Hi Jaimee..
Here's Cousin Kathleen's Email:
hereticsdaughter(a)yahoo.com
Bob (Thomas - Richard - Amos - Amaziah - John M. - Daniel S. - George H. -
George L. - Joan P. Carrier) Smith
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From: "jaimee hedlund" <jjkodaskye(a)yahoo.com>
To: <carrier(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CARRIER] Salem Records
This sounds really good, but I thought we had all of the transcripts
and
testimonies?? So maybe I don't get this..Help explain if someone can for
me???
I also have a question I hope someone can answer for me. In the book, "The
Heretics Daughter", Martha gave Sarah a book of ancesters on Thomas
Carriers
line and it was buried by a tree before they were put in jail, and she was
to
get the book out after all was over. So if this is true, which I believe
it was,
where is this book and who are his ancesters in England like she sas was
in it??
Does anyone know where this info is??? I had never read this book before
and I
am so dang proud to me her 8th grt grandaughter...I am also so sad at what
happened to all of the families, and her sister also (Mary) & Roger. It
was nice
to read of my 7th grt grandfather Richard too, to see how he lived and how
he
seemed through the eyes of Sarah. The descriptions of their home and folks
and
living conditons around them made you feel you were right there...The best
book
ever. Is there an e-mail address out there for Kathleen Kent?
So Now I have 3 questions HELP!!!!!!
Thanks much to all of my beloved cousins
Jaimee Hedlund-Wis.
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From: Neal Carrier <CarrierGenealogy(a)gmx.com>
To: carrier(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Wed, May 4, 2011 7:31:07 PM
Subject: [CARRIER] Salem Records
This should be interesting to see what it produces.
[SALEM-WITCH] Hall Center’s Collaborative Seed Grant to fund project on
Salem
witch trialsFrom: Margo <margo(a)ogram.org>
To: salem-witch(a)rootsweb.com
http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/may/4/seedgrant.shtml
May 4, 2011
Hall Center’s Collaborative Seed Grant to fund project on Salem witch
trials
LAWRENCE — A faculty member at the University of Kansas is undertaking a
research project to find out more about the scribes who recorded
testimonies
during the Salem witch trials.
The research by Peter Grund, assistant professor of English, and his
collaborators will eventually result in a database available to the public
for
free via the Web and a scholarly volume on the Salem documents and their
implications for manuscript culture and writing literacy in colonial New
England.
The team’s preliminary research will be funded by the Hall Center for the
Humanities 2011 Collaborative Research Seed Grant. Grund’s partners are
Margo
Burns, a database specialist and digital editor based in New Hampshire,
and
Matti Peikola, the Academy of Finland Research Fellow in English at the
University of Turku.
The researchers hope to learn about who these scribes were and to expand
understanding of literacy in early New England. The research team’s
primary goal
is to compile an inventory of people involved in recording the documents.
Initial research by the group has already tentatively identified about 40
percent of the approximately 250 trial scribes by name.
To achieve this, researchers analyze letter-forms, marks of punctuation,
abbreviations and spelling patterns, which all offer clues about the
people
behind the recordings, including their sex, age, social status, possible
geographic origin and occupation. Combined with additional archival
research,
the handwriting analysis allows them to link the otherwise anonymous trial
documents to public records of named individuals.
“One of the tantalizing questions that we hope this research will
elucidate is
whether women were involved in recording Salem documents, and if so, what
are
the implications for our understanding of the trials and women’s literacy
more
generally,” said Grund.
Their research will break new ground by offering a unique snapshot of
networks
of mostly unprofessional writers of legal documents operating in a
chronologically and geographically confined community, allowing Grund and
his
associates to assess how writing skills were transmitted in early New
England
and how writing operated as a commodity to sell and hire.
“Professor Grund’s project is exactly what we hoped would come of this new
collaborative seed grant,” said Hall Center Director Victor Bailey. “He
and his
collaborators will employ their different research skills to tackle
questions
concerning literacy and writing in colonial America that no single
researcher
could accomplish.”
The Collaborative Research Seed Grant supports the early stages of
projects that
capitalize on multiple forms of expertise to tackle the most
methodologically
and theoretically challenging questions faced by humanities scholars. KU’s
Center for Research provides funding for the seed grant program.
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