Robbert Yates News Today

  Its Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings. The treasure today is the birth entry for Mehitable Grout (1726-1795) in the Watertown, Massachusetts town record book: The birth entry is in the middle of the right-hand page: The transcription of this record is: "Mehetable Grout Daughter of Joseph & Mary Grout born the 5 of Febry 1725/6" The source citation for this record is: "Massachus...

[image 299 of 552] Eight Day of March in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and twenty Eight an nine I Caleb Beck weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be given unto God therefore Calling unto mind the mortality of my Body and Knowing That it is Apointed for all men once to Die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and Recommend my soul into the Hands of god that gave it and for my body I Recommend it to ...