I see we Have a couple new members on the site now. Just wanted to say thanks for signing up and Welcome to Dawn Welch and Ruth Dann . Please use the blog space for any info relating to the Family tree and for chats about genealogy and the family tree.  Feel free to comment on others blogs. Remeber the more info we put up here the more traffic we create on Google. The more traffic means we may meet someone who might fill that “missing link” you’ve been looking for.

Adam Duffy

I have updated some dates and induviduals on the family tree. And thanks to Dawn Welch for the information leading to the addition of many more relatives and ancestors to the family tree.  Dawn is my 6th cousin once removed which means we share Great Grandparents down the line but we are 1 generation apart. in this case the ancestors we share are Thomas William Glasspoole & Catherine Cook. They are my 5G Grandparents and her 6thG Grandparents.  Again I would like to thank Dawn for her addition and apoligize it took so long to add them. Please look at the Familt Tree at http://adamduffy.info/genealogy

Adam Duffy

Today i will add some of the Glasspoole family  I dont have to much on the Glasspoole family like i do for the persons in the previous posts, So I will add 3 or 4 a day.

First Glasspoole on the list will be my Grandmother

Dorathy Annette Duffy (nee Glasspoole)

Dorothy Duffy with Grandson Johnathan Duffy

Dorothy was born on September 1st, 1929.  Dorothy’s father was William Wallace Glasspoole and her mother was Hannah Kate Dodge.  Her paternal grandparents were Henry Clay Glasspoole and Mary Jane Grant; her maternal grandparents were Ulysses Henery Dodge and Sarah Jane Wood.  She had four brothers and four sisters, named James, William, Andrew, Everett, Frances, Evelyn, Margaret and Betty.  She was the eighth oldest of the nine children. She had  She died due to natural causes at the age of 77 on October 21st, 2006 in St. Pauls Hospital Vancouver BC, Canada

Children

I have noticed that a lot af searches are done for Pricilla Mullins, So todays post is about her again most of this info cam from Wikipedia.  If you find any mistakes please let me know

Pricilla Mullins  

Pricilla was born in 1602.  She died at the age of 78 in 1680 in Duxbury.  Her burial was in Miles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury.^1 1 

• General Notes
  • Priscilla Alden (née Mullins) (c. 1602 – c. 1680?), noted member of Massachusetts’s Plymouth Colony of “Pilgrims”, was the wife of fellow colonist John Alden (c. 1599-1687); they married in 1623 in Plymouth.

    Biography
    Priscilla was most likely born in Dorking in Surrey, the daughter of William and Alice Mullins. Priscilla was a seventeen-year-old girl when she boarded the Mayflower. She lost her parents and her brother Joseph during the first winter in Plymouth.[2] She was then the only one of her family in the New World, although she had another brother and a sister who remained in England.

    But she rose above her grief and spun wool and flax for the colony, taught the children and helped with the cooking a great deal. She was sweet of temper and had great patience.

    John Alden and Priscilla Mullins were likely the third couple to be married in Plymouth Colony. William Bradford’s marriage to Alice Carpenter on 14 August 1624 is known to be the fourth.[3] The first was that of Edward Winslow and Susannah White in 1621. Francis Eaton’s marriage to his second wife, Dorothy, maidservant to the Carvers, was possibly the second.[4]

    Priscilla is last recorded in the records in 1650, but oral tradition states that she died only a few years before her husband (which would be about 1680). She lies buried at the Miles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury, Massachusetts. While no one knows the exact location of her grave, there is a marker honoring her.

    [edit] Longfellow’s poem
    She is known to literary history as the unrequited love of the newly-widowed Captain Miles Standish, the colony’s military advisor, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1858 poem The Courtship of Miles Standish. According to the poem, Standish asked his good friend John Alden to propose to Priscilla on his behalf, only to have Priscilla ask, “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?”

