What's New?

• Added children of John Henry Bowditch and Mary Ella Bowditch.

• Added info on Anthony Wooster Morse's time in Mississippi from 1826 to 1829.

• Added info on Huldah Morse, daughter of Anthony Morse and Huldah Taylor, and her descendants through three generations.
• Added info on the children of Emma Morse and Charles Mitchell.
• Added info on the children of Louis De Coppet Berg and Grace Bunker.

• Added info on Wolcott Morse, son of Anthony Morse and Huldah Taylor.

• Added a tentative marriage and child, based on circumstantial evidence, for Hiram Morse, son of Anthony Morse and Huldah Taylor.
• Added info on Anthony Wooster Morse, son of Anthony Morse and Huldah Taylor, and his descendants through two generations.
• Added info on Rebeckah Morse, daughter of Anthony Morse and Huldah Taylor.

• Added info about the difficulty in identifying Lucretia Millard's father.

• Added info on Wareham Morse, son of Anthony Morse and Huldah Taylor, his children and grandchildren.

• Updated info on Cora Abbot McCormick, and her husbands Morris Richard Clark and J. Bert Saxby Jr.. Thanks very much to Rick Clark for most of the new info.

• Updated info on the family of Hans Svensson and Anna Persdotter.
• More updates on the family of Nanne Nilsson and Christina Johansdotter.

• Updated info on the family of Nanne Nilsson and Christina Johansdotter.

• Corrected info about the child "Fred Hoskins" listed with Joseph and Elizabeth (Abbot) Bowditch in the 1860 census. This is most likely actually their son Frederick Bowditch, and his listing with the surname Hoskins is due to a copying error.

• The "Towne/Bowditch Family History" web site moved from RootsWeb to GenArchives.com, part of John Cardinal's Family History Hosting service.

• Added an additional marriage for Anthony Morse's widow Huldah Taylor.

• Added exact marriage date for Joseph Bowditch and Lucinda Morse.
• Added details about the capture of Joseph Bowditch's ship Eliza during the War of 1812.
• Added information about Anthony Morse's possible participation in the Boston Tea Party, and a second marriage for his widow Huldah Taylor.

• Corrected death info for Ephraim Stiles and added death info for his wife Esther Moseley. Thanks to Susan Meints for pointing me to the new info.

• Deleted picture for William Tecumseh Sherman Thorndike. The picture is actually Sherman Jenkins Hamilton (1888-1961).

• Eliminated ancestry of the immigrant William Billing, which was shown to be fraudulent in an American Genealogist article by Paul Read in 1999.

• Eliminated (or put inside sensitivity brackets in TMG so they don't appear) all email addresses in source citations. This wasn't a problem for the web site, where they were disguised by Second Site, but could be an issue in other cases (like when uploading to Ancestry).

• Modified the layout to list people's parents as part of their page header, instead of in the body of the narrative.

• Added Samuel Simmons and Amy Beal, and their son Thurston Simmons, and listed Samuel and Amy as the probable parents of Patience Simmons.
• Added pictures tentatively identified as Luke P. Phillips and his wife Patience Simmons.

• Modified the copyright notice slightly to allow use of the material with written permission of the copyright holder.

• Changed the copyright notice to use a Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license.

• Added death date for Martha (Burlingham) Johnson.

• Changed pictures of Philip Phelps Burlingham and Charity Phelps.
• Added pictures of Robert Miller, and Marian Taft.
• Added picture of Edwin Perry Clements, courtesy of Jean Atwood.
• Added picture of John Charles Moore, courtesy of Geri Omohundro.

• Added info on George Arthur Drake's second wife Mary Saylor.
• Added more info on the children of Daniel Coffin Lewis and Bernice Pamelia Burlingham.
• Added more info on the family of Gettie Burlingham and Byron Aldrich.

• Updated info on Durling Reckard, and his wives Lucinda Bates and Margaret Hill.
• Added details on the death of Jonathan Babcock.
• Clarified details on the death of Cutting B. Wiley.
• Added to the info on Thomas James Tharp, and his wife Sarah Roane, and their pictures.
• Added additional detail on the death and burial during World War I of Russell Town.
• Corrected the name of Isaac Estey's mother, based on research by Charles Farrow.
• Added more details about the Revolutionary War service of Silas Stiles.
• Added more detail on Rosilla Breeson and her husbands Gilbert Gulliksen and Leroy Orton.
• Added some details for Frances Town.

