I'd like to wish a Happy Birthday to my great great grandmother
Sylvia Pullen Gamage.
Sylvia Pullen Gamage born 9 November 1832 in North Anson, Somerset
County, Maine daughter of William Gamage (William 5, Joshua 4,
Nathaniel 3, Joshua 2, John 1) and Lonie or Lona Pullen (Jonathan
5, Stephen 4, James 3, Nicholas 2, John 1). She died between 12 May
1915 and 1926 in Madison, Somerset County, Maine.
Her husband was Orrington L Williams born 25 October 1837 in
Bowdoin, Sagadahoc County, Maine son of Thomas B Williams
(Nathaniel Hall Williams 4, George 3, Samuel 2, Thomas 1) and
Elvira Briery daughter of John Briery (Thomas [Bryeryhurst] 2, John
[Brierhurst] 1). He died 1916 in Madison.
Married 9 September 1860.
Children:
1. Cora Estelle Williams born 24 July 1863, died 17 September 1928.
Married Mr. Fogg.
2. Alice Eldora Williams born 3 July 1867 or 1968 in Madison.
Married Edward Jones Washburn son of Alden F Washburn and Judith L
Jones. Three daughters. (my line)
3. Willard Williams born 1869/70, died 1942.
1-- John Gamage (____-____) Mary Knight (____-____)
2-- Joshua Gamage (1683-1744) Deborah Wyeth (____-1773)
3-- Nathaniel Gamage (1712/3-____) Mary Norwood (1717-1814)
4-- Joshua Gamage (1741-____) Elinor or Elena
Foster (1740-1795)
5-- William Gamage (____-____) Betsey Beal (1778-____)
6-- William Gamage (1805-1885) Lona (Lonie) Pullen
(1813-1875)
7-- Sylvia Pullen Gamage (1832-1915/26) Orrington L Williams
(1837-1916)
8-- Alice Eldora Williams (1867-1950) Edward Jones Washburn
(1861-1914)
9-- Evangeline Estelle Washburn (1895-1981) Vivian Daniel
Sylvester (1893-1968)
10--Living Sylvester (1917-) Living Merry (1924-)
11--David Wayne Sylvester (1951-) Living (1955-)
12--Living Sylvester (1991-)
I'd like to wish a Happy Birthday to my great great great
grandfather William Gamage.
William Gamage born 20 March 1805 son of William Gamage (Joshua 4,
Nathaniel 3, Joshua 2, John 1) and Betsey Beal (Samuel 5, Samuel 4,
Samuel 3, Aaron 2, William 1). He died 19 October 1885.
His wife was Lona "Lonie" Pullen born 31 March 1813 in Anson,
Somerset County, Maine daughter of Jonathan Pullen (Stephen 4,
James 3, Nicholas 2, John 1) and Sylvia Bonney (Simeon 5, Isaac 4,
William 3, Thomas 2, Thomas 1). She died 14 April 1875.
Married 15 December 1831.
Children:
1. Sylvia Pullen Gamage born 9 November 1832 in North Anson,
Somerset County, Maine, died between 12 May 1915 and 1926 in
Madison, Somerset County, Maine. Married Orrington L Williams son
of Thomas B Williams and Elvira Briery. (my line)
2. Sarah A Gamage born 5 February 1834, married Austin Andrews.
3. Augustine H Gamage born 29 November 1835 in "West" Anson (Gamage
Hill), Maine, married Abbie Rowe.
4. Clara Gamage born 23 September 1837, died 20 March 187_. Married
Albert Potter.
5. Francis Gamage born 25 September 1839, died 21 March 1886.
Married Ellen Brama.
6. Ellen Gamage born 5 July 1841, died 5 July 1841.
7. John M Gamage born 25 November 1842, died 30 December 1883.
Married Mae Edgely.
