VAUGHAN, ETC NEWSLETTER
January 1987
EDITOR: Verna Baker Banes
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The following info is abstracted from A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
by James Savage, (1873, 1981) Vol. IV, pp 268, 269:
GEORGE VAUGHAN of Scituate, Mass., m. 1652 Elizabeth Henchman (or Hunksman). He d. Middleboro,
Mass. 1694. Their children:
i. Elizabeth
ii. Daniel, m. 27 Mar 1678, Susanna
Grimes, of Plymouth. Their children b. between179-1690:
John, Ann, Daniel, David, Samuel
iii. John, b. 1658, drowned at 18 yrs.
iv. Mary, m. Jonathan Washburn of Bridgewater
v. (Ens.) Joseph, of Middleboro, children b. between 1692-1702: John, Mary, Josiah, Joanna
(Scituate and Middleboro, were a part of Plymouth Colony, until it was absorbed by the Mass. Bay Colony in 1691)
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WILLIAM VAUGHAN, of Portsmouth, NH, b. probably in Wales, d. NH, 1719; m. 8 Dec 1668, Margaret
Cutt, (d. 22 Jan 1692). He became freeman under Mass. 1672; was Lt. of Cavalry, Counselor of NH, after
it separated from Mass.; Chief Justice of Supreme Court. Their children:
i. Eleanor, b. 5 Mar 1670; m. 6 Feb 1693, Richard Walron
ii. Mary, b. 6 Mar 1672; m. (?) Mr. Thing
iii. Cutt, b. 9 Mar 1674
iv. George, b.13 Apr 1676; d. 20 Nov 1725;
m. (1) Mary Belcher (d. 3 Feb 1700 after birth of child which
did not live). m. (2) Elizabeth Eliot, dau of Robt. of Newcastle. Lt. Gov of NH. Their children: b. between
1702-1714: Sarah, William (Harvard 1722), Margaret, d. y., George, Elizabeth, Abigail, Eliot, Mary.
v. Bridget, b. 2 July 1678; m. Nathaniel Gerrish
vi. Margaret, b. Dec 1680; m. Mr. Chambers of Charlestown, Mass.
vii. Abigail, b. 5 May 1683; m. Richard Shannon
viii. Elizabeth, b. 26 Apr 1686; m. Mr. Moulton
Abstracted by Sherrill Bourn, 4257 Timuquana Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32210.
This dictionary has information on many other Vaughan/Vaughn families which could give vital data to
anyone whose ancestors were once in the New England area of the United States. Thanks, Sherry, for
your help!
Root Hunt
Austin American Statesman
Genetic researchers have done their thing and now one of them says the entire human population of
Earth descended from a single woman who lived in Africa approximately 200,000 years ago. Another
Scientist using similar genetic engineering techniques proposes an alternative theory, that the first female
was Asian rather than African.
The wire service reports do not say if the researchers, having discovered more or less where First Mom
hailed from, are on the track of First Dad. But if First Mom was the first female human being, who was
the first male human being? Her husband, or was he more or less a beast? And was First Son really First
Dad as well? maybe it's too early in the new year to ponder the possibilities and sufficient to remember
that however it all came about, we all really are brothers and sisters and that after 200,000 years it's about
time we began to act like one big happy family. Mom would have wanted it that way.
Ship Records List Irish Immigrants
Knight-Ridder News Service
PHILADELPHIA -- Wretched, starved and desperate, the refugees from the Irish potato famine struck
the American shores like the flotsam of a hellish sea.
In the confusion of their arrival, record-keeping barely existed. But there was one place where their
names were written down -- in the manifests of the ships that transported them to the New World. The
manifests were put away for more than a century in the National Archives.
But after almost eight yars of painstaking effort by Temple University and the Balch Institute for Ethnic
Studies, more than 700,000 of the names have been copied, organized and published in seven volumes with
the overall title of The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York,
1846-51.
For the first time, Irish Americans will be able to consult a single source to learn about the arrival of
ancestors on U.S. shores. The seven volumes are organized chronologically and contain immigrant's names,
ages, sex, occupations and, in some cases, names of hometowns. Names of persons traveling with them and
the names of ships also are contained.
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