http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/14 medieval and modern genealogy, memory and history — part of nltaylor.net Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:34:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/14/comment-page-1#comment-5100 a genealogist’s sketchbook › Instant Heirlooms: an early Taylor will (sort of) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:39:41 +0000 http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/?p=14#comment-5100 [...] also bears a fine British crown watermark (similar to the one on my wife’s ancestor’s colonial militia commission) which shows the paper may well have been made under contract for use in colonial courts or by [...]

]]> http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/14/comment-page-1#comment-249 a genealogist’s sketchbook » Cynthia’s sampler Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:40:15 +0000 http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/?p=14#comment-249 [...] Another amazing artifact from the Connecticut Harmons which has now come our way. They lived in Suffield, Connecticut. Cynthia’s grandfather Samuel Harmon was the militia lieutenant whose commission was also given to us last year; now these hang together. Cynthia died at age 21 and is buried in West Suffield. Her brother James Hezron Harmon (see his daguerreotype here) must have passed down his sister’s sampler. [...]

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