Puritan Great Migration Project WikiTree

I found a descendent who arrived on the Arbella with the Winthrop Fleet. His name is Robert Parke, but he doesn't have a link to his page. Does this mean that he doesn't yet have a profile? New to this.

Joining the PGM Project. Working on Warrens who ended up in Connecticut. Personal interest. WikiTree is saying that I'm related but I'm still questioning that.

See the background of John Pride (d: 1647) recently revealed in Cromwell's Buffoon (12th volume of Century of the Soldier 1618-1721). He was a puritan heretic, a member of the Duppa Congregation hated by London Anglicans (Archbishop Laud) and Beverly puritans alike. The Duppa congregation was too puritan for the Anglicans and too anglican for the Puritans. They endorsed freedom of consience in Religion and were hated by both Authoritarian Groups even more so than they hated each other. He fled Archbishop Laud and his ear cutting right into one of the most intolerant communities in history which regarded him with hostility before he even landed. His confrontations with neighbors was frequent, bitter and petty. But the record seems to show he stood his ground. See the links on the "Joseph Pride of Maine" website for more details.

Could the managers of the PGM get in contact with me via email?

Regards, Kevin York

I was just wondering if I can get help with the Munson family tree? All I have is Barbabas Munson

I have more than 50,000 descendants of Edmund Ingalls in my Legacy genealogy program. He came to the USA in 1628. I am too old and do not have time to do what it looks like WikiTree requires to add any of this data to this site. Is there anyone who might want to work on this?

Hello,

You have listed a birthplace for Nehemiah Smith (1605-168 6) as NewCastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. My great uncle, Walter Burgess Smith, a noted and published genealogist, travelled there in person and found no evidence to support that claim. In his published newsletter,"News of the Nehemiah Smith Clan" Vol 1 Number 2 March 1992, he offers a explanation of the probable origins of this "story".

Does Richard Montague qualify for PGM - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Montague-281

Why is Jane (Young) King aka Hatch (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Young-894) not in the Puritan Great Migration Project?

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8652449/elizabeth-curtiss

has a headstone photo that suggests her maidan {or middle} name was Hutchins

I believe, based on many citations, that Elizabeth Alden is Lydia Chandler's mother. Not Unkown Chandler.

Can someone help me with this? Lydia Chandler is my is my 9th great grandmother.

Thank you, Shelley Engle

I am a direct descendant of Lieutenant Samuel Smith-1852, DNA-proven, and new to WikiTree. Some discrepancies need to be resolved. This is his biography from "Official History Guilford Vermont 1678-1961":

Samuel Smith, with his wife Elizabeth, each aged 32, and their four children, Samuel 9, Elizabeth 7, Mary 5, and Philip 1, sailed from Ipswich, England on April 30, 1634. They arrived in Boston in June 1634. He was one of the Founders of Wethersfield, Conn., where he was Lieutenant Deputy from 1641-1656. He was among those who signed an agreement in 1659 to remove from Conn. to the Massachusetts Jurisdiction and was one of the Founders of Hadley, Mass.; on May 11, 1661, the residents of Hadley voted that there should be military training and Samuel Smith, among others, was chosen to be a Lieutenant. This was approved by the County Court in March of 1663. He was a Lieutenant for about 15 years. In May of 1678, he requested to be freed from military trust, being as he said, "nearly 80 years old." He was discharged, and his son, Philip, was appointed in his place, approved by the County Court in 1678. Samuel Smith died in 1680, at the age of 78. Elizabeth his wife died on March 16, 1686.

I’m thrilled to have found your project on Wiki Tree. My family has been able to trace back their history to the Mayflower through the Hewit/Tisdale marriage but I had very little information on the French side of the family except that William French was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. We couldn’t get further than that. Now thanks to your research we find out that the Frenches in our family come from Essex which matches the general assumption found in sources on the internet. This however confirms it and gives it a name: John French!

