Sunday, March 4, 2012

New Englanders

Monique helped me track down Grammie Kimball's family, the Harrimans. Seems they're from England and our first Harriman ancestor born in the US was Jonathan Harriman born on Dec 5, 1657 in Rowley/Georgetown, Mass. Subsequent Harrimans stayed close to home in Haverhill, Bradford and Groveland.

One thing that's interesting about this is that all four Grandparent family lines (Tidd, Prescott, Kimball and Harriman) came to Massachusetts by the mid 1600s from England and stayed in Massachusetts for the next 350 years - mostly the Haverhill/Georgetown area.

As a reference, Plymouth Colony was founded in 1620.


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