• Added more info about Betsey Trask, and her husband John Butman and his encounter with Spanish pirates.
• Added death dates for Thomas Bowditch and his wife Lucy Mansfield.
• Added more info and a picture for Charles Hunter Owen.
• Added to the info on Edward Bowditch, his wives Katherine Ross and Agnes Findlay, and a picture of Katherine.
• Added more info for Jacob Ford, mostly on his service in the Revolution.
• Added some additional detail about Joseph Wise's life in California, and corrected his death info.
• Corrected info on the first marriage of John Endicott, and added info for his grandson John Endicott.
• Added info on Ernest William Bowditch and his wife Margaret Lyon Swann, and their daughter Elizabeth Swann Bowditch and her husband Augustus Hemenway Eustis.
• Updated info on Susan Higginson Bowditch and her husband Harry Vinton Long, and added their pictures.
• Updated info on David Humphrey and his wife Mary Chapman, and added David's picture.

• Added details on the Civil War service of Job Brazee.
• Corrected the given name of the wife of Obadiah Hamilton, Lusanna Richardson (not Louisa as given in the Hamilton genealogy by Salome Hamilton), and added their marriage and death info. Thanks to Carol Dorward for notifying me about the correction.
• Added details for Forbes Bagley Wiley and his wife Ora Vaughan Scott, and Forbes's picture.
• Added some details for John Marsh, and his picture.
• Expanded info on Asa Lyndon Phelps, including his marriage to Mary Ham, and added his picture.
• Added to the info on Sybil Moseley, and her husband Hiram Bingham, and added their pictures.

• Added details on death of Rufus Kuns.
• Added details on fornication charges against Remember (Felton) Salmon.
• Added details on deaths at sea of Nathan Leach and his sons Nathan and Asa.
• Added info on the life of Israel Putnam, and his picture.
• Added info on the death of Joshua Trask.
• Added a little more info about the maritime career of George William Abbot.
• Added info on the life of William Crowninshield Rogers.
• Added info on the life of Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch, and pictures of him and his wife Lucy Orne Nichols.
• Added info on the life of Epes Sargent Dixwell.
• Added info on the life of Arthur Dixwell, and his picture.
• Added info on the life of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, and pictures of him and his wife Olivia Yardley.
• Added info on the life of Vincent Yardley Bowditch, and his picture.
• Added info on the life of Sarah Higginson Bowditch.
• Added info on the life of William Ingersoll Bowditch and his wife Sarah Rhea Higginson, and William's picture.
• Corrected marriage date for Ralph Wise and Gladys Barnhart.
• Updated info on Milton Saunders and his wives Anna Edwards and Martha Beeley.
• Added info on Agustanna Stickney, her husband Nathaniel Batchelder, and their children.

• Updated info on the date of Luke Phillips's first marriage, on the birth date of his first wife Patience Simmons, and on his second marriage and divorce.

• Added pictures of Cora Abbot McCormick (courtesy of Rick Clark) and her first husband Morris Richard Clark (from Eva Turner Clark, Some Cousins in the Great War).

• Added pictures of Isaac Dearborn Swikert and Emily Amanda Swikert, photos courtesy of Dennis Wickham.

• Updated and added new info on the descendants of Nathaniel Bowditch.

• Added info on the family of Ottis Oscar Williamson and Clara M. Hughes.

• Added info on Edwin William Town, his wife Mary Prior, and their son Edwin W. Town.

• Updated info for Albert John Dobbeck.

• Added icons to identify direct ancestors of Charles Towne and Jane Bowditch.
• For blood relatives of Charles Towne and Jane Bowditch, added a "Relationship" note at the start of their narrative showing the relationship.

• Added picture of Jessie Mae Phillips.

• Added possible picture of John W. Swikert.

• On each person's page, changed "Family Chart" to "Pedigree," which opens a new page with an interactive pedigree chart for that person.
• On the Charts page, the ancestor charts are now expandable and collapsible, and include the person's birth and death years.

• On the Charts page, added a descendants chart for Philip Burlingham and Polly Babcock.

• On the Charts page, added a descendants chart for George Abbot and Nancy Stickney.

• Added attribution info for all portrait images that were obtained/received from outside our immediate families.

