tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post5606505001371097624..comments2024-03-26T00:48:24.850-07:00Comments on Heirlooms Reunited: CDV of 3 distinguished New Hampshire Gentlemen: Williams, Hosmer, WainwrightPam Beveridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-34040163631621802592011-08-09T10:42:01.172-07:002011-08-09T10:42:01.172-07:00I thought it was a T, too, but wanted readers to c...I thought it was a T, too, but wanted readers to come to that conclusion without any hints. I'll bet you have the correct person. I wonder if it was the Thomas in the CDV who drowned or a namesake. I've been transcribing an early 1900s diary of a farmer in rural Ellsworth, Maine, and it's frightening how dangerous it was to cross rivers in the spring, even on a bridge. Horses spooked at the rushing water, water was high and undermined the bridge, water was over the bridge and people decided to take a boat instead, and drowned. Thanks for your continued help, Ed!Pam Beveridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-85944806573282014612011-08-09T10:20:19.606-07:002011-08-09T10:20:19.606-07:00The initial looks like a 'T' to me.
There...The initial looks like a 'T' to me. <br />There is a Thomas Wainwright, born in England in 1812, in Pembroke, NH, in 1870. He was an overseer in a mill with a personal estate of $1200. I don't know if that puts him in the same class as store owners. And there is a mention of a Thomas Wainwright who drowned along with Ira Swain and William Millette in Pembroke, in the Merrimack River, on May 25, 1876. (History of Pembroke, N. H.: 1730-1895, Volume 1 at Google Books.)Ed Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16396994423955102378noreply@blogger.com