Captured from his own Ancestry account, 2026-08-12 - 31 souls, 9 photographs, ThruLines DNA support marked. He built this by hand at the town halls; the machine carries it now.
Captured from the horizontal pedigree view. This line runs from Wayne Jr back to Peter Perry and Elizabeth (Betty) Hoxsie - the same couple in the 1794 mustee marriage record and the 1786 manumission held in the Charlestown graph. Two lifetimes of research, one line.
Taylor - Talbot - Fry - Sherman - Davis. Holds an unnamed enslaved NATIVE ancestor (mother of Lucy Davis), Winsor Fry 1750-1823 (possible Black Revolutionary soldier - under verification), Hagar Sherman, and Ruth Fish.
Ancestry grafts lines by DNA match, not descent path. This founding-white line (Wilcox - Crandall - Babcock) may belong on a different side than displayed - possibly dad's mother's side, possibly a spot where the family is related on BOTH sides. The DNA badges mark white cousins matching through it. Traces toward CT / Bloomfield / the Millers. Held in the possible-white-grandfathers spine until proven - now joined by the GARDINER-BUELL quarter (Deacon John Buell of Litchfield CT + Mary Loomis of Windsor/Bloomfield: the CT prediction confirmed; Howland, Greene, Lanphere, Strong, Skinner alongside; join point Jacob BUELL Gardner). The Primus - Brown - Charles line stands on its own evidence.
Hannah Sekater appears in the 1880 census, recorded Mulatto, with Daniel, Anna, and Mary A. beside her. Aaron Sekator (1805-1862) appears in the Charlestown deeds as a deceased grantor - his estate conveyed land. David (Indian) Secater stands in the 1790 census; Betty Secater headed a household in 1774. Two more unnamed Native ancestors - one FREE, one unmarked - are recorded here as dad found them. The Congdon graft carries the may-be-grandmothers caution.
Gideon Ammons Sr (1770) married JERUSHA NOKA (1772) - the sachem-descended council surname. The 1880 census holds the Noka household: Joshua H., Prudence, James, Nancy, John, Alpheus, Mary. The line's open question is the HAZARD JUNCTION: Hannah Hazard (1741-1798), daughter of Robert (1703-1789) - and the Hazard surname carries BOTH worlds in the town books (22 White, 12 Black/Mulatto attestations). Dad marked SARAH (2lines) SMITH himself - a dual-descent ancestor, annotated in his own hand. We step; we do not conclude.
Gideon Ammons Jr (Narragansett) married Sarah Ann Eleazer, daughter of NANCY ELEAZER (b. 1799) - Eleazer is a Shinnecock Nation surname of Southampton, Long Island, and the tree carries the Shinnecock label itself. The old coastal alliance, Narragansett to Shinnecock, in our own line. Outreach to the Nation is underway to honor and recover Nancy's lineage from its rightful keepers.
Family lore said Lucy Ann Lewis's mother came from 'Hubbard farms.' The tree answers: HUBBARD was a NAME - three generations of Hubbard Burdicks (1676, 1716, 1751), carrying Ruth Hubbard's maiden name down from her founding marriage to Robert Burdick Sr, original settler of Westerly. The quarter is the Seventh Day Baptist founding web: Burdick, Maxson, Clarke, Crandall, Champlin, Hubbard - feeding the Lewis spine at Jonathan Lewis (1690-1785), the candidate common trunk from which the family's Black Lewis branch and white Lewis branch may both descend. The graft above Lucy Ann is hypothesis under the standing law; the trunk now has a name to test.
In the Dixon quarter of dad's MOTHER'S side stands MARY KINYON (1772-1810), wife of William Dixon. Mary Kinyon is the name of one of the three witnesses on Betty's 1786 Bill of Manumission (with Simeon Perry and Riley Cross Jr) - the document this whole work began from. The family that witnessed Betty's freedom on one side of dad's tree is ancestral on the other: the Kenyon-Hoxsie-Perry community runs through BOTH of his parents, and closed its circle in him. (This Mary was 14 in 1786; the witness may be her elder namesake - the family is the same either way. We step; we do not conclude.)
Francesco Sebastian (1875-1960), son of Francisco Sebastian and Mary C. McKenney - the Portuguese Atlantic (Azorean/Cape Verdean) and Irish migrations of whaling-era New England - married EDITH ROBINSON (1870-1943), daughter of Thomas Robinson and Edith Woodmansee. Robinson is itself a both-worlds South County surname (planter dynasty and Narragansett families alike). The family braid holds every strand of the American story: African, Narragansett, Shinnecock, founding English, and immigrant Atlantic - all meeting in one Charlestown man born 1939. Which Robinson line Edith came from is a junction for the record to prove.
In the Harry-Ross line stands CLOWE NINGRET - the NINIGRET name, the royal Niantic-Narragansett sachem house itself - wife of Christopher Harry (Harry being a documented Narragansett tribal surname). The family carries the crown's blood through Gerant Harry Ross and Amelia Ross. Beside this quarter: BLOOMFIELD McKINNEY (1826) - the 'Bloomfield' of family lore resolved to a man's NAME in the Scots-Irish McKinney line - and PERO HALLAM with PHILLIS BROWN, an enslaved-era couple recorded IN FULL, parents of Nancy Hallam (1788-1876), with PHEBE (b. 1760, one name only) nearby - the fifth ancestor the record part-erased and dad part-saved.
The Robinson quarter climbs through Susan Barber (1812-1866), Forest Barber (1772-1860), James Barber (1726-1821), and Sarah Mumford. And the direct line already told us: LYMAN BARBER PERRY (1801-1872) carries the join in his own middle name - just as Jacob BUELL Gardner carried the Buell join. Luca Barber (1783) stands on the PERRY side of the tree; the James-Forest-Susan line on the ROBINSON side: Barber joins Lewis, Hazard, and Robinson as the night's fourth both-sides surname. Which Barbers were which - the Westerly records will say.
Edith Woodmansee's quarter climbs through the CROSS family - Joseph Cross (1690-1752) of the colonial Charlestown Crosses of Cross' Mills. Betty's 1786 manumission bore three witnesses: Simeon Perry, Mary Kinyon, and Riley Cross Jr. - and ALL THREE witness families now stand in dad's own ancestry. Every hand on Betty's freedom paper flows in his blood. And though this quarter's names read English and Dutch (Woodmansee, Knapp, Finch, Van Dorn), the mtDNA haplogroup on the strict mother-to-mother line testifies PURE NATIVE: a Native woman stands here under a colonial name - erased on paper, remembered in the blood. The record forgot her; her daughters never could.
Angela ← Wayne Jr ← Mabel M Malbone ← Albert ← James Henry (1852-1914) ← Evan ← Evan (1747-1830) ← Evan (1718-1784) ← GODFREY MALBONE SR (1696-1768) - the Newport merchant-enslaver, master of the Brooklyn CT plantation. The junction candidates stand in the record's shadows: Dinah Malbone and jude Sabin (1761-1827), among the Sabins of Brooklyn CT - the plantation's own neighbors. The graft above Evan 1747 is hypothesis under the standing law; the junction between Evan 1747 and Evan Jr 1821 ('African' in the record) is where the magic point of this line will be found.