Last week I wrote about Dorothie Hoyt and the scandal she created by her “presentment” for dressing in men’s clothing. This week my “Black Sheep Sunday” story is about her elder half-brother John, or John Hoyt Jr. as he is called in some of the old manuscripts and documents of early Essex County MA. John …
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Wordless Wednesday – Florence Viola Hoyt 1
I love this photo, it has such a lovely, dreamy quality to it. My aunt, Florence Viola Hoyt (Aunt Flossie) ca. 1940. I’m not entirely sure who the child is but I believe it is her daughter, Jean Faye Kidby. I’m also taking a guess on the location, which I think might be the Neponset …
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Tombstone Tuesday – Sarah Collins Hoyt 0
Resting place of my 5th great grandmother, Sarah Collins. Sarah married John Hoyt (1729 – 1818) on 21 Nov 1751 in S. Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hamphsire. She died 17 Dec 1788. The resting places of Sarah Collins and her husband John Hoyt, along with John’s second wife Miriam Brown, are located at the Hoyt-Currier …
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Military Monday – Paul Mink, Penobscot Expedition 2
My 4th great-grandfather, Paul Mink, was a Revolutionary War soldier along with two of his brothers, John and Valentine. Paul was born in 1753 to Johann Georg, a bookbinder from Altendiez, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia and his wife Gerdraut (Ziegler) Mink, German immigrants who arrived to settle Waldoboro Maine on the ship “Elizabeth” in 1753. After locating …
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Black Sheep Sunday – Scandalous Dorithie Hoyt! 8
Dorothie Hoyt was born on 13 Apr 1656 to my 9th great grandparents; Sgt. John Hoyt, a founding father of the towns of Salisbury and Amesbury MA, and his second wife Frances. Dorothie’s “scandalous” behavior in Puritanical New England is best told with the following extract from “A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and …
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Thankful Thursday – GeneaBloggers 12
I can do many things. I can draw and paint, knit lovely wooly things, design websites and design and create artisan jewelry. I have good focus on the things that I am passionate about; family, genealogy, history to name a few. But a writer I am not. I can sit paralyzed at my computer for …
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Treasure Chest Thursday – Pennies From Heaven 0
I never knew my maternal grandmother Jessie Arlene (Stewart) Hoyt as she died before I was born, but I have heard many stories about her and my family research has filled in a lot of the details. Jessie was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia on 20 Jul 1883. As a young woman she came to …
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Wedding Wednesday – Auntie Peg 4
Catherine, or Aunt Peg as she was lovingly known to all of her nieces and nephews, was born in Boston, MA on 27 January, 1911. Sadly her first marriage, to Theodore Lindberg in 1936, wouldn’t last. Teddy had a gambling addiction which grew worse with the years and it eventually put an end to their …
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Runaway Apprentice aka Joseph C. Hoit 0
After hours, days, months spent searching through dry (yet enlightening!) records and documents, every now and then an absolute gem is found that shines a light on the life of an ancestor and brings their day to day into sharper focus. This is one of those exceptional gems found on an otherwise quiet day in …
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Wife of Joseph Collins Hoyt…Found? 0
I’ve just recently returned to genealogy after an unplanned several-years long hiatus from it. The past few weeks have found me reorganizing boxes and notebooks full of notes, documents, photos and quite a collection of resource books to reacquaint myself up to the point where I left off. Lo and behold, the old brick walls …
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