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1. Ordinance Index reports parents: Thomas Sherwood and Mary Fitch (one entry shows mother as being Alice).
2. "Connecticut Ancestry," periodical published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Dec. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-130: "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," by Robert Charles Anderson. Note that the following is a partial transcript of the full transcript in the notes of Robert Lockwood; the full article is well written by one of the very best modern genealogists and should be consulted in conjunction with the following notes:
"Daniel Lockwood, b. Watertown 25 March 1640. He m. by about 1669 Abigail Sherwood, daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield.(62)
Footnotes:
62. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:383, 548-49 (in her will of 29 January 1691/2, widow Abigail Lockwood made brother Matthew Sherwood one of her overseers)."
3. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Robert Lockwood...
Children...
iv. Daniel Lockwood, b. Watertown 25 March 1640 [NEHGR 7:162; WaVR 1:8]; m. by about 1669 Abigail Sherwood (eldest known child b. about 1669 [FOOF 1:383]), daughter of Thomas Sherwood [FOOF 1:383, 548-49]..."
4. The periodical "The American Genealogist," 80(Oct 2005):278-82, "The English Home of Thomas1 Sherwood of Wethersfield, Stamford, and Fairfield, Connecticut," by Leslie Mahler:
"Thomas1 Sherwood, his wife, and some of their children, were one of the many family groups listed on "last of Aprill 1634" on the ship Frances, which departed from Ipswich, Suffolk, for New England. The passenger list gives the family as follows: Thomas Sherwood aged 48, wife Alice 47, children Anna 14, Rose 11, Thomas 10, and Rebecca 9.[1] Thomas left a will proved in 1655, which also names elder daughters Jane, Tamsen, Mary (or Margaret), and Sarah (see below), who probably came to New England separately. Since the family departed from Ipswich, it would seem that they had originated in either Suffolk or Essex. "Boyd's Marriage Index," which covers a very large percentage of the marriages in those two counties, shows no marriage for a Thomas and Alice Sherwood in the appropriate time period. That failing, a search was made in the Bishops' Transcripts from 1620 to 1629 for the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, which makes up the western half of Suffolk.[2] Only one entry seemed appropriate: the 1620 baptism of Rose, daughter of Thomas and Alice Sherwood, at Kettle Baston. Examination of a transcript of the Kettle Baston register has confirmed that this was the English home of Thomas1 Sherwood of Fairfield, Connecticut, as the baptisms for his daughters Mary, Thomasine, Sarah, Anna, Rose, and Rebecca are all recorded there. A search in Sherwood wills in the various probate courts in Suffolk from 1610 to 1650 has not revealed any definite references to this family.[3] Perhaps local manorial records will provide further information.[4]
THOMAS1 SHERWOOD was born about 1586 (age 48 in the passenger list of 1634)[5] and was living at Kettle Baston, Suffolk, from 1613 to 1622. He died in Fairfield, Connecticut, between 21 July 1655 (date of will) and 7 September 1655 (date of inventory).[6] He arrived with some members of his family on the ship Frances in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1634, and moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in the following year. He sold his lands there in 1640 and went to Stamford, Connecticut, moving again in 1648 to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he remained until his death there in 1655. Several daughters are mentioned in his will, most of whose legacies indicate that they were probably married, but he failed to state their married names.
