Monday, September 21, 2009

John Brown my ggg gf

Right click this link and open in new tabor window. This will bring you to a PDF file of John Brown's Revolutionary War pension records. It includes lots of information written in support of a pension request for ggg gf John Brown's widow, Betsey Cluff/Clough Brown. Email me or post your comments.

1 Oct 09 update: The link worked when I posted it (because I was logged into the Heritage Quest Online_Revolutionary War records database via the Boston Public Library. I will look into posting the Adobe PDF file on my personal web space and changing the link so that you may see the records even in you do not have a BPL library card.

11 Mar 2018 Link to John Brown's Revolutionary War pension records should now work.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

Three Sovereigns for Sarah is a movie made about the 1692 Salem witchcraft hysteria. I won't go into detail except to say that as an eighth great grandchild of Rebecca Towne N(o)urse I was fighting tears throughout as I viewed this accurate portrayal of my gggggggg grandmother and her two sisters, as well as the other victims of the Salem hysteria. The DVD of this movie is available through CWMARS Library system in Massachusetts, Amazon, and other sources.

One of Rebecca Nourse's daughters, Elizabeth Nourse married William Russell of Salem, MA and through the Russell line came Percy Russell, my dear old great grandmother Nellie Noble Morse's husband, who died in a railroad accident about 1909 and is buried next to "Great" and "Tompie" in Forest Hills Cemetery in Lynnfield, MA.