Lewis W Atwood
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Nov 1842 - (Boston, Massachusetts) Baptism: Death: 11 Aug 1849 - Boston, Massachusetts Burial: in Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet Cause of Death: dysentery
Parents
Father: Lewis Atwood (1810-1866) 1 Mother: Apphia Atwood (1811-1883)
Notes
General:
"Lewis W., son of Lewis & Appia Atwood, died Aug. 11, 1849, aged 6 years & 6 months.
'Since Sam has fled to the Region of Light
You, sweet little Lewis, must go from our sight
In life so ----, in death they can't part
Although so afflictive to a fond parent's heart.' " 2
Lillie B Atwood
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Sep 1873 - Boston, Massachusetts 4 Baptism: Death: 1873 Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Lewis Merriam Atwood (1832-1893) 5 Mother: Anna Hutchinson Fitzgerald (1838-1886) 6Lizzie E Atwood
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Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1853 Baptism: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Myrick C Atwood (16 Aug 1852 - ) 4 Marriage: Status:Lizzie S Atwood
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Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Dec 1857 - Provincetown, Massachusetts Baptism: Death: 27 Apr 1858 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 7 Burial: in Gifford cemetery, Provincetown Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Nathaniel Ellis Atwood (1807-1886) Mother: Louisa M Russell (1824-1873) 4Loiza Atwood
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Sex: FAKA: Louisa Atwood
Individual Information
Birth: 30 May 1817 - Brewster, Massachusetts 8 Baptism: Death: 1831 - Brewster, Massachusetts 8 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Nehemiah Atwood (1772-1851) Mother: Mercy Higgins (1775-1851) 9Louisa A Atwood
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Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1826 Baptism: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Joseph Seaver (5 Jul 1824 - ) 10 Marriage: 25 Nov 1847 - Phillipston, Massachusetts 11 Status:Louisa B Atwood
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Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1846 - Orleans, Massachusetts Baptism: Death: 11 Dec 1884 - (Orleans, Massachusetts) Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 12 Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Atwood (1804-1880) Mother: Phebe Smith (1805-1886) 13
Spouses and Children
1. *John D Campbell (1841 - 1886) Marriage: 29 Jul 188 - Brewster, Massachusetts Status:Louise R Atwood
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Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Apr 1873 - Massachusetts Baptism: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Nathaniel Atwood (1839- ) Mother: Olive Jane Hopkins (1841- )Louisiana Atwood
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Sex: FAKA: Louisianna Atwood
Individual Information
Birth: 2 Aug 1811 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 15 Baptism: Death: 7 Dec 1878 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 15 Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet 15 Cause of Death: heart disease
Events
• Alt Death, , Wellfleet, Massachusetts in Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Elisha Atwood (1763-1819) Mother: Betsey Cobb (1765-1851) 16
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Reuben Higgins (28 Sep 1808 - 10 Dec 1893) 17 Marriage: 15 Mar 1831 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 18 Status: Children: 1. Louisianna A Higgins (1836-1879) 19 2. Captain Reuben Higgins (1838-1871) 15 3. Richard Atwood Higgins (1841-1858) 15
Notes
Medical:
age 67-4-5Marriage Notes (Captain Reuben Higgins)
birth not seen in Wellfleet VR 20
part of Higgins family obelisk:
east side
CAPT REUBEN HIGGINS
Died Dec 10, 1893
Aged 85 yrs. 2 mos.
LOUISIANA
Wife of
Reuben Higgins
Died Dec 7, 1878
Aged 67 yrs. 4 mos. 5 dys. 7
Lucinda B Atwood
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Nov 1845 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 22 Baptism: Death: 1905 - Springfield, Massachusetts Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Freeman B Atwood (1816-1848) 23 Mother: Mary H Brown (1817-1904) 24
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain John Harding Ryder (3 Oct 1843 - 1930) 25 Marriage: 6 Jan 1867 - Boston, Massachusetts 4 Status:
Notes
General:
not in Wellfleet deathsMarriage Notes (Captain John Harding Ryder)
1880 Wellfleet census:
John H Ryder, self, 36, sea captain
Lucinda B Ryder, wife, 34, keeping house
Mary Atwood, mother-in-law, widow, 60
all b Mass.
