Connecting Flights (2022) by US artist, Sarah Yeoman - watercolour on paper
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From Samuel to Cyrus: A fresh look at the History of the Packard Family [part 1]
One of the graphics used in my family history.
Over the past year, I've put together a family history. I created two versions. One of them is aimed at the general public (with the title of this post) and the other is just for circulation among my family members. Today, I am publishing the version that is for the general public. The other includes personally identifiable information and would pertain to a certain lineage off the Packard family to another family, as this blog is about the Packard family, not that family. As a result, that family history will not be posted on this blog. But there are still significant avenues to explore! As they always say, genealogy is never over (that's why I created this blog). This is, as William Hermann commented below, "quite an accomplishment."
Note: This was originally posted on Nov. 5, 2017 on the main Packed with Packards WordPress blog (it can also be found on the Wayback Machine here). My research is still ongoing, so some conclusions in this piece may change in the future.
Over the past year, I've put together a family history. I created two versions. One of them is aimed at the general public (with the title of this post) and the other is just for circulation among my family members. Today, I am publishing the version that is for the general public. The other includes personally identifiable information and would pertain to a certain lineage off the Packard family to another family, as this blog is about the Packard family, not that family. As a result, that family history will not be posted on this blog. But there are still significant avenues to explore! As they always say, genealogy is never over (that's why I created this blog). This is, as William Hermann commented below, "quite an accomplishment."
Here is the link to the family history I worked on. In connection with my last post, it does talk a bit about Theophilus Packard (see page 45 where he is called "Theophilus D" Packard and "Theophilus Packard" and "Rev. Theophilus Packard" on page 58), but my recent post expands upon that.
And yes, it was prepared in August, but I've just tweaked it a bit before posting it on here.
The following is the outline of the chapters within the family history (I wish I had been able to hot link them in the PDF so you could go to a specific chapter, but I haven't figured out how to that yet unfortunately):
Table of Contents
Introduction…………………………………...…………………………..pages 3 to 4
Family tree chart for reference…………………………………...………page 5 and 6
Chapter I: The Packards in good ‘ole England…...……………………...pages 6 to 8
Chapter II: Escaping the throes of persecution……...…………………...pages 9 to 15
Chapter III: The Packards in Bridgewater...……………………………..pages 16 to 20
Chapter IV: Samuel, the Bridgewater yeoman...………………………....pages 21 to 26
Chapter V: The children of Samuel and Elizabeth……………………….pages 27 to 32
Chapter VI: Zaccheus and Sarah’s family………………………………..pages 33 to 43
Chapter VII: The family of John and Lydia………………………………pages 44 to 51
Chapter VIII: Barnabas I and Sarah’s family………………………….…pages 52 to 58
Chapter IX: Barnabas, Mary, and Plainfield……………………………..pages 59 to 64
Chapter X: The last Barnabas, Ruth Snow, and Cameron, Missouri……..pages 65 to 70
Chapter XI: The Civil War, William, Rachel, and Massachusetts....……...pages 71 to 81
Chapter XII: Cyrus, Dora, and the last of the Packards….....……………pages 82 to 92
Concluding remarks and photographs…………………………��……....pages 93 to 95
Below are some graphics I included in my family history but can be used by others with my permission (comment below here if you'd like permission) since I'm always interested in those researching the Packard family!
Photo from World's End, could like what Bear's Cove looked like when Samuel Packard landed in Hingham on the Diligent.
Another photo from World's End
Yet another photo from World's End
Final photo from World's End
Marriage certificate of Cyrus Packard and Clementina Cheney. From a family history submitted to the Plainfield Historical Society.
Card about admin of Henry C Packard's estate
What the Hingham shoreline would have looked like.
Family of Barnabas Packard 1850
Family of Barnabas Packard 1860
Barnabas Packard (I think) in agriculture schedule of census.
Charles E Packard Admin
Cyrus W Packard admin (1)
Cyrus W Packard admin (2)
The old barn attached to this house, in Plainfield, was previously owned by Packards from what I was told.
Plainfield Town Hall at the present.
Graphic that I created building on a local history of Plainfield.
Dawes Cemetery (1)
Dawes Cemetery (2)
Dawes Cemetery (3)
Sometime in the 1870s, a better picture of the Packard family at this time is in my family history.
© 2017-2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.
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Sarah Yeoman Aws
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I have come into this world to see this: the sword drop from men's hands even at the height of their arc of anger because we have finally realized there is just one flesh to wound and it is the Beloved's.
I have come into this world to see this: all creatures hold hands as we pass through this miraculous existence we share on the way to an even greater being of soul, a being of just ecstatic light, forever entwined and at play with Him.
I have come into this world to hear this: every song the earth has sung since it was conceived in the Divine's womb and began spinning from His wish, every song by wing and fin and hoof, every song by hill and field and tree and woman and child, every song of stream and rock, every song of tool and lyre and flute, every song of gold and emerald and fire, every song the heart should cry with magnificent dignity to know itself as God: for all other knowledge will leave us again in want and aching - only imbibing the glorious Sun will complete us.
I have come into this world to experience this: men so true to love they would rather die before speaking an unkind word, men so true their lives are His covenant - the promise of hope.
I have come into this world to see this: the sword drop from men's hands even at the height of their arc of rage because we have finally realized there is just one flesh we can wound.
–Hafiz
[via Sarah Yeoman Aws]
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