Take a Journey
Get to actually know your ancestors. We can help.
“We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”
Take a Journey with us…
We explore the history of families, individuals and places. We are genealogists. And we’re passionate about discovering the lines of descent and the stories of those that came before us. If you’ve heard the family lore, perhaps had some success with your own research, you probably ran into a brick wall at some point. We can help. Let’s take a journey together. Your ancestors and their stories are there to be discovered and preserved for future generations. Get to actually know your ancestors.
Here are a few that I’ve met along the way…
Captain Jacob S. Davis
A 2nd Great Grandfather was Master of the Bark Fredonia, (the background image on this page) owned by Charles W. Dabney of Boston, MA, and traveled between Boston and Fayal, Azores with both cargo and paid passengers. He was awarded a solid gold pocket watch by Her Majesty Queen Victoria in 1866, for his efforts in rescuing nearly 300 passengers from the foundering Gratitude of Liverpool, and delivering them safely to Boston. The watch and chain is in the possession of a family member and was even featured on an episode of Antiques Roadshow.
Hezekiah Keen
One of my 5th Great-Grandfathers, 1702-1770, kept an “account book” where he recorded not only personal business entries, but also critical genealogical information. These pages are the only known evidence that Josiah Keen of Marshfield and Duxbury Mass, married Abigail Little, of Marshfield, who was the daughter of Thomas Little (of Plymouth and Marshfield) by his wife Anna Warren, daughter of Richard Warren, the Mayflower Passenger. The “account book” was handed down through generations until a family member donated it to The Massachusetts Mayflower Society in 1925. On a trip to Boston in 1995, I stopped in and inquired. The woman brought out a 13”x8” book with aged oak cover and back and bound by wrought iron hinges, and handed it to me. It was an amazing experience to turn the pages and read the words written in his hand in 1763. Crazy, right?