Lucinda H Atwood
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 2 Jun 1850 - Boston, Massachusetts 26 Baptism: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Richard Atwood (1823-1862) 27 Mother: Lucinda Hamblen (1824-1907) 28
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 J Hamilton Robinson b: c 1847 in Lubec (Washington), Maine
Married: 15 SEP 1873 in Somerville (Middlesex), Massachusetts
(atwood)
Lucy Atwood
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1740 - Eastham, Massachusetts Baptism: Death: Bef 1769 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Nathanael Atwood (1713-1769) 29 Mother: Abigail Stevens (1715-1760)
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 Samuel Roth b: abt 1740
Married: 20 AUG 1761 in Boston
Lucy Atwood
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Oct 1800 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 30 Baptism: Death: 22 Aug 1829 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 31 Burial: in Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Simeon Atwood (1758-1822) 32 Mother: Lucy Wiley (1764-1823)
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain John Rich Hawes (6 Oct 1797 - 16 Feb 1835) 33 Marriage: 23 Nov 1819 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 34 Status: Children: 1. Benajmin Young Hawes (1820-1838) 35 2. Captain John Rich Hawes (1822-1886) 36 3. Lucy Atwood Hawes (1825-1914) 35 4. Anna Horton Hawes (1827-1852) 37
Notes
General:
stone:
"In memory of Mrs. Lucy, wife of Capt. John R. Hawes, died Aug. 22, 1829, aet. 28 yrs. 10ms. 6 ds.
'The spirit leaves the house of clay
To realms of bliss she wings her way
Where sighs and sorrows cease.' " 38
Lucy Atwood
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1770 - (Eastham, Massachusetts) Baptism: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *William Gill (Est 1760 - ) Marriage: 8 Nov 1790 - Eastham, Massachusetts 39 Status:Lucy Atwood
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Sex: FAKA: Luce Atwood 40 Lucia Atwood
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Aug 1751 - Billingsgate (Eastham), Massachusetts 41 Baptism: Death: 4 Aug 1826 - Orrington, Maine 42 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Richard Atwood (1718-1795) 43 Mother: Mary Atwood (1723-1805)
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Joseph Baker (24 Jul 1747 - Bef 1810) Marriage: 4 Apr 1769 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 44 Status: Children: 1. Theophilus Baker (1771- ) 2. Joseph Baker (1773- ) 3. Cyprian Baker (1776- ) 4. Richard Baker (1779-1829) 45 5. Lucy Baker (1780- ) 46 6. Sally Baker (1782- ) 7. Isaiah Baker (1784- ) 8. Polly Baker (1786-1828) 9. David Baker (1788- ) 10. Deborah Baker (1790- ) 11. Samuel Baker (1792- )Lucy Atwood
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Sex: FAKA: Lucinda A
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Jul 1786 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 48 Baptism: Death: 29 Jun 1871 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 49 Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet Cause of Death: fever
Parents
Father: Nathaniel Atwood (1749-Bef 1829) Mother: Content Coombs (Est 1755-1837) 50
Spouses and Children
1. *Barnabus Freeman (8 Jun 1787 - 13 Apr 1855) 51 Marriage: 27 Dec 1832 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 52 Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 85
Lucy (Atwood) Freeman, widow
b Wellfleet
d/o Nathaniel & Content 49
Lucy Atwood
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Oct 1787 - Harwich, Massachusetts 53 Baptism: Death: 12 Mar 1858 - Chelsea, Massachusetts Burial: in Orleans Methodist cemetery Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Gideon Atwood (1761-1829) Mother: Mary Higgins (1766-1805)Lucy Jane Atwood
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Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Apr 1829 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 55 Baptism: Death: 2 Dec 1896 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 56 Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet Cause of Death: nephritis, exhaustion 56
Parents
Father: Joshua Atwood (1800-1899) Mother: Jane Lewis (1805-1866) 57
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Thomas Emery Newcomb (27 Jun 1828 - 17 Jan 1899) 58 Marriage: 25 Nov 1849 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 59 Status: Children: 1. Lucy Emery Newcomb (1856-1901) 60 2. Captain Charles W Newcomb (1853-1922) 61 3. Almira T Newcomb (1860-1947) 54 4. Newcomb (1864-1864)
Notes
Medical:
age 67-7-16
married
housewife
Lucy Smith Atwood
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 9 Mar 1828 - Chatham, Massachusetts 62 Baptism: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Solomon Atwood (1785-1848) Mother: Lucy Smith (1793-1868)Lydia Atwood
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Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Sep 1733 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 63 Baptism: Death: Abt 1767 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Atwood (1701- ) Mother: Lydia Doane (Est 1703- )
Spouses and Children
1. *David Vickery (Abt 1731 - 14 Nov 1823) Marriage: 6 Mar 1760 - Falmouth, Maine Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (David Vickery)
Children
Deborah VICKERY b: MAY 1766 in Falmouth, Maine
Lydia VICKERY b: 1767 in Falmouth, Maine
(ernest_keene)
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25. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), A-60. Ryder and Atwood. .... R Bradley Potts, "The Atwood Families of New England ..." (Rootsweb file atwood).
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34. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:569. Marriages.
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57. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:88. Benjamin Lewis jr and Mercy his wife.
58. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 2, lot 4 (Thomas E. Newcomb family). .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:127. the children of Thomas and Ruth G Newcomb.
59. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, vol.2. Marriages 1843-1856 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 64.
60. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 2, lot 4 (Thomas E. Newcomb family). .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 46. 1901 #18.
61. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 48, lots 3 & 4. Solomon M. & Nancie A. Laha family. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 37.
62. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:297.
63. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 9:103.