• Updated probate info for John Edwin Abbot
• Removed Roy Bowditch's middle name Rankin
• Updated military service info for Thanes Bowditch, and added picture
• Updated info on Edwin Dennis Bowditch and his wife Elvie Bernice Hamrick, and added picture of Bernice
• Added pictures of Georgiana Bowditch and John Wesley Bowditch
• Changed pictures of Frederick Darlington Bowditch and Helen Louise Tryon
• Added picture of Paul Thorndike.

• Added pictures for some of the descendants of Frederick Darlington Bowditch, and for Harvey Seth Tryon and his wife Anna Rudolph, their son William and his wife, and Anna's parents.

• Added more info on on the descendants of Joseph Henry Bowditch and Elizabeth Blanchard Abbot.

• Added more info on John Edwin Abbot, on the descendants of Martha Eliza Abbot and William H. Thorndike, on Ellen Louisa Abbot's husband Johnson McClure, and on Frederick Abbot and his wife Emily Lynde Whiting.

• Added details on the Civil War service of Charles Lamson, husband of Georgiana Abbot.
• Added info about another marriage for Nathaniel Bowditch, and a resulting prison term for bigamy.

• In citations to the Philip Burlingham Letters, provided a link to the transcription of the letter being cited.

• Added more info on William and Elizabeth (Leach) Abbot, and on their son George.
• In citations to the Abbot/Bowditch Family Letters and to the Abbot Letters to Hannah Rantoul, provided a link to the transcription of the letter being cited.

• Back online! After all the RootsWeb web sites were taken offline back in December 2017 due to a potential security issue, many of them, including this one, are now again online, although with a different address. The old URL was http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cetowne/Towne_Bowditch, and the new URL is https://www.rootsweb.com/~cetowne/Towne_Bowditch.

• Added more detail about many of the descendants of Philip Burlingham and Polly Babcock.

• Determined that the Philip Burlingham who married Polly Babcock was indeed the same person as the Philip Burlingham who married Cynthia (Woods) Montgomery, and that Philip and Polly were the parents of Squire Burlingham. See the write-up "Philip Burlingham, and His Son Squire" for details. This eliminates one of the items formerly listed on the "Mysteries" page! (But we still don't know the details about when and where Philip, Polly, or Cynthia died.)
• Deleted the document "Who Were Squire Burlingham’s Parents?"
• Added info on Philip Burlingham's (abt 1781-?) service in the War of 1812.
• Added a little more info on Philip Burlingham (1749-1804)
  • Clarification of his military service during the Revolutionary War
  • A few details on the sale of his assets in 1789
  • Info on taxes he paid from 1799-1803
  • Info on his estate inventory
• Added info on an 1836 land sale by Nathan Huntly Burlingham in Warren Co., Pennsylvania.

• Added some nice detail on the 1845 wedding of Joseph Henry Bowditch and Elizabeth Blanchard Abbot, from the diary of Elizabeth's childhood friend James W. Boyden, who was there.

• Modified the format of many sources and citations, for better conciseness and consistency.

• Added info on land sales by John Swikert in Stark Co. and Hancock Co., Ohio.
• Added info about Philip Burlingham's land transactions in Allegan Co., Michigan, including the creation of the Burlingham Addition to Otsego Village. Also noted that he and (his brother?) Squire Burlingham both purchased land in Section 21 on the same day in 1839, and that Squire sold his land in 1841, and updated the document "Who Were Squire Burlingham’s Parents?" to include this info.

• Added information on Squire Burlingham and his descendants.
• Added information on Philip Burlingham, who married Cynthia (Woods) Montgomery in 1839.
• Added a PDF document titled "Who Were Squire Burlingham’s Parents?" presenting circumstantial evidence that the Philip Burlingham who married Polly Babcock is the same person as the Philip Burlingham who married Cynthia (Woods) Montgomery, and that Philip and Polly were the parents of Squire Burlingham.
• Added a little detail about the drowning death of Justin Moss Burlingham.