    Longfellow (a direct descendant of John and Priscilla) based his poem on a romanticized version of a family tradition, though there is no independent historical evidence for the account. The basic story was apparently handed down in the Alden family and published by John and Priscilla’s great-great-grandson, Rev. Timothy Alden, in 1814.[5]

    [edit] The Alden children
    Priscilla and John Alden had ten children, with a possible eleventh, dying in infancy. It is presumed, although not documented, that the first three children were born in Plymouth, the remainder in Duxbury.[6]

    1. John. Born 1622. Moved to Boston and married there Elizabeth (Phillips) Everill, widow of Abiel Everill. They also had thirteen children. He was a mariner and became a naval commander of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was a member of the Old South Church of Boston and his ancient slate headstone is embedded in the wall there. Perhaps the best known event of his life is when, on a trip to Salem, he was accused of witchcraft, spending fifteen weeks in a Boston jail. He escaped shortly before nine of the other “victims” were executed during the Salem witch trials. He was later exonerated. Died 1701.

    2. Elizabeth. Born 1623. Married William Pabodie, a civic and military leader of Duxbury, where all thirteen of their children were born. They moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island where Elizabeth died in 1717 at the age of about ninety-four. Their descendants were prominent in settling areas of Rhode Island and Connecticut. From Elizabeth’s line comes the one individual most credited with spreading the fame of John and Priscilla far and wide, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his “Courtship of Miles Standish.”

    3. Joseph. Moved to Bridgewater where he was a farmer on land purchased earlier from the Indians by his father and Myles Standish. He married Mary Simmons. They had a total of seven children. Joseph died sometime after 1696/7.

    4. Sarah. Her marriage to Myles Standish’s son, Alexander, undercuts any idea of a long-standing feud between the Aldens and the Standish clan. In fact, there is much evidence to suggest that John and Myles remained lifelong friends or, at the minimum, associates. Sarah and Alexander lived in Duxbury until Sarah’s death sometime before June 1688. (Alexander subsequently married Desire Doty, a twice widowed daughter of Pilgrim Edward Doty.) They had seven or possibly eight children. The Duxbury house where they lived still stands.

    5. Jonathan. Married Abigail Hallett December 10, 1672. Lived in Duxbury until his death February 14, 1697. Was the second owner of the Alden House which he received from his father. The house then passed to his own son, John. Six children. At his funeral oration, Jonathan was described as “a sincere Christian, one whose heart was in the house of God even when his body was barred hence by restraints of many difficulties which confined him at home.”

    6. Ruth. Married John Bass of Braintree, Massachusetts, where they lived and had seven children. Of the more illustrious descendants of this union came Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Ruth died on October 12, 1674.

    7. Rebecca. Married Thomas Delano of Duxbury by 1667, a son of Philip Delanoye, one of the original settlers of Duxbury. They had nine children. Died in Duxbury sometime after June 13, 1688.

    8. Mary. No record of birth or marriage. Died after June 13, 1688.

    9. Priscilla. Same information as for Mary.

    10. David. Married Mary Southworth, daughter of Constant Southworth. Died sometime during 1718 or 1719. Six children. A man described as “a prominent member of the church, a man of great respectability and much employed in public business.”

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Adam Duffy

Hello all 

Todays page will be on Miles Standish. 

Myles Standish 

Myles was born in 1584 in Chorley, Lancashire, England.¹   He died at the age of 72 on October 3rd, 1656 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, USA.¹ 

• General Notes
  • Captain Myles Standish (c. 1584 – October 3, 1656), (sometimes spelled Miles Standish) was an English born military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth colony. Arriving on the Mayflower, he worked on colonial defense. On February 17, 1621, he was appointed the first commander of Plymouth colony. Later, he served as Plymouth’s representative in England, and served as assistant governor and as the colony’s treasurer. He was also one of the founders of the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts (named after his ancestral seat at Duxbury Woods, Chorley) in 1632.

    Standish is often remembered for his bravery in battle and his reputation as the military captain of the Pilgrims, as well as a character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s fictitious poem The Courtship of Miles Standish.

    The former Fort Standish, located on Lovell’s Island, Massachusetts, was named in his honor, as well as the town of Standish, Maine.

    In North America
    After the Pilgrims hired Standish as Military Captain for the voyage to North America, he was soon to be one of the members to sign the Mayflower Compact at Cape Cod November 11, 1620. After the voyage, Standish was elected Military Captain of the colony by the leadership of the Pilgrims.

