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  Some Descendants of Thomas Wheeler - aqw01.htm
Thomas WHEELER [scrapbook] was born 1602 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England and was christened 20 Nov 1603.
Thomas Wheeler was made freeman in the Connecticut Colony in the year 1669, and was nominated and elected one of the Stonington representatives to the Connecticut General Court in the year 1673.
Thomas Wheeler was among the "Pertakers" at the ordination of Rev. James Noyes 10 Sept. 1674.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~nanc/wheeler/aqwg01.htm   (1642 words)

  
 THOMAS MIDDLETON - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS MIDDLETON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The pages of Henslowes Diary contain notes of plays in which he had a hand, and in the year 1607-1608 he produced no less than six comedies of London life, which he knew as accurately as Dekker and was content to paint in more realistic colors.
The main interest of the Fair Quarrel centres in the mental conflict of Captain Ager, the problem being whether he should fight in defence of his mothers honor when he no longer believes his quarrel to be just.
The underplot, dealing with Jane, her concealed marriage, and the physician, which is generally assigned to Rowley, was suggested by a story in Giraldi Cinthios Hecatommithi.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MIDDLETON_THOMAS.htm   (2524 words)

  
 Merchant Marine Heroes: Text of Meritorious Service Medals Awarded during WWII
Captain Simpson Blackwood was in command of the SS Floyd W. Spenser which was in convoy on her maiden voyage, loaded with vital war materiel for the Philippine campaign, when directly attacked by a Japanese suicide plane.
Captain Deal and his companions, with complete disregard for personal safety, skillfully worked their way through floating wreckage and patches of burning oil on the surface of the water, and arrived in time to rescue two of the crew of the wrecked vessel, which proved to be an Allied mine-sweeper.
Captain Lee, whose tug W. Dalzell, was in the vicinity, observed the menacing fire and without hesitation proceeded through the dense smoke, made a line fast to the burning ship, and, with the aid of another of his company s tugs, towed her to the outer harbor.
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 Family of Thomas Wheeler
Thomas Wheeler left a will, which was lost by being burned when the infamous Arnold burned the city of New London, Sept. 6, 1781.
Thomas Wheeler was among the "Pertakers" at the ordination of Rev.
On 1 April 1653, Samuel Bennett of Lynn, carpenter, sold to Thomas Wheeler of Lynn, miller, a watermill in Lynn, the lands belonging to it, and two dwelling houses with eleven acres and five acres of marsh.
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 William Kennedy: God, Nature, and Politics: The Ministry of Thomas Starr King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Young Thomas was educated at the excellent public schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, where he excelled.
When Chapin was called to a church in New York, Charlestown called Thomas Starr King, and he became their minister at the age of twenty-two.
In April of 1860 Thomas, Julia, and their eight-year-old daughter Edith set sail for California.
online.sksm.edu /ce/papers/p-kennedyw~god,nature,politics---.htm   (2895 words)

  
 Province of New Hampshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was was reunited with Massachusetts again in 1688, and separated it out one last time in 1691, at which point it became the royal Province of New Hampshire.
Although New Hampshire did not get its own colonial governor until 1741, in 1631 Captain Thomas Wiggin served as the first governor of the province of the Upper Plantation of New Hampshire, comprising modern-day Dover, Durham and Stratham which ultimately became the royal Province of New Hampshire.
The disputed New Hampshire Grants territory (New Hampshire claimed it, a judge awarded it to New York) later became the state of Vermont.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Hampshire_Colony   (367 words)

