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The Ancestors and Descendants of Minnie Hale Gorton

• Author: Carolyn C. Volpe
• Price: $30.00 (includes postage)(US Funds)
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Minnie Hale Gorton was a descendant of five passengers on the Mayflower (Frances Cook, John Tilley, John Howland, James Chilton and Degorie Priest) and three others of the Plymoth Colony (John Winslow, Experience Mitchell and Phineas Pratt) who arrived a little later. The first three chapters are historical background beginning in England, the founding of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies and the founding of the early towns. Chapters 4 through 8 give biographical sketches of all ancestors in the direct line. Each has a pedigree chart. Chapter 12 deals with the part those families played in the Revolutionary War and their migration into New Hampshire, Western New York, Kentucky and Missouri. Chapter 13 discusses the family of Minnie Gorton Crosser and George Crosser and their life in Bloomfield, Missouri. The last chapter is a register style report of the descendants of Minnie Gorton Crosser. The ahnentafel chart of Minnie Gorton is in Appendix A. more that 100 heads of families who arrived before 1650 are listed as ancestors in Appendix B. There is an extensive bibliography.

There were many favorable reviews; excerpts from a few:

• ...one of the most interesting genealogy books I've ever read. Kansas City Genealogist, Volume 36, #1.
• ... genealogists researching early New England families will find the book useful. The book is well researched and written within the context of unfolding American history. American Family Records Association, TODAY, Vol. 15, No. 3
• ...Chapter by chapter, these lines are skillfully woven together in narrative form. Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association, THE GENIE, Vol. 28, No. 2

Other names included in this book: Ackley, Alcott, Allen, Allerton, Allis, Axtel, Bailey, Barrett, Bassett, Beardsley, Beckwith, Beebe, Belding, Blakesley, Bliss, Brooks, Buck, Burdick, Butler, Camp, Chamberlain, Chapin, Chilton, Collins, Cone, Cooke, Crosser, Cutler, Daggett, Day, Dickinson, Doolittle, Douglass, Dutton, Eaton, Edgwcomb, Fletcher, Foote, Gates, Gaylord, Goodrich, Gorton, Gray, Hale, Hitchock, Howland, Kilbourne, Kirby, Loomis, Low, Manwaring, Minot, Mitchell, Morgan, Norton, Olmstead, Peabody, Peck, Potter, Pratt, Priest, Raymond, Rogers, Spencer, Stebbins, Tilley, Wheeler, Winslow, Wright.