Deerfield Descendants

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Permalink Reply by September McCarthy on July 24, 2009 at 3:36pm

Hi Pat,
Thanks for starting this discussion. Sorry to have to ask this, but could you please correct the spelling in the title (I believe it should be Deerfield)? :-) I've added the tags with that spelling.
Thanks,
September

Permalink Reply by Catherine Vautour on July 25, 2009 at 8:49am

well maybe you will come across the names I am looking for you never know----Melanson
Thomas
O'Malley
if you do it might be a great help to me
Thank you for your time
Talk again
Catherine

Permalink Reply by Kristy Graham on August 27, 2009 at 10:38am

Have you visited Historic Deerfield? The names you are researching, especially Nims, Smead, and Rising, are very old Deerfield families going back to the late seventeenth century. There are many with these last names in the Old Burying Ground. I believe there is an eighteenth century house (a private residence, not one of the house museums) in the center of town originally built by a Nims.

Permalink Reply by Judi Palmquist on November 22, 2009 at 6:21pm

Quite a few years ago. It was wonderful. A 7th gr grandfather is one in 'Common Grave' (Benjamin Wait(e) and my friend and I had a personal tour of the 'Ashley Home'.

Permalink Reply by Lisa A. (Thamm) Spegal on February 26, 2010 at 3:17am

I don't know if any of you have visited this site before but it has some great early Massachusetts documents, etc. that are online to view! It has alot of info/documents on Deerfield!

http://memorialhall.mass.edu/collection

Permalink Reply by Judi Palmquist on February 26, 2010 at 1:16pm

Thank you much for this information, I will be going through it again a bit closer.
Judi Palmquist