  
 LoneStar Genealogy, Comprehensive Texas History & Genealogy Web Site
Reuben Wiggins was born ABT 1788 in Sampson Co,NC, and died BEF 1880 in Humphreys Co,TN.
Thomas Wiggins was born ABT 1758 in Halifax Co,NC.
Thomas Wiggins IV was born 1710, and died 7 Jan 1760.
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 RIVER CONTROL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1843 Topographical Engineer Captain Thomas Jefferson Cram was sent to survey the St. Louis Harbor with an eye to possible improvement...(Dobney 1978:27-28, cited in Smith and Lange 1980:28-29).
In 1853 the Wiggin's Ferry Company applied for renewal of its 1819 charter and petitioned for the right to build a city on Bloody Island, to run their ferry operation from the island, and "generally to engage in any business required by the exigencies of a city proprietorship" (Bond 1969:47).
However, because the Wiggin's Ferry Company was awarded all of the channel fill inside the long dike all the way to Brooklyn, the Kerr Ferry was forced to move north in order to have direct access to the river once again.
www.eslarp.uiuc.edu /ibex/archive/IDOT/idot12.htm   (2544 words)

  
 Vehement Suspicion: Eunice Cole of Hampton (1656-1680)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thomas Coleman and John Redman deposed to the evidence and particularly to the word[s] should not do.
The deposition of Thomas Philbrick[:] this deponent saith that Goodwife Cole said that if this deponent's calves if they did eat any of her grass she wished it might poison them or choke them and one of them I never see it more and the other calf came home and died about a week after.
George Pearson [and] the wife of Captain Edward Huchinson could evidence that which was very material against her.
www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/biog/hall.htm   (1868 words)

  
 Osgood, The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. Volume III. Part IV. Chapter III.
a brother-in-law of Governor Winthrop, Captain Thomas Wiggin of Piscataqua, members of the company, and friends of Massachusetts, some of whom had recently returned from the colony, appeared in its defence, and for the time the efforts of Gorges and his associates were defeated.
Gorges’ house, which was attended both by Sir Ferdinando and by Captain John Mason, agreed upon a redivision of the sea coast from the fortieth degree of latitude to Nova Scotia.
On May 5, 1635, Thomas Morton received an appointment from the council as solicitor for the confirmation of the deeds under the great seal, as also to prosecute a suit at law for the repeal of the Massachusetts patent.
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 SETTLEMENT GROWTH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wiggins Ferry was the official name of the post office and Samuel Wiggins was the postmaster (Bond 1969:16).
The 1843 map (Figure 10) credited to Winkelmeier (1841) and Captain Thomas Jefferson Cram (1843), a topographical engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers, was possibly the work of both men.
Captain Cram's interest in Winkelmeier's map was apparently due to his need for an accurate map to depict the topographical features needed for his report on the St.
www.eslarp.uiuc.edu /ibex/archive/IDOT/idot10.htm   (2338 words)

  
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He was captain of the Mizzentop, was a thorough seaman, and much beloved by his comrades.
Thomas Henry died on the morning of the 7th, at 8 o'clock.
Captain Spofford, writing to his mother regarding George's death says: "Your son died in the discharge of his duties.
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 History : UU Church of Nashua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wiggin, Calvin M. Moulton, Sewall Blodgett, Nat'l Cheney and John Flagg are kept busy directing the "etiquette thereof." The procession very solemnly proceeds on its way to the church, fill the vacant center seats and the exercises begin.
He, however, filled the pulpit most acceptably for several years, serving as acting pastor, and was probably hired by the committee with the tacit assent of the society.
Thomas J. Laton giving us three hundred dollars as the foundation stone on which to build.
www.uunashua.org /1826ChurchHist.shtml   (13566 words)

  
 ipedia.com: John Locke Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Locke was born in Wrington, Somerset, the son of Puritans.
His father, a lawyer, served as a captain of cavalry for Parliament during the English Civil War.
Among the most influential successors of Locke were John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the authors of the libertarian tract Cato's Letters.
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 Untitled Document
Thomas Broughton disputed their ownership and the question was not settled until 1751, when the town confirmed the sale of half of Quamphegan by Spencer to Broughton.
Ten years after Wiggin and Bradstreet had their mill running John Lovering was granted 50 acres of land in Quamphegan by the town of Dover, for the accommodation of a saw mill.
Thomas Leigh lived on the ridge east of the Hayes house, and he was buried in the cemetery at “Old Fields”.
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 Poems of BP Shillaber
A severe contest arose between the agents of the two plantations (now Dover and Portsmouth) respecting the settlement of a point of land which extended into the river from the south-western shore, and which was equally convenient for both plantations.
Wiggin began to make improvements upon it; Neal ordered him to desist.
Wiggin persisted, and threatened to defend his right by the sword; Neal replied in the same determined manner, and they would have proceeded to extremities, if some more moderate persons had not persuaded them to refer the dispute to their employers.
www.seacoastnh.com /poems/bpshillaber.html   (1029 words)