8. William H Gamage born 23 January 1845, died 7 March 1875.
9. Ira D Gamage born 18 January 1852, died 8 June 1872.
10. Ida M Gamage born 28 September 1854, died 5 October 1864.
1-- John Gamage (____-____) Mary Knight (____-____)
2-- Joshua Gamage (1683-1744) Deborah Wyeth (____-1773)
3-- Nathaniel Gamage (1712/3-____) Mary Norwood (1717-1814)
4-- Joshua Gamage (1741-____) Elinor or Elena
Foster (1740-1795)
5-- William Gamage (____-____) Betsey Beal (1778-____)
6-- William Gamage (1805-1885) Lona (Lonie) Pullen
(1813-1875)
7-- Sylvia Pullen Gamage (1832-1915/26) Orrington L Williams
(1837-1916)
8-- Alice Eldora Williams (1867-1950) Edward Jones Washburn
(1861-1914)
9-- Evangeline Estelle Washburn (1895-1981) Vivian Daniel
Sylvester (1893-1968)
10--Living Sylvester (1917-) Living Merry (1924-)
11--David Wayne Sylvester (1951-) Living (1955-)
12--Living Sylvester (1991-)
http://genealogy.about.com/od/basics/a/cluster.htm?nl=1
Our ancestors did not live in isolation, although we often research
them as if they did. They were part of a family, with siblings,
parents, aunts and uncles, cousins and other relatives. They were also
part of a community, with friends, neighbors, classmates, and
co-workers. This "cluster" of family, friends and neighbors can
provide valuable clues to the lives of our ancestors.
Cluster genealogy, sometimes referred to as whole family or extended
family genealogy, is the practice of extending your research on a
person to the individuals and families to which he was connected.
These connections could range from his brother or spouse, to the
neighbor who appeared as a witness on a land deed.
Why Cluster Genealogy?
Read more at
http://genealogy.about.com/od/basics/a/cluster.htm?nl=1
...in 1659, a law was passed by the General
Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony requiring a five-shilling fine from
anyone caught "observing any such day as Christmas or the like,
either by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way."
Christmas Day was deemed by the Puritans to be a time of seasonal excess
with no Biblical authority. The law was repealed in 1681 along with
several other laws, under pressure from the government in London. It was
not until 1856 that Christmas Day became a state holiday in
Massachusetts. For two centuries preceding that date, the observance of
Christmas or lack thereof represented a cultural tug of war between
Puritan ideals and British tradition.
Like other Massachusetts Puritans, the Reverend Increase Mather
considered Christmas a "profane and superstitious custom." The
Boston minister wrote in 1687 that December 25th was observed
as the birth date of Christ not because "Christ was born in that
Month, but because the Heathens Saturnalia was at the time kept in Rome,
and they were willing to have those Pagan Holidays metamorphosed into
Christian [ones]." He was correct.
The English men and women who came to New England in the 1600s were
familiar with Christmas as it was celebrated in Britain. The Christmas
season began in late November and continued well into the New Year,
coinciding with a natural break in the agricultural cycle. It was a time
of feasting, excessive alcohol consumption, general merry-making, and
"misrule" (the turning of social conventions upside down). Men
of means were expected to open their homes and furnish those less well
off with food and drink.
Massachusetts Puritans sought to put an end to the celebration of
Christmas with all of its excesses. Almanacs published in the Bay Colony
did not mark December 25th as Christmas Day.
While the Puritans succeeded in suppressing most holiday revelry, they
could not quell it completely. The authorities condemned
fishermen and
other residents of the region's coastal villages as irreligious; they
behaved in unacceptable ways, from heavy drinking to "keeping
Christmas."
One Christmas conflict occurred in Salem in 1679. On the night of
December 25th, four men entered the home of farmer John Rowden
and helped themselves to seats by the fire, began to sing, and then
demanded cups of the Rowdens' pear wine. After being repeatedly refused,
they pretended to leave the house, only to return and demand money.
Turned out again, they continued their harassment, throwing "stones,
bones, and other things" at the house and stealing several pecks of
apples. These men were re-enacting the time-honored English tradition of
"wassailing," where lower-class revelers entered the homes of
their social superiors at Christmas time. In exchange for singing and
mumming, the uninvited guests generally received gifts of food, drink, or
money. In England, the tradition had long fostered good will between
people who occupied different rungs of the social ladder, but as the
events in Salem indicate, this was not so in Puritan New England.
Under pressure from the British government, Massachusetts repealed the
law against Christmas festivities in 1681. The holiday was widely, and
sometimes wildly, celebrated from 1687 to 1689, the period after
Massachusetts Bay lost its charter and was governed by an English
official. When the colony regained its charter in 1689, public
expressions of Christmas cheer ended, at least for the time being.
The observance of Christmas did not disappear altogether, and soon a
movement was afoot to purify and temper the custom, rather than stamp it
out altogether. By the 1750s the most common New England hymnal, the
Bay Psalm Book, included Christmas hymns, and by 1760 most
almanacs named December 25th Christmas Day. Christmas music by
New England composers appeared in song books published in the second half
of the eighteenth century; the Worcester Collection of Sacred
Harmony, published by
Isaiah Thomas
in 1786, even included Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus."
