The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

I love that you have dead people in Putney.

Have you been to Putney? Is it pretty?

 

[Alaskan]

Maine was a part of Mass until 1820... so maybe?

i think I got most of the quilting done on this puppy.
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Great quilting!

I like that you picked a swirling wind kind of quilting.

 

[bruceha2000]

I looked in mine, nope, we are not related... mine has no Joy.

So sad you have no Joy in your family!!!! But I bet there is a good possibility that the families knew of each other, only a few hundred people in Putney back then.

OK, here are our "dead people"

The red marker is yours, the little grey marker is mine, have to get to a Google map and zoom in to see it. Farther down the little road (Joy Road!) to the left of the Dipping Hole cemetery is another green square - the Joy cemetery. I didn't go to that one, Joy road was REALLY rough. Would need a pickup at least I think. Sure would be interesting to know where all the Joy families lived on that road.

Hmm, not so sure about the placement of the Joy cemetery, in satellite view it sure looks like someone's house/property. Unless there is a small cemetery hidden in the trees somewhere. In any case no cemetery the size of what Google maps shows on "map view". Dipping Hole is so small and in the trees it doesn't show on satellite view and street view doesn't go down any roads near it. Old North Burial Ground is very open, easy to see on satellite view. Sorry but I couldn't pick out any names on the stones

 

[Alaskan]

So sad you have no Joy in your family!!!! But I bet there is a good possibility that the families knew of each other, only a few hundred people in Putney back then.

OK, here are our "dead people"
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The red marker is yours, the little grey marker is mine, have to get to a Google map and zoom in to see it. Farther down the little road (Joy Road!) to the left of the Dipping Hole cemetery is another green square - the Joy cemetery. I didn't go to that one, Joy road was REALLY rough. Would need a pickup at least I think. Sure would be interesting to know where all the Joy families lived on that road.

Hmm, not so sure about the placement of the Joy cemetery, in satellite view it sure looks like someone's house/property. Unless there is a small cemetery hidden in the trees somewhere. In any case no cemetery the size of what Google maps shows on "map view". Dipping Hole is so small and in the trees it doesn't show on satellite view and street view doesn't go down any roads near it. Old North Burial Ground is very open, easy to see on satellite view. Sorry but I couldn't pick out any names on the stones
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Cool! My dead people!

 

[Alaskan]

Thanks for taking the time to do that. Very cool picture of the cemetery too. Pretty area.

 

[Alaskan]

They "removed" from Rehoboth, MA.

BTW...

My Snow and Davenport weren't ever in Rehoboth as far as I know...

But my 9th great-grandfather. John Butterworth, was born in Rehoboth, Mass back in 1624, and is buried there. His daughter,my 8th great-grandmother, was also born in Rehoboth, was named Mercy, but moved and was buried in Groton, Mass. with her husband Joseph Blood.



Some last names just kill me!

 

[Beer can]

please post photo's when done

Will do. It's basically just a framework that uses a bottle jack to press with. My FIL usually borrows a big old screw type, but the guy died a couple yrs ago. I wanted to buy one, but the whizbang press is pretty simple to build and a lot cheaper. Hopefully I get it done before the apples are gone, I'm slow lol.
Couple of his pics, he sells a book with instructions, I'm just going by the pics on his website and using 2x6s for all, have enough left over from building my garage.

 

[Alaskan]

Will do. It's basically just a framework that uses a bottle jack to press with. My FIL usually borrows a big old screw type, but the guy died a couple yrs ago. I wanted to buy one, but the whizbang press is pretty simple to build and a lot cheaper. Hopefully I get it done before the apples are gone, I'm slow lol.
Couple of his pics, he sells a book with instructions, I'm just going by the pics on his website and using 2x6s for all, have enough left over from building my garage.
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When you said wizbang I thought you were using an upright washing machine. Interesting

 

[Beer can]

So cool!

Can you figure out where it was? Or is that ridiculously impossible because streets changed so much?

They actually haven't changed that much Lol, a original map, the Castello plan when superimposed over today, some of the roads still match up. It's bigger now cause of landfill, mostly garbage I think I read lol.
Their original house was near where NASDAQ is now. Then they moved to Fort Orange (Albany now) around 1652 and lived in the woods. From what I read, the men and boys lived in a cave while the women and children lived in a one room cabin. They cut down Hemlock trees for the bark and supplied the fur trade for tanning.
The Dutch map over today

 

[Alaskan]

They actually haven't changed that much Lol, a original map, the Castello plan when superimposed over today, some of the roads still match up. It's bigger now cause of landfill, mostly garbage I think I read lol.
Their original house was near where NASDAQ is now. Then they moved to Fort Orange (Albany now) around 1652 and lived in the woods. From what I read, the men and boys lived in a cave while the women and children lived in a one room cabin. They cut down Hemlock trees for the bark and supplied the fur trade for tanning.
The Dutch map over today

Very cool.

Didn't know they used hemlock bark for tanning. Cool.