  
 Carpe Libris - Seize the Book - Antiquarian and Rare Books - Samuel Adams Wiggin
Wiggin's mother, Eliza Wendell, was related to Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Sometime in his 30s, Wiggin began writing poetry, and his first poems were published in The Portsmouth (N.H.) Journal in 1861.
The author was born at Portsmouth, N.H., May 27, 1832, of old New England stock, his father’s ancestor being one of the first settlers of Dover, N. H., and an Indian fighter, captain of the fort on Garrison Hill.
www.carpelibris.com /ex-wiggin.html   (1376 words)

  
 Fort Ticonderoga History: 1758 Campaign Bibliography
Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1749 to 1774, London, 1828.
Captain Hugh Arnot to your lordship, Stillwater, 1 August 1758 and enclosing "A Journal or Proceedings of the Army under the Command of Maj.-Gen. Abercromby," 19 August 1758.
Thomas Doty’s Massachusetts regiment at the inn of William Scott, Palmer, Massachusetts, 5 August 1758.
www.fort-ticonderoga.org /history/bibliographies/1758campaign.htm   (12741 words)

  
 clarkco
Captain Wiggins was sent to the officers’ prison on Johnson’s Island, near Sandusky, Ohio, and was exchanged before the end of the war.
Captain Wiggins, just out of prison, found his battery in North Carolina, where it was eventually cut off from the main body of the Confederate army and forced to surrender.
Captain Wiggins and ten of his men were all that remained when they surrendered at Newton, North Carolina, April 19, 1865.
www.couchgenweb.com /civilwar/clarkco.html   (2281 words)

  
 Genealogy.com: The Wiggin Family of New Hampshire
Along with a niece and a nephew, we have been researching both the Wiggin line, and my mother's line, which is Harriman.
I am the tenth generation descendant of "Captain" Thomas Wiggin, who came to this country in the early 1630s and is buried about 15 miles from my current address, along with the first four generations.
Much info about this part of the history can be found in Nelson, Charles B., History of Stratham, NH, published by the Town of Stratham NH in 1987.
www.genealogy.com /genealogy/users/w/i/g/Neal-A-Wiggin   (161 words)

  
 Maine Writers: T through Z
Thomas Urquhart (husband of children's book writer Amy MacDonald) is a principal in Urquhart and Spritz, a consulting firm on business and the environment based in Maine.
Born in Philadelphia, Wiggin was raised there and in Portland and Hollis, Maine, and she lived in Hollis for years, although she died in Harrow, England.
Wiggin herself was head of the Silver Street Kindergarten until she married lawyer Samuel B. Wiggin in 1881.
www.waterborolibrary.org /maineaut/tz.htm   (10231 words)