• Added more information on Mariah Burlingham, Nathan Huntly Burlingham, and Susan Burlingham, and their families and descendants. All three were children of Philip Burlingham and Polly Babcock. In particular, for Nathan Huntly Burlingham, this includes:
  • Clarification on his number of marriages, the identification of his second wife, and clarification on which of his children were from each marriage.
  • Information about his planing business, and possible financial problems.
  • A few details about his daughter Nellie's career with Gilman Brothers department store in Kalamazoo, and on her travels.
  For Susan Burlingham, the additions include:
  • More information on her son John Allen's Civil War service.
  • The addition of John Allen's children, including his daughter Lizzie and her husband George Andrus, who participated in two Oklahoma land runs, and his son Henry, a successful newspaper man, Governor of Kansas, and U. S. Senator.
  • Information on her son Charles Allen's Civil War service, and more details about his career with the Kalamazoo police department.

• Added several baptisms for people affiliated with the Tryon family, from transcribed records of of the First Congregational Parish in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Thanks to Lynn McManus for finding and pointing me to the online source.

• Added some details on the families of Loretta (Sowle) Newton and John Sowle, including the identification of John Sowle's second wife as Sarah (Wilson) Bennett.
• Added some info on a few Swikert-related families, including those of Isaac Dearborn Swikert, Martin and Sophia (Swikert) Sperry (including their pictures), and the children of William and Amorette (Wason) Taylor.
• Added info on land purchases in Oregon by Jacob Swikert, his daughter Alta and her husband Robert Lewis, his son Norman and his wife Hattie, and his son Oscar.
• Added info and/or updates for a few people and their families, including Forbes Kenneth Town, Edward Dion, and Cutting B. Wiley.

• Added pictures of authors (where we have them) in the Poetry section, and for the Philip Burlingham Letters, the Abbot/Bowditch Family Letters and the Abbot Letters to Hannah Rantoul.

• Added details on Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch's two marriages in Indiana, and his death in Sewanee, Tennessee, from the pension file from his widow Laura's application for a widow's pension based on his service in the Spanish-American War.
• Added a few details from census records for the brothers Frederick, Russell, Lawrence, and Robert Bowditch, and their mother Helen (Tryon) Bowditch.
• Added residence info for Luther Upton and his wife Helen Maria Bowditch, and about Helen's mother Lucinda (Morse) Bowditch living with them.
• Added death info for Albertina (Hanson) Peterson.

• Added info from death certificates for Lemuel and Sarah (Kershaur) Dornan, and some of their children.
• Added details about the drowning death of Calvin Pratt in 1878.
• Added info from probate records for Luke Phillips, and for the death of Emily (Phillips) Ernsberger.

• Added information from probate records for Johnson McClure, whose estate was held in trust for his son Abbot.
• Added guardianship information for Martha, Ellen, and Frederick Abbot, after the death of their mother Nancy (Stickney) Abbot in 1851, including Sarah Bowditch's move to their home in Beverly to care for them.
• Added information from probate records for Joseph Bowditch (1776-1824), including guardianship records for his children Helen, Sarah, Joseph, and Francis.
• Added information on Lucinda (Morse) Bowditch, including her administration of her husband Joseph's estate, where she lived, and the effect on her of her daughter Sarah's death.
• Added information on Francis Morse Bowditch, including his possible early engagement, his personality, his career as a mariner, his service in the Union Navy during the Civil War, and his death.

• Added a little more information on Laura Burlingham, daughter of Philip Burlingham and his third wife Charity Mandana Phelps, and her family.

• Added a little more information on Arthur Lee Burlingham, on Cora Viola Burlingham and her family, and on George Allen Burlingham and his family, and quite a bit more on Charity Mabel Burlingham and her family. All four were children of Philip Burlingham and his third wife Charity Mandana Phelps. In particular, this includes:
  • Information on John Bryce Mobley and his wife Lelia May Burlingham, from the book Herschel's Adventures, by their son Herschel Earl Mobley.
  • Details on the murder of Willie Fralick, the not-quite two-year-old son of Ruby Irene Evans and her first husband William Fralick.
  • The unraveling (I think) of info on Roy Earl Evans, who appears in various records with the names Earl, Elroy, Leroy, Bert, and Albert.

• Added more information on Justin Moss Burlingham, including his broken engagement to Effie Hopkins and move to Idaho, and his involvement in a law suit over rights to his land. Also a bit more on Samuel Mark Burlingham and his family. Both were children of Philip Burlingham and his third wife Charity Mandana Phelps.

