Thanks for sharing your research about Barbara May Cameron's ancestry. Whenever I come across a person with deep ancestry in…
On Crossing Barriers: Barbara May Cameron
Thanks for this article. I was oblivious to slavery in the north until 2005 when I visited The New York…
On The Last Woman Enslaved in Woodstock, Connecticut
Oh yes! I stayed at Cynthia’s house ten years ago, right after her marriage, and I met two of your…
On The case of Levi Starbuck
It seems from my research that “Paul Allen” or “Prince de Clairmont” was actually Clairmont Jocelyn Preston Arnot. Born in…
On The world’s a stage
Lewiston, Biddeford, Waterville, Maine; Nashua, Manchester, Berlin, New Hampshire; Winooski, Vermont; Lowell, Fall River, Massachusetts; Central Falls, Rhode Island are…
On Woonsocket, Rhode Island: The Most French City in the United States
Once upon a time, I came upon an 1850 Census record for Onesimus Comstock, where he was enumerated as "voluntary…
On The Last Woman Enslaved in Woodstock, Connecticut
[…] I read two stories of interest in a recent issue of The Woodstock Villager, a local newspaper from my grandfather’s Connecticut…
On The Last Woman Enslaved in Woodstock, Connecticut
[…] Smith of Woodstock, the great-great-grandparents of my great-great-granduncle (by marriage) Lt. John Merrick Paine (1845-1916), who had served in the 29th…
On Civil War memories
[…] Fellows and emancipated in 1798 by Isaac’s widow Leah (Paine) Fellows. Leah was the daughter of Daniel and Leah (Paine)…
On A Paine legacy
Thanks Michael. My research on Chance Bradstreet of Marblehead and Ipswich showed he was enslaved by two generations of ministers…
On The Last Woman Enslaved in Woodstock, Connecticut