  
 History of Bedford, New Hampshire Chapter 3
Stephen Dole, colonel; James Aiken, captain; Phineas Aiken, lieutenant; James Gilmore, ensign; William Dole, captain; Nathan Barnes, captain; Andrew Aiken, captain of cavalry; James Moor, lieutenant; ____ Dunlap, major; ____ Bois, captain; William Moor, captain; James McLaughlin, ensign; John McAllister, captain; Thomas Chandler, captain; Joseph Colley, captain; Thomas Barr, captain of artillery, 1815 to 1817.
It will be perceived that during the War of 1812 there were more than two hundred men armed and equipped in the town of Bedford, who held themselves in readiness to march in defense of their country.
At the time the British invaded Portsmouth, the company of exempts under Captain Isaac Riddle, the infantry under Captain William Moore, and the Grenadiers, under Captain William P. Riddle, met at centre of the town, and drilled every day for two weeks, expected hourly to have orders to march to meet the enemy at Portsmouth.
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In the Presence of Thomas Causton, and Henry Parker Bailiffs, Thomas Christie Recorder, John Vat Comiseary to the Saltzburgere, and Sundry Gentlemen and Freeholders of the Said town and Province of Georgia.
But as the Tplk upon this Affair will be better related when I am 27 (39) to speak of the Upper Nation, I beg le^ve to proceed with Regard to the Lower Nation; The^ d?y was come which was appointed for their Publick Reception and delivery of the Presents.
Thomas Fausset is dangerously ill. I thank God I have my Health as well as ever I had in Great 83 (123) Britain; I chuae cool Liquors for my Drink which best agree with me. We greatly wish for more People coming over to Strengthen this place.
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 Novels of Captain Frederick Marryat : Arthur's Classic Novels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Besides the captain of the ship and the two men at the wheel, there were two other personages on deck: one was a young lad about twelve years old, and the other a weather-beaten old seaman, whose grisly locks
It is an old saying, that "if there were no receivers there would be no thieves," and it would have been of very little use for Rushbrook to take the game if he had not had the means of disposing of it.
The frigate in which my father eventually served as captain's coxswain was commanded by a Sir Hercules Hawkingtrefylyan, Baronet.
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 U.S. Coast Guard World War II Book of Valor
Captain Fritzche was in command of a main group of the Assault Force, composed of a mixed fleet of American and British transports and American landing craft.
Captain Mauerman efficiently organized and thoroughly trained his ship and boat group to execute the assigned mission leading, transporting to the assault area, and landing the embarked army assault units on the invasion beaches on the coast of Southern France.
Under Captain Heimer's skillful and judicious direction in the thorough training and planning for the combat performance of the SAMUEL CHASE, the operation was conducted expeditiously and with timely effectiveness which enabled the embarked troops and equipment to be landed promptly on the heavily defended beaches.
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 Hill Family
He was a leading citizen, captain in the militia and for many years member of the provincial council.
He married Lydia Wiggin, of Canterbury, New Hampshire, the town of which Loudon was formerly a part.
She was a descendant of Governor Thomas Wiggin, who deeded June 4,1663, a large tract of land at Durham, New Hampshire, to his son Andrew.
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 Leavitt Pioneers by Wm.P.Leavitt
He traced Thomas' ancestors from Lincolnshire and Rutland to Melton (two miles west of Doncaster), and finally to the "Levetts of Normanton and Melton, Yorkshire." Their initial division apparently had occurred as a consequence of their many intermarriages with the Wentworths (see Visitation of Yorkshire, 1612, "Levett of Melton"; and Hunter's Deanery of Doncaster).
Thomas Levet arrived in New England as a loyal member of a Puritan group headed by Reverend John Wheelwright.
As for John's marrying Thomas' sister during 1637, Sanborn only notes she might "possibly (be), according to Pope, the Mary Lovett of the Dorchester Church," but not Thomas' sister.
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 Notes
[NI0413] Mary Wiggin was the granddaughter of Governor Thomas Wiggin and of Governor Simon Bradstreet.
Thomas Moulton later went to York, Maine, and is the Moulton with his men of Whittier's poem Mogg Megone.
She married Captain Feake, who became insane and his wife, who seems to have had no strong affection for him, found a new "affinity" in the person of William Hallet who ultimately married her while Captain Feake was still living.
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 Journal of the executive proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America, 1858-1861 : a machine readable ...
I hereby nominate Thomas F. Hooper to be deputy postmaster at Benicia, in the county of Solano and State of California, his commission having expired on the second of August, 1858, and who was reappointed during the last recess of the Senate.
I hereby nominate Thomas Miller to be deputy postmaster at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, in place of S. Medary, resigned, the said Miller having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate.
I hereby nominate Thomas W. Pegues to be deputy postmaster at Camden, in the district of Kershaw and State of South Carolina, Whose commission expired on the 20th of December, 1858.
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