Abigail Hussey Mother of John Greenleaf Whittier

Abigail Hussey (1780-1850) daughter of Samuel Hussey (1720-1814) and Mercy Evans (1735-1796) married John Whittier (1760-1830) son of Joseph Whittier (1716-1796) and Sarah Greenleaf (1720-1762). Mother of John Greenleaf Whittier

  
January 22 1858 Berkshire County News

    Burial: Pentucket Cemetery  Haverhill Massachusetts, USA

Samuel Preble and Hannah Stone of Marblehead

From August 18 1920

ODD FELLOW FOR 70 YEARS IS DEAD OBIT
From Boston Herald Boston, Mass. Tuesday, December 8, 1925

Samuel S. Preble, Marblehead, Also Veteran G.A.R. Member

Samuel S. Preble, one of the oldest members of the Odd Fellow and of the Grand Army in Massachusetts, and perhaps the oldest member of both organizations, died yesterday at his home, 53 Lincoln Avenue, Marblehead. He would have been 96 years old Dec. 18.

He and his wife, on Aug. 2, celebrated their 74th wedding anniversary. His widow, who survives him, is 92.

Mr. Preble was born in Marblehead. Early in his life, he went to the Grand Banks fishing. Later he became a shoe worker and for 50 years he worked in shoe factories in Lynn and Marblehead, retiring when he was 77. For 70 years, he had been a member of Atlantic Lodge, I.O.O.F., of Marblehead, and was the oldest member of that lodge. He also was the oldest member of John Goodwin, Jr., post, G.A.R., of Marblehead.

When the civil war broke out, he enlisted in Company C, 8th Massachusetts Volunteers, serving nine months with that organization. Afterward, he served at Camp Newbern in South Carolina.

For many years he was associated with bands. He played in the Salem brass band when the late T.S. Gilmore, noted bandmaster, was conductor. He was a church singer of local note in Marblehead and neighboring cities and towns.

Besides his wife, he is survived by four sons and daughter, Samuel S. Preble, Jr. of Melrose; Frank A. and Carrie Preble of Marblehead, and Mrs. Edwin A. Hathaway of Swampscott.

The funeral will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at his home. Burial will be in Waterside Cemetery.

Feeling a little Bossy Gillis

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Coffin and Greeley Tide Mills Project

Sunset near Farm Lane dock in Seabrook. In the foreground is the remains of an old tidal saw mill that occupied the site from about 1650 to 1888. Just up stream on Mill creek, a tide mill was constructed about 1640 by Andrew Greeley who ground corn for early Hampton and Salisbury, Mass. settlers.  From Lane Memorial Library Hampton NH  Click for Story & Photography by Stephen T. Whitney  New Hampshire Profiles, June 1971, Vol. XX, No. 6  
Andrew Greeley settled on a part which is now included in Seabrook New Hampshire and thereupon built a tide mill for the grinding of corn on Kane's river 1650. In addition to this mill he built a large saw mill.He moved to Haverhill and opened another Mill (fresh water) Three successive generations of Andrew Greeley were born on the old Greeley homestead Salisbury's earliest settlers By J.Q. Evans See Also John Goff  Tidal Mills defined
Full Text click "Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley family"

Mace Pike who lived in old Stephen Coffin House. This photo shows the old stone from the Coffin Mill at the front door. Google Street View

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Portion of Ron Klodenski's presentation about Coffin’s Mill on Ring’s Island made this to the Tide Mill Institute’s conference in York last November. Please contact me or post for full PDF document

Rev Samuel Parris site excavation and sermons transcribed Danvers MA

From the Archives Parris excavation article, on Witch Craft Trials, Danvers Historical Society and historian Richard Trask and Rev Howard Oliver Stearns, former pastor at First Congregational Church of Danvers who helped to transcribe the sermons of Rev Samuel Parris. The article below can be sent by Richard Trask. If you would like a pdf please send a request.

Danvers Ma 4th graders field trip Richard Trask, archivist giving a talk from inside foundation 1971 Science Digest Magazine

                         Photo From Blog  Witch Caves, Salem End Road 

Howard Oliver Stearns, JR (1925-1999) Clergyman and social activist. He married Barbara Dorcas Holmes, June 19, 1952.

Reverend Samuel Parris (1653-1720) - Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister in Salem Village, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials, as well as the father of one of the afflicted girls, Elizabeth Parris, and the uncle of another -- Abigail Williams. 

Stearns Danvers House.  This saltbox originally was three stories and was located in another part of Danvers.  At some point it was moved to 139 Centre, 1800’s, by 20 pair of oxen on log rollers.   Cut back down to two stories.   Eventually it was owned by the Jasper Marsh family and the addition built on the back.  We lived here 1961 to 1966. It was torn down in the late 1960’s to build I-95.  

 Rev Stearns and his family around Easter time in Danvers home 1966

Ruth and Anne Stearns, daughters od Howard Stearns  at the Endicott Pear Tree

The dedication of the St. Luke’s Chapel at the Danvers State Hospital.   This group worked for a long time to pull together building a chapel for the patients, and daughter, Ruth Stearns remembers going up there a lot as it was being built, and going to this ceremony, dated 1964.  Rev Stearns is on the far right.  The clergyman on the far left is Don Zimmerman, Episcopal minister in Danvers.   The minister in the center is Harold Beede, Chaplain at the State Hospital.  Next to him is Margaret Crofts, a member of Stearns church.  Her daughter was Stearns babysitter and the church organist.  The Beede's  lived near the common on Centre Street.