Elizabeth Hedges
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1668 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay
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Death: 1711 - Smyrna, Delaware
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Parents
Father: Tristram Hedges (1635-After 1710)
Mother: Anne Nickerson (1635-1680) 1
Spouses and Children
1. *Samuel Eldredge (Abt 1658 - )
Marriage: 14 Sep 1694
Status:
Grace Hedges
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Aug 1659 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay
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Death: 4 Jan 1660
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Father: Tristram Hedges (1635-After 1710)
Mother: Anne Nickerson (1635-1680) 1
Tristram Hedges
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 May 1635 - (Lynn, Massachusetts Bay)
Baptism:
Death: After 28 Mar 1710
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Events
• Alt Birth, , England in England
Parents
Father: Captain William Hedge (1602-1670)
Mother: Blanche (Est 1610-After 1670)
Spouses and Children
1. *Anne Nickerson (7 May 1635 - 26 Nov 1680) 1
Marriage: 20 Oct 1657 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay
Status:
Children:
1. Dinah Hedges (1673-1739)
2. Elizabeth Hedges (Abt 1668-1711)
3. Grace Hedges (1659-1660)
Notes
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Anne and Tristram both arrived from England on June 20, 1637, at Salem, Mass., and were married six months later in Boston. They moved first to Yarmouth, Mass., and then to Monomoit where her father deeded them a farm between Oyster Pond River and Buck's Creek on Ragget Neck (now Harding Neck) in West Chatham. The deed was dated 24 February 1673-4. Tristram and Anne took in and cared for a "destitute" infant, Sarah Nesfield, who was orphaned when her father, John, was killed in "Capt. Pierses Fight" in December 1675. "27 Oct. 1680; In reference unto a poor orphaqn named Sarah Nesfield...soe as it is recouered of his weakes and forlorne condition, it being about six year old att the date heerof, the said Trustram Hedgis and Anne, his wife , haveing bine att some considererable charge and trouble in keeping of her (about 5 years) and requesting some satisfaction for the same, the Court doe allow vnto them of fiue pound; the said naighbourhood of Mannamoiet to pay vnto the said hedgis the sum of three pounds of the said fiue pound in good currant country pay and the remaining forty shillings to be payed by the Treasurer."
"1 March 1680-81: In reference vnto a poor orphan named Sarah Nesfielde, being in the custody of Trustram Hedgis, the Court doth order that the town of Mannamoiet doe prepare and prouide a fitt place for the said child, and remove it thervnto; tnd the Court doth free them from the payment of the three pound which was ordered them to pay the said Hedgis for and towards the keeping of it." (B) Before the date of this last entry, Anne had died at the age of 45. - from Nickerson Genealogy
Amos Hedley
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1788 - (Rochester, Massachusetts)
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Spouses and Children
1. *Ruth Clifton (26 Nov 1791 - )
Marriage: 10 Sep 1809 - Rochester, Massachusetts 2
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Jean Heffner
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1926
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Death: Abt 1985 - Brewster, Massachusetts
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1. *Charles Hamilton Acorn Jr. (9 Apr 1924 - 14 Nov 2009)
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Children:
1. Charles David Acorn (1950- )
2. Linda Acorn (Abt 1954- )
3. Martha Acorn (Abt 1957- )
4. Robin Acorn (Abt 1959- )
5. Jean Acorn (Abt 1960- )
Judeke Hegeman
Sex: F
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Birth: Est 1700
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1. *Garret Blom (Est 1700 - )
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1. Ariantje Blom (1724- ) 3
Lester Heller
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1919 - Newark, New Jersey
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Death: 11 Jan 2009 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Provincetown Banner obit
Lester Heller, 89
Educator was true renaissance man
Lester Heller, 89, died on Jan. 11 in Provincetown.
Born in 1919 in Newark, N.J., Lester grew up in the Bronx during the Depression, attending Townsend Harris High School and subsequently City College of New York, where he studied botany and earned a bachelor's degree. He became a well-known college fencing champion, proficient in epee, saber and foil, and always loved to recall the particular moment when he encountered the Olympic fencing champion, Rene Pinchart, and scored a hit.
