Pedigree of Old Arm Chair

I got a kick out of this old note that I found in my Holbrook/Goodhue records from Brattleboro, Vermont. Lucy Brooks Holbrook (# 7 on the list) was the sister of my grandmother, Grace Ware (Holbrook) Haskell. Now if I could only find this old chair...

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More Goodhue, Holbrook and Other Family Marriage Records

 Here are more family marriage records for the Goodhue and Holbrook families. Other surnames include: Edwards, Cune, Hall, Brooks, Bull, Chapin, Nourse, Draper, Roberts, Bartlett, Chalmers, Kleek or Kleeck, and Evans.

Unfortunately, I do not have definitive information on who prepared these family records, other than I found them in an envelope labeled "Genealogy Papers by Franklin Fessenden Holbrook, Mary Rogers Cabot, Frederick Cabot Holbrook and Aunt Lina [Emerline Mason Holbrook]". These documents were found in a storage room in an ancestral home located in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Here is the transcription:

Marriages.

Joseph Goodhue and Sarah Edwards, married in Northampton, Mass, Nov 2nd, 1815.
William P. Cune and Mary Ann Goodhue, married in Brattleboro, Vt, Aug 25th 1834.
Frederick Holbrook and Harriet S. Goodhue, married in Brattleboro, Vt, January 13, 1835.
Chauncey A. Hall and Lucy W. Goodhue, married in Brattleboro, Vt, December 12, 1838.
Francis Goodhue and Mary E. Brooks, married in Brattleboro, Vt, October 26, 1847.
Albert H. Bull and Sarah F. Goodhue, married in Brattleboro, Vt, November 14, 1849.
Dr. Edward R. Chapin and Sarah G. Bull, married in Brattleboro, Vt, November 12, 1873.

GrandChildren.
Franklin F. Holbrook and Anna E. Nourse, married in Boston, Mass, May 17th, 1860.
Frank E. Draper and Mary G. Cune, married in Brattleboro, Vt, Sept 17, 1863.
Joseph G. Hall and Lizzie B. Roberts, married in Boston, Mass, April 17, 1867.
William C. Bartlett and Julia H. Cune, married in Brattleboro, Vt, Nov 8, 1866.
William C. Holbrook and Anna M. Chalmers, married in New York, N.Y. Jan'y 17, 1872.
Henry Van Kleek and Ellen B. Goodhue, married in Brattleboro, Vt, [no date]
Francis Goodhue Jr. and Elizabeth Evans, married in Germantown, Pa, June 15, 1892.

Great GrandChildren.
Frederick Holbrook 2nd and Grace Cabot, married in Bratto, Vt, Apr. 12/[18]87.
John Kirkland Clark and Margaret Chalmers Holbrook, married in New York City, June 15/[19]03.
Emerline Mason Holbrook and Edward Cook Armstrong, married in New York City, June 8, 1905.

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A Visit to an Old Family Home in Winchendon, Massachusetts

The following text is transcribed from a handwritten note in my grandmother's Goodhue Family Binder. The note is written in pencil, so I presume it was previously transcribed by my grandmother. In the upper right corner of the page it says "From Goodhue notes". Reverend Joseph Brown, mentioned in this note, is my sixth great-grandfather.

A visit to an old home at Winchendon Mass[achusetts]

On a bright day of July 1914 - as a quest of my cousin Mrs Frederick Holbrook, we motored from Brattleboro to visit the old home of my great grandfather the Rev[erend] Joseph Brown at Winchendon Mass[achusetts] where for 21 years he was minister of the old church.

     At Fitzwilliam we stopped at an antique shop which was in one of the 2 old large taverns each of them on the edge of the village common - the importance of the town in stage days was indicated by the size of these taverns.

     All that remains of the old church on the common on the hill is a stone marker - Here it was that our gr[eat] grandfather preached during those long years which ended in the famous controversy over possession of the Town records, in which he proved as a writer of the day has stated "too smart for them all."

     Here they suffered from the long cold winters & at one time from famine.

     Not far from the common stands a fine large square red house, the oldest in Winchendon which was owned by the Rev[erend] Jos. Brown - It stands well along the roadway overlooking a wide view, & is shaded by fine elms. Here grew up a large family of little Browns, one of whom, married Polly (Mary) who married Francis Goodhue living at Swanzy NH, Wethersfield VT & finally in 1811 moving down the Conn[ecticut] R[iver] to Brattleboro. No one knows where Rev[erend] Jos. Brown is buried but his wife lived w[ith] her daughter & family until her death. Here grave is in the old Goodhue lot (Mrs Sarah Brown) at Brattleboro.

     In the large red house at Winchendon doubtless stood the fine mahogany clock br[ou]ght from the Brown's home at Lexington wh[ich] was beloved by all the Goodhues in the 2 family homes on Main St[reet] in Brat[tleboro] & which is today in the home of the present senior Francis Goodhue at Church Lane Germantown Pa. (1924).  

Ellen B Van Kleeck

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Grace Ware Holbrook Ancestral Chart 3

This chart continues from Grace Ware Holbrook Ancestral Chart 1. This chart begins with Sarah Knowlton b. 2 May 1767. Surnames on this chart include: Goodhue, Holland, Howe, Knowlton, Park, Pitts, and Watson. Note at the top of the page indicates she copied this information from E.M.H.A. or Emerline Mason (Holbrook) Armstrong who was Grace Ware's aunt.

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Tombstone Tuesday - Governor Frederick Holbrook

Cemetery: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont
Photo Date: 4 August 2006

Frederick Holbrook was b. 15 Feb 1813 in Warehouse Point, Hartford County, Connecticut to Deacon John and Sarah (Knowlton) Holbrook, d. 28 Apr 1909 in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont. He m. Harriet Goodhue 13 Jan 1835. Frederick was Governor of the State of Vermont from 1861 through 1863 during the Civil War. Frederick  is my 3rd great-grandfather.

Transcription: FREDERICK HOLBROOK/FEBRUARY 15, 1813/APRIL 28, 1909/GOVERNOR OF VERMONT/1861-1863

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