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Cheryl Dickey-Whitish I recently came into possession of a journal which I believe to be from Raymond, NH written by a man named
G. W. GOODRICH. This journal contains over 364 pages,(counting both sides of
the pages, all filled with writing), and is approximately 8"X11".
Thirty-three of those pages are actually glued into the back of the book.
This journal covers from July 1, 1905 - January 4, 1910 and includes temperature
readings, (highest and lowest), barometer readings and brief weather descriptions
for each day. He even mentions the Northern Lights and an earthquake.
The days are filled with entries of a hard working farmer who picked and
sorted apples for market, hunted for cows and their calves, mended harnesses,
made maple syrup, got stuck in the snow with his sleigh, hived bees, took
pictures and had a darkroom setup, plowed with oxen, dug a grave, burned
moths nests, broke rocks and placed them in the wheel ruts of the road,
mended his "moggasins", husked corn and churned butter among many
other things.
The reason that I am writing is twofold.
First, the diary is packed with names of this man's friends and neighbors
as well as people he took pictures for and did business with. I am sure
that this would be an extremely interesting document for their relatives
or local historians. I would be glad to compile a list of names and write
to people inquiring about their relatives, etc. Eventually, I'd like to
copy the diary and put it online.
Secondly, because I am interested, I would like to find out about this man
who kept the diary. Since he mentions a negative of a photo he made 41 years
before, and one day he noted the lowest temperature that he had recorded
in 50 years, I believe this man to be at least in his 60s and possibly 70s
at the time of the journal. Since he was still quite a hard worker, I don't
think he would be any older than that.
Raymond is the town that is mentioned the most in the diary by far. There
are other towns in New Hampshire and Massachusetts which he also notes.
He takes trips to Massachusetts several times during the diary for a few
days each.
Can you help me to get in touch with someone who could help me find out
about this man? Where I am, my hands are tied. I would also like to offer
a look-up service, such as it is, for information from the journal.
Magdalena GORRELL Guimaraens has graciously
offered to help with the following families, to contact her, click here
The documents I have are either records
in the family Bible that my sister in Maryland has or from notes put down
by my father that "draw little on oral tradition and much more on genealogical
data collected by earlier generations. My Grandmother GORRELL - née
Emma susan TILTON (MGG's great-grandmother) wrote down what she knew in
1889, the year before she died. Her brother, my great-uncle George Henry
TILTON (MGG's gguncle) wrote me several letters on family history before
his death in 1930. A grandson of his aunt Mary Caroline TILTON, William
Lawrence GREEN of San Francisco, California, finished in 1933 and sent me
a list of the descendents of William TILTON in America...". Names in
our family that my father mentions are: GORRELL (New Salem NH and also Methuen
Mass), WHICHER (also WICHER, WHITCHER) SANBORN (Lee NH), ARMOUR (Northfield
NH), CLOUGH (Epping NH), OSGOOD (Raymond NH), FOGG , FORREST, GALE (Exeter),
EASTMAN, BOYNTON (Newbury Mass), LADD, HAM, COOK and of course, a whole
slew of TILTON's and BACHELDER's. I have given some town names when known.
Cathy Douglas has graciously volunteered
to do look ups at the Dudley Tucker Library, click here
Please feel free to post a short query for your surname in Raymond,
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