• Added a little information on Inez, Calvin, and Philip Phelps Burlingham, children of Philip Burlingham and his second wife Laura Ann Phelps, mostly on Inez's daughter Dora Pinney.

• Added information on Emily Hooper, wife of George William Abbot, and her second marriage.
• Added information on the children and grandchildren of Frederick Abbot and Emily Lynde Whiting. Of particular interest in this group is the family of their daughter Edith Lynde Abbot, which included four U. S. Navy Rear Admirals.
  • Her husband Albert Montgomery Dupuy McCormick (1866-1932), was fleet surgeon for the Atlantic Fleet, and served simultaneously as President of the Navy's Board of Medical Examiners, the Naval Retirement Board, and the Navy Examining Board.
  • Her son Lynde Dupuy McCormick (1895-1956) served in both World Wars, commanded the Atlantic Fleet, was named the first Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in charge of all NATO Naval forces, served as President of the Naval War College, and had a destroyer named for him.
  • Her daughter Edith's husband John Reginald Beardall (1887-1967) also served in both World Wars, was Naval Aide to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt at the start of World War II, and was Superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy.
  • Her daughter Ellen's husband Frank Lucius Pinney (1913-1999) served on the battleship USS Iowa in the Pacific during World War II, commanded at least three different ships, and was Deputy Director of the Polaris missile program.

• Added information on John Henry Bowditch and Mary Ella Bowditch, children of Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch.
• Added details on land transactions among Joseph Henry Bowditch and his wife Elizabeth Blanchard Abbot and their children, including the court case brought by their grandchildren John H. Bowditch and Mary (Bowditch) Hall for their share of the estate.
• Added more information about Joseph Henry Bowditch, in particular on his businesses in Tarboro, various positions he held, his thoughts about taking up farming as early as 1853, and his eventual move to Yancey Co. in 1861.
• Added more information about Elizabeth Blanchard Abbot, the two winters she spent in Baltimore in her late teens, her trips back home to Beverly after her marriage, and her mental issues later in life.
• Added information about the suicide of Nancy (Stickney) Abbot. Thanks to Roy Nordin for finding the info and sending the newspaper article.
• Added information from probate records for William Abbot (died 1767), William Abbot (died 1794), Samuel Stickney, George Abbot, Nancy Stickney, George W. Abbot, Frederick Abbot, and Georgiana Bowditch
• Added pictures of Elizabeth Blanchard Abbot (possibly), and her sons Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch (possibly), Frederick Darlington Bowditch (probably), and Charles Ingersoll Bowditch.
• Updated info on Abbot McClure, about his return to the U. S. from Italy at the start of World War II.

• Added additional information on the families of Susan, Ann, and Martha Burlingham, children of Philip Burlingham and his first wife Ann Sherwood.

• Updated information on Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, son of Joseph Henry Bowditch and Elizabeth Blanchard Abbot, who left his wife and children in North Carolina a few years after returning from the Civil War, "went west" and disappeared. We now know what happened to him, eliminating one of the items formerly listed on the "Mysteries" page!
• Added a picture of Elizabeth Kuns, wife of Jacob Wise.

• Added Michael and Margaret (Mason) Artman as parents of Adam Artman, plus their children and grandchildren. Interesting stories in this group include:
  • Michael Solomon Artman (1835-1924), who shot a neighbor during a quarrel over a property boundary.
  • William Morley Black (1826-1915), husband of Margaret Ruth Banks (1829-1884), who converted to Mormonism during the California gold rush in 1849, and had 6 wives and 41 children.
  • Elizabeth Bradbury (abt 1832-1915), wife of William Smith Banks (1838-1862), who supplied false information in an attempt to increase her widow's pension for her husband's Civil War service.
  The following people from this group served during the Civil War:
  • Joseph Warren Artman (1836-1923)
  • Robert C. Curry (abt 1828-1864), husband of Alzina Sage Shaver (1831-1913), discharged for disability on 5 Dec 1864 and died 11 days later on his way home
  • Jasper Newton Shaver (1837-1912)
  • John K. McCulloch (1842-1910), husband of Eliza Jane Shaver (1842-1907)
  • Andrew P. Shaver (1847-1899)
  • William L. Shallenberger (abt 1832-1862), husband of Sarah Jane Banks (1834-1903), killed at Shiloh
  • William Smith Banks (1838-1863), died from typhoid fever during his service
  • John Milton Banks (1841-1862), killed at Shiloh
  • Berlin S. Johnson (1841-1905), husband of Mary Ann Banks (1849-1921)
  • Gideon Baughman (1807-1904), husband of Lavina Artman (abt 1816-1850), enlisted at age 55
  • Wallace Wakefield Willey (1828-1907), husband of Hannah Baughman (1836-1930)
  • Philitis Baughman (1841-1865), died during the burning of Columbia, South Carolina
  • Sylvanus Baughman (1843-1908)
• Corrected the probable date of Benjamin How's move from Topsfield to Sutton, Massachusetts, and added land sales in Sutton from him to his sons James and Samuel. Thanks to John Richardson for sending the information, and the sources.

