hitherto unknown), including Brackett, Cheney, Child, Eggleston, Frost, Gridley, Grover, Kingsbury, Mellowes, Newcomb, Patten, Potte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England Historic Genealogical Society
The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is the oldest and largest genealogical society in the United States, founded in 1845. NEHGS provides family history services through its staff, original scholarship, website,The History of NEHGS educational opportunities, and research center. Today it has over 250,000 members and more than 90 staff and volunteers. Headquarters NEHGS is headquartered at 99–101 Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. NEHGS moved there in 1964 and it is the seventh location for the organization. The first three floors of NEHGS' present location were built as the headquarters of The New England Trust Company in 1928, designed by Ralph Coolidge Henry and Henry P. Ri ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Coe (colonist)
Robert Coe (26 October 1596 – 1689) was an early English settler and the progenitor in New England of many Coes in America. Robert Coe was born at Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk, England, and baptised there on October 26, 1596, as recorded in parish registers. His father, Henry Coe, had been a yeoman, probably a clothmaker, and for several years was church warden. In 1625 Robert Coe is shown as living in Boxford, Suffolk, then a thriving rural and manufacturing parish eight miles south of Thorpe Morieux, where he lived until leaving for America in 1634. Robert Coe and his family took passage from Ipswich aboard the ''Francis'', commanded by Capt. John Cutting. Experience in the Colonies Once in New England, Coe and his family located for a brief time in Watertown, Massachusetts, where several other Puritan families from Boxford had located. In June 1635 Robert Coe joined a few others in starting a new plantation at Wethersfield, Connecticut, in the fertile Connecticut River Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Genealogists
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1872 Births
Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 187 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa. * Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest. By topic Religion * Olympianus succeeds Pertinax as bishop of Byzantium (until 198). Births * Cao Pi, Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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