Nathaniel Gould and Rachel Peabody Family Photo Collection
This photo collection, owned by the Stearns family, is shared with Americana-Archives. I wrote an article for the Newburyport News on...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 6, 2020
- 3 min
The Diary of Isabella Cass of Sherwood Hall, Menlo Park, Calif.
Thurlow Lodge, later renamed Sherwood Hall, Menlo Park, California (Picture credit: Stanford University, Department of Special...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
Civil War Dispatch by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan
Major General George B. McClellan An interesting telegraph dispatch by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, commanding the Union forces during...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
Joseph Oliver Stearns and Hellen Louise Dennett
Joseph Oliver Stearns (1838-1917) and Hellen Louise "Nell" Dennett (1843-1874) were married in Amesbury, Massachusetts, on January 1,...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
What so proudly we hail: recalling the history of ‘Old Glory’ on its 243rd birthday in New York
An article published in the Riverhead Paper June 15, 2020, written by Ann Otten Regent for the Daughters of the American Revolution...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
The Five Elders of Dublin, New Hampshire
Left to right: Malachi Richardson, Tamisin Greenwood Richardson, Lucy Brewer Pratt (widow of Luke Richardson), Rebecca Pratt Eaton, and...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
AMERICAN FOLK ART CARVED ODD FELLOWS HAND HEART
A carved and painted Odd Fellows “Heart-in-Hand” ceremonial staff. Provenance: the collection of Jack and Tommie Marsh of Columbia, S.C....
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 5, 2020
- 1 min
The Mayflower Billington Brothers Dubbed First Juvenile Delinquents in America
“The Mayflower, history shows, was a floating kindergarten, loaded to the gunwales with wailing small fry. Of the 104 passengers aboard,...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 5, 2020
- 1 min
Cherokee-White Intermarriages
"Under the provision of the Curtis Act (1898),1 the Department of the Interior, Commissioner of Five Civilized Tribes, recognized...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 4, 2020
- 2 min
1780 Payment for Stephen Davenport of Connecticut, Signed by Abraham Davenport
Abraham Davenport (1715 – November 20, 1789), born in Stanford, Conn., son of John Davenport (1668-1730) and Elizabeth Morris...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min
Frakturs: American Folk Art with Genealogical Clues
"American folk art has become more and more popular over the years, and frakturs have become a particular favorite among collectors,"...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min
Republican Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, Mississippi
Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901), oil portrait Wikipedia, U.S. Senator (Republican), Mississippi, 1870-1871. Revels was born to free...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min
Maria Hebberd Bresee: A Minister’s Wife After Millions
Phineas and Maria Hebberd Bresee. Image credit: Paul Bresee Family Collection, featured in my GenealogyBank article, "More Hopkins Saga:...
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Melissa Davenport Berry
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min
George Washington Mezzotint by Charles Wilson Peale 1780
From American Collections Decorative Arts, Paintings, and Prints of the Colonial and Federal Periods, from Private Collections, in an...
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