He married first, say 1610, ALICE ___, who has not been identified. She was born about 1587 (aged 47 in the passenger list) and was still living in 1634. He married secondly, perhaps around 1637, MARY ___, who is also unidentified; she remarried by 4 June 1658 John Banks. She died between 4 January 1693/4 (date of will) and 13 March 1693/4 (date of inventory).[7]
A difficult problem in identifying Thomas1 Sherwood's children comes from his will, which was dated 21 July 1655 and proved the following 25 October. The original document does not survive, and the recorded copy is in bad condition. The will is recorded on two pages and is missing material at the top of both, where it was apparently burned.[8] Donald Lines Jacobus apparently used both the recorded copy and E. Champion Bacon's 1841 abstracts: "[l]n two or three estates in the damaged first volume, [Bacon's] abstracts made so long ago contained a little more information than is now legible."[9] Paul Prindle used a transcription, not otherwise identified, also made when the damage was less significant. Thomas Sherwood "gave unto the children of my first wife. I bequeath to my son Thomas five acres of upland lying upon the north end of Sasqua Neck. I bequeath to my daughter Jane twenty shillings. I bequeath to my daughter Tamsen twenty shillings. I bequeath to my daughter Marg. [sic] twenty shillings. I bequeath to my daughter Sarah twenty shillings. I bequeath to my daughter Hanna twenty shillings. I bequeath to my daughter Rose twenty shillings. I bequeath to my daughter Rebecca forty shillings. I will that the above named legacies-be payd within one year after my decease. I will and bequeath to my well beloved wife Mary Sherwood whom I make my executor and executrix of this my last will who shall pay the above named legacies." He then left to son Steven Sherwood "my dwelling house and homelot with all the buildings on this homelot and all the loft that layd next to my homelot ... except half an acre"; to son Matthew "all my upland and meadow lying on the other side of Uncawy Creek namely on the east side"; to daughter Mary £10; to daughter Ruth £10; to daughter Abigaill £10; to son Isaak "that dwelling house next to my dwelling house that I now live in," etc.; to "my loving and well beloved wife Mary Sherwood all the estate undivided ... Excepting a mare colt which my son Isaak shall have." Steven was to have his portion when he was 20 and Matthew also at 20. "And my son Isaak shall have four acres of meadow in the great meadow which I bought of Peter Merritt and five acres in the new field which he is to have at twenty years of age. To Mary, Abigaill and Ruth which I had by my last wife...." "Well beloved friends Thomas Staples and Nathan Gold to be overseers of this my last will."10]
On 18 January 1658[/9], John Banks, husband of the widow Mary (___) Sherwood, signed an agreement to pay Sherwood's daughters, Ruth and Abigail Sherwood, £10 each, as ordered by a court at Stratford, Connecticut, on 4 June 1658.[11]
Mary Banks's will was dated 6 January 1693/4 and probated on 13 March 1693/4. She mentioned her son Stephen, Stephen's daughter Ruth Sherwood, Hannah "Lumis" [relationship not stated], daughter Ruth, son Isaac Sherwood, and granddaughter Mary Sherwood (daughter of Matthew); son Matthew Sherwood was named executor and received the residue.[12]
Children of Thomas1 Sherwood with his 1st wife, Alice (___);[13] ii to vii bp. at Kettle Baston, Suffolk:[14]
i. JANE2 SHERWOOD, b. say 1611; probably m. by 1655 (father's will).
ii. MARY SHERWOOD, bp. 1613 [month and day not recorded]; probably m. by 1655.[15]
iii. THOMASINE SHERWOOD, bp. 10 April 1615; probably m. by 1655, perhaps WILLIAM1 BELDEN of Wethersfield, Conn.[16]
iv. SARAH SHERWOOD, bp. 26 Jan. 1616[/7]; probably m. by 1655.
v. ANNA/HANNAH SHERWOOD, bp. 13 June 1619, aged 14 in April 1634 passenger list; probably m. by 1655. Prindle suggests that she might be the "Hannah Lumis" in her stepmother's will (1693/4).[17] It is much more likely, however, that Hannah was Mary (___) Sherwood's granddaughter, a child of Mary2 (Sherwood) Loomis (no. x, below).
vi. ROSE SHERWOOD, bp. 10 Dec. 1620, aged 11 [sic] in April 1634; m. (1) THOMAS1 RUMBLE of Stratford, Conn.; m. (2) THOMAS1 BARLOW of Fairfield; m. (3) EDWARD NASH.
vii. REBECCA SHERWOOD, bp. 13 Oct. 1622, aged 9 [sic] in April 1634, living in 1655.[18]
viii. THOMAS SHERWOOD, b. ca. 1624, aged 10 in April 1634; m. (1) by 1654, SARAH2 WHEELER (Thomas1); m. (2) by 1659, ANN2 TURNEY (Benjamin1); m. (3) after 1673, ELIZABETH (___) CABLE, widow of John2 Cable (John1) of Fairfield; m. (4) SARAH2 (HIDE) COLEY, daughter of Humphrey1 Hide and widow of Peter Coley.
Children of Thomas Sherwood, all probably with his 2nd wife, Mary (___):
ix. STEPHEN SHERWOOD, b. say 1638; m. (1) REBECCA2 TURNEY (Benjamin1); m. (2) HANNAH (JACKSON) GALPIN, daughter of Henry1 Jackson and widow of Phillip Galpin; m. (3) MARY2 (ADAMS) (GUIRE) MERWIN, daughter of Edward[1] Adams and widow of Luke Guire and [___] Merwin.[19]
x. MARY SHERWOOD (again), b. say 1640; m. Windsor, Conn., 28 June 1659, as 2nd wife, JOSEPH2 LOOMIS (Joseph1)[20] Joseph and Mary (Sherwood) Loomis had a daughter Hanna[h], b. Windsor, 2 Feb. 1661[/2][21] and aged 25 when the inventory of her father's estate was taken on 12 July 1687.[22] She is probably the "Hannah Lumis" in her grandmother's will.
