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From: "Patricia Merrill" <pamerrill(a)webtv.net>
To: <CHADBOURNE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:18 PM
Subject: [Chadbourne] Chick-Chadborne families
Looking for information on the Chick-Chadborne family connections.
I am in the Chick line. Thanks.
Patricia, Speak of mind-reading, I was about to ask Janet Robey Hooke
of North Berwick what she knows of the old CHICK farm in Berwick or
North Berwick, which was said to have (earlier?) been the home (in much
of his later life) of Captain Elder Humphrey Chadbourne of the 5th
generation of Chadbournes (the one who was earlier called Captain Junion
when his Uncle Chadbourne was a Captain, according to a book by Earl
Ahlquist on the ancestry and descendants of Paul 6 Chadbourne.
That farm was, I believe, within a quarter mile of the later RR track
and present US Route 4 from South Berwick to North Berwick, at a point
likely between where two RR overpasses have been over the last many
years, likely nearer the more southerly one, which was recently removed
after the northerly one was repaired. That farm may have been on the
much larger "Swamp Farm which was part of the Humphrey Chadbourne
landholdings in Berwick until it was divided in 1763 among heirs of
Humphrey 4. (His death without children had "broken the entail" whereby
real estate went from eldest son to eldest son, so that will is key to
our good knowledge of the early Chadbourne generations.
Patricia, Do you know if the Chicks you're looking for came from any of
the Berwicks, and if so, can you identify any homestead farm that might
be in the area I described, based on the statement that Humphrey
Chadbourne moved to the west side of the road from So. Berwick to No.
Berwick? A north-south section of the generally SW to NE road ran
directly south from the recently removed RR overpass close to Rt. 4, but
I can find no cellar hole along that whole section of abandoned road.
I've not checked for Chick descendants of that Humphrey 5 Chadbourne,
but would like to know where that Chick farm was, presuming it to be
where he lived. If it was where I think, that _might_ contradict Earle
Ahlquist's account of son Humprey 6 living on the old homestead. A
good task for a deed researcher at the Registry in Alfred, which has all
those old records well researched.
? Perhaps someone else will pick this up as a research project?
We were in good communication with the late, Robert CHICK of Newbury,
Mass, a thorough researcher of the Chick family, who left his
genealogical papers to his nephew Roger Chick of Wiscassett, Maine.
And I'm still looking for Richard Chick who came from the area of
Ossippee, NH, when he came to Gould Academy in Bethel. Maine, where we
each graduated in 1951.
All the Chicks in our CD-2000 version of "The Chadbourne Family in
America - A Genealogy" may be found in a book index at our website,
http://www.chadbourne.org where may also be found by anyone our first
four American generations (including daughters of daughters, etc.) The
fifth and sixth generations require a password which is available to CFA
members only, directly from me, but the online index, available to all,
lists all our Chicks with the numbers of pages on which they appear.
Data on that very-favorably-reviewed CD is also on our website, as are a
large number of libraries which have the earlier book version (now sold
out).
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With best wishes,
Ted Chadbourne, President, Chadbourne Family Assoc.