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A Hempstead Secret Mond 13 Fair DECEMBER 2013 A Hempstead Secret Mond 13 fair. I came home by my farm & Fannie Potter, the secretary of the his- got to ye ferry by noon & ... over by 2 & went torical society at the time. back to make up between Nattee & Sarah However, you may remember the entire Church. I went to Justice Perkins’s to get him manuscript was not available for Pat to to assist & came back at night 9 of ye Clock review. The folios for the years 1732 to before I got home. Son Robert is come over to 1750, had been loaned to the historical Mr Ledgyards. I turned my young Cattel out of society for the transcription, but then ye plain yt S. P kept. Wednsd 15 fair. I was returned to the owner in the Bolles- at home foren at Court & in Town &c. I bot Branch line of the Hempstead family. 1 Dozn Coat Plate buttons of Edwd Palmes The historical society was able to acquire & gave him 2 Dollers & am to pay him £3 the missing one third of the document 11s 6d. at auction in 2011, and Pat Schaefer has Did you notice anything as you read this (Continued on page 5) passage from The Diary of Joshua Hempstead? This is the text as it appears on page 492 of our 1999 edition, and yes, there is no entry for the 14th of June Holiday Open House and Volunteer Reception of 1748. Except, there is an entry for ~ Thursday 19 December at 4 PM that date in the manuscript. lease join us on the evening of Thursday 19 December for our holiday When we published the 1999 edition P open house and reception to honor the volunteers who do so much to under the guidance of Patricia Schaefer keep the historical society running smoothly. We’ll have holiday sweets and and Neild Oldham, we reformatted the cheeses, tea, coffee, and wine. text to make it easier to follow, and added a new index of names, including A special performance will take place at 5 o’clock with Jennifer Emerson (also the names of slaves and women who known as “Miss Perkins”) sharing some mid-nineteenth century holiday spirit had mostly been left out of the earlier with a reading of some of the most memorable parts of Charles Dickens’s, “A index. Pat Schaefer reviewed the manu- Christmas Carol.” Popular from the day that it was published, Jennifer will share script and conducted extensive research the story as it might have been read in the Perkins home. Certainly we’ll all be into the original to clarify discrepancies wishing, “God bless us, every one!” as we head home. and check confusing items in the tran- Not just for volunteers — all are invited. But because of the performance scription completed in 1896 by Miss please call the office to make reservations: 860.443.1209. NEW LONDON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 1 “Ye Towne’s Antientest Buriall Place” The Bolles Family, Part II n the last newsletter we covered a 1, 1757, “att his wives fathers Isaiah 1740, and died November 5, 1783, “in few of the members of the large Bolles.” Neither of these, nor Bath- ye 45th year of his age.” (It seems to be I Bolles clan who have headstones sheba, has a stone in the burying off by a year.) The Bolles genealogy in the Antientest Burial Ground. This ground. says he “m. and had one child, who d. time we will cover the rest of the family. without issue.” It does not give his Hempstead did quite a bit of surveying John and Sarah (Edgecombe) Bolles, wife’s name. The headstone is in good for the Bolles family, including Isaiah. who do not have stones in the burying condition. Hempstead also bought livestock from ground, were the parents or grandpar- Isaiah, as in April of 1743, when “I The other headstone from this branch ents of most of those who do. John and made a Map for Ebe Bolles & he pd me of the family is for Alpheus, the sixth Sarah were both very active in the reli- 10s. I Sent it and 4. more to Isaiah by child of Joshua and Joanna, died July gious group known as the Rogerenes, Enoch to pay for 2 piggs.” (Enoch was 26, 1776, “in the 24th year of his age.” founded by John Rogers, and not recog- another brother, who does not have a He was born October 4, 1752, and did nized as a legitimate sect by Connecticut stone in the burying ground.) The fol- not marry. His headstone is interesting authorities. Suggestions for more infor- lowing year Hempstead notes on April because of mislabeling. The stone itself mation on the Rogerenes can be found 4, “I killed ye Last of my 2 piggs that I is spalled (the front layer of brown- in references at the end of this article. had of Isaiah Bolles last april yesterday.” stone has fallen off), although the Isaiah Bolles was the eighth child and