Noteworthy Ancestors

 This week I have been spending quite a bit of my research hours putting together some missing links in my husband’s family tree. I dug out some of my old files and found some information that I had had for several years, as I was going back through it I noticed something that I had ran across during that time period.

I have decided to begin adding some fun findings to my blog. I will be doing a series of posts on some of our "famous" or not so, ancestors. Each one I have researched in great deal and am absolutely certain they link to our lines or I do not post them here. This is the first of those posts.

Martha Allen Carrier

My husband is descended from Martha ALLEN-CARRIER one of the women who was accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Martha is his 9^thGreat, Grand Aunt. The chart below shows how he is descended from Faith INGALLS the mother of Martha ALLEN CARRIER. Faith is my husbands 10th Great Grandmother.

I am not going to attempt to elaborate on the story of Martha ALLEN CARRIER or Goody CARRIER as she was called. There are plenty of stories online where one can read about her in depth.

I recently got into digital scrap booking and I love it. I am in the process of compiling one complete album with all of our noteworthy ancestors in it. I just finished my first set of layouts for that particular album and I am going to begin to work on the story of Martha ALLEN CARRIER this week and add that to my album as well. I may share some of those layouts in the future.

 If you notice the repetition of the name Granderson within this line, my husband was also given the name Granderson as his middle name. We are unsure of where that name actually came from other than it having been passed down from his Great Grandfathers.