Category Archives: Immigrant Coat of Arms

I use the family coat of arms to indicate immigrant ancestor, but in reality the large majority of our ancestors were yeomen without arms. This category denotes our few gentry that took the trip across an unknown ocean

Percival Lowell

Posted on June 18, 2010 by markeminer

Percival LOWELL (1571 – 1665)  determined at the age of 68 that the future was in the New World. and the Lowell clan settled on the North Shore at Newbury after they arrived in Boston 23 June 1639.(See wikipedia article)Percivial was Alex’s 11th Great … Continue reading →

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John Lowell

Posted on June 18, 2010 by markeminer

John LOWELL (1595 – 1647)  and his father were original proprietors of Newbury, Mass when it was formally organized in March 1642.  He was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather; one of 2,048 in this generation of the Miller line. John Lowell was born in … Continue reading →

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John Cheney

Posted on June 12, 2010 by markeminer

 John CHENEY (1605 -1666 ) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather, one of 2,048  in this generation of the Shaw line. John Cheney was born 30 Jun 1605 in Roxburgh, Scotland.  His family are English coming from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, so … Continue reading →

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Edmund Hawes

Posted on May 17, 2010 by markeminer

Edmund HAWES (1612 -1693)  was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather; one of 2,048 in this generation of the Shaw line. Edmund Hawes  was baptized on 15 Oct 1612 in Solihull, Warwick, England, located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city center. He was the third … Continue reading →

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Rev Stephen Bachiler

Posted on May 16, 2010 by markeminer

Stephen BACHILER (c.1561 – 1656) (Wikipedia) was an English clergyman who was an early proponent of the separation of church and state in America. He was Alex’s 11th Great Grandfather; one of 2,048 in this generation. He was one of our most complicated ancestors and … Continue reading →

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A (False) Herauldical Essay Upon the Surname of Miner

Posted on May 13, 2010 by markeminer

Thomas MINER wrote back to England sometime during the mid 1600s, perhaps about 1683,  in investigation of his ancestory.  In return, he received this manuscript that contains an essay that traces the ancestry of Thomas back to a Henry Bullman … Continue reading →

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Thomas Miner

Posted on May 13, 2010 by markeminer

My Paternal American Ancestor, Thomas MINER (1608 –  1690) was a founder of Charlestown and Hingham Mass and  New London and Stonington, Connecticut, and the author of one of the few diaries to survive 17th Century New England. The Diary of Thomas … Continue reading →

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