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From "Albion's Seed," by David Hackett Fischer.
"The seventeen vessels that sailed to Massachusetts in 1630 were the vanguard of nearly 200 ships altogether, each carrying about 100 English souls. A leader of the colony reckoned that there were about 21,000 emigrants in all. This exodus continued from 1630 to the year 1641...
"After the year 1640, New England's great migration ended as abruptly as it began. The westward flow of population across the Atlantic suddenly stopped and ran in reverse, as many Massachusetts Puritans sailed home to serve in the (English) Civil War. Migration to New England did not resume on a large scale for many years, not until Irish Catholics began to arrive nearly two centuries later.
"The emigrants who came to Massachusetts in the great migration became the breeding stock for America's Yankee population. They multiplied at a rapid rate, doubling every generation for two centuries. Their numbers increased to 100,000 by 1700, to at least one million by 1800, six million by 1900, and more than sixteen million by 1988 -- all descended from the 21,000 English emigrants who came to Massachusetts in the period from 1629 to 1640."
From "Abion's Seed," by David Hackett Fischer, p. 69...
"(An) obsession with family and genealogy became an enduring part of New
England's culture. Two centuries after the Great Migration, Harriet Beecher
Stowe observed...
'among the peculiarly English ideas which the Colonists brought to
Massachusetts, which all the wear and tear of democracy have not been able
to obliterate, was that of family. Family feeling, family pride, family
hope and fear and desire, were, in my early day, strongly-marked traits.
Genealogy was a thing at the tip of every person's tongue, and in every
person's mind... "Of a very respectable family," was a sentence so often
repeated at the old fireside that its influence went in part to make up my
character.'
New England's interest in genealogy was not the same as that of high-born
families in England or Virginia. It was not a pride in rank and
quarterings, but a moral and religious idea that developed directly from the
Puritan principles of the founders."
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Surnames: Clough
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Hi,
Just a guess...Phillips is located in Franklin county and Readfield is located in Kennebec county. These two counties border each other - when this book was written the information may not have been proven; so the author(s) put both towns if unsure of exact location. Your best bet is to contact Sheila Andersen at the John Clough Genealogical Society. She is the genealogist there and is most helpful. I don't have the exact website address handy; but you can put it in any search engine and pull it up.
I can testify to the helpfulness of this society - I am a member, having descended from the first John Clough myself. Good luck in your search.
Suzanne Waltz
Dear Cousins,
Found this on one of my genealogy lists. It is a LARGE military index of
wars to Vietnam on the internet:
Online Military Indexes, War Records & Databases of Soldiers @
http://www.militaryindexes.com/index.html
Some sites are pay but this one is FREE to Search from November 12-25, 2005!
(I can also do lookups on Ancestry.com for some WW I draft cards any time).
Online WWI draft cards indexes and records @
http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/index.html
Your cousin,
Linda
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Does anyone know why in some entries in the book above a city is named and another city is named directly afterwards in parenthesis? Example: page 313, 905-Betsey, has Readfield (Phillips) Maine. Another one, same page, #907-David, also has Readfield (Phillips) Maine. Phillips is not a county in Maine.