His studies continued at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology at Coos Bay. A statistician for the agricultural census during WWar II, he received his master's degree in 1958 from the University of Maryland, while using sabbaticals to do graduate work in math at Boston College. Dedication to educating himself and others was a lifelong pursuit for Lester. He was the first Jewish schoolteacher in Montgomery County, Md., teaching science and math at the junior high and eventually college level. He met his beloved wife Adele while they were both teachers at Leland Junior High School; she famously wooed him with sandwiches left in his school mailbox. Love blossomed and an enduring and happy marriage ensued.
Over the course of his long and varied career he earned three masters' degrees. As Professor Heller, he became head of the Multimedia Center at Montgomery College in 1964, where he made several films for the college that received national and international acceptance. His professional cinema credits include films made for the English, physics and dental assisting programs for the college. His personal film projects reflected his various interests: everything from African pot making, to local Maryland history, to some wonderful films on Karl Knaths and Peter Busa, made during summers in Provincetown. Lester was also the faculty advisor for the Folk Music Club on the campus and was instrumental in bringing to light the music of artists such as Skip James, Jamey Brockett and Libba Cotton. There he also helped rediscover the music of blues singer Mississippi John Hurt. Lester retired from teaching in 1977.
A knowledgeable collector of American art and antiques and a lifelong devotee of music and the performing arts, it was Lester Heller's innate curiosity that led him to Provincetown. His daughter Julie recalls him telling her that he found the easternmost point on the map and thought, "I want to go there." Having first visited Provincetown in the 1940s Lester and his young family went on to spend every summer from 1960 on in the town. The Hellers took over the Provincetown-Playhouse-on-the-Wharf in 1972 and established an all Equity company that won growing critical acclaim for the artistic merit of their productions. In the summer of 1977 teenage arsonists burned the theater to the ground and Lester and Adele decided not to leave after Labor Day: wanting instead to focus their energy on rebuilding the Playhouse. The Hellers determinedly turned the disaster into an opportunity, and not just a theatrical one. "This cradle is going to rock in more than just a performing arts sense, "Adele Heller asserted. "The very rebuilding of it should be a performance that people can associate with as a telling, inspiring time in their lives as well as ours."
Accordingly, a groundbreaking design competition was launched by Adele's conviction that the invited architects should be immersed in the town and the townspeople should share in that architectural adventure. An on-site charette was duly launched with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The competition jury was recruited both nationally and locally. Afterwards, Chairman I.M. Pei stated that the Hellers' Provincetown competition would go on to set a standard for selecting the design of community, cultural and other publicly oriented facilities. Funding for the new building never quite got off the ground and after Adele's death it still remained a dream of Lester's to see the Playhouse back in action as a visual and performing arts venue in Provincetown. This is the legacy he passes on to his daughter Julie.
Over the years Lester and Adele Heller became cultural touchstones, donating art and related historical materials to town collections and establishments. Always spirited participants on the art scene, they gave generously of their time and energy. The summer of 2009 will see a series of free lectures in memory of Lester and Adele Heller at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. It is a fitting celebration of their mutual and lifelong love of the arts and education.
Over the course of his long and varied life Lester achieved much in the way of accomplishments, but it was always his family and friends that gave him the most joy. In his last years he suffered the death of his beloved wife Adele in 1997 and his son Daniel Heller in 2006. He took great pleasure in spending his days in his daughter's art gallery, listening to the piano music of Fanny Mendelssohn, and in trying valiantly each week to win the cartoon caption competition in the New Yorker. Lester was a man of uncommon wit and ever-present compassion and kindness to all he encountered. His bark was always worse than his bite and many of us relied upon his sound advice on subjects ranging from car mechanics to the dilemmas of life. He will be forever remembered on his high-backed chair, just inside the door of the Heller gallery, ready to dispense a joke or colorful tale, or guessing the age of a visiting child from whom he could always elicit a smile.
He is survived by two daughters, Julie Heller and her longtime companion Donald Faber and Amy Heller and her husband Bart Weisman, both of Provincetown.
Memorial donations may be sent to: The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 460 Commercial St, Provincetown, MA 02657. Donations should be marked for the 2009 Lester and Adele Heller Memorial Lecture Series.
