Illustration: flag of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Credit: NuclearVacuum; Wikimedia Commons.

Scions of Nantucket Founders (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on February 23, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series about the founders of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and their descendants, focusing on Mary Coffin Starbuck... (Read More)

Scions of Nantucket Founders (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on February 21, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry begins a new series about the founders of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and their descendants... (Read More)

Photo: Charles Edward Ilsley (1842-1914) with family: wife Sarah Swanson Godlove Ilsley; daughters Charlotte (left) and Emily (right); and son Frank P. Ilsley. Credit: Joplin Wistar private collection, Vermont.

Relics of Our Ancestors (part 6)

By Melissa Berry on February 7, 2024

Melissa Berry writes about Jonathan Ilsley, one of the men who donated a relic from America’s past: a 1775 silver tankard gifted to Rev. Samuel Deane... (Read More)

Illustration: image of couple kissing from “Puritan Laws on Sexual Misconduct.” Credit: Barbara Sardudy.

Paternity Drama in Colonial America (part 7)

By Melissa Berry on February 1, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry provides more stories about out-of-wedlock births in colonial America, focusing on Newbury, Massachusetts... (Read More)

Painting: “Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor,” by William Halsall, 1882. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 35 (part 12)

By Melissa Berry on January 30, 2024

Melissa Berry’s 12th part in her series on Mayflower descendants focusing on Katie Crocker’s family line, again featuring an old family account book... (Read More)

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 35 (part 11)

By Melissa Berry on January 26, 2024

Melissa Berry’s 11th part in her series on Mayflower descendants focusing on Katie Crocker’s family line, again featuring an old family account book... (Read More)

Photo: a memorial stone and plaque dedicated to brothers Joseph and Maximilian Jewett in Rowley, Massachusetts. Photo taken by Cosmos Mariner. Credit: Historical Marker Database.

Relics of Our Ancestors (part 5)

By Melissa Berry on January 23, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about another of the men who donated a relic from America’s past: a silver tankard gifted to Rev. Samuel Deane in 1775... (Read More)

Photo: Harriet Frothingham. Credit: McCord Stewart Museum, Canada.

Relics of Our Ancestors (part 4)

By Melissa Berry on January 19, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about more of the men who donated a relic from America’s past, a silver tankard gifted to Rev. Samuel Deane in 1775... (Read More)

Photo: front view of the silver tankard gifted to Rev. Samuel Deane, 1775, showing the Latin inscription. Credit: First Parish Church, Portland, Maine.

Relics of Our Ancestors (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on January 16, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about another relic from America’s past, a silver tankard gifted to Rev. Samuel Deane in 1775... (Read More)

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