    [edit] Plymouth Colony
    Soon after arriving at Plymouth, the first illness struck the Pilgrims and this sickness took his wife Rose’s life, on January 29, 1621; In 1623, a woman named Barbara came to Plymouth on the ship Anne, and Myles married her that same year. Myles and Barbara had seven children together. They were Charles (died young), Alexander (who married Sarah Alden, daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins), John, Myles, Loara, Josiah, and Charles

    Through all the continued sickness, Standish was one of the seven that did not get sick; William Bradford quoted:

    But that was most sad and lamentable was, that in two or three months’ time half of their company died, especially in January and February…. So as their died some times two or three of a day in the foresaid time, that 100 and odd persons, scarce fifty remained. And of these, in the time of most distress, there was but six or seven sound persons who to their great commendation, be it spoken, spared no pains night or day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed their meat, made their beds, washed their clothes clothed and unclothed them… Two of these seven were Mr. William Brewster, their reverend Elder, and Myles Standish, their captain and military commander, unto whom myself and many others were much beholden in our low and sick condition.
    Standish was quick to make friends with the natives, including one named Hobomok.

    In the second year at Plymouth, Standish led a force to Wessagusett to save the settlement from native attack. Responding to reports of a military threat to the colony, Myles Standish organized a militia to defend Wessagussett. However, while he found that there had been no attack, he did find evidence that one was planned. He therefore decided on a preemptive strike. Unfortunately, while Standish returned to Plymouth a hero after the raid, the impact of his attack had larger implications.

    Edward Winslow quoted in Good News From New England about this incident:

    Also Pecksuot, being a man of great stature than the Captain, told him, though he were a great Captain, yet he was but a little man; and said he, thought I be no sachem, yet I am a man of great strength and courage. These things the Captain observed, yet bare with patience for the present. . . On the next day he began himself with Pecksuot, and snatching his [Pecksuot's] knife from his neck, though with much struggling, killed him therewith. . . Hobbamock stood by all this as a spectator, and meddled not observing how our men demeaned themselves in this action. All being here ended, smiling, he brake forth into these speeches to the Captain: Yesterday Pecksuot, bragging of his own strength and stature, said, though you were a great captain, yet you were but a little man; but today I see you are big enough to lay him on the ground.
    Word quickly spread among the Native American tribes of Standish’s attack; many Native Americans abandoned their villages and fled the area. Edward Winslow, in his 1624 memoirs Good News from New England, reports that “they forsook their houses, running to and fro like men distracted, living in swamps and other desert places, and so brought manifold diseases amongst themselves, whereof very many are dead”. Now lacking the trade in furs provided by the local tribes, the Pilgrims lost their main source of income for paying off their debts to the Merchant Adventurers. Rather than strengthening their position, Standish’s raid had disastrous consequences for the colony, a fact noted by William Bradford, who in a letter to the Merchant Adventurers noted “[W]e had much damaged our trade, for there where we had [the] most skins the Indians are run away from their habitations…” However, one positive effect of Standish’s raid was the increased power of the Massasoit-led Wampanoag, the Pilgrims’ closest ally in the region.

    [edit] Duxbury
    Standish was also, from 1644 to 1649, the treasurer of the town of Duxbury, which was named after the original Standish estate in Chorley, England. Standish had never joined the Plymouth church (though he attended every Sunday), and to his death supposedly never did. This was possibly because of the constant conflict over religious beliefs in his family.

    Standish died in Duxbury Massachusetts on October 3, 1656. Nathaniel Morton wrote of his death:

    This year [1656] Captain Myles Standish expired his mortal life. . . .In his younger time he went over into the low countries, and was a soldier there, and came acquainted with the church at Leynden, and came over into New England, with such of them as at the first set out the plantation of New Plymouth, and bare a deep share of their first difficulties, and was always very faithful to their interest. He growing ancient, became sick of the stone, or stranguary, whereof, after his suffering of much dolorous pain, he fell asleep in the Lord, and was Honorably buried at Duxbury.
    Standish’s last will and testimony states even though leaving his family in England that he had land in various parts of England. His will states: “9 I give unto my son & heir apparent Allexander Standish all my land as heire apparent by lawful Decent in Ormistick [Ormskirk], Borsconge [Burscough], Wrightington, Maudsley [Mawdesley], Newburrow [Newborough], Crawston [Croston] and the Ile of man [ Isle of Man ] and given to me as right heire by lawful Decent but Surruptuously Detained from my great Grandfather being a second or younger brother from the house of Standosh [Standish] of Standish. March the 7th 1655 by me Standish.” These lands now make up the Lancashire towns of Chorley and Ormskirk.

    Myles Standish was the deputy governor.

