Toppan Family Reserch

Taken April 27 2017 Oak Hill Burial Ground East Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

I took several photos in Oak Hill Burial Ground in East Kingston, New Hampshire. Researching John Toppan (1739-1818)

Found on record---son of James Toppan (1702-1765) and Abigail Morrill of Salisbury, Massachusetts

A Will recorded indicates John Toppan was the only son born to John and Abigail. There is brother-in-law Paul Morrill of Salisbury now residing in South Hampton, New Hampshire.

listed daughter Abigail married to Jacob Gale 
and son-in-law Simeon Noyes


John Toppan married December 25 1776 Mrs Abigail Weare of Seabrook, New Hampshire (The New England Historical & Genealogical Register Volume 51 1897)  
Was Abigail a Weare by marriage or birth? 
In Lane Genealogy book it records Abigail Weare daughter of Deacon Jonathan Weare (1727) of Seabrook, New Hampshire and Sarah Lane (1727-1747) married to John Toppan 
Deacon Jonathan Weare son of John Weare and Deborah Taylor

John Toppan and Abigail Weare had a son, James Toppin born 26 Sep 1767 in Kensington, New Hampshire died 6 Feb 1853 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He married Nancy Choate (1778-1855) daughter of Josiah Choate (1747-1822) and Hannah Roberts (1748-1817) 
Marriage record 10 Nov 1793 in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Death Record of James and Nancy Toppan Massachusetts Town Records listing James birth place in New Hampshire

Wing and Davis Quaker lines

Newspaper Find in 1907 Looking for more information. The recorded dates on vitals may not be correct. The article is on Mrs Ann C Riker (1817-1911) who is Anne Chase Thorne, daughter of James Thorne and Sarah Chase and wife on Henry L Riker (1814-1894).
The Quaker marriage record between Wing and Davis.
Brice Wing (1754-1810) son of Daniel Wing (1734-1790) and Lydia Shepherd married Mary Davis (1757-1851) daughter of Benjamin Davis (1728-1803) and Lydia Nichols (1730-1804) of Salem Massachusetts maybe daughter of Thomas Nichols and Mary Buffum. 
Ann Riker was related through Sarah Davis (1762-1849) daughter of Benjamin and Lydia who married James Chase (1758-1803)

Ellen Dorcas Stearns of Salisbury Remembered

Ellen (Nell) Dorcas Stearns October 30, 1845 – Feb 2, 1945 daughter of Charles Oliver Stearns (1813-1906) and Adeline Eastman Stearns (1813-1893). Thanks Ruthie Stearns for photos

Newspaper clip Amesbury Daily News, published in Amesbury, Massachusetts on Thursday, October 29th, 1942 and photo of Nell on her 90th birthday and another of her family and friends gathering for a photo on her day of birthday celebration

 

This photo of the extended Stearns family was taken in 1935, at Nell’s 90th birthday celebration at the Elm Street house. Shown here, first row, Florence Swett Chisholm Morrill, Polly Richards, Ellen Dorcas Stearns, Howard Oliver Stearns, Jr. and Howard Oliver Stearns, Sr.  Back row, Roy Richards, Ethel Swett Williams, Roy Richards Jr., Nettie Florence Gould Stearns, Fannie Stearns Swett, Mr. George Morrill, Marion Swett Richards, Mr. Williams, William Dennett Stearns.  Ethel, 50, in the back row holding Roy Jr., looks in the peak of health, but died four days after the photo was taken.

Amesbury Daily News Febuary 3 1945 Obit 

The Stearns Clan from the left Adeline Eastman Stearns and daughters  Fannie, Ellen, Gustie, and Charles Oliver outside the home

Nells home at 315 Salisbury now located on Bartlett Farm in Salisbury, MA moved see Newburyport News article

William Stearns and Martha Winkley New Hampshire

Today I walked the in Proprietor's Cemetery on South Street in Portsmouth NH.  Photo of grave stone:  William Stearns (1804-1881) and wife Martha Winkley (180?-1879). William was the son of John Stearns and Sara Lane.
According to Stearns Genealogy and Memoirs, Volume 1 (Avis Stearns Van Wagenen) William was born August 5 1803 in Deerfield NH. He was a machinist, a representative in NH state legislature, and a Colonel. 
John Stearns son of Rev Joshua Stearns. They are from Isaac Stearns line. Martha could be daughter of John Winkley and Ruth Foy.

Martha Babcock Noyes

Martha Babcock Noyes (1806-1900) d. of Sanford Noyes and Martha Babcock.  She married George Washington Noyes (1800-1849)

Martha was direct line of Revolutionary War Patriot Sanford Noyes of Rhode Island and a DAR Real Daughter
Sources

• Chapter Sketches: Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution: Patriots' Daughters published 1904
• Find A Grave
• The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 7
• American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A, Volume 5
• Noyes' Genealogy: Record of a Branch of the Descendants of Rev. James Noyes, Newbury, 1634-1656

 

Captain Samuel Poole Barely Escapes Fire Gloucester MA

From The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Thursday, January 21, 1897. This probably would be Samuel Gamage Poole (1840 - 1921) son of Ebenezer Poole and Martha Plummer. He married Helen Augusta Marr (1848-1923)