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Words to the wise.............

The world stritches widely before you
A field for your musles and brain.
The clouds may often float over you,
often come tempest and rain.
Be fearless of storms that o'er take you
push forward and through like a man,
good, for time will never forsake you
If you do as near right as you can.

Elizabeth Sloan Stewart

9-4-1885

235th Aniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Monday marks the 235th anniversary of the famous "shot heard 'round the world"....
One of our very own, James Sloan, made that famous march. He was a member of James Hosley's company, Minute-Men of Col. William Prescott's Regiment who marched to Cambridge.
source for this is the History of the Town of Townsend, Middlesex County, Mass., from the Grant of Hathorn's Farm(1676-1878).
This James Sloan died August, 23, 1803...still looking through the Mass. Vital Records for more info on him. He was the father to Peter S. Sloan, who was married to Nancy Hill.
According to the Mass. Vital records James and his wife Molley(she was 2nd wife) had two sons named Peter Searles. The first one died by the time he was two years old.
James and Molley had three other children. They were Andrew and two daughters,Roccy and Maria.
I am still looking into who the first wife was and who were his parents.
If anyone is interested skippy doo on over to the following websites.
USgennet.org , Massachusetts Revolutionary War Soldiers (1775-1783). It is a free website. It is there that one can research for free and find names and limited info on ancestors who perhaps were at the famous battles.
Also, a great place for research is, The New England Historical and Genealogical Society or
newenglandancestors.org , this is not free, but if you have a curiosity about who we come from, then this is a good place to go. There are various levels at which one can join. The access to their data bases can help wade through the dust of history.
I know that James is not the only family member we have that participated on that day in Lexington and Concord... I am just checking out some facts first.

Fitchburg Sentinel...Friday, January 5, 1923

Miss Bessie Stewart who has been employed at the home of R.G. Fessenden for nine years, has left to enter into partnership with her sisters Misses Sadie and Lillian Stewart at the Main Street lunch rooms. Miss Lola Loveland has taken her place.
Who knew???

Arthur V. Sloan

Anyone want to venture a guess???
I was always under the impression that great grandmother Elizabeth Sloan Stewart(1865-1952) was the only surviving child of James Sloan(1830-1890).
Our Elizabeth's mother died when she was only 5 years old....James remarried to a woman a bit younger than himself and not to much older than Elizabeth...
According to the 1880 census, James was 50 years old, his new wife Laura was 22 and his son, Arthur was 2 years old.... Elizabeth, then, 15 was living in New Hampshire on a farm as a servant...Hmmmmm!!!!
Something I discovered that James and Elizabeth (Elliott) had two other children that did not survive childhood...and one was a son named Arthur.
So, yes, there were two Arthur's.
In the Fitchburg Sentinel is where I found Our Uncle Arthur and there will be more on him later
I was always told there were no other siblings for her...anyone else know something different?

Looking For Stewart Ancestors.......

So that is the name of this Blog.....the ancestors... the task of looking for and finding them is monumental. The last name of the families all associated through our grandparent lineage is extensive to say the very least. But where to start, what line to trace first, maternal or paternal? I just went to where I was able to trace back as far as possible without becoming to lost or unsure of the lineage.
The years of birth for those people span the years 1628 through 1652.... the ones going back the furthest that is....
If any one has any questions either email me or call me at home.
So...now for the names that are in the lineage through the marriage between Peter Sloan and Nancy Hill...all are in fact the names of our grandparent ancestors....
They are in no particular order as I am in no way OCD.
Hill, Holmes, Toothaker, Brewer, Jones, Lane, Whipple, Reyner, Brown, Cutter, Ruggles, Fowle, Clarke, Woodbridge, Dudley, Wheeler, Richardson, Baldwin,Potter, Bryan, Locke, Elliott and Miles.
Next time I will do another branch of the lineage.
I have been in touch with a fellow who lives in Manhattan who hails from the Hill family. He is a bit younger than me...he is in our cousin line through the Hill family. So I know for certain we do have others who share our ties and strains of DNA with us.

Nancy Hill (1795-1872)

Nancy Hill for most us of us is in our grandmother lineage...but who were her parents....and who were her siblings??? Well, Nancy's parents were Ralph Hill and Mary Jones..
Their children were in addition to Nancy are named as follows; Job, Polly, Brewer, Elijah, Betsey, Phebe, Emma, and Abigail.
And there will be more on all of them later.