Our major genealogical "brick walls" are the origins of:

Benjamin Wiles, born c 1790 - , Boston area ? (m. Temperance Higgins of Eastham, children in Charlestown)

Jemima Rich, born c 1770 - , Wellfleet or Truro Mass. (had children with Elisha Baker, William Rider and Hatsel Nickerson)

Gertrude West Boynton, 1875-1917, Rockport Mass. (m. Leon Truesdale)

Eliza Jane Sargeant, born c1841 in Sutton, New Hampshire?



    We are indirectly related to nearly everyone who lived in Eastham/Wellfleet Massachusetts before perhaps 1920, and it interests us to gradually fill in all the names from the censuses and town records. We'd like to fill in their history as well, so that it isn't just sterile names and dates. It's a lot of people, and will take a very long time.

    There are plenty of errors in here, because it's a jigsaw puzzle, and some of the sources are junk, and some of the guesses and assumptions are wrong. Please help with corrections, connections and sources. Information is welcome - not just births, marriages, kids, deaths, but biographies and anecdotes and ship registrations and scandals.

    There are also many unlinked people - people who may connect in later, local people and washashores, people we know, historically relevant people and a few fictional ones.