This Day In Our Family History

1697 Benjamin Brockett was born in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States to John Brockett and Elizabeth Doolittle 1711 Joy Bishop was born in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States to James Bishop and Abigail Bennett 1890 Lucy Jane Webb completed her endowments for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1897 (Wednesday) – We were house cleaning. About six o’clock in the evening Esther (Emily Esther Sperry) and I went out to fill a tick. We were wondering where we would be and what we would be doing a year from now. In the evening Mrs. Burton (Frances Haddy Betenson) and Oscar (Alfred Oscar Lunt) […]

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1897 (Monday) – I went over to Aunt Emma Hague’s (Emma Elizabeth Webb) and took my music lesson. I stayed and did the washing for them. In the afternoon I went down to the court house and took a shorthand lesson. As I was going back I called at Miss Morgan’s (Mary Morgan) shop and talked […]

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1897 (Sunday) – Della (Adella Kendall) called for me to go to Sunday School. We called for Mrs. Moore (Mary Mildred Boshard/Millie Moore) but she wasn’t ready so we went on without her. After Sunday School we called at the post office and as we were passing the drug store Lon Lunt came out and […]

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1897 (Saturday) – In the afternoon Esther (Emily Esther Sperry) and I walked up town. We called in at Aunt Sarah Abbott’s (Sarah Elizabeth Sperry) and then went down town. We met May Paxton and we three went over to the Excelsior and then over to Hyde’s Store. I went over to the drug store, […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1897 (Thursday) – In the morning I went up to Salisbury’s then over to Parkin’s and then I came down home. About sundown, George Foote and his wife came down and I rode up town with them. I went to Grandmother’s (Emily Louisa Miller) and then down to the post office. I met Lon (Charles […]

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