On This Day: May 29

1587: Edith Squire, my maternal 9th great-grandmother, was baptized in Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England. She died on 21 January 1672/73 in Medfield, Massachusetts. [Source: D. L. Jacobus, "The American Genealogist," database, American Ancestors (www.americanancestors.org : accessed 2 May 2011), "A Hitherto Unnoted Descendant of Henry Adams of Braintree"; 53:18.]

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