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Chadbourne homesite 1643-1690: excavation progress

A marvelous description and pictures of the home (on land bought by the Indian Rowles in 1643) occupied at times by the first three generations of Chadbournes in America. This site is made available compliments of chief archaelogist Emerson Baker who leads a team of archaelogists each mid-August in South Berwick, Maine. Artifacts recovered are on display at the Counting House, museum of the Old Berwick Historical Society, on Route 4 in South Berwick, ME within a stone's throw of the bridge from Maine to NH.
Chadbourne homesite 1643-1690: excavation progress illustrated, with historical explanation

Calm before Indian raid + strange Chadburns ca. 1690 (2 parodies)

A journal by Lucy (Treworgye) Chadbourne (a censor has now required us to say it's just parody) helps explain items being unearthed - written by Bradley Fletcher, a teacher of history in South Berwick, ME, one the close group of excavators who gather each summer to be the first to find new artifacts. NEW for 2000 at Dr. "Tad" Baker's Salem College website page (in same section as Lucy's theorized journal, are tongue-in-cheek descriptions of some STRANGE and WONDEROUS Chadbournes whom Brad Fletcher saw there in one of his many 1600s dreams (in color . . . beta-type dreams - WAY ahead of his time!)

Lucy Chadbourne's Journal, 1690

MAP of homesite location + 5th year of excavating: 1999

The small map included here is part of one found in the British Museum, from the 1600s, showing the site now being excavated, the large house between the two rivers, of which the one to the West is between NH and Maine, and the one to the right is a tributary formerly called Chadbourne's, but now Great Works River, for the site where two important mills were built, including the earliest documented, water-driven sawmill in New England.

MAP of homesite location + 5th year of excavating: 1999

Old Berwick Historical Society, Maine

Old Berwick Historical Society, located in South Berwick on Route 4 by the river between Maine and NH, is a rich resource for those with ancestry in the Berwick area. Formerly part of Kittery, the original Town of Berwick included the present towns of Berwick, North Berwick and South Berwick, each of are represented here. While this was not an advanced website when first seen, it will give background and contacts. It is this Society which has enabled the extensive excavations of the earliest known Chadbourne homesite (Humphrey 2 and 3). When their museum is open, the current major display includes many of the over 15,000 artifacts so far collected as described on link above, http://mainetoday.koz.com/maine/cfaexcav NOTE that this very active Society has regular programs which may not be listed on the webpage to which this link will connect.

Old Berwick Historical Society website

Old Berwick Historical Society, Maine

Speaking Program for 2005

Rochester, NH History

If you are interested in Rochester's History and Heritage... If you are intrigued by Strafford County's past... If you are a writer or collector of regional history... If you are tracing your family history... If you love the old buildings that you see around you and wonder what life was like for the people who lived in them... If you'd like to meet other people who are interested in local history... Visit the Rochester History website

Rochester History

New England Historic Genealogical Society

Based in Boston, NEHGS was founded in 1845 and is the country's oldest and largest genealogical society. For any user, the website offers discussion forums, helpful "how-to" articles, an online store, research service information, and resources for planning a visit to the NEHGS library in Boston. NEHGS members receive increased benefits, including access to databases with nearly 80 million names, and much more. If you are interested in tracing your New England family history, then your first stop should be NewEnglandAncestors.org.

New England Historic Genealogical Society

Genealogy Sites on World Wide Web (WWW)

Cyndi's List of genealogy websites

US GenWeb Project - (data from a network of volunteers)

Shapleigh Family Association

All descendants of Humphrey 2 Chadbourne of Berwick, Maine, have Shapleigh ancestry from their mother Lucy Treworgye, daughter of James and Katherine (Shapleigh) Treworgye. Her father was merchant verturer Alexander Shapleigh (whose wife the CFA considers unknown or unproven. See pages xix - xxiv in our 1994 book, under "Allied Families -Our Mother's Other Lives"). Excepting descendants of Patience 2 (Chadbourne) Spencer, which includes the descendants of Daniel Goodwin, well over 99% of Chadbourne descendants also Shapleighs.

Shapleigh Family Association website

Some descendants of Wm.1 Chadbourne, ref: Steve Skoropowski

Steve Skoropowski, a Chadbourne descendant, has created web pages for much of his ancestry, including a series starting with the site below, Descendants of William Chadbourne, which relies heavily but not exclusively on the Chadbourne Family Association (CFA)'s 1994 book. Steve carries one or more Chadbourne-descent lines up to 13 generations, showing correctly under Generation 1: William Chadbourne b. 1582 in Tamworth (NOT Winchcombe), England, plus many generations of Chadbourne descendants whose non-Chadbourne surnames include SPENCER (from Gen. 2's Patience Chadbourne m. Thomas Spencer) and GOODWIN (from Gen. 3's Margaret Spencer m. Daniel Goodwin). His entries will be seen when you click on the site underlined below, but please read these NOTES first:

Some words like "estimated" and "approximately" may have been omitted from Steve's site that are in the CFA's book: The Chadbourne Family in America: A Genealogy (see separate section above), out of print. (To be added to the waiting list for either a CD-ROM version or possible further print copies, write or e-mail this reviewer, Ted Chadbourne, whose addresses are elsewhere on the homepage of this CFA website. To the extent Steve's data includes the phrase "born Bef." you may find that his logical expression of a known baptism date, but that should not be assumed without checking the book.

