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Ancestry/Genealogy

wnylib

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2. My family traces back to John Sheldon and

Reply to appalachiablue (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 30, 2023, 10:42 PM

Mar 2023

his wife, Hannah. Yes, the hatchet hole is in the door of the Sheldon house. The door was saved when the House was torn down.

The stories that I have about them come from genealogy message boards and from books about the raid rather than from family stories.

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Colonial Deerfield, Massachusetts - 1704 Deerfield Raid [View all] wnylib Mar 2023 OP

How fascinating that you have family links and stories. We saw Deerfield briefly appalachiablue Mar 2023 #1

My family traces back to John Sheldon and wnylib Mar 2023 #2

My husband traces back to Thomas Wells Jr and his wife Hebzibah (nee Buell) csziggy Aug 2023 #3

Not sure without checking my sources, but wnylib Aug 2023 #4

There were probably three Thomas Wells csziggy Aug 2023 #5

Sarah Barnard? My ancestor, Ebenezer Sheldon, wnylib Aug 2023 #6