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A Thorndike Family History, Descendants of John and Elizabeth (Stratton) Thorndike

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John Thorndike was born in England about 1605. His parents were Francis Thorndike and Alice Coleman. John was one of the first settlers of Agawam, Massachusetts, in 1633. He married Elizabeth Stratton in 1637 and they had five daughters and one son. Their son, Paul (1643-1698), married Mary Patch in 1668 in Beverly, Massachusetts, and the couple had seven children. Descendants lived mainly in Massachusetts, Maine, New York, and Illinois.

Connecticut Historical Collections

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American engraver and historian John Warner Barber (1798-1885) was well known for his books on local, state, and national history. This work, first published in 1857, opens with an outline history of Connecticut and includes several interesting lists (New Haven planters in 1643 and all 127 persons holding land in Hartford in 1639, for example), as well as statistical tables from the 1840 and 1850 census. The content is then arranged by county in the order in which they were created: Hartford; New Haven; New London; Fairfield; Windham; Litchfield; Middlesex; and, finally, Tolland.

An American Family, 1575-1945

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Author: James Edmond Carbine & Marianne Lemly Carbin
Published: 2007

In this family history book, the authors have integrated the lives of their ancestors with contemporary history of the time. The result is a history of the United States of America from its early colonization through the Second World War viewed through the eyes of the Carbine, Lemly, Walker, Porterfield, Stout, Matthews, Robinson and Brigham families.

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