In the early nineteenth century, fear that excessive drinking, aggressive
begging, and riotous processions associated with Christmas posed a threat
to public order moved middle- and upper-class Americans to re-make
Christmas as a family holiday. The social and business elite collaborated
with the press to reshape Christmas into a well-regulated domestic
celebration. The chief beneficiaries of this kind of Christmas were
children.
The new, child-centered Christmas was idealized by Clement Clarke Moore's
1822 poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," which introduced Santa
Claus into American lore. A few years later, Stockbridge writer
Catharine Maria
Sedgwick published a story that created an indelible image of
wide-eyed children discovering a Christmas tree surrounded by
gifts.
The gift-bearing St. Nick and present-laden fir tree coincided with a
consumer revolution in nineteenth-century New England. Merchants and
shopkeepers capitalized on the new materialism by advertising
"thoughtful gifts" for children and others within the domestic
circle.
By the 1840s many states began to make Christmas a legal holiday. An 1856
Massachusetts law accorded this status to Christmas, Washington's
Birthday, and July 4th. The success of this measure was due to
the growing number of Irish Catholics in the electorate. Public offices
were also to be closed on these days, and it was expected that businesses
would follow suit. In time they did. Early in the twenty-first century,
December 25th remains one of the few days that the nation's
economic engine is still.
Sources
The Battle for Christmas, by Stephen Nissenbaum (Alfred A. Knopf,
1996).
Testimony against Several Profane and Superstitious Customs, Now
Practiced by Some in New-England, by Increase Mather (1687).
Retracing my steps: Gamage - Pullen connection -
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogy/washburn.html
William Gamage born 20 March 1805 son of William Gamage (Joshua 4,
Nathaniel 3, Joshua 2, John 1) and Betsey Beal (Samuel 5, Samuel 4,
Samuel 3, Aaron 2, William 1). He died 19 October 1885.
Lona "Lonie" Pullen born 31 March 1813 in Anson, Somerset County,
Maine daughter of Jonathan Pullen (Stephen 4, James 3, Nicholas 2,
John 1) and Sylvia Bonney (Simeon 5, Isaac 4, William 3, Thomas 2,
Thomas 1). She died 14 April 1875.
Married 15 December 1831.
Children:
1. Sylvia Pullen Gamage born 9 November 1832 in North Anson,
Somerset County, Maine, died between 12 May 1915 and 1926 in
Madison, Somerset County, Maine. Married Orrington L Williams son
of Thomas B Williams and Elvira Briery.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GamageNewEnglandRoots/message/1
2. Sarah A Gamage born 5 February 1834, married Austin Andrews.
3. Augustine H Gamage born 29 November 1835 in "West" Anson (Gamage
Hill), Maine, married Abbie Rowe.
4. Clara Gamage born 23 September 1837, died 20 March 187_. Married
Albert Potter.
5. Francis Gamage born 25 September 1839, died 21 March 1886.
Married Ellen Brama.
6. Ellen Gamage born 5 July 1841, died 5 July 1841.
7. John M Gamage born 25 November 1842, died 30 December 1883.
Married Mae Edgely.
8. William H Gamage born 23 January 1845, died 7 March 1875.
9. Ira D Gamage born 18 January 1852, died 8 June 1872.
10. Ida M Gamage born 28 September 1854, died 5 October 1864.
If you have anything to add, subtract, confirm or refute or if you
have any connection with this family I'd like to hear from you.
If you'd like to add this information to your database or share it
with others feel free to do so and please cite the source. If you
would like to publish this information in your web site, your own
book, CD or other publication I would appreciate a note from you
saying so. This data is not to be submitted to any person,
organization or firm that in the business of collecting data to put
on commercial CD's or commercial web sites for the purpose of
selling it to their patrons.
Best wishes,
David
David Sylvester
28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974
Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.
Retracing my steps: Williams - Briery connection -
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogy/washburn.html
Thomas B Williams born 6 January 1815 son of Nathaniel Hall
Williams (George 3, Samuel 2, Thomas 1) and Judith Brieryhurst
(Thomas Bryeryhurst 2, John Brierhurst 1). He died 2 October 1891
in Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine.
Elvira Briery born 1817 in Bowdoin, Sagadahoc County, Maine
daughter of John Briery (Thomas Bryeryhurst 2, John Brierhurst 1)
and Hannah Hough (parents unknown). She died 8 October 1881 in
Pittsfield.
