This present-day map of Essex County, Massachusetts, (source: mass-doc.com) shows the detail of towns where I find my Lowell ancestors. The names of current cities are capitalized; towns are not.
The dates of settlement or incorporation are in parentheses. Newbury (1635), Newburyport (1764, from Newbury), Salisbury (1639), Amesbury (1666, from Salisbury). (The Atlantic Ocean is to the east and New Hampshire is to the north.)
If this looks familiar, it is because my Greeley ancestors settled in Salisbury and later moved inland to Haverhill (1640).
I live on the street where Horace Greeley's family was in Londonderry. There is a Greeley road and a cemetery full of Greeleys nearby. His immigrant ancestor was Andrew Greele/Greeley who died 30 June 1697 in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Is that the same family?
ReplyDeleteYes, same family. See http://frommainetokentucky.blogspot.com/2013/04/distant-cousin-horace-greeley.html to see my relation to Horace Greeley (4th cousin 4x removed).
DeleteThanks for reading!
Thanks Elizabeth-- maps are so useful for getting an idea of where our ancestors lived in relation to one another. Rockingham County was literally right next to Amesbury, so no wonder they could move back and forth so easily!
ReplyDeleteYes, and several of my Essex County ancestors ended up in New Hampshire. I should probably find a comparable map of southern New Hampshire to keep track of where these families moved.
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