My Uncle Tony recalled that his grandmother, Lucy Burr Wadhams, thought of her husband, Dr. Abram Barker, as a “Johnny-come-lately,” a man without the deep historical connection to America (and Goshen specifically) of her lineage. She was not wrong. The Wadhams had been in Connecticut for generations. Abram Barker had been born in Maine asContinue reading “The Barker Surname”
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Sons of the American Revolution
Joseph Eggleston was a soldier in the American Revolution who appears to have served for a total of nine days from September 6, 1781 only to be discharged on September 15, 1781. His mustering onto the roll is recorded as starting in 1774 in Rev. Samule Orcutt’s (1878) History of Torrington, Connecticut from Its FirstContinue reading “Sons of the American Revolution”
John Hodges Wadhams
The compilation of these genealogies are combined to a single pedigree It is maintained in Family Echo – once the link is open, the family tree will branch vertically and horizontally depending on the ancestor selected. John Marsh Wadhams II: (5/7/1811 – 10/10/1896) [See Hibbard, The History of the Town of Goshen, 1897:245-247] m. 1837Continue reading “John Hodges Wadhams”
Protective Arts 