1 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:70. Harding and Eunice Atwood family.
2 Elizabeth Freeman, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions. Section Three. Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Asscociation), 33.
3 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association).
4 R Bradley Potts, "The Atwood Families of New England ..." (Rootsweb file atwood).
5 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:155. The children of Harding and Dorcas Atwood.
6 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association). .... R Bradley Potts, "The Atwood Families of New England ..." (Rootsweb file atwood).
7 Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.
8 George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 73.
9
Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 156 (MD31:176). Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.
10
Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1906. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice), 40. "This township was originally parts of Templeton and Athol. It was incorporated; October 20, 1786, and named in honor of Elbridge Gerry; but dissatisfied with his measures after he became governor, the citizens, [on 5 Feb 1814], procured a change of name to Phillipston." Nason & Varney, 1890
The date of the name change comes from the Phillipston Town Clerk, 27 Apr 2009.
online
11 Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1906. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice), 85.
12 index to Orleans, Massachusetts cemeteries (1970. Excel file at Orleans Historical Society, http://orleanshistoricalsociety.org/collections.html).
13 births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 128.
14 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 21. .... Pleasant Hill cemetery, Reuben Higgins family, obelisk. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), Marriages page 584.
15 Pleasant Hill cemetery, Reuben Higgins family, obelisk.
16 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1843-1859 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 2:85. frequently differ from other records
17 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 102. Capt. Reuben Higgins family.
18 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), Marriages page 584.
19 Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 365. This is a major source, which seems accurate.
20 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 102. Reuben & Louisiana Higgins family. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 21.
21 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), A-60. Ryder and Atwood. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 8.
22 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:191. The children of Freeman B Atwood & Mary his wife. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 8.
23 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), A-60. Ryder and Atwood. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:99. Jeremiah and Betsey Atwood family. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:191. The children of Freeman B Atwood & Mary his wife.
24 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), A-60. Ryder and Atwood.
25 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), A-60. Ryder and Atwood. .... R Bradley Potts, "The Atwood Families of New England ..." (Rootsweb file atwood).
26 Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), 44:92 (Boston).
27 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 610-611. Cornelius Hamblen & Sally Baker family. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:131. children of Elisha and Bethiah Atwood.
28 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lot 610-611. Cornelius Hamblen & Sally Baker family.
29 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 36 (MD8:13).
30 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:36.
31 Stanley W. Smith, "Records from the Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Mass." (Mayflower Descendant, vols 10, 11, 12). .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:237. deaths (21 Aug 1829).
32 R Bradley Potts, "The Atwood Families of New England ..." (Rootsweb file atwood). .... Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 24: Wellfleet (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 813.
33 Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 24: Wellfleet (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 816. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:77.
34 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:569. Marriages.
35 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:120. the children of John R and Lucy Hawes.
36 Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 24: Wellfleet (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 816.
37 Elizabeth Freeman, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions. Section Three. Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Asscociation), 8. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:120. the children of John R and Lucy Hawes.
38 Elizabeth Freeman, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions. Section Three. Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Asscociation), 8-9.
39 marriages, circa 1761-1844. from Book 2, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute (2 Cds), files H01_04a - H01_04f), 6.
40 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:3. Richard & Mary Atwood family.
41 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:3. Richard & Mary Atwood family. .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, p 72.
42 Rootsweb.com, mac3387me.
43 Elizabeth Freeman, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions. Section Three. Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Asscociation), 5.
44 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:523, Marriages.
45 Ann S. Lainhart, "Descendants of Barzilla Hopkins (c.1730-1816)" (1988. Mayflower Descendant 38:109-112).
46
Evelyn Rich, "Richard Rich of Eastham on Cape Cod and some of his descendants" (New England Historical and Genealogical Register.), 83:269. in 5 parts. vol. 83: 261-278, 394-414 (1929) and vol. 84: 34-62, 117-134, 294-304 (1930)
Numerous small mistakes.
47 H. Russell Cox and David L. Swett, History of Orrington, Maine.
48 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:19. the children of Mr Nathaniel Atwood and Content his wife.
49 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 15.
50 M. Natale, Ancestors of Mercy Holbrook Higgins (2005. email).
51 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:33. the children of Edmund Freeman and Ruth his wife.
52 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:587. Marriages.
53 George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 23.
54 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 2, lot 4 (Thomas E. Newcomb family).
55 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:132 Joshua & Jane Atwood family.
56 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 41. 1896, 29.
57 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:88. Benjamin Lewis jr and Mercy his wife.
58 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 2, lot 4 (Thomas E. Newcomb family). .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:127. the children of Thomas and Ruth G Newcomb.
59 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, vol.2. Marriages 1843-1856 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 64.
60 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 2, lot 4 (Thomas E. Newcomb family). .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 46. 1901 #18.
61 Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), row 48, lots 3 & 4. Solomon M. & Nancie A. Laha family. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 37.
62 Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:297.
63
George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 9:103.
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