Becoming a Freeman
In this issue of the Great Migration Newsletter and in the previous issue we have analyzed the list of Massachusetts Bay freemen admitted on 18 and 19 May 1642, at the beginning of the 1642 Court of Elections. This study parallels and complements our early investigation of the list of freemen for 2 June 1641 [GMN 17:19-22, 27-30] and in a broader sense continues our attempt to determine when the Great Migration ended.
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Editor’s Effusions
As this issue of the Newsletter goes to press, we are approaching the halfway point in the preparation of the final installment in the second series of Great Migration volumes. In the past we have spoken and written on the subject of "Building a Sketch," but not on "Building a Book." How do we go about the business of creating a Great Migration volume?
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Focus on Immigration
[In the Focus section of the last issue of the Great Migration Newsletter we began to identify those men who were admitted to Massachusetts Bay freemanship on 18 and 19 May 1642 [GMN 19:3-6], and we conclude that process here. Analysis of this information may be found in the lead article in this issue.]
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Tricks of the Trade
One of the purposes of the Great Migration Newsletter is to inform readers of the methodology employed in writing sketches. Not all of these techniques merit full article-length treatment. From time to time, as space allows, we will publish some of these procedures under the heading just above.
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Recent Literature
Marian S. Henry, "Hannah Partridge, Wife of Edward² Gove of Hampton, New Hampshire," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 164 (2010):15-22. The author demonstrates that the wife of Edward Gove, son of John Gove of Charlestown and Hampton, was Hannah Partridge, daughter of WILLIAM PARTRIDGE {1638, Lynn}. She also shows that Hannah Titcomb, born 8 January 1641/2, daughter of WILLIAM TITCOMB {1640, Newbury}, who has in the past been suggested as the wife of Edward Gove, had died between 1647 and 1676, and includes genealogical summaries of the families of William Partridge and Edward Gove.
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I. Becoming a Freeman
II. Editor's Effusions
III. Focus on Immigration
IV. Tricks of the Trade
V. Recent Literature