Thank you! Natalie French

Francis Gould (Goole-2) was apparently different from Francis Goulder of Plymouth Colony so may need some biography changes.

After finishing the Goole-2 bio I was looking for more info and came across records of Plymouth Colony by Nathaniel Shurtleff which lists both Francis Goulder and Francis "Goole" separately. Francis Goulder remained in Plymouth Colony, unlike Francis Gould/Goole and Goulder took a freeman's oath there in 1656 and then was listed as a freeman in 1658 in the town of Plymouth, long after Francis Gould was 30 miles away in Braintree having children. The capper is that Francis Goulder died in Plymouth 17 May 1664, 12 years before Gould who was in Chelmsford by that date, 70 miles away and well documented for another 12 years. So, I think that the section of bio about Francis Gould being a smith in Plymouth needs to be struck as that record also identifies Francis "Goulder", who we assumed all along was the same as our "Gould". Plymouth records are here with a search for 'Goulder' https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/26917-records-of-the-colony-of-new-plymouth-in-new-england-printed-by-order-of-the-legislature-of-the-commonwealth-of-massachusetts?viewer=1&offset=0#page=39&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=goulder

The only place I see "our" Francis is in the 1643 list of men able to bear arms in Duxbury, Plymouth colony assuming that "Goole" is ours.

Advice is welcomed on this potential edit...

Update: Great Migration Begins vol 1, A-F page 617 under the entry for Samuel Eddy says that he (Samuel) put his son John Eddy to dwell "with Francis Goulder and Katherne his wife" as a smith apprentice so that would seem to confirm that the smith of Plymouth was a different man than our PGM Francis Gould/Goole-2. Working on this Francis Goulder and his wife now.

Am in dire need of guidance on finding the John Howe that is part of my Willis heritage. I am stumped for where to look next. Just when I think I have it licked, I am left with the wrong one attached. Thank you so much.

Thank you for this project. A friend of mine has done an incredible amount of work on her ancestry to George Phillips b. 1593. It is wonderful to see so much work done here with sources and information and to be able to recommend it to her. I am working on finding and connecting as many families in Silao, GTO, MX. You are inspiration!

Thanks for adding Anna "Pierce" to PGM. Would her husband Michael Pierce be a PGM as well? Thanks,

Orinda

I have come across the will of Roger Harlakenden who is part of the PGM.

Does anyone know of a transcript of this or be interested in helping to produce one? If I end up with useful information, can I add to his profile or must someone else do that? I am working on Earls Colne One Place Study and am bumping into a few PGM candidates. The Will is here https://archive.org/details/stokesrecordsnot11stok/page/n313

Request for assistance on Smithe 4 second wife of John Cheney.

Thanks for any assistance. I have removed most of the ancestry links,that was all they had.

Request for assistance - PGM google group: reading old English will/probate will.

[[Darms-1|Donald Darms the PM for Sarah (Scott) Graves sourced wife of Thomas Graves previously requested and received a copy of the original will of Christopher Scott a portion of which I you can see since placed it on the profile of above mentioned Thomas Graves. (You can see the note/inquiry Darms sent to me on my WT profile here: Cheryl Skordahl.)

Since one vocal person is concerned about the change of Thomas Graves-170 wife from Whiting-20 to Scott-17829, and is a PM, I think it would be beneficial if one of us checked over the copy of original . Darms will to e-mail it to someone who has experience in deciphering old English wills.

I'm not finding him. Other than the birth at Ancestry from a badly bled through page. I'll send Quentin a note

Searching for Edward Smith, born about 1610, married Mary unknown, their son Thomas born 1636 Boston (Births,Baptisms and Christenings, Mass. Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988.)

Douglas-153 and Douglas-5397 are ready for a merge, Douglas-5379 is PPP. However, there is nothing in Douglas-153 that would alter the information in Douglas-5397. Could the PPP be switched from Douglas-5397 to Douglas -153 to maintain the lower profile number?