xi. RUTH SHERWOOD, b. say 1642; m. Windsor, Conn., 4 June 1663, JOSHUA2 HOLCOMB (Thomas').
xii. MATTHEW SHERWOOD, b. ca. 1644, d. Stratfield, Conn., 26 Oct. 1715, in 72nd year; m. (1) SARAH2 TURKEY (Benjamin1); m. (2) MARY2 FITCH (Thomas1).
xiii. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD, b. say 1648; m. DANIEL2 LOCKWOOD (Robert1).
xiv. ISAAC SHERWOOD, b. say 1650; m. before 2 Sept. 1676, ELIZABETH3 JACKSON (John2, Henry1).
Footnotes:
1. John Camden Hotten, ed., "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ..." (London, 1874), 278-79. Note that with the same lists is a statement that the Frances departed on 10 April, despite the "last of April" dating of the passenger lists ([Samuel G. Drake], "The Founders of New England," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register [NEHGR] 14[1860]:297-337, at 332).
2. Bishops' Transcripts for the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1620-1629 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #951,985].
3. The courts searched were the Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury, Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk, Consistory Court of Norwich, and Prerogative Court of Canterbury. A search in the published wills for the Archdeaconry of Sudbury from 1630 to 1638 (abstracted and edited by Nesta Evans) and the published wills for the Archdeaconry of Suffolk from 1620 to 1626 (abstracted and edited by Marion Allen) does not show anything relevant.
A search in the surrounding parishes of Bildeston, Brent Eleigh, Brettenham (which has a gap from 1617 to 1625), Chelsworth, Hitcham, Lindsey, and Milden, from 1605 to 1630, has not located any other Sherwood entries.
4. George F. T. Sherwood, "A Collection of Evidences More or Less Authentic, Illustrative of the Genealogy of Persons Bearing the Surname Sherwood, from the 14th Century to the End of the 18th," MS (London, ca. 1931 [FHL film #1,696,690, items 1-3]), contains numerous references to Sherwood families throughout England. The many items relating to Sherwoods in Suffolk (pt. 2:312-22) have nothing regarding the family living at Kettle Baston.
5. The most complete documented accounts of Thomas1 Sherwood of Fairfield are found in Paul W. Prindle, "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie" (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke) (n.p., 1976), 443-48 (hereafter cited as Prindle, "Gillespie Ancestry"); and, more compendiously, in Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," 3 vols. (Fairfield, Conn., 1932), 1:548-52 (hereafter cited as Jacobus, "Fairfield Families"). A treatment of this family is also found in Andrew Sherwood, "Daniel L. Sherwood and His Paternal Ancestors: Including Sherwood Evidences Both in England and America from the First Mention of the Name in History, about Seven Hundred and Fifty Years Ago, Down to and Including Thomas Sherwood, the American Pioneer, and Francis Sherwood, the Maryland Pioneer, and Some of Their Many Descendants" (Portland, Oreg., 1929), 29-70 (hereafter cited as Sherwood, "Daniel Sherwood"). Thomas1 Sherwood of Fairfield has often been confused with Thomas1 Sherwood of Stratford, Conn. This matter was dealt with by Donald Lines Jacobus in "Repercussions, II: Sherwood of Fairfield and Stratford, Conn.," TAG 27(1951):156-59.
6. Fairfield, Conn., Probate Records, 1:11, in Prindle, "Gillespie Ancestry," 445.
7. Fairfield Probate Records, 4:115, in Prindle, "Gillespie Ancestry," 445.
8. Fairfield Probate Records, 1:9-10 [FHL film #4287] (the original recorded copy was examined on microfilm by Clifford L. Stott, FASG).
9. Jacobus, "Fairfield Families," 1:2, 548.
10. Prindle, "Gillespie Ancestry," 445.
11. Fairfield Deeds, A:496-97, in Prindle, "Gillespie Ancestry," 445-46.
12. Fairfield, Conn. Probate Records, 4:115, in Prindle, "Gillespie Ancestry," 446.
13. All information for Thomas1 Sherwood's children not otherwise cited is from Prindle, "Gillespie Ancestry,' 446-48, and Jacobus, ‘Fairfield Families," 1:548-52.
14. Kettle Baston, Suffolk, parish register transcripts [FHL film #991,953]. No other Sherwood entries were found there from 1600 to 1640. The baptisms recorded for Rose and Rebecca are off a few years from the ages as given in the passenger list for the ship "Frances," a fairly typical occurrence.