GENERATION NUMBERS are correct for the Chadbourne name as seen in the generation number heading (though not on every page). Because this site is evolving while interacting with Family Tree Maker software, check that generation number is correct within the (patrilineal string). If that contains a William 1 in superscript, generation numbers are correct for Chadbourne descent. (If you later added the immigrant William's parents, Robert Chadbourne and Margaret DOOLEY, who never came to America, they should be generation A, and _his_ parents if ever proven, should be generation B in relation to immigrant Wm. 1. (That caution because some software lacks ability to show the immigrant generation as 1 when the database starts with a generation earlier or later.

The generation numbers on Steve's site are the same as the Chadbourne books, applying to which Chadbourne generation in America, it being customary for any family's generation numbers to be based on THEIR eldest immigrant being followed. Generation numbers seen at Steve's site (and in Chadbourne books) for non-Chadbourne names, eg, Daniel Goodwin [Jr.] and Bial Hamilton [Jr.] aren't the numbers that would be used in those families own genealogies since they indicate the generation # of Chadbourne descent, a higher number that in a line of fathers only.

If you copy or print out from this file, but add "Sr." or "Jr" (generally not seen here), know that such titles may not have been used by those folks, or may have changed after the older man died.

To the extent Steve's data is copied or further distributed it's important (since good genealogy is an ongoing investigation) to CITE YOUR SOURCE. It was copied from from Steve's web page, unless you got it directly from the Chadbourne book (1994, not 1904 nor 1989 draft) or elsewhere. With a web site, one should also add the DATE the source was copied, as an evolving source is a moving target. A citation to the source below may be "from Steve Skoropowski's website http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/k/o/steve--skoropowski/GENE8-0001.html (date) citing 1994 edition of The Chadbourne Family: A Genealogy compiled by Elaine Bacon for the Chadbourne Family Association." For subsequent cites, a short-form citation could be "Skoropowski FTM website GENE8-0001 (date copied)" since the full name appears above. (Note that the final two digits in Steve's web filename indicate Chadbourne generation number. These will change as seen in a source (HTML) window at bottom? of your screen as one moves between generations.

William 1 came to America in 1634; also in the early 1630s his three surviving children arrived (the 2 seen below indicates 2nd generation in America: Humphrey 2 (from whom all descendants of Chadbourne surname); William 2 (who had one daughter) and one sister Patience 2 who married THOMAS 1 SPENCER. The Spencers have many descendants named Spencer, Goodwin, and other surnames. Lines may be followed at Steve's site which show the relationships to men younger than (eg Dyer, Guptil, Hodgson, Locke, and Tarbox) such as Enoch Chase, b. 1792, himself an early Chadbourne genealogist.

You may see lines here not in the Chadbourne book if they relate to Steve's ancestry, as the CFA's book could only carry females a few generations. Steve's sources on some of these are listed, so proper citation is to his website and after that his citation of the source he listed. To get further back, viewing the Chadbourne book will often show an earlier source, such as Vital Records (VR)

While the text at this site has not yet been reviewed by the CFA, Steve has our book, much interest, and has placed this in a very convenient format. We appreciate his work!

Steve's chart may be seen by clicking on the link below. To trace a line of descent at his site, click an underlined number in the left margin. To find the prior generation, remember ID# of your subject, scroll up and click on header item "Previous Page" which is centered over the chart's title. then find that number in the left margin. If using Windows command "Edit, Find" from top left of screen, put a period after a number you enter. The cursor will jump directly to that number, shown now as a child whose parents are in the text directly above.

For INDEXes to those listed at Steve's Chadbourne site, click here, then on a range of names.

Steve Skoropowski's partial descendants of Wm.1 Chadbourne, born 1582. This may be the BEST SOURCE FOR PARTIAL EXTRACTION, having sources integrated in parentheses after each entry. (An alternative form is just below.)

Advanced users with source repositories (one entry per book title) will find part or all of THIS version of same data uses superscripts leading to ENDNOTES which show sources. Check whether this will give the correct numbers if copied into your own database. It may be less suitable for partial extraction, or for plain-text e-mails sent to most users of AOL or Juno.

CORRECTIONS are invited for this Chadbourne Family Association CFA website.