In lieu of flowers, cards of condolences may be sent to the family at: 199 Commercial St., Apt. 12, Provincetown, MA 02657.
Jane Hellyer
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1600 - England
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1. *John Parker (Est 1600 - Bef 1661)
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1. John Parker (1630-1685) 4
Helms
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1928
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1. *Irene Alberta Baker (19 Jun 1930 - )
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Marriage Notes (Irene Alberta Baker)
of Northampton 1964
of Florida, 2006
Dr Horace P Hemenway
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Nov 1829 - Rochester, Vermont
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Death: 6 Mar 1890 - Somerville, Massachusetts 5
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1. *Sarah Elizabeth Gross (28 Aug 1831 - 27 Jul 1909) 6
Marriage: 30 Oct 1855 - Somerville, Massachusetts 5
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Tabathy Hemenway
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1816 - Massachusetts
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Death: After 1870 - Massachusetts
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In 1870 she was 64, the housekeeper for Rachel Baker, lady, in Wellfleet. (census) 7
Elizabeth Hemingway
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1745 - of Boston, Mass.
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1. *Isaac Ridley (26 Jan 1742 - )
Marriage: 28 Jul 1765 - Boston, Massachusetts 8
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F Hemmingson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1871 9
Baptism:
Death: 5 Dec 1893 - backshore of Cape Cod, ship Jason 9
Burial:
Cause of Death: drowned
Notes
Medical:
Drowned from wrecked ship Jason, backshore Cape Cod.
1. C. Anderson, 46
2. Christopher Neilson, 23
3. Joseph E. Owen, 17
4. F. Hemmingson, 22
5. John Sullivan, 27
6. --- Murphy, 26
7. Hugh McLean, 38
8. --- Antone, 37
9. William Cutter, 21
10. J. O. Leary, 23
11. Peter Black, 40
12. William Young, 22
13. --- Carnes, 30
14. Archabald Galbraithe, 23
15. A. R. Dame, 20
16. John McHugh, 25
17. A. McMillan (supposed to be), 30
18. Michael Mulligan (supposed to be), 19
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Lora Hemond
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1930 - of Wellfleet, Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Robert A Bumps (Est 1930 - )
Marriage: 22 Oct 1954 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 10
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1954 of Wellfleet
Marjery Richards Hemond
Sex: F
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Birth: Est 1920
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Spouses and Children
1. *Eugene Francis Sullivan (Est 1920 - )
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1. John David Sullivan (1945- ) 11
Anna B Hempstead
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Apr 1841 - Mystic, Connecticut
Baptism:
Death: 1 Jul 1892 - Truro, Massachusetts 12
Burial: in Old North Cemetery, Truro 13
Cause of Death: diabetes
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain James Dyer Paine (20 Oct 1836 - 3 Sep 1899)
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1. Anna H Paine (1875-1875) 13
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Medical:
age 51-2-11
Anna B (Hempstead) Paine
wife of Jas. D Paine
at home
b Mystic Conn, res North Truro
d/o Charles G Hempstead & Eliza Hempstead, b Mystic Conn 12
Benjamin S Henderson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Jul 1854 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 14
Baptism:
Death: 1920 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Parents
Father: John T Henderson (1834-1906)
Mother: Grace Snow Myrick (1835-1919)
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary J Dears (1864 - 1904) 15
Marriage: 18 Jan 1886 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 16
Status:
Notes
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U.S.L.S.S. Peaked Hill Bars 1885 to 1909Marriage Notes (Mary J Dears)
1914 res Provincetown, moving with family to Wellfleet winters as oysterbed watchman 17
children
Addie Bell 1886-1892; Grace May 1894-1946 - buried Provincetown
Celia Henderson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Apr 1888 - Maine
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Father: W John Henderson (1860- )
Mother: Eliza Bagley (1856- )
Elwin F Henderson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1909 - Moose River, Maine
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Father: Walter S Henderson (1890-1968)
Mother: Elma J Kew (1889- )
Ernest Henderson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Jul 1884 - Maine
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Father: W John Henderson (1860- )
Mother: Eliza Bagley (1856- )
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