15. Both Jacobus and Prindle, based on Thomas Sherwood's will, concluded that he had a daughter by his 1st wife named Margaret. The transcription of the will in the 1929 genealogy, however, renders as Mary the name interpreted as Marg. (Sherwood, Daniel Sherwood, 38-39). Unfortunately, the key provision about the daughter "Marg." or "Mary" was apparently lost from the recorded copy after the 1841 abstract used by Jacobus and the transcription used by Prindle were made. Normally, we would trust Jacobus and Prindle, but that is obviated by the fact that they based their conclusions on an abstract or transcription made by neither of them. It would, of course, be very easy to misread the name Mary followed by a comma as Marg followed by a period, or vice versa. Since the Kettle Baston parish registers indicate that Thomas1 Sherwood had a daughter Mary with his 1st wife, and since we have seen no evidence for a daughter Margaret other than a passage now lost from the recorded copy of his will, we suggest that Mary is the correct reading. That would mean that Thomas1 Sherwood had two living daughters with that name, which was admittedly unusual but did occur in early New England when those children were with different wives, as is the case here.
In the belief that Thomas Sherwood's will included a daughter "Marg.," Jacobus mentioned the claim that she was the "Margaret Sheerwood" who m. Charlestown, Mass., 8 Dec. 1669, Elias3 Maverick (Elias2, John1) (Roger D. Joslyn, ed., "Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850," 2 vols. in 3 [Boston, 1984-95], 1:71 [hereafter cited as Charlestown VRs]), but added that no evidence had been presented for this identity (Donald Lines Jacobus, "Repercussions: Sherwood," TAG 27[1951]:158). Geography and chronology -- Elias3 was born on 17 1st month [March] 1643/4 ("Charlestown VRs," 1:5) -- militate strongly against this identification.
16. Jacobus, "Repercussions: Sherwood," TAG 27(1951):158: "I suspect, but cannot prove, that she was wife of William Belden of Wethersfield." For William1 Belden, see Paul C. Reed and John C. B. Sharp, "The English Ancestry of Richard1 Belden of Wethersfield, Connecticut: With the Probable Ancestry of William1 Belden of Wethersfield," TAG 76(2001):122-28; this article says on p. 128 that William1 Belden "m. Thomasine ___, named in his will, dated 27 March 1655," but says nothing about her identity.
17. Prindle, "Gillespie Ancestry," 447.
18. She probably did not m. Angel2 Husted (Robert1) of Greenwich, Conn. George E. McCracken suggested this identification in "Rebecca, Wife of Angel2 Husted, of Greenwich," TAG 30(1954):127-28; Gordon L. Remington showed it to be unlikely in "Rebecca Revisited: The Unidentified Wives of Angell2 Husted and Jonathan2 Reynolds of Greenwich, Connecticut," TAG 73(1998):201-6.
19. Cf. Prindle, "Gillespie Ancestry," 447.
20. Donald Lines Jacobus, ed., "Additions and Corrections to History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," 30 [published as a separately paged supplement to TAG 20 (Oct. 43)]; Elisha S. Loomis, "The Second Wife of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, Conn." [Note], NEHGR 90(1936):385; "Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor Connecticut 1639-1703" (Hartford, 1930), 49 (hereafter cited as "Early Records of Windsor").
21. "Early Records of Windsor," 48.
22. Estate of Joseph Loomis Sr., of Windsor [1687] (Charles William Manwaring, comp., "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records," 3 vols. [Hartford, 1904-6], 1:332).
A WARNING FROM DONALD LINES JACOBUS ON SPENCER MEAD'S HISTORY OF GREENWICH
A Note by the Editors
Spencer P. Mead published his book on Greenwich, Connecticut, under the coy title, "Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich," in 1911 (New York: Knickerbocker Press). For nearly a century, this massive volume has been the first source consulted by genealogists interested in Greenwich families. Since one of those families is treated in the above article by Leslie Mahler, we are publishing here Donald Lines Jacobus's judgment of Mead's abilities. The following is from a letter Jacobus wrote on 26 June 1930 to Col. Charles E. Banks, a copy of which was supplied to us by Gale Ion Harris, FASG:
"… where did you get [the] death of Daniel Finch in Wethersfield, 27 (11) 1673/4[?] He removed to Fairfield and died there several years earlier, exact date not recorded. All the Finches had left Wethersfield for good and all, years before 1674. Was this from Hist. of Greenwich or what? By the way, the latter book assigns dates [i.e., years] of births for large numbers of second and third generations in Greenwich, where few early vital records are found; which wouldn't be so bad if he had been a good guesser, but he was (he equals Spencer Mead) an exceptionally bad guesser. This by way of warning if you use this book much in the future. He didn't even have the consideration to place his guessed dates in parentheses, and the reader may assume that they are based on something tangible, such as age at death. These dates used to bother and mislead me until I discovered that they could be entirely disregarded (as well as most of the genealogical section of the book)."
