Mary Wells Smith Old Home Day Address; Fisher, Whiting, Lovell, Channon, Metcalf families; Origin of Goldsbury name; Samuel Goldsbury, Loyalist

Scrapbook compiled by Lois Goldsbury Macy. Scrapbook contains among other things, Old Home Day Address given by Mary Wells Smith; material on the Fisher, Whiting, Lovell, Channon, and Metcalf families; Origin of Goldsbuy Name; Samuel Goldsbury, Loyalist
- Address by Mary Wells Smith, “Some Notable Warwick Women” given on Warwick Old Day August 15, 1907. Mary Wells Smith speaks of women she has known, but they are representative of Warwick Women and is a history of the time. Women mentioned in address: Mrs. Jerusha Goldsbury; Tryphena Goldsbury Smith (2nd wife of Rev. Preserved Smith); Eunice Wells Smith Moors (daughter of Tryphena and Rev. Smith); Beebe Mann Richmond (1st wife of Rev. Preserved Smith); Sarah Richmond Smith Drury (daughter of Beebe M. Richmond and Rev. Preserved Smith); Hannah Rawson (1st teacher in Warwick 1768); Patience Bancroft (another early Warwick teacher), the Pomeroy girls; the six Mayo girls (daughters of Deacon Caleb Mayo); Maria M. Stevens; Experience Wheelock Sibley; Rhoda Wheelock; Squire Russell’s daughters – Mrs. Mary Ann Dean, Mrs. Julia A. Davis, Mrs. Esther Whitney; Martha Blake (daughter of Jonathan Blake); Mary Blake Clapp (sister of Jonathan Blake); Martha Clapp (daughter of Mary Blake Clapp) –she and her sisters presented the town with the town clock); Miss Sarah Ball and her half sister Mrs. Edward Mayo; Mary A. Reed; Ellen Hatch – who became a teacher in Ohio, married William Windom who later became a member of James Garfield’s cabinet; Maria Manning who became a missionary to Inida; Susan E. Barber; Harriet Bowman; Mrs. Helen Witherell Hastings; Mrs. Experience Fisk (sister of Col. Wheelock) who gave the town a track of land for the cemetery; Mrs. M. A. McKim, Mrs. E. C. Sibley, Miss Sarah Ball; Frances M. Chesbro. Mary Wells Smith credits the line of notable Warwick women to the fact that Warwick was settled by the “best families of Roxbury.”
- Excerpts from Memorials of the Goldesborough Family,Collected, Collated and Compiled by Albert Goldsbrough, 1930. Printed by Ed. J. Burrow & Company, London. Article covers the following: The Parish, Township & Manor; The Church; Addenda to the Shrewton Branch and the Ipswich Branch, co. Suffolk; Goldsbury of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Copies of two letters from a James Goldsbury in England to John Goldsbury (one letter dated February 17, 1965). James Goldsbury of England is attempting to trace his family history. Concrete records start about 1130 concerning the Goldsboroughs, settled at Goldsborough, Yorks.
- Chart of the Ebenzer Fisher family.
- Chart from Nova Scotia Vital Statistics of Samuel Goldsbury and wife Rhoda Partridge. Samuel Goldsbury was a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War and resettled in Nova Scotia.
- Material on Mary Goldsbury, born in Bellingham, MA June 3, 1754 ; married Rev. Samuel Whiting, buried in Bellows Falls, VT where her husband was minister for 36 years. Material follows on the Whiting family.
- Three postcards of the exterior and interior of the church in Rockingham, where Rev. Samuel Whiting was minister.
- Program for the pilgrimage commemorating the 195th anniversary of the Old Rickingham Meeting House and First Church (August 1, 1982). The building was erected in 1787 and served 42 years as a place of worship. Town meetings were held there until 1869.
- Six pages of family genealogy on the Lovell family (Elijah Lovell who married Abigail Goldsbury, Christopher Lovell – son of Elijah and Abigail, Lewis Christopher Lovell (son of Christopher Lovell), Leverett Lovell (son of Lewis), Lewis Christopher Lovell (son of Leverett Lovell), Leverett Charles Lovell (son of Lewis Christopher Lovell).
- Genealogy of Mary Long Goldsbury who married Irving Monroe Channon and their nine children.
- Copy of letter from Mrs. I. M. Channon (Mary Long Goldsbury was the daughter of James and Mary Long Goldsbury), dated September 4, 1894 and speaks of their missionary work in Micronesia.
- Several pages of material on Harlan Paul Metcalf, born June 25, 1867 at Elyria, Ohio, died in Warwick, May 11, 1936. He married Czarina Hamilton Goldsbury, daughter of James Goldsbury who after the death of her husband spent her summers in Warwick. She died in Gardner, August 17, 1949. Continues with Harlan Goldsbury Metcalf, born July 29, 1899 Elyria, Ohio who married Margaret Wyer – had 2 children, Harlan James Metcalf and Ethel Long Metcalf Curtis and continues down the line to children born in 1964.
- Newspaper clipping of Craig Janney (one of the line from Harlan Paul Metcalf) and his success as a Boston College ice hockey player, a member of the US Olympic Team to a Boston Bruin.
- Two additional pages of newspaper clippings (1988): Bruins signed Janney to a multiyear contract, Jenney center stage, and a picture of Jenney on the sidelines with an injury.
- Handwritten chart showing Craig Janney – son of Harlan Thomas Janney who was son of Esther Williams Metcalf and Richard Janney. Esther Metcalf was daughter of Czaria Goldsbury and Rev. Harlan P. Metcal and back to John Goldsbury who settled in Warwick 1770 or 1771.
- Three pages of documentation for the “Who was James Goldsbury).
- A paper entitled The Goldsbury Family by Carroll Fenwick, Jr. on the occasion of the dedication of a granite plaque on the site of the William Goldsbury home in Barre, VT June 7, 1969. This is not only a history of the Goldsbury family but of the early days of America.

Donated by
Lois Goldsbury Macy
Donation date
2012-08-12