footstone is there and says “Mr. Al- Lydia “departed this Life Sept. 10, A.D. sixth son of John and Sarah Bolles, pheus Bolles.” In front of the head- 1774, in the 62d year of her age,” as it born October 11, 1713. In 1735 he mar- stone is a metal plaque on a metal used to say on her headstone. The stone ried Lydia Powers, who does not seem stick, driven firmly into the ground, is next to Isaiah’s, but broken off at the to have been his first love. Joshua ground. Isaiah outlived her, dying Janu- (Continued on page 4) Hempstead, the diarist, notes on No- ary 28, 1789, “in the 76th year of his vember 18, 1733, “Isaiah Boles & Jemi age.” His stone is in good condition. Rogers published.” Since this Isaiah The Bolles genealogy says both died in Bolles appears to have been the only New London County Historical Society Incorporated 1870 Saybrook. one of that name in New London at the Officers time, it was probably he. However, on The tenth child of John and Sarah Nancy Steenburg, President Patty Oat, Vice President August 4, 1734, Hempstead says “Math Bolles, Joshua, has two children with Joe Selinger, Secretary Frederick E. Burdick, Treasurer Cooley of Lyme & Jemima Rogers pub- headstones in the burying ground, al- lished.” though neither he nor his wife has one. Board of Directors 2014 Joshua was born August 5, 1717, and William Peterson, Karyn Garside, Isaiah and Lydia had five children, at Deborah McCann, Jeffrey Nelson married Joanna Williams January 30, least two of whom (both named Bath- 2015 1739. The genealogy says they had 15 Barun Basu, Karen Beasley, sheba) died young. Hempstead notes on Chris Donohue, Fawn Walker children, including three sets of twins. August 30, 1753, while an epidemic of 2016 One child died in the 1753 dysentery Dan Connors, Katherine Dimancescu, Peter the bloody flux (dysentery) gripped Emanuel, Benjamin Panciera epidemic, as noted above. The geneal- New London, “3 Children Died last Staff ogy also mentions a Sarah who died Edward Baker, Executive Director night & to day. one of Patrick Robert- Tricia Royston, Librarian in 1754. son & one of Joshua Bolles’s & one of 11 Blinman Street New London, Connecticut 06320 Isaiah Bolles’s.” Their second child, Samuel “Bowls” as it is spelled on his 860.443.1209 Margaret, born February 12, 1738, mar- headstone, was the first child of Joshua www.newlondonhistory.org [email protected] ried a Frederick Lee, who died February and Joanna. He was born December 7, ISSN 1940-2074 2 NEW LONDON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER Award Winning! New and Renewed PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Members ’m delighted to report to you that our 2012 joint exhibition, “The Rockets’ Educational Partners Red Glare,” created by the collaboration of the New London County His- Mitchell College New London torical Society and our partners the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, the Custom Connecticut College New London University of Connecticut, Avery Point Groton I House Museum, the Stonington Historical Society, and Mystic Seaport Museum, Contributing has won two more notable awards from the Association for the Study of Con- F.M. & J. Durrschmidt Mystic Ann Sheedy Lebanon necticut. The exhibit itself garnered the Bruce Fraser Award for the best public Daniel & Deborah Connors New London history exhibit in Connecticut in 2012. The companion book, with Dr. Glenn Shelley & William White Stonington Karen Halttunen San Marino, CA Gordinier as the principle author, won the Betty M. Linsley Award for the best Patricia & Todd Schaefer Mystic book on Connecticut history published by a historical society in 2012. We all Chris Donohue Mystic Brian & Pamela Ehrlich Mystic know that the exhibit and book were wonderful, and it is equally wonderful to Patty Oat Groton receive recognition for them. If you don’t own a copy of the book, we have Friend Fawn Walker & Ric Ricci Quaker Hill them for sale at the Shaw Mansion. Christopher Atwood New London Roy & Valerie Grimm Noank For 2014, the New London County Historical Society is producing something Russel Vocalina Niantic George & Olga Manos East Lyme entirely new – a calendar that highlights significant places and events in the his- Andrew German Mystic tory of New London County and of the society itself. Under the skillful and Individual and Family creative guidance of Board member Christopher Donohue, we have published a Barbara Bolles Kansas City, MO Emily Gere Menlo Park, CA wonderful calendar that you will want to own, and that you will want to share Lisa Clarke Perrin New London Robert J.
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