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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Halloween Edition- Mercy Lena Brown

October 11, 2022

Note: I published this post, 11 Oct 2022, not realizing that today is the 175th birthday of Mary Eliza (Arnold) Brown, the mother of Mercy Lena Brown. Welcome to another installment of the 52 in 52- Halloween edition! In this post I had to borrow another spooky ancestor, and I will have do the same for the next two installments (my own ancestors were mostly nice, solid, immigrant farmers whose lives were nice, solid, and not particularly spooky!). I figure the person in this week's post was someone's relative, so she counts! In today's tale, we're going to meet Mercy Brown of Rhode Island, an unassuming and, by all accounts, quiet girl, whose death fed into superstition so deep that it gripped parts of New England in fear. So buckle up, and let's go! (As I was writing this post, I discovered that Lena Brown is a distant relative of one of my clients, through her mother's family! Another ancestor of his will be next week's post! So she is in a client...

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

October 10, 2022

Have a safe and marvelous Indigenous Peoples Day wherever you are! Spend some time today learning about the local tribes in your area, and if you can, go to a celebration locally. I'm fortunate enough to live in an area where there are lots of indigenous people, so today I'm going to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and browse the exhibits. https://indianpueblo.org/

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Halloween Edition!

October 05, 2022

Note: This ancestor is from a client tree, and is used with their express permission. Welcome to the fourth installment of my 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series! This October, I decided to branch out a little from my usual posts and focus on the spooky and haunting. For this installment of the 52 in 52, I asked a client to "loan" me one of her spooky ancestors, a man whose family got caught up in one of the most terrifying and senseless tragedies ever to happen in the United States, the Salem Witch Trials. Accused two times, indicted two times, yet managed to escape trial, the story of Edward Farrington is a spooky tale fit for the most dramatic of novels. Edward, sometimes called Edmund, Farrington was born 5 Jul 1662 in Andover, Massachusetts to John Farrington and his wife Elizabeth (Knight) Farrington. John had emigrated to the American Colonies with his parents Edmund and Elizabeth (Newhall) Farrington in June of 1636, with his siblin...