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THE FAMILY OF ELIHU BURRITT'S ELDEST SON 



Figure 10. Elihu Burritt's son, Elijah (Figure 7) married Ann W. Watson, whose 

 father was John Watson. They had three children, two of whom married and had families. 



FAMILY OF ONE OF ELIHU BURRITT'S DAUGHTERS 



Figure 11. Eunice Wakeman Burritt's name does not appear on a separate card, but by 

 reference to her father's card (Figure 7) it is seen that she married twice. By her first 

 husband, Jabez Cornwell, she had no children. Reference to the card of A. J. Sawyer shows 

 that she had three children by her second marriage. The complications caused by carding 

 only the male heads of families are greatest in the case of widows who marry a second 

 time, but this is much less than would be caused by having separate cards for both male and 

 female heads of families. 



well, daughter of James Bidwell, that 

 her paternal grandparents were John 

 Hinsdale and Elizabeth Cole, daughter 

 of Nathaniel Cole, also that she had 

 two full sisters, Roxana and Ruth, 

 and two half-sisters, Sarah and Ruth. 

 If we wish to trace her paternal an- 

 cestry further we then turn to the 

 card of John Hinsdale which will give 

 us the names of his parents, and so on 

 to the end of the series. We may lay 

 these cards in a row and read off the 

 Hinsdale ancestral line as far as it 

 goes. If the Cole ancestry is of in- 

 terest, turn to the card of Nathaniel 

 Cole and in the same manner follow 

 the Cole line. Elizabeth Hinsdale's 

 mother's family will be found on 

 the James Bidwell card. In this way 



we may trace any ancestral line that 

 we will, passing with equal ease to 

 male or female lines. The children 

 on each card furnish the connection 

 to all collateral lines. 



For tracing descendants or collat- 

 eral relationships we start with the 

 lists of children on any card. Thus 

 in Figure 7 we note that the eldest 

 son of Elihu and Elizabeth (Hinsdale) 

 Burritt married Ann W. Watson, 

 daughter of John Watson, they had 

 issue and the family is carded. Turn- 

 ing then to the card of Elijah Hins- 

 dale Burritt, Figure 10, we find the 

 record of his children so far as known. 

 This card shows also that his son, 

 George Hinsdale Burritt, married and 

 had issue and the family has been 



