Scott C. Steward
Scott C. Steward was the founding editor at Vita Brevis; he served as NEHGS Editor-in-Chief 2013-2022. He is the author, co-author, or editor of genealogies of the Ayer, Le Roy, Lowell, Saltonstall, Thorndike, and Winthrop families. His articles have appeared in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, NEXUS, New England Ancestors, American Ancestors, and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, and he has written book reviews for the Register, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.
Since marriage for the upper classes was more about consolidating property than for affection, children married children, and sometimes adults…
On Marrying up
It is certainly possible, but I don't have an answer!
On Marrying up
Dear Mr. Purcell: Please email me at scott.steward@nehgs.org. All my best, Scott
On Subscribe
Hi, Jennifer! Yes, little by little we will figure out who John Francis Bell is. Interesting that he was helping…
On Far-flung relations
I'm afraid I can't, Dot. Jacob Le Roy's line goes back to La Rochelle, and can be traced into the…
On The Le Roy family register
"...his childhood inconceivably remote in the early 1970s..."
On ‘Planting watermelon’
I don't know! I can't find someone named Neighbor Bell in the 1910 or 1920 censuses -- perhaps Neighbor was…
On ‘Planting watermelon’
Thanks, Michael!
On The weekend farmer
Thanks, Jeff!
On The weekend farmer
It came down to Craig's grandmother, Frances in the journal, and then to his father. I think it's one of…
On The weekend farmer