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Category: Bradstreet
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Mrs. means married…..or does it?
There are challenges when we view history through the lens of modern times. Take the marriage record shown below, for example, in which “Mrs.” Sarah Greenleaf weds Benjamin Bradstreet. For years I wrongly concluded that Sarah Greenleaf was someone’s widow, having been married before. A closer look, however, reveals something different. “Mrs.,” an abbreviated form…
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Cordelia Stanwood, unmarried: a hidden gem in the family tree
New genealogists often overlook the unmarried folks in their family trees. After all, there are no offspring to track or trace. However, these unmarried aunts and uncles, cousins and kinfolk, can have stories just as interesting as those of our ancestors, and just as deserving of being told and preserved for generations to come. Just…
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A morning with the Bradstreets
Yesterday was quite an adventure! We took the subway to Braintree, MA, only to find that the trains to Plymouth had been canceled about 3 month ago. So, we decided to rent a car (had planned to do so that evening anyway) and drove to Plymouth. Had hoped to see the home of Jabez Howland,…
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