Family Tree Mystery: Jedediah Hanson Drowned While Bathing?
By Thomas Jay Kemp on October 27, 2017
An article about Thomas Jay Kemp’s family tree puzzle: a cousin, Jedediah Hanson, whose 1822 obituary said he “drowned while bathing.”.. (Read More)
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New Family Story Find: My 18th Century Uncle Jonathan Dore
By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 15, 2014
Last year I wrote about my relative Elizabeth (Meader) Hanson (1684-1737) who, along with her children, was kidnapped by Abenaki Indians on 7 September 1724 and taken to the Indians’ village along the St. Francis River in Canada. They were held there for over two years. (See: Find & Preserve Your Family’s Stories.) Powerful.... (Read More)