• Added Adam and Sarah Magdalena (Poff) Artman as parents of Phoebe Artman, plus their children and grandchildren. This eliminates one of the items formerly listed on the "Mysteries" page! This group of people includes George W. Artman (1837-1889), who served during the Civil War, and Birdie Hale, adopted daughter of James Artman (1852-1934), who left her husband and with another man was arrested for forgery and passing bad checks.
• Added details (mostly specific dates) for several divorces, from the Ancestry database Michigan, Divorce Records, 1897-1952.

• Added additional details, people, and corrections, for the immigrants William Towne and Joanna Blessing, and their descendants through five generations, from the recently-published Towne genealogy by Lois Payne Hoover.

• In the index to the Philip Burlingham Letters, the names of people who are in our genealogy database are now links to that person's page.

• The Abbot/Bowditch Family Letters have (finally) been indexed. In addition, people mentioned in the letters are now identified using footnotes, with links to the expanded name index containing additional details about each person.
• In the index to the Abbot Letters to Hannah Rantoul, the names of people who are in our genealogy database are now links to that person's page.

• Added details about land disputes involving Nathaniel Tryon and his father Joseph Tryon.
• Deleted the mother-son link between Nathaniel Tryon's second wife Mary Strickland and his son Harvey Tryon, and added details about how Harvey may have been the son of Nathaniel's first wife Sarah Wood.

• Made corrections and added details for the families of William Tryon and his children, including the addition of several new grandchildren, primarily from the article "William Tryon of Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut" by Gale Ion Harris in the July/October 2008 issue of The American Genealogist.
• Added a few details for the children and grandchildren of Nathaniel Tryon and Mary Strickland, and George Tryon and Flora Strickland. Thanks to Lynn McManus for sending it.

• Eliminated the list of "Earliest" ancestors. It was of little usefulness or interest, and I often forgot to update it.

• Corrected the list of children of Joseph Tryon and Sarah Treat, and added several new grandchildren, as well as additional information about some of their lives. Recent and extensive research by Lynn McManus has clarified the details for this family, and shows that some of Joseph and Sarah's children listed in The Tryon Family In America were actually children of their son Joseph. Thanks to her for letting me know about the correction, and prompting the additional research.

• In the Philip Burlingham Letters, people mentioned in the letters are now identified using footnotes, with links to the expanded name index containing additional details about each person.

• In the Abbot Letters to Hannah Rantoul, people mentioned in the letters are now identified using footnotes, with links to the expanded name index containing additional details about each person. The indexing has also been extended to include everyone mentioned in the letters, other than those who have not been identified.

• Added some additional information on William Thorndike, and his children Paul, Abbot, and William.

• Added additional details for the family of Benjamin Farnham and Mary Town. Thanks to Stan Hickerson for identifying and passing along the info (and source) for their daughter Lura, and prompting the additional research.

• Added information about an incident in which Arthur Dobbeck and some companions were rescued on Lake Michigan after running out of fuel on a boating trip.
• Added additional details for Albertina Hanson's husband Albert W. Peterson,warrant including his death while trying to serve an arrest warrant on a bootlegging suspect.

• Corrected the name of John Bryce Mobley's mother. Thanks to Con Mobley for sending the information.

• Added additional details to the entries for Abbot McClure, Frederick Abbot, and Emily Whiting. Thanks to Roy Nordin for passing along the info on Emily Whiting.
• Added a picture of Martha Abbot, and a new picture of her husband William Thorndike. Thanks to the First Parish Church, Unitarian Universalist, in Beverly, Massachusetts, for allowing their use.

