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Ancestors and Descendants of George Rufus Brown and Alice Nelson Pratt

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By Christopher C. Child, Patricia Law Hatcher, and Kelvin L. Meyers

Published November 2013

7 x 10 hardcover, 500 pages, illustrated

An American Family: Four Centuries of Labor, Love, and Reward—A Story of the Davis Family

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By Jenifer Kahn Bakkala

Published July 2018

7 x 10 hardcover, 172 pages, illustrated

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.

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.