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From: Marilyn Arnold <>
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Researching Essex/Ipswich
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:08:28 -0400


Beth:

I don't have an answer to most of your questions, but do see that you are
seeking Knowltons. I have Knowltons in my my father's
Arnold/Lyon/Trowbridge lines in Eastford, Windham Co, CT. I have not
traced my Knowlton line (I'm working still on more closely-related lines,
but as I work my way back, would like to stay in touch with you on that
family. (My mother's family was mainly from the Byfield area (Rowley,
Newbury, Georgetown) of Essex Co., centered around the Byfield Parish
church.

Haven't been to Essex (the town) (no relatives from there, yet), but I
did visit the Ipswich library to get more information on my Eben Jewett
who moved there with or because of (likely) his brother in law, Ira
Worcester. (At least Eben Jewett was from Byfield). The Ipswich library
is a lovely, old building w/small but nice genealogical materials in
their genealogy room in the basement. Don't know the hours.

BTW -- It was here that I saw a published genealogy on the Knowlton
family. I only copied pages relative to my distant Knowlton family, who
trace their roots back to MA, but it might be a help to you in giving you
clues.

Marilyn Arnold
New Englander in exile in Virginia

Essex Co: Jewett, Worcester, Dole, Adams, Blake, Longfellow, others!




On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:52:37 -0700 "Elizabeth Gorrill" <>
writes:
> On my visit back east this summer, I'd like to track down some birth
> and death info for some relatives who were born in the Chebacco area
> between the Rev. War and early 1800's. The vitals are not listed in
> the "tan books" or cd. It seems as if all their predecessors were
> documented back into the mid 1600's but perhaps the turbulent times
> pushed record keeping onto the back burner, where it stayed for
> awhile?
>
> My questions are:
> 1. Are the tan books/Early Mass. Vitals comprehensive in recording
> town records? Is it worth searching further or would it be a waste
> of my already short research time?
> 2. For the above era, would records be in Essex or Ipwich?
> 3. Does anyone know, offhand, the summer hours for the clerks office
> in Essex and Ipswich?
> Any other suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Beth Gorrill
> Researching: Jones, Quimby, Lufkin, Knowlton, Andrews, Wallis,
>

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