Married 1833. (first cousins)
Children:
1. Martha W. Williams born 1836 in Bowdoin, married Levi Taylor Jr.
2. Orrington L Williams born 25 October 1837 in Bowdoin, died 1916
in Madison, Somerset County, Maine. Married Sylvia Pullen Gamage
daughter of William Gamage and Lonie or Lona Pullen.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WilliamsNewEnglandRoots/message/2
3. Jane H. Williams born 26 October 1842 in Pittsfield. Married
Frank Hannaford.
4. Abby F Williams born 29 October 1845 in Pittsfield. Married
Samuel Taylor. Three children.
5. Emma Williams born November 1847 in Pittsfield. Married William
A Pushor.
If you have anything to add, subtract, confirm or refute or if you
have any connection with this family I'd like to hear from you.
If you'd like to add this information to your database or share it
with others feel free to do so and please cite the source. If you
would like to publish this information in your web site, your own
book, CD or other publication I would appreciate a note from you
saying so. This data is not to be submitted to any person,
organization or firm that in the business of collecting data to put
on commercial CD's or commercial web sites for the purpose of
selling it to their patrons.
Best wishes,
David
David Sylvester
28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974
Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.
Video: Early Settlers of New England
In 1940 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films created an educational film
that shows the life of the early settlers of Naumkeag, a village that
later was renamed to Salem, Massachusetts. It shows the lifestyles of
1626 through 1629. This video is now available online and certainly
will interest anyone who had ancestors most anywhere in New England.
You can see how your ancestors lived.
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/07/video-early-set.html
Feel free to forward this message.
David
Retracing my steps: Williams - Gamage connection -
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogy/washburn.html
Orrington L Williams born 25 October 1837 in Bowdoin, Sagadahoc
County, Maine son of Thomas B Williams (Nathaniel Hall Williams 4,
George 3, Samuel 2, Thomas 1) and Elvira Briery daughter of John
Briery (Thomas [Bryeryhurst] 2, John [Brierhurst] 1). He died 1916
in Madison, Somerset County, Maine.
Sylvia Pullen Gamage born 9 November 1832 in North Anson, Somerset
County, Maine daughter of William Gamage (William 5, Joshua 4,
Nathaniel 3, Joshua 2, John 1) and Lonie or Lona Pullen (Jonathan
5, Stephen 4, James 3, Nicholas 2, John 1). She died between 12 May
1915 and 1926 in Madison.
Married 9 September 1860.
Children:
1. Cora Estelle Williams born 24 July 1863, died 17 September 1928.
Married Mr. Fogg.
2. Alice Eldora Williams born 3 July 1867 or 1968 in Madison.
Married Edward Jones Washburn son of Alden F Washburn and Judith L
Jones. Three daughters.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WilliamsNewEnglandRoots/message/1
3. Willard Williams born 1869/70, died 1942.
If you have anything to add, subtract, confirm or refute or if you
have any connection with this family I'd like to hear from you.
If you'd like to add this information to your database or share it
with others feel free to do so and please cite the source. If you
would like to publish this information in your web site, your own
book, CD or other publication I would appreciate a note from you
saying so. This data is not to be submitted to any person,
organization or firm that in the business of collecting data to put
on commercial CD's or commercial web sites for the purpose of
selling it to their patrons.
Best wishes,
David
David Sylvester
28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974
Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.
Retracing my steps: Washburn - Jones connection -
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogy/washburn.html
Alden F Washburn born February 1820 in Madison, Somerset County,
Maine son of Hosea Washburn (Hosea 6, [weak link here] Stephen 5,
Ephraim 4, Joseph 3, John 2, John 1) and Hannah Maxim (Andrew
[Muxam], John [Muxham], Edmund, Samuel). He died 24 January 1888 in
Madison.
Judith L Jones born 28 September 1823 daughter of Edward Jones
(Captain Edward) and Fannie Lane (Giddings 5, Daniel 4, Samuel 3,
Samuel 2, James 1) of Leeds, Androscoggin County, Maine. She died
23 March 1887.
Children:
1. Marilla Washburn born 1858/59, died 1929. Married Josiah Clark 8
June 1878. One daughter.
2. Edward Jones Washburn born 23 October 1861 in Madison, Somerset
County, Maine, died 30 August 1914 in Madison. Married Alice Eldora
Williams daughter of Orrington L Williams and Sylvia Pullen Gamage.
Three daughters.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WashburnNewEnglandRoots/message/2
If you have anything to add, subtract, confirm or refute or if you
have any connection with this family I'd like to hear from you.