• Expanded the narrative section for each individual to include the events in their lives (residence, occupation, etc.), rather than just birth, marriage, death, and burial information. This includes, for a few people, a section after their narrative titled "More Information / Background" with links to web sites about historical events, places, organizations, etc., that are related to that person. For examples, see Rebecca Towne on the Towne side of the family, or Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch on the Bowditch side of the family.
• Added menu items containing letters from various sources, poetry, and wedding pictures.
• Made various style changes. The most noticeable are: (1) links are denoted by a bold font, rather than underlined; (2) children are shown in a numbered list instead of a bullet list; and (3) clicking on a citation superscript highlights the corresponding source in the "Citations" list, and clicking the source number in the "Citations" list displays the source page with the details of corresponding source highlighted.

• Added some additional details on the families of the children of Charles Blades and Frances Woodin. Thanks to Paula Taylor for sending the information.

• Added transcriptions of letters written to Hannah Rantoul. An index to the letters has also been added. Most of these were written by Elizabeth (Abbot) Bowditch, with a few others by Elizabeth's sisters Georgiana, Martha, and Ellen, her daughter Georgiana, and her sister-in-law Sarah (Bowditch) Abbot. Also included are two items written by others on the deaths of Elizabeth's sister Georgiana, and uncle Samuel Stickney. The original letters are part of the Hannah Rantoul collection at Historic Beverly in Beverly, Massachusetts, and were photographed during a visit there in April 2013.
• Added a couple details to the entries for Orville Oaks and John Oaks. Thanks to Nadine McBeth for sending the information.
• Added a few details to the entry for Johnson McClure.
• Added parents and siblings of James Gould.

• Added ancestors of Eli Sowle, back to the Mayflower immigrant George Soule. This eliminates one of the items formerly listed on the "Mysteries" page!

• Corrected death date for Sophia Towne, and added burial locations for her and her husband Abner Davis. Thanks to Wayne Hallet for sending the correction.

• Added many additional descendants of the immigrant Nathaniel Wallis, who was in Falmouth, Maine, by 1657.

• Added children and grandchildren of Bartholomew Wallis, and his Wallis ancestors back to the immigrant Nathaniel Wallis, who was in Falmouth, Maine, by 1657.

• Added details about Lauren and Prudence (Town) Norton and their children. Thanks to Darlene Joyce for sending info and corrections, and for prompting additional research.

• Added a little more information on some of the children of the immigrant Edmund Hart.
• Added additional details on the immigrant Ralph Farnham and his children.
• Added a few additional details for the immigrant John Albro and his children.
• Added the immigrant Thomas Hazard, father of Elizabeth Hazard, and his children.
• Added additional details on George Lawton, husband of Elizabeth Hazard and their family.

Bowditch Side

• Added/corrected birth dates and spelling of names for Nanne Nilsson and his wife Christina and their children. Thanks to Edwin Priest for sending the information, obtained from original birth records and household examinations at the Arkiv Digital web site.

• Added a couple more portraits for August Dobbeck and Louisa Hogrefe and their descendants, from a family photo album.
• Added additional detail on Flora Fuhring, second wife of Manuel Wise, and her first marriage.

• Corrected an error in the Search capability that had prevented women from being found using their married names.

Towne Side

• Added parents and siblings of Abigail Neal.
• Added the immigrant Edmund Hart, father of Abigail Neal's mother Martha Hart, and his children.
• Added details on the immigrant William Comstock and his children.
• Added the immigrant John Elderkin and his wife Abigail Kingsland, parents of Paltiah Elderkin, who married Daniel Comstock.
• Corrected the surname of Pamelia Stiles's husband Peter from Towns (as erroneously given in the Stiles genealogy by Henry Reed Stiles) to Downs, and added some detail about their family. Thanks to Jim Downs for the correction.

Bowditch Side

• Added a few more portraits and wedding pictures for descendants of Hans Svenson and Anna Person, and of Nanne Nilsson and Cristina Johnson, from a family photo album.

• When displaying the information for a person, only that person's entry is now shown. Previously, each page showed the details of as many as 30 people.
• The Master Index menu option has been replaced by a Search capability.

Towne Side

• Corrected a few details for some of the descendants of Charles Blades.

