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posted 12-23-2004 10:36 PM
  
Those who have poked around these pages for any length of time know I have been working on a single family genealogical study of American silversmiths. It continues to give me great pleasure in the doing and I solemnly swear to put a new build up on my site the first of next year. Honest. One of the drawbacks to a very large study (176,000+ people, 26,500+ families) is that you lose track of lines and its hard to see all the relationships and connections across time. One thing I like to do is go back to the first couple to arrive on these shores and see what their loins hath wrought. Here is an example. Some time before 1660, Thomas Lord, yeoman, gathered up his wife Dorothy and their 10 children and made the long voyage across the sea. Eventually they ended up among the founding families of Hartford CT and prospered. The children married and moved outward into the growing colony and beyond. They followed all sorts of trades no doubt, but silversmithing (and its allied trades) seems to have been particularly attractive, especially in the early years of the 19th century: Silversmiths Jewelers, clockmakers, pewtersmiths, and other related trades By any accounting, an envious list of progeny in the history of American silver. [This message has been edited by wev (edited 12-23-2004).] IP: Logged |
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