This page was wikipedia if you have any updates please email me 

duffyfam@telus.net

I will be posting  some family history on here for the next while along with any new news about the Duffy-Glasspoole line.  Today i will start with John Alden:

John Alden is one of the earliest relitives i can find in the Duffy Glasspoole Family tree.

John was born in 1599.  He died at the age of 88 on September 22nd, 1687 in Duxbury.  His burial was in Miles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury

This article was taken from  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alden_%28Pilgrim%29

If you would like more info on how he is realted to the Duffy-Glasspoole line or maybe to you please email me at Duffyfam@telus.net

John Alden

John Alden (1599?–September 22, 1687) was a tradesman who emigrated to America in 1620 with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower and was among the founders of the Plymouth Colony. He was originally hired by William Bradford and others to be their cooper. Though he could have returned to England the following year, he chose to stay in the new colony. About 1623 he married Priscilla Mullins, with whom he had many children. He was one of the first settlers of Duxburrough or Duxborough, known today as Duxbury, Massachusetts, where he lived for most of his life. From 1633 until 1675 he was assistant to the governor of the colony, frequently serving as acting governor and also sat on many juries, including one of the two witch trials in the Plymouth Colony.

There are several theories regarding Alden’s ancestry. According to William Bradford’s Of Plimoth Plantation, he was hired as a cooper in Southampton, England just before the voyage to America. In The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers, Charles Edward Banks suggested that John was the son of George and Jane Alden and grandson of Richard and Avys Alden of Southampton. However, there are no further occurrences of the names George, Richard, and Avys in his family which would have been unusual in the seventeenth century.

Another theory is that John Alden came from Harwich, England where there are records of an Alden family who were related by marriage to Christopher Jones, the Mayflower’s captain. In this case, he may have been the son of John Alden and Elizabeth Daye.

In 1634 Alden was jailed in Boston for a fight at Kenebeck in Maine between members of the Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. While Alden did not take part in the fight (which left one person dead) he was the highest ranking member the Massachusetts Bay colonists could get their hands on, and it was only through the intervention of Bradford that he was eventually released.

In later years Alden became known for his intense dislike of the Quakers and Baptists, who were trying to settle on Cape Cod. A letter survives complaining that Alden was too strict when it came to dealing with them.

At the time of his death, at Duxbury on September 12, 1687, he was the last male survivor of the signers of the Mayflower Compact of 1620, and with the exception of Mary Allerton, he was the last survivor of the Mayflower’s company.

He is remembered chiefly because of a popular legend, put into verse in 1858 as The Courtship of Miles Standish by his descendant Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, concerning his courtship of Priscilla Mullins, whom he married in 1623 after having wooed her first on behalf of his friend, Miles Standish. There is no known historic basis to the legend.

Alden’s house in Duxbury, built in 1653, is open to the public as a museum. It is run by the Alden Kindred of America, an organization which provides historical information about him and his home, including genealogical records of his descendants.

Alden and his wife Priscilla lie buried in the Miles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury.

John and Priscilla had the following children who survived to adulthood: Elizabeth, John (accused during the Salem witch trials), Joseph, Priscilla, Jonathan, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, Rebecca, and David. They have the most descendants today of all the pilgrim families.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a descendant of John Alden, as were John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Orson Welles, Dan Quayle, Raquel Welch, Frank Nelson Doubleday, Samuel Eliot Morison, Gamaliel Bradford, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Herbert Henry Dow, Martha Graham, Adlai Stevenson III, Jan Garrigue Masaryk, Dick Van Dyke, Julia Child, William Cullen Bryant, John Trumbull, Ned Lamont, Matt Hasselbeck, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, The Baldwin Brothers and Marilyn Monroe.[1]

Hello All

Your probably wondering what happened to the forums, well, I took them down.  They wernt being used and there was way to much spam.  With this new blog I will b e able to add new news items about what has been found in the Glasspoole and Duffy history as well as receive comments.  I am new at blogging so please give me some time.

So for these are the Surnames we have some information on here at http://www.adamduffy.info/genealogy .

- A -   (3 Families, 4 Individuals)
Alden (2),  Aldred (1),  Ayton (1)

- W -   (1 Family, 24 Individuals)
Wood (24)

Please feel free to comment and hopefully i will be able to  add something new everyday.

Adam Duffy

http://adamduffy.info