CONTENTS

 
THE PROBABLE ENGLISH ORIGIN OF GEORGE¹ JACOB(S) OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS: Executed During the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria, 1692 William Wyman Fiske   3

ANN AND ARTHUR STORER OF CALVERT COUNTY, MARYLAND, FRIENDS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON, With the Descendants of Clarke Skinner of Calvert County   James D. Trabue   13

ENGLISH ORIGIN OF THE POTTER AND BEECHER FAMILIES OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT   Patricia Law Hatcher   28

USELESS AND TEDIOUS   33

CAPTAIN BETHUEL RIGGS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR DIED IN MISSOURI, NOT OHIO   Alvy Ray Smith   34

THOMAS¹ AND REBECCA (WATERHOUSE) WILLIAMS OF WETHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT   Gale Ion Harris and Norman W. Ingham   38

MINISTERING TO THE DEARLY DEPARTED   56

THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF PHILIP¹ WATSON CHALLIS OF IPSWICH,  MASSACHUSETTS: With an Account of His Uncle Thomas Sharpe, Briefly Resident at Boston, Massachusetts   Leslie Mahler   57

DAMNING BY JUXTAPOSITION   61

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS' SCHOLAR AWARD FOR 2005   62

DAVID¹ MACKELFRESH, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON TOWN, MARYLAND, With an Account of Richard¹ Jones of Ann Arundel County, Maryland   Donna Valley Russell   63

THOMAS² PLACE AND THOMAS³ PLACE OF NORTH KINGSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND   Gerald James Parsons   76

CHANGING HEALTH STANDARDS (or: A Sound Rotundity)   81

THE CHILDREN OF NATHANIEL⁴ AND ALICE (HACKETT) RICHMOND OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS: A Mayflower Line
David Kendall Martin   82

THE DYING NOVEL READER (or: The Perils of Fiction)   84

A NEW ROYAL ANCESTRY FOR CHRISTOPHER¹ BATT  Brandon Fradd   85

CAPTAIN RICHARD³ CARDER OF WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND, AND STONINGTON AND NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, With the Marriage of Samuel³ Richardson of East Haddam, Connecticut  
Helen Schatvet Ullmann   100

ELECTRIC CHANGES AND SLEEPING TOGETHER   108

AARON⁵ GILLETT (1765—1814) OF CONNECTICUT AND TIOGA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA   David M. Morehouse   109

MANIA—AND NANCY BANE: Identifying the Family of Nancy (Donnally) Bane, Inmate at the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum and the Athens Insane Asylum   Sharon DeBartolo Carmack   121

GETTING A KICK OUT OF RELIGION   134

THE TWO JOSEPH RUSSELL FAMILIES OF WATERBORO AND ALFRED, MAINE   Priscilla Eaton and Frederick R. Boyle   135

EDITORIAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS: Names Revisited l  This Issue l In Memoriam, Gerald James Parsons (1924—2003)   154
 
BOOK REVIEWS see list inside back cover  155

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