APPENDIXES 



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 COLONIAL GENEALOGY 



I. THE JORDAN-WALDO-HOLLY LINE IN NEW ENGLAND 



BELOW will be found, with a few exceptions, (a) the name, 

 (b) the chief place of residence in New England of each 

 of my immigrant ancestors recorded on the chart on the 

 opposite page, (c) his principal home in the mother 

 country, and (d) the date or approximate date of his 

 arrival in America. Concerning the first two, however, 

 my information is incomplete and only circumstantial: 



Rufus Jordan, probably of Boston, from Jordan, near Ash- 

 burton (parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor), Devon, about 

 1700 



General Nathaniel Bacon, "rebel patriot" of Virginia, from 

 England, 1676, supposed to be ancestor of 



Thaddeus Bacon, Hampton, Mass. 



Samuel Holly, Cambridge, from London, 1636 



Thomas Lake, Stratford, 1745 



William Beardsley, from England, 1635 



Cornelius Waldo, Ipswich, from Berwick, Wiltshire, 1640 



John Cogswell, Ipswich, from Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, 1635 



Henry Adams, Braintree, ancestor of John Adams, 1632 



Admiral Thomas Graves, Charlestown, from Stepney, 1608 



Thomas Gray, Charlestown, from Harwich, 1639 



Edward Dimmock, Barnstable, 1640 



John Bursley, Dorchester, 1630 



Rev. Joseph Hull, Barnstable, from Northleigh, Devon, 1630 



John Elderkin, Norwich, from Devon, 1637 



John Drake, Windsor, Connecticut, from Wiscombe Park, 

 Devon, 1630 



Lieutenant William Fowler, New Haven, from Islington, 1637 



Edmund Tapp, Milford, 1639 



Thomas Wight, Dedham, from Isle of Wight, 1635 



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