• Added Charles and John Dobbeck as children of August Dobbeck and Wilhelmina Hackbarth, plus details on their families and children. Also added details on the family and children of August and Wilhelmina's son Herman Dobbeck.
• Added Johann Froelich, the second husband of Wilhelmina Hackbarth, plus details on their daughter Marie and her family.
• Added death dates for August and Minna Dobbeck, children of August Dobbeck and Louisa Hogrefe, who died young.
• Added pictures of August Dobbeck and his wife Louisa Hogrefe, and their children William, Frederick, Arthur, and Albert. (Note - when originally posted on 4 February, the pictures for William, Frederick, and Arthur were wrong. This was corrected on 15 February.)

• Added additional details about the children and grandchildren of Hans Svenson and Anna Person, including a few pictures from a family photo album.
• Added additional details about the children and grandchildren of Nanne Nilsson and Cristina Johnson, including a few pictures from a family photo album.

• Added additional details about the children and grandchildren of Luke Phillips and Patience Simmons.
• Added additional details about the children and grandchildren of Luke's son William Phillips, including a previously unknown son William from his first marriage with Hannah Sickles. Thanks to Betsy Phillips of Nashville, Tennessee, for sending along info on her Luke Phillips line, finding the new William, and prompting the additional research.

• Added additional details about the children and grandchildren of Solomon Woodin, including his son Milton and Milton's son Ira, who moved together from Michigan to Washington Territory by wagon train in 1853.
• Added additional details about the children and grandchildren of Solomon's son Federal Woodin.

• Added ancestors and additional information about Thomas Fiske and his second cousin once removed William Fiske, back to Hugh Fiske who was born about 1370. Thomas was the jury foreman during the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, and William was a jury member. Thomas's son Thomas was also a jury member.
• Added info on the 1637 immigrant Austin Kilham and his family. He was the father of Sarah Kilham, who married William Fiske.

• Added ancestors of Elizabeth Tharp, who married Joshua Williamson, back to Thomas Tharp who was born about 1640.

• Added additional information about the family of the immigrants Richard Haffield and his wife Martha Mansfield.

• Added additional details about the children and grandchildren of Joshua Williamson and his first wife Anna Eubank, and about the grandchildren of Joshua and his second wife Elizabeth Thorp.
• Added additional details about the children and (especially) grandchildren of Beniah Williamson.

• Corrected the death date for Eunice Caroline Phelps.
• Added a little about the death of Eli Sowle, and some additional details about the family of his daughter Margaret.
• Added Mary and Sarah as children of Joshua Williamson and his first wife Anna Eubank. Also added Hugh Monroe as the first husband of Joshua's second wife Elizabeth Thorp, and made Elizabeth Monroe their daughter. (Previously she was erroneously listed as the daughter of Joshua Williamson and Anna Eubank.)

Bowditch Side

• Added ancestors of Martha White, who married William Abbot, back to the immigrant John White. John White's daughters Elizabeth, Mary, and Hannah were all present (as Elizabeth Kerley, Mary Rowlandson, and Hannah Divoll) when the Rowlandson garrison in Lancaster, Massachusetts, was attacked by Indians during King Philip's War on 10 February 1675/76. Elizabeth was killed, and Mary and Hannah were taken captive.

• Linked Consider Moseley to his parents John Maudsly and Mary Newberry, and added ancestors of Mary back two generations to the immigrant Thomas Newberry and his first wife Joane Dabinott.
• Added the immigrants Matthew Allyn and his wife Margaret Wyott, the parents of Mary Allyn who married Benjamin Newberry.

Bowditch Side

• Added parents of Phebe Jones, the mother of Anna Rudolph who married Harvey Seth Tryon.

• Added some additional details about Perla Singley, the second wife of Howard Town.
• Added some additional details about the children of Ansel Record and Mary Hamilton.
• Added many descendants of Matthew Grant and his wife Priscilla, including the line to Ulysses S. Grant, as well as additional details about descendants already entered.

Bowditch Side

• Added ancestors of Mary Dickinson, wife of Harvey Tryon, through her mother Mary Curtice, back to Richard Curtice and his wife Sarah Carwithey, who lived in Salem, Massachusetts, and Southold, New York, in the mid 1600s.

• Added some additional details about Stephen Pratt and his wife Margaret Phelps, and their children.
• Added some additional details on the family of Calvin Phelps and his second wife Martha Maynard mostly on their daughter Martha's family.