Myrtle ?MASON

• BIRTH: SEP 1873 [S39]

• MARRIAGE: 1896 [S39]

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Thomas FORD (Elder)

• BIRTH: ABT 1587 [S60]
• DEATH: 28 NOV 1676, Northhampton, Massachusetts [S60]
• EVENT: Event-Misc 1629 [S60]
  Type: Letter Rev. White wrote to Govenor Endicott, 'to appoint places o f habitation for sixty families out of Dorsetshire which were to arrive t he following spring.' A meeting was held on October 15, 1629, 'at the De putyes House'. Twenty five members of the council which financed the emi grants were there and 'Mr. Forde, with divers others of the genalitie.'
  This meeting was arranged so that the finance company would benefit fo r seven years by the shipping of furs. The government of the colony wa s to be placed into the hands of Gov. John Winthrop in New England.

• IMMIGRATION: 1630 [S60]
  Thomas and his family came on the ship 'Mary and John'. At the time of h is passage the cost was 5 pounds per adult, 10 pounds per horse, 3 pound s per ton of freight.
  
  MARY AND JOHN - 1630 ; Master Thomas Squeb; owner was Roger Ludlow; weig ht, 400 tons; had 40 -50 crewmen. Sailed from Plymouth with 140 passengr s on 20 March 1630. The day of the sailing was the Saturday before Palm S unday. Landed Nantasket, Massachusetts, 30 May, 1630.
  The ship was supposed to land at the Charles river but Capt. Squeb refu sed to navigate the Boston Harbor, probably because of it's islands, sand bars and shoals. He had the passengers disembark at Nantasket Point. O n June 1630 John Winthrop sent for Capt. Squeb at Nantasket, where the 'M ary and John' lay. He did not record what was said. '[John] Winthrop seem ed to think he had 'ended [the] difference between him [Capt. Squeb] an d the passengers', in token of which Captain Squeb gave the order for a s alute of five guns in the govenor's honour and it was said that Squeb lat er paid compensation to [Roger] Ludlow.'
  Dorset Pilgrims, Frank Thistlethwaite, p.76

• EVENT: Event-Misc 1636/37, Windsor, Connecticut [S60]
  Type: Misc. II In 1637 he was one of four men who purchased a large trac t from Sachem Tehano, which now includes Windsor Locks, the northern thir d of Windsor and the southern part of Suffield. Thomas also was grante d fifty acres in Simsbury. He was granted land in 1637 near Sandy Road , which was returned to the town in 1642. He purchased the house and lan d of Thomas Thornton in 1640.

• EVENT: Event-Misc 1639/40, Windsor, Connecticut [S60]
  Type: Misc. III when George Hull, 'moved the Court in behalf of Thomas Fo rd of Windsor, that in regard the workmen are much taken up and emplyed i n making a bridge and a meetinghouse with them, and his work hindered o f impaling in the ground which was granted him by the Court for a hog-par k, that there may be granted him a year longer time for the fencing it in ; which was upon the reasons aforesaid, condescended to.'

• EVENT: Event-Misc DEC 1644 [S60]
  Type: Misc. IV When he married Ann in 1644, he removed to Hartford, Conne cticut. In The Scott House, which was located on the southwest corner o f State and Front streets, he established an 'Ordinary', as accommodation s for strangers passing through. In the diary of John Winthrop the follo wing entry is recorded for November 17, 1645, 'reached the inn of Thoma s Ford at Harfford'. The Inn was sold to Thomas Cadwell in 1652, and Tho mas returned to Windsor.

• EVENT: Event-Misc 1656, Windsor, Connecticut [S60]
  Type: Misc. V he purchased the homelot of William Hosford. He bought th e Arthur Williams house and lot in 1658/59. In 1677 Thomas helped settl e the estate of Nicholas Denslow, in 1669, he settled Elizabeth Denslow' s estate, and in April 1670 he inventoried the estate of Rev. John Wareha m.
  In John Winthrop's medical diary in 1668 there is mention of, 'Old Thoma s Ford of Windsor.'
  Thomas removed to Northampton, Massachusetts before 1672, where he spen t the rest of his life.

• EVENT: Event-Misc BET 1637 AND 1662 [S60]
  Type: Misc. VI the record shows the following public service for Elder Th omas in Windsor, Connecticutt:
  Deputy to the General Court 1637-40 1644 and 1654.
  Served on fourteen juries between 1641-49. And on grand juries in 164 3 and 1662.
  Was chosen Constable along with his son-in-law, John Strong in February , 1654/55.

• EVENT: Event-Misc 04 JAN 1676/77 [S64]
  Type: Estate 'Elder John Strong, Preserved Clapp and goodwife Marsh, th e administrators.
  1. Inventory, L 17 s. 9 d. 2. Estate in Elder John strong's hands , L99 15 s. 1 d. 3. Capt. Aaron Cook owed him L50.,
  Zerubbabel Filer owed him L20, and Jedediah Strong, L4; for a total o f L 74.
  The total value of the estate was L369 12 s. 10 d.'

• TITLE: Elder
• RESIDENCE: 1619, Bridport, Dorset, England [S60]
  By 1623 he was residing in Dorchester, Dorset, England where he and Eliza beth were members of Holy Trinity Church. The rector of the church was R ev. John White, who has been called 'Founder of Massachusetts.'

• MARRIAGE: 19 JUN 1616, Bridport, Dorset, England [S60]

1.  Joan FORD
2. +Abigail FORD
3.  Thomas FORD Jr.
4.  Hepzibah FORD
5.  Hannah FORD

• MARRIAGE: 13 DEC 1610, Powerstock, Dorset, England

1.  Mary FORD

• MARRIAGE: 07 NOV 1644, Hartford, Connecticut [S60]

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Bertha P A MISCH

• BIRTH: JUN 1875, Germany [S91]

• RESIDENCE: 1910, Port Huron, St Clair, mi [S92]
  lived next door to parents

• MARRIAGE: 12 JAN 1893 [S91] [S76]

1.  William C F HERRING
2.  Gustav E A HERRING
3.  Edward E HERRING
4.  Charles O. HERRING
5.  Emma A. HERRING

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