An account of the 1750s migration from the Rhineland to the Maine wilderness.
Category Archives: 18th Century
Colonel Samuel Tidd?
One of the more interesting new datasets available online today are FamilySearch’s war pension applications from the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Over the past few days, I’ve looked at references to any and all Tidds. Three documents might relate to Samuel Tidd, b1759 in Woburn, the direct ancestor of all Georgetown Tidds.Continue reading “Colonel Samuel Tidd?”
A Heroine in the House
Lydia Warren Spafford never met a man she couldn’t handle.
Prisoner of War
Joseph Bartlett of Newbury 1686-1754 In the fall of 1712, 25-year-old Joseph Bartlett journeyed east through the Massachusetts wilderness to his coastal hometown of Newbury, after more than four years in captivity at the hands of the French and their Indian allies. Here is what survives of his story. Queen Anne’s War For more thanContinue reading “Prisoner of War”
The Alarm
On April 19 1775, four Tidd men stood on Lexington common with a small militia band as eight hundred British troops marched up the road. Here is their story.
Wicked Moxie 