If you'd like to add this information to your database or share it
with others feel free to do so and please cite the source. If you
would like to publish this information in your web site, your own
book, CD or other publication I would appreciate a note from you
saying so. This data is not to be submitted to any person,
organization or firm that in the business of collecting data to put
on commercial CD's or commercial web sites for the purpose of
selling it to their patrons.
Best wishes,
David
David Sylvester
28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974
Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.
Retracing my steps: Washburn - Williams connection -
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogy/washburn.html
Edward Jones Washburn born 23 October 1861 in Madison, Somerset
County, Maine son of Alden F Washburn (Hosea 7, Hosea 6, [weak link
here] Stephen 5, Ephraim 4, Joseph 3, John 2, John 1) and Judith L
Jones (Edward, Edward). He died 30 August 1914 in Madison.
Alice Eldora Williams born 3 July 18__ (probably 1860's) in Madison
daughter of Orrington L Williams (Thomas B 5, Nathaniel Hall 4,
George 3, Samuel 2, Thomas 1) and Sylvia Pullen Gamage (William 6,
William 5, Joshua 4, Nathaniel 3, Joshua 2, John 1). She is buried
in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison.
Married 9 September 1891 probably in Madison.
Children:
1. Evangeline Estelle Washburn born 30 Jun 1895 in Norridgewock,
Somerset County, Maine, died 16 Oct 1981. Married Vivian Daniel
Sylvester of Searsport, Waldo County, Maine son of Dummer Michael
Sylvester and Evelyn Lissie [Cochran] Elbridge.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WashburnNewEnglandRoots/message/6
2. Sadie Washburn married Austie Chelf, no children.
3. Mary E Washburn married James Thorne, one son.
From a clipping in a local newspaper a few days after his untimely
death:
"Edward J. Washburn of Madison died suddenly at his home on Pine
Street, Sunday night at the age of 52, after an illness of about
ten weeks of tuberculosis.
"While his relatives and friends knew that it was only a matter of
time before he must pass on still the end at this time was wholly
unexpected and came as a great shock to the entire community of
which he was a loved and respected member.
"Mr. Washburn was a member of the Baptist church and always an
active worker in the choir, the church and the Sunday School and in
all three various places it will be hard to find a man, always so
ready and cheerful and always at his post.
"Mr. Washburn had been assistant janitor at the library and the
school buildings until failing health in the spring forced him to
give up active work, and by his unfailing courtesy and faithfulness
to his duties endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact."
If anybody has anything to add, subtract, confirm or refute I'd
like to hear what you've got.
If you'd like to add this information to your database or share it
with others feel free to do so and please cite the source. If you
would like to publish this information in your web site, your own
book, CD or other publication I would appreciate a note from you
saying so. This data is not to be submitted to any person,
organization or firm that in the business of collecting data to put
on commercial CD's or commercial web sites for the purpose of
selling it to their patrons.
Best wishes,
David
David Sylvester
28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974
Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.
Retracing my steps: Williams - Gamage connection -
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogy/washburn.html
Orrington L Williams born 25 October 1837 in Bowdoin, Sagadahoc,
Maine son of Thomas B Williams (Nathaniel Hall Williams 4, George
3, Samuel 2, Thomas 1) and Elvira Briery daughter of John Briery
(Thomas [Bryeryhurst] 2, John [Brierhurst] 1). He died 1916 in
Madison, Somerset, Maine.
Sylvia Pullen Gamage born 9 November 1832 in North Anson, Somerset,
Maine daughter of William Gamage (William 5, Joshua 4, Nathaniel 3,
Joshua 2, John 1) and Lonie or Lona Pullen (Jonathan 5, Stephen 4,
James 3, Nicholas 2, John 1). She died between 12 May 1915 and 1926
in Madison.
Married 9 September 1860.
Children:
1. Cora Estelle Williams born 24 July 1863, died 17 September 1928.
Married Mr. Fogg.
2. Alice Eldora Williams born 3 July 18__ (probably 1860's) in
Madison. Married Edward Jones Washburn son of Alden F Washburn and
Judith L Jones. Three daughters.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WilliamsNewEnglandRoots/message/1
3. Willard Williams born 1869/70, died 1942.
If you have anything to add, subtract, confirm or refute or if you have any
connection with this family I'd like to hear from you.
If you'd like to add this information to your database or share it
with others feel free to do so and please cite the source. If you
would like to publish this information in your web site, your own
book, CD or other publication I would appreciate a note from you
saying so. Please do not submit this data to any person,
organization or firm that is in the business of collecting data to
put on commercial CD's or commercial web sites for the purpose of
selling it to their patrons.
Best wishes,
David
David Sylvester
28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974
Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.