In his genealogical sketch of Thomas1 Sherwood, Spencer Mead does not include a daughter with the first wife named either Mary or Margaret. [Spencer P. Mead, "Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut…" (New York, 1911), 647-48."
5. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., pp. 10-11:
"Nearly a century ago, in 1889, two misguided compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood produced "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America." Modern genealogists realize that nineteenth century family histories often contain errors, and this genealogy is among the most confused; but it continues to be used as a reliable source. In his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus put in order the early Lockwoods of that town. In 1978 this compiler undertook a similar task for Stamford Lockwoods with "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford." There remain the Lockwood founders of Norwalk and Greenwich with lines to be set straight...
ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, co. Suffolk, 18 Jan. 1600/01; d. Fairfield, Connecticut 1658, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet"; Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," hereinafter F.O.O.F., 1:380].
He m. prob. at Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts ca. 1633 SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN, dau. of Richard Norman of Salem. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris.
Children (LOCKWOOD), first six b. Watertown, Massachusetts, [VR], others prob. all b. Connecticut:
i JONATHAN2 b. 10 Sep. 1634; d. Greenwich, CT 12 May 1688; m. MARY FERRIS; she m. (2) 1696 Thomas Merritt.
ii DEBORAH b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) WILLIAM WARD; m. (2) JOHN TOPPING.
iii JOSEPH b. 6 Aug. 1638; d. Fairfield, CT 1717; m. (1) ISABEL? BEACHAM; m. (2) MARY (COLEY) (SIMPSON) STREAM. [His descendants are the only Lockwoods carried on in F.O.O.F., 1:385-387, 715-716 and 2:586-591].
iv DANIEL b. 21 March 1640; d. Fairfield, CT 1691; m. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD. [See F.O.O.F. 1:383, 387 for his only son, DANIEL, who had but two surviving daughters. The name Lockwood ends there on this line].
v EPHRAIM b. 1 Dec. 1641; d. Norwalk, CT 1685; m. MERCY ST. JOHN.
vi GERSHOM b. 6 Sep. 1643; d. Greenwich, CT 1718/9; his three? wives are all being questioned.
vii JOHN d. 1677 unmarried.
viii ABIGAIL m. bef. 1681 JOHN BARLOW.
ix SARAH d. CT 1 March 1650/1.
x SARAH b. 27 Feb. 1651/2; ?m. ABRAHAM ADAMS.
xi MARY m. (1) JONATHAN HUSTED; m. (2) JOSEPH KNAPP."
6. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 241-43:
"ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, baptized Combs, co. Suffolk, England 18 January 1600, died Fairfield CT by 11 September 1658, son of EdmundA and AliceA or RuthA (Cooper) Lockwood; married Watertown MA about 1633 (birth 1634) SUSANNA2 NORMAN, born England say 1615, died Greenwich CT 23 December 1660, daughter of Capt. RICHARD1 and (___1) NORMAN, married (2) Greenwich about 1659 (between 11 September 1658 and 23 December 1660) as his second wife Jeffrey1 Ferris, born England say 1614, died Stamford CT 1666, married (1) Watertown before 1634 Mary (___), married (3) Stamford about 1663 (birth 1664) Judith Feake (see Norman Chapter) (Torrey 470 and 263).
Robert1 came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 on the "Mary and John", and settled that year in Watertown, made freeman 9 March 1637, and removed to Fairfield in 1646, where he had owned land as early as 1641. On 20 May 1652, he was made freeman of the Connecticut Colony, and May 1657 the Connecticut Court confirmed him and Nehemiah Olmstead to be sergeants of the Fairfield Train Band under Capt. Nathaniel Seeley. He was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposedly a brother, in 1635.
Children, surname LOCKWOOD...
iv. DANIEL, born Watertown MA 21 March 1640, died Fairfield CT 1691; married there about 1668 (birth 1669) Abigail2 Sherwood, born probably Boston MA say 1642, died 1692, probably daughter of Thomas1 and Alice1 (Seabrook) Sherwood. He was in Fairfield in 1667, a freeman there in 1669 (Torrey 470)...
(Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)"
BIRTH:
1. TAG article, Vol. 80, October 2005, page 282, indicates Abigail Sherwood was born abt. 1648. Her father Thomas moved from Stamford to Fairfield in 1648 making either place a viable birthplace.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Abt 1648 - 1692 (~ 44 years)